For the Micro.blog fans: I just released version 1.0 of the ‘Open Micro.blog Reply’ shortcut! Get it here from the HeyDingus Shortcuts Library.

Ever have trouble getting back to the conversation from a reply you made that’s on your Micro.blog site? This shortcut will bring you right there!

@pimoore You bet!

@jarrod @pimoore Yup, second the “this is great”. BTW any specific reason you guys added the Replies to your blog? Do you skim them often?

@pratik @pimoore Thanks! Honestly, it was just something I enabled when setting up Micro.blog and I didn’t really understand what it would do. But since then, I’ve appreciated that I have a record — on my own domain — of my replies. I don’t skim them often, but it’s come in handy when I want to refer back to something I mentioned to someone else. Plus, when I browse other people’s sites, I often enjoy exploring through their replies, so I assume that others might like the same for me. It’s uncovered new people for me to follow, and interesting conversations. Much like the replies tab back on Twitter, I suppose.

@jarrod That makes sense and I can see how it can be useful for discovery. I’ll add on mine too coz I do write quite a few replies 😉

BTW if you delete a reply, does it also vanish from that person’s blog? If yes, that’s better control on your “comments” than in the heydays of blogging.

@pratik Awesome! 🙌 I think it deletes it everywhere, except perhaps for folks reading via Mastodon because the distribution there is kind of weird. But if you want, we can test it! I’ll make a test comment on one of your posts and then delete it. We’ll see if it disappears from your site.

@pratik It does indeed delete your comments off others’ sites. I made and deleted a test comment here, and it’s gone.

@jarrod Awesome. Thanks for testing it.

@jarrod Had to remove the following reply due to a syntax error that was causing problems rebuilding my site. Screenshotted and re-replied here for posterity!