This video going through how great the animation is in Akira is spectacular.

: micro.json.blog

@jsonbecker Not sure why but I’m not seeing the video in my Micro.blog feed (I am seeing it when I go to your blog directly). Just me?

@pyrmont Micro.blog strips embeds out from the timeline.

@maique @ @pyrmont Yes, I discovered this a few weeks back. Direct readers to your blog in the post is possibly the best tactic?

@maique Agreed. It feels like an open hole in Micro.blog.

@maique @crossingthethreshold Right, I think the long-term solution is to automatically convert the YouTube embeds so that they work with Micro.blog somehow. The Micro.blog timeline strips out any script tags, as @jsonbecker said, to avoid security problems or other posts interfering with the timeline display.

@help personally, I think embeds should stay out of the timeline. It gunks it up and takes away from the reading expereince. The best experience for reading my blog is 1. the site 2. rss 3. micro.blog timeline 4. twitter syndicatd post. And that’s the way I like it.

I could maybe see an argument for having a little like “This post had embedded content and may be best viewed on the site” with link auto-added thing.

@help Thank you for the explanation. While I can see how it can make a post on the timeline appear truncated, and has done so with at least one post of mine, I am more in favor of leaving YouTube off the timeline (unless it can be done in an easy & tidy way?). Maybe as @jsonbecker suggested, a short sentence referencing that a video or such like is connected with the post?

@jsonbecker Ah, that’s a shame. I imagine @manton did this after a lot of thought but (for those of us who like embeds) it would be nice if there were a supported way to embed video.

@crossingthethreshold I can imagine that certain users don’t want their timeline littered with embeds but as I was saying in another reply to @jsonbecker, it’d be nice if there were a supported way. Some indication from MB that something has been stripped out would have been helpful, too, I think /cc @manton.

@jsonbecker Just saw that there’d been some more discussion on this with @help. I’d prefer embeds to be possible (or at least a setting) but if they are to be stripped out, there should definitely be something (even if’s simply the link). The alternative is confusing for a user who doesn’t know what HTML is ‘safe’.

@pyrmont Maybe an indicator with something expandable?

@manton @jsonbecker @crossingthethreshold Sounds great! Thanks :)

@sku_b That would be good!

@manton Thank you. That sounds great. I look forwward to seeing this.