@gr36 @maique the last time I signed back up to m.b everything was broken. I asked Help for … help and emailed and had zero acknowledgment so I cancelled again.
@gr36 Things are not great, no.
All three posts went out, at the same time, out of order. Of course these are not life-altering issues, but what is the point of all this? Micro updates throughout the day, so people can see them pop up at dinner time?
It used to work perfectly. Reliability is way down. I get the whole small team thing, but stuff still needs to work, right?
@AndyNicolaides It would be a huge hassle to move everything out for me. Workflow is great now, except the part that will not work reliably. That’s a shame. @gr36
@maique @greg micro.blog seriously needs a "Snow leapord year". New features are fun and great, but the overall experience suffered a lot last year.
TBH I gave up on this. I loved it that it just worked for years. But without this I'm getting frustrated and angry. So much so that I started my own CMS which I **never** wanted to do.
@AndyNicolaides It’s in there. I’m not sure I could live with so little tweakability, but it’s in there.
@maique yeah that’s fair. Horses for courses I suppose. The lack of tweaking is actually the main appeal to me 😝
@AndyNicolaides I believe Micro.blog has hit the perfect balance, in so many things. Shame about the lack of reliability, and the iffy support, with so many hiccups. Other than that, everything is great. I love it.
Then again, it might be just me, things could be awesome for everyone else 🙂
@maique We’ll have custom CSS available soon (paid feature). But that’s going to be about the extent of it. Might be tough for a photo-heavy blog/site in that case. Use the best tool for the job!
@bjhess Thank you for the info. I still believe Micro.blog is the best tool, hard to replicate it all elsewhere.
@maique Can't really complain, both reliability and support are good most of the time on my end. Crossposting seems stuck once in a while but that never seems to persist for long and usually can be overcome by manually triggering these events. Still pretty pleased. 🙂
@AndyNicolaides @maique @muhh Pika is super impressive already, they need to get custom domains happening for… reasons. Other contenders for me are still Bearblog and Weblog, along with 11ty (despite my misgivings with SSGs).
@maique @AndyNicolaides I can see the queues from Bearblog in Pika’s design and current/planned feature set, and that’s definitely a great one to emulate. @bjhess
@pimoore I've started building my own little ruby app that's going to do what I want. I've started building it on muhh.lol and will let it grow and prune and throw stuff away as it evolves. Next thing I need to integrate is an "under construction" sign...
my blog will coexist on micro.blog as long as it takes. Which might be years 😁
I've discovered posthaven.com yesterday which looks extremely like posterous back in the days (no suprise since it's the same people. Posterous I loved very very much, since it was usable completely by email. Which was the perfect interface for my blind and visually impaired students who mastered Outlook but struggled with clunky webinterfaces. Just like today.
So this has a special place in my heart and it reads quite well what they describe there.
@muhh Yeah I’ve been toying around with 11ty, but just not sure I want the friction and software overhead. I’m sure I could learn it enough to not break everything, but if I do then I get to keep the pieces. Even for technically inclined individuals, SSGs present a lot of extra layers and fiddling. Any underpinnings from Jekyll, since you’re using Ruby?