Jamie Thingelstad is today’s interview on Manuel Moreale’s People and Blogs series, with some nice words for Micro.blog:

When micro.blog was launched, I intended to use it as an alternative to Twitter. But then, as Manton built and improved the system, I realized it could host my entire site. I now have 8,449 posts in micro.blog and growing, with a total blog archive size of over 7 GB. It makes me chuckle since I think the “micro” in micro.blog makes folks think they can’t use it for everything, but you can.

Thanks @jthingelstad!

@manton @jthingelstad Very nice! 👏

@manton Not related to the main topic but this morning I wanted to post a TV spoiler to my blog and I thought (not for the first time) that I wish there was some easy way to do that on micro.blog. I was going to drop a feature request on you but then I read your post about Jamie Thingelstad and said to myself, “Github Gist! That’s sorted!”

I supposed I’d prefer there was a native way to do it on micro.blog but for now Gist is fine.

For a native solution, maybe create a page and link to the page from a blog post? I think that would work. And if the page doesn’t appear on the home page it wouldn’t clutter up the website.

Thanks!

@MitchW I requested this some years back, and found out that some flavours of markdown support it, but it didn’t seem to be very requested.

@odd I think creating a page and linking to it from a blog post would work. I don’t think it would clutter up the website. 

Support for Reddit spoiler syntax would be another option 

I think a page would also work for super long posts that you don’t want to have dominating the home page. I have a 2500 word essay that I’ve been putting off posting for that reason in part. 

I’m curious what @manton thinks.

@MitchW @odd I think having a separate standalone page that you link to is a good solution. I do that sometimes, though usually if the page feels kind of disconnected with any dated blog post.

@manton will the markdown parser accept HTML? aka the details widget.

@chrisd Yes! That should work well in blog posts. (Although the details element isn’t supported for short posts viewed in the timeline.)

@manton right that makes sense

@jthingelstad Thank you!