I know this is a feature but have never got it to work. @Denny’s reply - “Go to the search field in discover tab, and type in the domain of a blog that you’re interested in following and it will appear in your timeline if you choose to follow” - prompted me to try again.
I tried searching (on the web) for https://critter.blog/ as well as https://critter.blog/feed/ but got nothing. What am I missing?
Just critter.blog, remove the https://
The reason, I think, is that we are to think of the domain as a user rather than as a website address
Exactly. Micro.blog thinks about @critter.blog as basically a special type of username. The nice thing about this is that for blogs that support it (many IndieWeb sites), you can actually @-mention a blog and it will send them a notification. Eventually this will be more widely supported and we will really have something.
Ah! Makes sense but hope that’s clarified on the Search page.
Tried it and it found the blog but it doesn’t seem to pull any posts
@manton I think it’s unintuitive for the vast majority of people to just enter a domain when searching instead of simply copy-pasting the whole address. If micro.blog can automatically strip the entered address to just the domain when searching, that’d be cool.
I get to the same point, although with feeds where I know for sure there are posts.
What does one do at this point?
Did you recently add the feeds? Sometimes it’s just a matter of waiting until Micro.blog catches up. The example earlier in this thread, @critter.blog, seems to work now, for example.
But if you think something is wrong, share the domain names here, and we can scratch our heads together while trying to figure it out.
I should have replied sooner. I think catching up was the problem.
