Micro.blog

@manton is there a way to group posts on a page? For example, I do a weekly post on the comics I'm reading. How do I group these all on one page?

@smith Nothing automatic yet, although I've been thinking about categories. For Micro Monday's episodes page we just manually make a page with links, so that might be a short-term option.

@manton Ahh. Categories could be cool. Ok, I'll do it manually for now.

@manton Categories and/or tags would be epic!

@hope tags or categories - but on the fly not a back ground list for preference.

@hope Glad to hear it! Thanks for the feedback.

@manton I do have a question, is there a way to get my timeline as an RSS feed? I know there are feeds for individual users, but is there one for the entire timeline somewhere?

@hope Yes! You can get a feed that is your timeline (posts from everyone you're following) at: micro.blog/feeds/hope.xml

@manton Yay for that! I wish more social sites would support RSS like that!

@manton I have a feature idea for you. Perhaps you could create a plan where we pay for the ability to create 5-10 hosted sites? I'd like to bring my 4 other blogs over here but can't aford to pay that monthly. Yearly I can definitely do.

@hope Thanks, we're going to revisit the plans and especially what yearly options there should be, but probably not until next year.

@manton OK I guess I'll wait lol.

@manton @hope Yeah. It would be really nice to be able to host more than one blog for a reasonable price, with all the things most of us subscribe to these days. The costs add up really fast! But I don't know what your cost-burden is for hosting individual blogs, so....

@manton How does the yearly thing work? Do I get more than one site? Also, can you delete the expired micro.blog I had? I canceled it and now it pops up an alert every time. Thanks!

@smith Perhaps with a list useing either Markdown or HTML?

..@grayareas My cost is probably going to be around $200 yearly for 7-8 sites. Lol yep, I'm one of those wanna-be bloggers heh. I do it all for kicks, though. I'm usually like Oh hmm this little niche might be fun to explore and/or write about. I'll spin up a blog. If micro.blog could get it down to around $50 or 100 yearly for 10 sites man, I'd stay here forever!

..@grayareas I very, very rarely use images in posts. Pictures = not fun for a blind blogger! Unfortunately I had to take an emergency break from blogging last month, major stuff happened here.

@manton Also some accessibility feedback. For some reason when I try to reply to someone the field is blank. If I make too many mistakes I have to cancel and do over, or paste in a text file and fix. Apparently I had extraneous characters before the @ symbol so they didn't go through. I didn't realize that until afterwards, oops! I mean they went through as text posts but never linked to the user's profile.

@hope @manton I have something similar but different. From the web, when replying I get what looks like a blank text box with no @ reply. But it is there, if I scroll up. It's like there are extra carrige returns pre inserted right after the @name. Not all the time.

@hope Thank you! That's great feedback. I think this is because of the special JavaScript we use for highlighting Markdown. I've been considering letting it be disabled which I think will fix this, until that component is more accessible.

@bradenslen Hmm that's a bit strange. the reply field is always blank for me until I escape out of my screen reader's focus mode and check it over before hitting post.

@manton Is there a reason why Javascript is needed for highlighting markdown? I'd think that you could select it just like text. I do that with HTML, or any code for that matter. Lol if I'm in the mood to tweak stuff. I know just about enough to get me in trouble though hah.

@hope I think @manton might have fixed the problem I was having while he was pottering around in the engineroom, because it's not been happening to me anymore.

..@bradenslen Unfortunately my screen reader still thinks that particular form field is blank. I have a feeling it has more to do with the way this particular thing deals with forms than anything @manton develops. I'm sure there are different scriptythings that would help it render correctly though. Lol no, I have no idea what said scriptythings actually are.