I’m excited to announce: Summer of blogging! For new folks signing up on Micro.blog, hosting is only $1/month for the summer. Full blog, photos, themes, ActivityPub, Bluesky cross-posting, and more. It’s a great time to start a blog at your own domain.
@manton Excellent! A good theme and a great offer. 🙌 I wonder if an associated challenge would also help 👀
@manton Cool idea. How about a quick name change to "Season of Blogging"? I read your announcement while wearing numerous layers of warm clothes, with the first frost of the season outside and freshly snow clad mountains in the east. And with more cold to come. 🥶
@Miraz Oh wow. I always forget about that. It's too late to change, but we'll remember that next time.
@manton Good initiative, hope as many as possible boost the post on other platforms. I got the song “Summer of Love” in my head now, and got the urge to rename it (also in my head) “Summer of blog”.
@mandaris I found that it didn't work if you're using the app. I guess it thinks it's a link to a profile page: the "summer" user. It works if you open it in a browser (for me, at least).
@vincent I’ve been thinking we need a better way of handling these paths. Maybe the user lookup should have a special response for non-users, then the app can pop open a browser.
@manton The biggest problem is, is that it’ll navigate straight to the profile screen, without any network requests until the screen is open. It’ll load the profile data once there. We could, after a 404, open a browser window with the URL and at the same time navigate back in the app…
@manton @lmika @mandaris @vincent I hope we can sort this so that our current users can see the page in the apps. Most people want to look over a page before sharing the link with anyone else. (Hacky alternative: view micro.blog/summer in a browser where you are not logged in or a private browsing window. Sorry. 😬)
