Through much trial and even more error, I have finagled @pimoore’s wonderful Tufte theme to organize itself into a scripting.com-like chronological/reverse-chronological format. The next step is to fix everything I broke in the process. And to find ever better fonts, of course.
@miljko I’d like to see that (and how you did it). That’s exactly what I’ve done with my daily.baty.net blog but I built it with Tinderbox because I never found a good way to do it with Hugo.
@pimoore Hah, I almost went with Merriweather but the “Old Style” font stack was just what I wanted, in both looks and performance. Thank you!!!
@jack I looked all over stack exchange for how to make Hugo do this, but ultimately all it took was a search in micro.blog’s own support forum. It was @jsonbecker’s website that showed me it was possible in the first place, so it only made sense that he would have provided the instructions. Thank you, Jason!
@pimoore, this format definitely makes me more relaxed about frequent short posts. Most people may not be reading it on the website itself, but it still matters to me that it looks good.
@miljko @pimoore @purisubzi @jack I take it a step further by hiding all non-title posts from my archive. The result is something I feel fine cross posting and feel good about read, in context, largely recent stuff, while not having short posts be a long term focus or easily found once their time as faded.
@jsonbecker @miljko @pimoore How do you do this also with macro posts (> 300 chars) without a title?
@pratik my check for inclusion in the archive is has title, not length. Sometimes I title posts that are just a photo.
@pratik there are checks for if a post summary is truncated, but I think that Hugo sets that at 500. There’s almost certainly a way to count characters but it almost certainly wouldnt be the same algorithm for what counts as MB. There’s a len function you could pipe content to
