@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.

@sod Do you mean extrapolate the user from the blog domain? I’d like to add users by searching for them (and preferably get suggestions for others in the thread). (Short term memory 👎).

@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.)

@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!