It appears that the new wavelength app requires a hosted micro.blog site. Is that correct or am I missing something? I currently link a wordpress blog to this service…
@SuperMoof That's correct. We started with Micro.blog since it's simpler and gets the user a full podcast feed without any extra plugins or configuration.
@manton I would like to pay you to support my wordpress microblog and allow things like podcasting. Trying to not use a systems that I don’t ultimately control so not sold on micro.blog. However I know this might not be a scalable for you to serve me.
@deverman I've considered a kind of WordPress support plan, but I'm not sure if people would pay or what the right price would be. (By the way, you can disable that "this post first appeared" in the Yoast SEO plugin.)
@manton My preference would be to keep pricing simply “pay Micro.blog when you want the best microblog hosting.” Charging for hosting additional features because they’re exclusive to Micro.blog is messy and smells of “embrace, extend, extinguish" (unintentional as it would be.)
@jackwellborn I think I agree, but I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by "additional features because they're exclusive". Can you elaborate?
@manton Currently it seems Micro.blog is a leader that also has the goal of lowering the bar to support microblogs on other hosts. In my mind, features risk becoming "exclusive” if the bar to support them on other hosts becomes too high. Does that help?
@jackwellborn I think I see where you're going, but also there's only so much we can do to improve other people's blog software. The basics are universal: blog post without a title. Anything else is a bonus and usually optional.
@manton +1. I keep considering moving my microblog to my own server, mostly so I can be a control freak about it. But I would happily continue paying for the service. I want badly for it to succeed. ;-)
@manton Thanks I have disabled "this post first appeared". I am still trying to forumlate what I think is the product I'm looking for in my personal and maybe my business life for communication.
@manton Another +1 about paying for non-hosted accounts. I'd honestly happily pay the same price without receiving anything 'extra'. Whatever the price, I'd request it be open to any compatible blog, not just WordPress (I'm considering using @gerwitz's Sitewriter).
@pyrmont I've de-prioritized Twitter and Facebook syndication specifically because I like having to pay for micro.blog to do it. I'd rather just pay for micro.blog itself!