alltom
alltom

I was pretty sure micro.blog understood me, then I read @manton’s post about ownership and I knew it.

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MitchW
MitchW

@alltom An interesting post. And one I quite like. I have to admit I’m not entirely confident that micro.blog will be around for the long term. But I decided to worry about that another day.

First thing that pops into my head is that if micro.blog is not going to be just a a starter platform, that a person outgrows, it’ll need support for scheduling. Probably other things too but scheduling posts seems like something of general interest. Also, a separate queue for drafts.

Embedding tweets/youtube/etc. couldn’t hurt either.

@manton

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MitchW
MitchW

@alltom And yes, easy as sending a tweet is one of micro.blog’s best qualities, It makes micro.blog great. It’s like Tumblr that way, before Tumblr got overcomplicated. It’s certainly significantly easier to use micro.blog than it is to use Facebook.

In my searching around for a blog hosting platform late last year and into January, I was surprised that micro.blog was the ONLY simple platform that was easy to use and set up. Everything else required you to install something on a server (blot, etc.) and/or was more of a corporate publishing system than a simple blogging platform (WordPress) and/or was a walled garden (Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter).

@manton

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alltom
alltom

@MitchWagner There’s no guarantee, but I‘m comforted that @manton has cared enough about permalinks to maintain them through multiple hosting transitions. If micro.blog continues that tradition, my blog can live on even if micro.blog dies.

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MitchW
MitchW

@alltom I need to think about permalinks at some point. I have years of content on Tumblr. My perennial problem is that I post many items of ephemera daily but only a few items worth saving.

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manton
manton

@MitchWagner @alltom I don't think of it as a "starter platform", but more trying to get the balance right between the easiest way to start (tweet-like simplicity) while having a lot of depth (custom Hugo themes, IndieWeb protocols). What more would you like to see for drafts?

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MitchW
MitchW

@manton I know you don't think of micro.blog as a starter platform -- that was in the original post that @alltom linked to!

I was thinking having the ability to have a separate Drafts column on the Posts page.

Also, if there is a way to create draft posts on the mobile app, I can't see it.

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manton
manton

@MitchWagner @alltom Thanks! An option to just show drafts makes sense. For creating drafts, we have it on the web and Mac app but not iOS for some reason (although editing drafts works on iOS). I'll get this updated.

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oniskanen
oniskanen

@manton Only tangentially related to the above, but I'd love for it to be easier to direct different posts to different services on a per-post basis. For example, I'm hesitant to enable the LinkedIn cross-posting integration before I can select that only my work-related posts are funneled there. Scheduling a post to be published on all platforms at a pre-determined time would be nice too.

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MitchW
MitchW

@manton Thing is I don't know if a separate Drafts column is needed. I'm thinking out loud here.

I wrote a couple of Drafts this morning, saved them in my iPad/iPhone/Mac text editor. Pow, I'm done. When I'm ready to post, I'll cut-and-paste into micro.blog (and also Facebook, and, with modification, Twitter).

The ability to schedule posts seems more important than Drafts. I'd love to be able to schedule something and then forget about it – not write it and remember to post it later.

And if you're really feeling generous: I love the queue in Tumblr, or even better, something like the Auto Post Scheduler Wordpress plugin.

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manton
manton

@oniskanen Thanks. There is a work-around using category feeds to control cross-posting destinations, but it has a couple confusing limitations... I'm looking into whether I can polish that up into a real feature.

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odd
odd

@MitchWagner It would be great if Messages on iOS got that too.

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stevesnider
stevesnider

@oniskanen @manton at the risk of over complicating things I’d also like to see an easy way to cross-post (especially from iOS) with each post. I’d love to take more advantage of that feature, but it always makes me nervous that I’d forget and post the wrong things to the wrong places.

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manton
manton

@stevesnider @oniskanen The thing I have to be careful about is not making cross-posting dominate the UI, which is why I've hesitated adding more to this feature. I think I have an elegant way of addressing this without littering the UI with checkboxes, though.

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oniskanen
oniskanen

@manton I can see how it could be overwhelming on the UI. Even some basic filtering based on the type would go a long way. ”Only share posts on LinkedIn” ”Share posts, notes and photos on Twitter” etc. Anything on a per-post level can be hidden off the main UI to reduce clutter.

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