Micro.blog launches Discourse help center: cdevroe.com

@peterimoore Can you point me to a repository on Github for the theme(s) you've tried with M.b? Maybe I'll notice something quickly.

@peterimoore @cdevroe It would also be helpful info to have available at custom.micro.blog . 😀

@Miraz This is a nice resource as well. I wonder if you should consider taking all of the resources you've collected and put them into help.micro.blog? And then custom.micro.blog could be for sharing news and updates re: themes/plugins?

@peterimoore You’re not alone in this. I spent hours importing and trying Hugo themes on my test account last week and all of them seemed to have major incompatibilities so I gave up.

@gregmoore @peterimoore I spent some time yesterday on a Zoom call with @manton. He understands the need to spend more time on themes and from what I can tell they will be. Once Cypress is out and bug free, I plan on releasing a second M.b theme as well to help out.

@Miraz Something I noticed is that much of the code isn't able to be copied and pasted. Example

@cdevroe That's exciting news. It sounds lazy but part of why I love Micro.blog is because I don't have to put my developer hat on just to use it. I'm ready to pay for all your hard work. 😄

@cdevroe That seems like a smart idea, with the new Help system. I just wanted to do what I could to make something useful. Under Help would be a logical place for it. @help

@cdevroe Thanks for mentioning this, but I just visited that page on my Mac and copied and pasted a bunch of the code examples… ??

@peterimoore I have done this work before, and would be happy to help. I’d for sure take it as a post on the Discourse (or write it up on custom) so that others can benefit.

It’s actually pretty easy to do most Jekyll themes, I’d imagine. But Hugo is easiest, where you really just have to add a few magic things to the header and you’re 95% there. My own site was originally a custom Hugo blog I tweaked a little to bring over to M.b.

@peterimoore so for Hugo, all the official M.b themes are on the M.b GitHub. I basically just compared and figured it out. Some of those are forks from Jekyll that I think even have the diffs. While it’s true the template engines are different, they organizationally are accomplishing the same things so it’s 95% just small syntax tweaks.

@peterimoore if you point me in the direction of one you like, I can peek at whether it’s one I think would be easy to convert and start blogging about the steps.

@peterimoore quick look at tufte looks super easy, exception for the MathJax part I'm less sure of. The basic page/post layouts though are very straight forward and most of the work is in the css anyway.

@gregmoore The best part is, you won't have to pay. So long as you're a paying member of Micro.blog, Cypress will be free for you to use.

@Miraz The code samples look like this

@cdevroe @Miraz I'm seeing the same thing re: the code (Windows -> Firefox).

@cdevroe @miraz I’ve had trouble with making sure M.b reads HTML as safe in code blocks and haven’t quite figured out an incantation to make it work consistently. Once I figure it out, I’ll share on custom/help.