Working on an update to Micro.blog for macOS. Anyone have any Mac-specific gripes that need attention?

@manton Conversations are often just blank white pages. It used to be restricted to when clicking through from Discover but after recent updates it has spread elsewhere.

@manton I'd love to be able to see cross-posting & categories simultaneously and let them stay visible for a new post if I left either or both visible the past time I authored and posted.

@manton when I have Notes selected and I press command N, a new blog post window pops up instead of a note window. Same with other contexts.

@manton when I do a Google search for micro.blog macos app it brings up a Netlify link to an old version of the app as the 2nd choice: https://micro-blog-help.netlify.app/2017/mac-version/

@rpmik I had mixed feelings about that so I gave notes their own shortcut: command-option-N.

@manton I can understand that. My brain is lazy though, so I don't remember very many keyboard shortcuts beyond the standard. If I'm in a certain context I rely on standard key board shortcuts working appropriately. That's a lot of different permutations of *-N to remember or to reference.

@kimonostereo Good catch. That was a mirror set up by @paulrobertlloyd years ago for a redesign... I don't think I have access to it. Paul, do you think you could just zap micro-blog-help.netlify.app?

@rpmik Yeah, it's a good point. I'll think more about this and maybe there will be a natural way to improve this in the future so that it's consistent everywhere.

@manton thank you for considering this. Another reason to use Command N when Notes is selected is to avoid newbies to Notes accidentally posting a personal note to their blog. I almost did that ;-)

@manton

• Please have the cross-posting options and categories list available via the new post window rather than navigating to the menu bar. Brownie points if I can keep both visible whenever I open the new post window again.
  
• browse multiple photos in a post horizontally instead of vertically
  
• Have an indicator for when a post has replies
  
• Include the embed link at the bottom of each post.

@manton You got my bug report note page. :)

@jmanes Yep! Already have the Markdown headers color fixed, not sure about the others yet.

@pratik I've been thinking about embed too. I don't like that it's not available in any form (even if slightly buried) on the Mac right now.

@manton How about some way to bring up the edit post screen on your own replies without having to navigate to it yourself. I make too many typos in my initial comments and posts. (Also the same on iOS as well 🙏🏾)

@manton macOS system text replacements don't work in the post editor. They do work in the iOS app post editor.

@manton This one’s petty, but… The faint divider line between posts, bookmarks, etc. could use just a little more contrast - but not a lot. It’s just a visual thing for me. Like I said, kind of petty.

@manton When you're in a bookshelf, it's not obvious that you can right-click/control-click to pull up a contextual menu. I like the menu as is, but I'm not sure if some visual marker (is it called an ellipsis menu? - sorry, I'm a doctor, not a interface programmer!) would be helpful to more easily access it than just randomly click and hope it does something.

@manton @kimonostereo Eek. Zapped!

@paulrobertlloyd Thanks!

@dgreene196 That makes sense. Those options are a little too hidden.

@manton Have updated my wish list ☺️

@paulrobertlloyd 👍

@manton I'm just going to say, +1 to all these. I very much resonate with @pratik's list.

@manton Not sure how feasible it is, but being able to insert images inline in the text rather than just at the end on a post?

@manton Another very minor and perhaps a bug. If you click on a post, the conversation view appears. In that view, if you click on a post again, the conversation view appears in a new sliding window and keeps happening with each click. Perhaps the click should be disabled after it opens the first time?

@paulrobertlloyd @manton #259 has bugged me too, pun intended.

@sebfontan Thanks! I'll add "delete" to the right-click options as a first step. That was definitely an oversight.

@manton click an image to inline with Markdown would be my main vote.

@mjb @manton 100% this

@manton option to keeping the category options in view. stop the main window unminimising when clicking into the post window

@manton make it way clearer which blog your are posting to if you have more than one

@manton recently the publishing changes to blog seems to be really slow and I fear quiting the app. And related to my other push the ability to import from instagram etc from the app to other blogs your own on your account

@manton if you think it’s possible? it just doesn’t always register to me visually, maybe at the top like on the web post

@manton A minor gripe but don't know if it's a minor fix. 😅

@manton To see if there is a conversation!

@manton Still only the one main ask is timeline synching/remembering point within timeline 😀

@manton import Instagram to another blog in your MB account 😉

@mjb +1

@manton I hadn't had the chance to really play around with the new Mac version of Micro.blog. Thank you for making that change to bookshelves - it's definitely more intuitive now!

@dgreene196 Glad to hear it!