@help Is there a recommended way of replying to a non-Micro.blog post with Webmention? Please don't make me manually u-in-reply-to [laugh/cry]

@scojjac Unfortunately, you do have to do it manually like this. Micro.blog should send the webmention for you, though.

@sod That's what my lazy self was afraid of. Thanks for verifying, Sven. :)

@scojjac If you’re using a Micropub client, if it sends the header in-reply-to then M.B will add text to the beginning of your post saying it’s a reply and it will include a link. It’s better to just do it yourself at this point…

@scojjac If you're comfortable writing Go Templates you could create a Hugo shortcode to at least lessen the number of characters you have to type. So a reply could be entered, for example, like this :

{{< reply "https://example.com/interesting-blog-post.html" >}}

@manton authored a similar shortcode for RSVPing.

@sod Oh good tip; I will find time to play with that!

@scojjac @sod @gaelicWizard This is mostly a UI design problem... There needs to be a field to add a reply-to URL, but how to do it without cluttering up the interface for everyone? Open to suggestions.

@help Maybe something like this? Sorry for the long post. 😋

@odd Ah, sorry, no. My rough sketch above is about adding support for webmentions and replying to blog posts where the author has no presence on Micro.blog.

@sod Oh, I thought it might be both. 😅

@sod Love this but a few comments:
- I like how MB currently has the UX for showing the title only when there are > 280 chars.
- No reblog, please. Never ever.
- Agree about reply, tagmoji, and categories. I would add the cross-posting options under one button too. Or can be under More as you suggest. Or all of these can be to present a clean look at first glance.
- Like the placement for 'save as Draft' and to change the blog you are posting to.
- Love the prominent placement for the alt text.

@help

@help Toggle menu? I've often thought it'd be nice to have something like the WP IndieWeb Post Kinds plug-in that works on M.b. It could even be a plug-in if somebody was up to writing it. (I am not.)

@help @scojjac @sod @gaelicwizard Does Hugo not have hooks in the new version that could add this automatically to all links? I recall there’s a lazy loading hook for images that I want to check out, so maybe something similar is available for this?

@pimoore It’s not so much what Hugo lacks, as what M.B provides. M.B doesn’t give Hugo all the metadata, and there isn’t currently a way to provide it. It already does WebMentions for all links, but there’s no automatic way to see what is a reply…

@sod Cool! This reminds me of Tumblr in a way, with different post types adapting with different fields.

@sod This is pretty great!