@manton Micro.blog seems to post tiny low res images for some (not all?) images in a blog post to the Timeline. Is this intentional? FYI, they look very strange on other services. e.g. in Mastodon.
@ryanbooker It retries image uploads to Mastodon if they fail, but only once and then gives up. I'm always tweaking this and may add additional retries.
@ryanbooker Yes, the tiny thumbnails are designed to keep a little preview for full-length blog posts. If they look bad in Mastodon, I'll fix that. They should be full-size or just removed for Mastodon.
@manton What about normal blog posts?
I posted yesterday, while mastodon.social was having issues, and the post never made it it to mastodon. I ended up posting it manually later.
That might expected if the mastodon server is flakey for a while. Just curious.
@ryanbooker In that case it would not retry later. Our ActivityPub support will keep retrying, but cross-posting is a little different and assumes things are up. I’ll see what I can do here.
@manton Re: The Mastodon compatible feed of a micro.blog timeline…
When a post is edited, is the feed updated or does it always show the original version of the post? Will a follower on Mastodon eventually see the update?
e.g. Changing the title of a blog post, or editing the content of a micro post.
@ryanbooker just spotting this - and from my personal experience - it seems to be updating - which I did NOT expect - but very happy it is.
@JohnPhilpin Awesome. I just saw your reply on Mastodon, which was a nice surprise. I follow my micro.blog so I can see what it’s doing, and your reply appeared in the Mastodon thread as well. Open standards are a bit amazing. 😃
@ryanbooker Currently edits are not updated on Mastodon. This is planned. I haven't wrapped my head around how Mastodon editing works yet, but should be soon.
@manton Great. Thanks! Thanks again for always being around and answering every little question. I hope you're doing ok over in Austin at the moment.
@manton FYI. Here’s an example of the low res images in Ivory.
The top post is the Mastodon feed from Micro.blog. The bottom post is the cross post.
It would be awesome if the images were higher res in the Mastodon feed and also included in the cross post… I think it would make the posts much more compelling.
https://ryanbooker.com/uploads/2023/b01e849b92.png