Simplified pricing in Micro.blog manton.org
@manton Wow! That's a lot to cover in the upcoming video! And I can already envision a new use cases for me by having "up to 5 blogs" under my current subscription. Great value, indeed!
@jeroensangers Currently no, it’s part of the 5 blogs. I might change that. Only reason I hesitate is because you could have multiple tweets blogs, so the new system is simpler for that. Although the tweets blog is free for non-Premium accounts.
@manton Something I'd like clarified — I have two blogs, both on Premium plan: miraz.me and waikawanews.nz. Does this mean I can bring both under one account, but retaining the two separate domain names?
@Miraz Yes. There's no way to automate that process, though, so you'd have to manually move one of the blogs to the other account with an export/import, then cancel the old account.
@manton Thank you. That's worth my doing and will be extremely welcome savings for me. I'll do some testing… 😀
@maique I was already on the Premium! But now that we can more blogs... thinking of moving Numeric Citizen Meta I/O out of Craft because there is no RSS feed support in Craft-hosted websites. But it would be a lot of work.
@manton Nice. Pro-customer move. Not been seeing those lately in the digital economy. Was still getting my head around extra static sites on the Pro tier. Now more blogs too. Wow. Thanks for a great product.
@nathan Yes, any blog can have a custom domain name. We want to encourage that so there’s never an extra charge for it.
@manton I wonder if there’s a way to combine my current three blogs (patrickrhone, whoatowow, foryou) to be under the same plan (and if there’s really any advantage to doing so)?
@manton I didn’t even realise you could have multiple blogs under the one account.
Time to merge three seperate blogs into one account.
@manton Are the Avatar and About configurable per blog or still only tied to the account? It looks like the account.
And can we only pick one blog to post our replies?
@manton So, so good. 👏
It's great to see Notes added to the Plans page — were you tempted to include single-page sites?
@manton I guess some parts of the Help Centre, which I didn't even think about. I would assume, over time, most people will see this info on the homepage and the Plans page.
@manton Wow! Thank you so much for adding this value!
Right now I have my family blog as a separate micro.blog account. I’m guessing if I want to bring it under this account, I need to cancel it first. Once I cancel, will the micro.blog username for my family blog become available for me to re-take under this account? (I’ll make sure to export it before I cancel so I don’t lose anything!)
@manton Excellent! Fully agree with the last paragraph. That’s indeed Micro.blog’s salient features.
BTW I know the obvious answer to this is upgrade to family plan but can I restrict someone to just post on one of my five blogs? I want to get my son into blogging but I want to be sure he persists. I feel he would be more secure and being under my account, it would be like “parental control”. Plus I can offer tech support. By the time he goes to high school, I’m hoping he would hooked enough to want his own blog free of “parental control”.
@manton This sounds great. So I’m clear, I have an account and my wife has account so we pay $10/mo now. If I’m understanding this correctly, we could not consolidate with the $10 micro.blog premium plan, since we have separate accounts (i.e., the only multi-user plan is $15 family). Is that correct?
@pratik Yeah, I think family plan is probably the way to go for that. Each blog gets a separate list of people who can post to it, and those people can have free accounts.
@jordon You’d have to delete the account, not just cancel, for the name to be reused. Might take a little juggling, so email me if you need anything updated.
@troykitch That’s true. Consolidating separate accounts is a little more involved. It’s doable but has its own trade-offs.
@ericgregorich Still tied to the account, yeah. Replies are currently set to only one blog, although I guess we could remove that limitation if there’s interest.
@manton This is amazing. I need to upgrade to the $10 plan... I've been meaning to do it for a while, and this makes it an even better deal!
@patrickrhone @manton I feel like the biggest trade off between separate accounts and consolidation into one account and separate blogs is that you still have one account, one timeline, and if someone follows you they’re doing it for your entire account and not your individual blogs.
Yet, there is a separate newsletter per blog, so that’s a big plus.
@manton See I was over here thinking it was simple but this is somehow simpler, so hats off. (And then I read your explanation)
@manton this is a great change and I think will get me to make the plunge into setting up another blog. Sort of related, is there any movement on releasing old account names that don't appear to have ever been used? There's one I'd be keen to use as a second blog as it matches my username in a lot of other places.
@manton I’m so excited by this. You’ve got a great service going here and I’m glad to support it! Keep up the amazing work.
@meandering Yes, we have a policy for that now. Send a quick email to help with the old username.
@ericgregorich @patrickrhone You could collect all your blogs under one main account and still have separate (free) accounts hooked up to the respective blog's feed. That way, people can follow your individual blogs even though they are technically under one account. Your main account timeline could be hooked up to all your blog feeds, if that's what you want, or just one or a few of them.
@manton thank you, sir. I think I've got everything figured out and accomplished except for importing the content from the old account to this account. I'll send you an email on it now
@manton Does this account for the cases where you need to have blogs in separate accounts to get them better disambiguated (like having name, different activitypub handles, etc.). That's always been a bit confusing. Would those count as part of the 5 if you pay for Premium on one?
@toddgrotenhuis No, separate accounts really are separate. It would be nice if they could be connected but that's not something we're planning on doing right now.
@clorgie I'm happy that you found it. Please let me know if there is anything that you would like to hear should I decide to reboot it.
@manton But it would work for me and my wife to have separated accounts with the family plan, I assume. Which still seems like a really good deal, considering all that's included in premium. I'm eager to try the bookmarking and notes.
@manton is it possible to convert a single page blog to a full blog under the new plan, or is that a delete and readd to keep the same url?
@jpayne We should add a button for that. For now, email me which blog and I’ll update it. No need to redo it.
@abc Yes, Ulysses will list your blogs and you can configure it to have multiple blogs as separate “accounts” in the app.