Updated a few things with the Micro.blog publishing backend, including a new “Rebuild” button on the Account → “View logs” page. Useful for doing a slower, complete sync of your blog if anything was accidentally out of date.

@manton hi Manton, congrats on the email newsletters rollout recently. Is it possible to show an excerpt at the bottom of a longer post, e.g. so that readers have to click “read more” to view the full post? (like this).

I was thinking might be handy for some of my longer posts, like one I just posted.

@jasraj No, that’s not currently possible. If you’re using weekly/monthly emails, you could post a summary as a new post and then use categories to exclude the full-length post. In the future, we may want more control over the email template so truncation could be controlled.

@manton okay, thank you.

@jasraj The Micro.blog Tufte theme appears to offer this feature if the post starts with a title. @pimoore, Tufte’s developer, might be able to say more? @manton

@jasraj @frostedechoes @crossingthethreshold Oh yeah, thanks for clarifying. I was just talking about newsletters.

@frostedechoes Thank you Robert. I didn’t know about this. Good to know if I ‘theme switch.’

@manton @crossingthethreshold @frostedechoes thank you all, I hadn’t made it so clear in my original question to Manton, but I was actually asking about the blog itself (not newsletters), so this is very useful to know! I hadn’t realised this.

ps. I’m a fan of the theme @pimoore (and others) use, I’ve asked him about it previously… I hadn’t realised he was its developer :)

@pimoore okay great - thanks for the clarifcication, Pete.

@pimoore hi Pete, I’m experimenting with the Tufte theme. How might I change the ‘reply by email’ mail-to address at the bottom of each post, from the custom email provided to my own?

@timapple thank you!

@pimoore a belated “thank you” for this explanation 🙏🏻

@pimoore @jasraj Is it possible to make the “reply by email” feature available in other themes? Via a plugin? I don’t want to enable comments on my photoblog but want a way for someone to get in touch with me if they need to.

@maique Please do as I’m in a fiddling mood today 😬

@maique Much thanks and looks straightforward. Except I don’t have a config.json file in the theme (Kiko) I’m using right now. Am I already obsolete?

@pratik In your custom theme, you can create a new template called config.json with just the field you want to customize and Micro.blog will automatically merge it into the default config.

@pratik @pimoore @jasraj @maique Reply by email plug-in, nifty idea! I’ve started working on one.

@sod Looks great!

@sod Awesome! Looking forward to using it. In the meantime, I’m going to try out @maique’s hack.

@sod cool! (cc’ing @thebaer in case you might be interested, Matt)

@pratik It’s really just a proof of concept for now, and the documentation lacks. But I think it’s ready for alpha testing. So if you’re up for that, follow the instructions here. @maique @pimoore @jasraj @timapple @manton

@maique Thank you! 😊 Your well-written instructions inspired me to build the plug-in. By the way, you may want to change ?subject=Reply to to ?subject=Reply%20to%20 in your template. Read here for an explaination. @pratik