@Ron Ah, OK, thanksâŚso mostly a âbug reportâ, as it were.
First off, very strange that the links donât work at all on Android, as they are just normal HTML links. Maybe thereâs something on your Android device that is trying to open them in a Twitter app that you obviously donât have installed? (If you want to experiment, does the same thing happen if you click on one of the â@so-and-soâs tweetâ links in the big block on Tantekâs website?)
As for talk about spam, I said I experienced them as spam, but didn 't believe he intended them as spam, so they were NOT spam.
Right. Sometimes people (like me, in this case) will use the term âspammingâ to mean âsending a lot of content that can individually be desired or useful but when present in a large quantity becomes annoyingâ (also sometimes âfloodingâ). So while they were not intended by Tantek to be annoying/spam, the end result, as you described, is that for people following him, the posts ended up feeling like spam. (FWIW, this could also be said of when I come through at the end of a day and reply to 10-15 posts and the Timeline seems to be all Smokey ;-) Iâm spamming the Timeline with repliesâwhich I do try not to do, but sometimes thatâs my only shot at replyingâŚ)
You confirmed my suspicion that something is wrong by looking at his profile, which has nothing in it but these recent postings. He has certainly posted many normal postings here in the past, about his long distance running, for example. Did he delete all that stuff on purpose?
A personâs M.b profile page always contains only the last 50 posts or comments the person has made (and unlike the Timeline or Mentions, canât load more to show earlier ones), so it doesnât mean he deleted any prior posts, just that he posted so many âLikeâ posts yesterday to push all the prior posts off his M.b profile page.
It seems like Tantek recently either made some sort of change to his site to start showing those Likes (they make a nice, innocuous display block on his website), or whatever generates his RSS feed broke to start including them in his feed (which I donât think any person or website using his feed wants to see!). In my professional software-QA-person opinion ;-) I think the solution to this problem is for someone to reach out to @t with the bug report about his recent flood of tweet-Likes and ask him not to include them in his RSS feed (or at least the RSS feed he submits to Micro.blog).
I thought micro.blog would get easier and easier to use. [âŚ] Instead it has gotten more and more complicated
I donât think Tantekâs RSS feed going crazyâor any future instance of someoneâs self-hosted, as opposed to Manton-hosted, RSS feed going crazy as they change something on their site, or make a mistake, like when I accidentally hit âPublishâ instead of âSave Draftâ on a blank postâis an indication that Micro.blog is getting more complicated to use. It just means somewhere along the line outside of Micro.blog, someone/thing messed up, and we just see the results of the mistake here on Micro.blog.
I hope that Iâve understood your concerns correctly, and I hope Iâve provided some useful replies đ¤