Very short video clip of a new feature rolling out this week, likely tomorrow. This is the Mac app:

@manton That looks awesome!

@manton that’s awesome, is there any way to spin this out to having gallery posts?

@matjpacker Yes, this is going to open up a couple possibilities. I’ll have full details tomorrow.

@jthingelstad So for posts I still think the current category system is okay. Perhaps it’s almost time to expand it though.

@manton Nice. Maybe auto-add to collection if the AI-tags include a keyword in the future? Like how filters and categories now.

@manton You already doing great with this drag-and-drop preview, I wasn’t able to achieve the same effect when implementing drag-and-drop for .md files.

@rscottjones Unfortunately I don’t have a good suggestion other than YouTube. Eventually we’ll have to support longer videos.

@manton why not use AI to automagically assign a category which the user would override?

@numericcitizen It's worth exploring, especially since we already use AI to generate keywords for photos. I think people will want more control over it, but we'll see.

@manton you could have "AI defined" and "User defined" categories... for v2 I guess!

@pratik Maybe! I'd like to expand filters. There's a lot of potential there.

@pratik Maybe! I'd like to expand filters. There's a lot of potential there.

@pratik Maybe! I'd like to expand filters. There's a lot of potential there.

@manton @rscottjones I use Vimeo. I pay for an account and have for some time. You can see some of the embeds on my micro.blog -- bloftin2.blog

@bloftin2 I'm just using the "plus" plan. $100 a year. So yeah, not free, but I prefer using it to feeding the YouTube beast.

@manton I use filters extensively to auto-categorize and even crosspost.

@bloftin2 @rscottjones Vimeo seems like a good choice.

@rscottjones I have yet to try embedding Flickr-hosted short videos on MB, but it is worth checking out as well.

@manton I think I’m still wishing for tagging for posts. There are cases that having tags would be a really nice win for me. Especially being able to have a short code to display lists of posts in a tag. A lot of what I do in my Collections pages would be much better with tags. 🤞

@jthingelstad I think there's an opportunity for that. What I'm less interested in is tags replacing categories as something visitors try to navigate. I've just found it less useful for readers. But we have tags for bookmarks, and auto-generated keywords for photos, so something could happen.

@manton I would totally agree with you. Tags the way that WordPress created them are not useful and except for some very rare cases I've never found them to be a navigational tool. I do however find them to be a valuable author tool. Tagging posts from a vacation and then being able to have a page about that vacation and have a short code to show all the posts with that tag is a simple example. You can see how I have a stub of this on my my Switzerland Italy 2023 page but getting the links and putting them is is just a lot of effort. Thanks for considering it!

@manton Great idea! Internal tags (vs external) just for searching would be pretty cool, just like photos.

@jarrod @manton Most efficient way would be to let AI tag your posts, and it's fine with me but may cause uproar in the community.

@pratik @manton yeah, that’s what I’m hoping for. Automatic AI tagging that can be used for search, but isn’t visible to the public.

@pratik @manton yeah, that’s what I’m hoping for. Automatic AI tagging that can be used for search, but isn’t visible to the public.

@pratik @manton yeah, that’s what I’m hoping for. Automatic AI tagging that can be used for search, but isn’t visible to the public.

@jarrod @pratik I'll explore this. We already have full-text search, but perhaps any AI tagging could make those matches appear as more relevant in the search results. And we have the AI setting, so people can still disable all AI across the platform.

@manton @jarrod @pratik I don’t know about AI tagging— I’ve liked that kind of thing for bookmarks before but I don’t see a huge amount of value for my blog— but the whole idea of collections IMO feels like an argument for at least a small amount of opening up front matter. Post types/other taxonomy is easily editable/added in that way for folks to access. AI could always fill something in there potentially, but the broader solution for flexibility is, IMO, loosening the reins on what metadata can be stored on a post and how easily that’s made accessible in the various new post screens.

@rom I can see that. I gave up Flickr more than a decade ago though /: