vincent
vincent
Taking feature requests for the next version of Gluon, on the Apple platforms. vincentritter.com
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maique
maique

@vincent I’d say that character counter taking Markdown into consideration😊

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vincent
vincent

@maique ah yes... that’s going to be 🤯... I mean fun 🤩

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maique
maique

@vincent I would help if I knew how... I can point you in the right direction though -> @manton 😅

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manton
manton

@maique @vincent If it helps, what the Micro.blog iOS/macOS apps do is convert the Markdown to HTML, then parse the HTML and extract just the text, so that the count matches what the user sees. The downside is it's not a Twitter-compatible count.

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maique
maique

@manton Thanks! That was super quick!! And hopefully helpful too..

Quick question: what is this “Twitter” you mention ? 😉😂

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crossingthethreshold
crossingthethreshold

@vincent Sometimes emojis are just ssoooooo expressive! 😄 // @maique

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vincent
vincent

@manton thanks! Yeah, I was planning exactly that, going to be fun. I don’t think Twitter is too important to take into consideration for the long term... but good to keep in mind because I know it might be important for some // @maique

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manton
manton

@maique Ha! For the last week or so I’ve disabled automatic cross-posting from Micro.blog to Twitter and it’s really nice. One less thing to think about when writing.

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maique
maique

@manton I have a few friends over there, and I’ve found the interaction has grown nicely since I started posting through Micro.blog. I’m actually posting a lot more, but people are replying like never before. Maybe the thought process that goes into a M.b post is showing... 😊

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manton
manton

@maique That’s great! I think I just needed a little break from other social networks. But the cross-posting is a built-in feature for a reason. Glad it’s helpful to folks.

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paulopinto
paulopinto

@manton i have a few folks on Twitter that are very important to me. Like those geek amateur radio friends that spend hours listening to noise on shortwave or catching satellites in Very High Frequencies 😊

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jsonbecker
jsonbecker

@vincent so, I have a good friend who really dislikes the plain text/markdown editing experience with Micro.blog. I think something that could be a differentiator that would be worth considering is some form of great rich text/block editing experience, even if that's a "one way" (as in, sorry about drafts or existing posts, once they're made, I have to convert to HTML and that's what you'll see).

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@manton I always cross post to twitter and I never think about Twitter

// @mai

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maique
maique

@JohnPhilpin I was trying to spend less time on Twitter, but cross posting from here is having the opposite effect! Ahahahahah.

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manton
manton

@JohnPhilpin 👍

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vincent
vincent

@jsonbecker thanks Jason! I agree and I think Markdown is not fit for big adoption for broader usage. It feels very geeky to me in a way. I myself prefer a nice editor too...

I do love the blocks idea. I’ll explore a few concepts.

A few months ago I was looking at adding something like QuillJS, which I can convert to markdown and make it work. But I didn’t go that route because I knew that I want a complete rewrite.

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jsonbecker
jsonbecker

@vincent my thinking is that Tumblr does this very well. So maybe the trick is basic rich text with some post-types that are actually just HTML templates essentially. Tumblr then also has Markdown for the nerds.

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vincent
vincent

@jsonbecker nice! I’ll have a look at Tumblr 😬 Thanks again!

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jpayne
jpayne

@vincent as it's a separate app, would you consider timeline position syncing (via iCloud) until @manton adds API support?

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vincent
vincent

@jpayne I do have mixed feelings about this and I think I’ll go with @manton’s recommendation of waiting on this... as there actually quite a few variables at play that i can’t control. However, it’s on the list.

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jpayne
jpayne

@vincent I had to ask :)

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Gabz
Gabz

@maique @johnphilpin i rather have good real interactions on Twitter from something I posted from Micro.blog than just scrolling through 🤗

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maique
maique

@Gabz Same here. That’s what I found since I started using M.b. Truth be told I’m following a few of you guys over there, as well as on Mastodon, and that has also helped... 😂

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LTG
LTG

@vincent native code! (non-electron)

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vincent
vincent

@LTG that’s ticked for “non-electron” and yeah, as I posted... it will be Apple native 😜

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@Gabz 👍🏽

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LTG
LTG

@vincent brilliant

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gregmoore
gregmoore

@vincent My top 3 Gluon requests: 3. Double-tap to zoom a photo in the full-screen view 2. Timeline position syncing 1. Don't burn yourself out developing features for us 🙂

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vincent
vincent

@gregmoore I like request number 1 haha. And thanks so much for the other points of course.

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