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I REALLY LOVE how the feed reader https://woodwind.xyz/ is set up and integrates directly into my own website for publishing and replies. I'm hoping that as it evolves, this is the type of functionality and UI/UX that @manton also continues to aspire toward with micro.blog. (Hint: there's code on GitHub - https://github.com/kylewm/woodwind)

 

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@jimmymansaray I'm sure it's not an Independent Publisher issue. You might also ask Colin where he got it and if it had actually worked for him. I think I saw that snippet floating around last week. I think Colin has ultimately changed to the following instead: https://github.com/colin-walker/wordpress-blank-title.

It adds the kind of date/time stamp you're looking for (or is modifiable with some research) and has the added benefit that micro.blog should ignore the time stamp and just import the_content() of your status update instead.

Honestly, I'd recommend going without a title if you can manage it. If you need something in your admin UI, you might try this suggestion as well: http://boffosocko.com/2017/05/04/title-less-status-updates-for-micro-blog/

I notice that https://baty.blog/ (also https://micro.blog/jack) is also using Independent Publisher to do somewhat the same thing.

 

What I find most interesting about micro.blog is that it is truly that for most people: an actual micro.BLOG! No one seems to be using the same way that they use Twitter which has turned into something I can't quite describe as simply or directly anymore.

 

Post Kinds defines RSS Feeds for all of the kinds like this: http://example.com/kind/note/ for notes.

This should let you pick and choose which feeds you push into micro.blog. Generally I syndicate just a few of my feeds, but don't syndicate replies.

 

Spent all of two minutes creating the custom domain http://micro.boffosocko.com and mapping it over to my micro.blog account using the CNAME set up as documented here: http://help.micro.blog/2015/custom-domains/
That was entirely too easy...

 

john's post on setup for micro.blog

 

@johnjohnston Interesting that you saw my Huffduffer reply via micro.blog as I would have suspected you supported webmentions and would have seen it directly on your blog as a comment--though perhaps you did and, like me, you forgot the source once you'd gotten back to actually reply. Or from the looks of it you've finished some additional set up and have those pieces working now. From what I can see it looks like you got Brid.gy working properly!

Thanks for sharing some of your podcast recommendations. I saw your post on Castro and I'll have to take a look at it. I'd recently switched from DoubleTwist on Android to AntennaPod for it's ability to listen at faster speeds as well as the ability to jump forward/back in 30 second increments.

I'm sure I'll see you around both micro.blog, or more likely directly on your site. Cheers!

 

h, i, k, o, q, u, v are currently the only remaining one letter usernames left for new micro.blog accounts

 

I've now added my listen, jam, and bookmark feeds from my main site into http://micro.blog/c. They're prepended with descriptive emoji to give people reading the feeds some additional idea about what those status updates are about and what they might find by clicking through.

 

The one drawback to not using the same username on both Twitter and micro.blog is that the namespaces won't overlap for @mentions.

 

I've now got the ability to create status updates in @WithKnown and have them feed into micro.blog! Hooray @manton for the RSS feed fix!

 

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Perhaps putting these fields and the phone number onto the main account page would be better UI? It will also bring forward the statement about IndieAuth (I like the description by the way), which will help to make other posting interfaces and applications more apparent--particularly in the early Beta days when they're so limited.

Additionally adding a field for Instagram (wrapped with rel-me) will also let users potentially use https://ownyourgram.com/

Similarly a swarm/foursquare field for aaronpk's ownyourswarm would be useful, though he may have to do some tweaking to get it to work with micro.blog as it's relatively new.

Other than that I think I mentioned most of the other commonly used IndieAuth data pieces above.

 

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Testing out a webmention from Known into micro.blog!

 

@bupk_es / @po / @matt@mastodon.me.uk Have you decided to throw twitter, pnut.io, and mastodon overboard for micro.blog yet?

 

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