Expecting a lot of new Micro.blog users over the next few weeks. This week: Twitter mismanages how to deal with Alex Jones and Infowars. Next week: Twitter streaming API gets shut down for third-party developers.
@manton Finally pulled the trigger and joined. I've been lurking for quite a while now. Time to put my money where my mouth is.
@manton two things that would help new users “stick” (from my bag of mb pet peeves) - tap to open images from timeline full screen so I can pinch and zoom “like normal” - ability to post short video clips (Not Vines-short but maybe less than 20 seconds?)
@SciPhi Yeah, tapping photos is really overdue, especially with what we want to do rolling out a new version of Sunlit soon.
@manton One thing that's got me still on Twitter is that I've got a big network of people over there. Any thoughts on how you might get a critical mass of people to migrate here? Especially w.r.t. the fact that the monthly fee is such a barrier to the general population?
@manton Seems like a good opportunity to make a tweet archive import for micro.blog! I'm seeing a lot of people deleting their tweets after downloading their archive.
@aaronpk There is a tweet import! But I want to rethink it, because often importing thousands of tweets kind of overwhelms the normal blog posts. I may disable it until I can separate tweets out better.
@manton ah yeah, having everything in one list would definitely get overwhelmed with tweets! A simple way to start might be to have a separate page on the site that has a list of only articles.
@PhoneBoy thanks for sharing that! I was under the impression that you needed a hosted account to participate in replies. Hoping that the standard can get to where I can follow arbitrary feeds and send replies across platforms.
@MarcoInEnglish you might know this, but replying in the Micro.blog app gives you another comment if your post started the thread, so a least you get the whole conversation you started.
@aaron and I see that point has already been made. That’ll teach me not to read to the end before posting!
@MarcoInEnglish ah, I didn't read around to get the back story. I can send webmentions in reply comments on my WordPress blog by adding the markup manually, but I don't know if microblog gets them and I am not sure if I really understand what is going on either.
@MarcoInEnglish I am certainly confused too. @c posted this Threaded Replies and Comments with Webmentions in WordPress
Which helped. I tried to post the escaped snippet I've used but it did not look good here. I think I copied it from @mrkrndvs
@MarcoInEnglish when I've sent replies as webmentions I have not produced any tweets. I guess it is bypassing the bridgy publishing? Perhaps you can do it manually…
@MarcoInEnglish I have a similar setup to @phoneboy and it works fine using the Micro.blog app. It will support other webmentions as well, but I’ve not tried that/received any yet. It should be broadly Indieweb-compliant. blog.vanessahamshere.uk if you want to check it out.
@MarcoInEnglish That’s a shame. Hopefully something that will get fixed. I'm sure the ethos here will be to be as inclusive as possible. It wasn't easy for me to set up the WordPress blog; I had lots of help from the Indieweb Slack guys, plus people here on Micro.blog.