@pratik I'm favoriting this in aticipation and for future reference.
@pratik @manton @crossingthethreshold Never mind. It did pick it up. The time zone setting on Blot wasn’t right so it was posted lower down my timeline 🤦🏽♂️
@JohnPhilpin Sure! I’m still figuring things out on my Blot. Use my first name only please.
@pratik I’m having the same issue with delay but I don’t think it’s time zone related ...
@Mattfinlayson I’ve been told sometimes it may take 30 mins or so.
@JohnPhilpin I'm not there yet. I'll let you know when. Finding time to prune and transfer an old site. Thanks for checking in and asking.
@pratik Thank you for copying me in on this. Something for me to look out for down the line.
@pratik For which post did this happen? Or is the post now hidden/gone?
@simonwoods For all my posts that M.B. pulled from my Blot feed when I added it yesterday. Can't attach a screenshot for an example but this post jot.pratikmhatre.com/fostering...
@pratik OK cool. So if we're talking about how Micro.blog displays this post in the timeline (which I assume) then this is simply how Micro.blog works, per the timeline display rules.
Or are you talking about how Micro.blog displays the post somewhere else?
@simonwoods Got it. Nope, I meant on Micro.blog. Guess that's ok. There was some conversation on M.B about how people don't tend to click thru on such posts so people tend to re-link to the same posts with a better description. In my case, replies to the latter don't generate webmentions on my blog but they will to the former. Anyway, not a big deal though.
@pratik Oh that would be a good idea; like, related webmentions going to a single source... maybe it's already been done or somebody is working on it. Definitely worth considering in an effort to make it easier for people to see longer posts and capture the conversations around them.
@simonwoods From what I've seen, unless you move your microblog also to Blot, it will be split. And in view of my no-tinkering-anymore pledge, I don't have plans to do that now. But if M.B. does something in the meantime, I'll be glad.
@manton @blot I agree re: messy. Unless M.B. picks up the teaser (when specified) instead of the title and then appends the link. Personally, I prefer those short descriptive posts with the link embedded within a phrase of the text. Not sure how that can be done on M.B. unless that's how we style the teaser too.
@pratik I have a workaround for getting the replies to "re-link to the same posts with a better description" on micro.blog as webmentions. Just make that relink short post as a reply to the original title only post on micro.blog. So replies to the short posts are in a way replies to the longer post as the short post itself is a reply :)
I use this at rare occasions, but I also use blot for my microposts.
@pratik @amit you can remove the @ mention of yourself and it still shows up as a conversation, here’s an example.
@pratik done
@JohnPhilpin Thanks, John. BTW the 'resources' section on that page helped me a ton in clarifying certain questions I had about code used in Blot so thanks also for compiling those.
@pratik i just add links - it is the brains trust of micro blog that are the real heroes … but will continue to add as I find more.