Thanks to everyone who has tried our new feed reader Inkwell, and especially folks who have upgraded to Micro.blog Premium for the Reading Recap feature. Now that I’ve had a few days to evaluate how the launch is going, we’re going to need to add more servers, so the upgrades help a lot.
@manton I’ve been using it for the past few days and really like it. Nice work Manton! My short wishlist:
@manton despite the lack of proper feedback I’ve been enjoying it a lot, so much that my quest for the last couple of days has been finding which kind of feeds work best with it. And I love how nice it already works with mobile, as is, in the browser.
@manton I’m already quite fond of Inkwell and have already given it the top spot for news. The integration with M.b is really nice and I love the super clean look. This is the first time I’ve been excited about an opinionated UI/UX. There is, however, one usability issue which introduces some friction for me. The title is very truncated which means I’m shifting my eyes back to the article list to see what the article is about. I think a two-line information section showing the full title in an H1 or Title format with the source icon, feed name, and date on a second line in the existing font would be far more readable.
It’s not a problem, per se, but it would also be nice to have a pop-up that shows all of the keyboard shortcuts for the web app versions, which would also be nice to have in M.b. I’ve been adding more and more keyboard shortcuts to my computer usage repetoir for the past few years, and more is always nice :)
@t3mujin Glad to hear it. We’ll have a native mobile version too, but I want the web version to be pretty good on any platform.
