Video hosting in Micro.blog manton.org
@manton Very cool to see you add this and congratulations on the launch. For someone who is self-hosting does this mean that short posts with video tags in them will show in the timeline or is that something potentially for the future still? (I have a couple more videos to post to my site in the near future and would be happy to help test by not using Vimeo.)
@manton Nice. I don't have much use for videos myself but I am looking forward to great videos in my timeline!
@manton Excited to see this play out. Also, impressed by your ability and daring to launch a new feature while on the road! ;-)
@manton I’d love to hear how this works behind the scenes, are you just serving the files or are you putting them behind some sort of streaming server? (Like the old QuickTime/Darwin Streaming Server…)
@manton Wow, very cool!! Does this mean video html tags are now supported from external blogs as well?
@manton A great additiona, congrats! Will the videos be included when doing an export from the site?
@handy @manton it's a little awkward when there's a lack of context :) on the twitter post for this video I wonder if it should add a #video and link to the post in those cases?
@handy Agreed, I plan to improve this soon. I think I'll make it link back to your video (or the blog post).
@ronguest Yes, videos are included in the export too. Photos, videos, podcasts, and any other uploaded files should be included.
@sku\_b Great, let me know if you have any questions! I think it'll be nice for those short clips that I sometimes want to post along with photos, but for which YouTube seems wrong or too disconnected from my blog.
@manton One curiosity I have is how videos from here interact with crossposting. What happens when, for example, a video posts cross-posts to Twitter?
@sku\_b I'm going to be improving that over the next 1-2 days. Right now it doesn't include the video... I think it should link back if there's video or audio.