We are powerless before @manton’s cross-posting machine ATM. Not really anything that I know that can be done to tune the way things are generated.
I would love the addition of cross-posting syntax that would be parsed for platform specific options. This would take a whole lot of work so it’s more of a wish list priority.
That being said. Having Twitter/Open Graph cards configured can make a huge difference, especially when the post contains an image.
Some platforms actually show the summary text, never seen a Twitter card with summary text in the wild though.
I definitely agree with that… Have a Medium account, but that’s more because there are people who insist on posting to Medium instead of to their own web site, so I’m stuck with it.
@manton Cross-posting from my second blog (theplaytime.micro.blog) to Twitter still doesn’t work. I’ve reconnected it multiple times, but still no results. Please help.
Not sure if there’s been a change on HTML formatting on their end (perhaps to do with the fact pages can have custom designs now, like my dark mode?).
Although this seems doubtful because it still looks like this on the old Edit view:
So they missed out on my posts about Micro.Camp.
Hearteningly, unlike some of these ^ unlucky folks the same RSS feed still cross-posted to Twitter consistently - which is the most important:
Interestingly, Mastodon has had some miss but some come through.
To conclude, I guess at least for Medium it was a blessing in disguise that it stopped!!
But I hope we can work towards have cross-posting that can be relied upon to go out in a decent format!
Yeah, since resubscribing, cross-posting does not work for me with Twitter or Mastodon. I’ve tried feed.xml and feed.json and feed.rss, all to no avail. Sigh.
Including alt tags has been on our radar for a while and I hope to prioritize it. Requires some under-the-hood changes to how we’re using the Twitter API.
I would like more control over how posts get cross-posted to Twitter.
I want to have a title on micro.blog but also have the beginning of the post to be in the tweet (possibly without the title). I think this will increase traffic from Twitter to micro.blog too.
It should be noted that the Medium crossposting feature does not work at all. Is there anyway Medium will let us fix that or should we consider removing that feature?
I didn’t realize that Medium cross-posting was broken. Everyone else seeing this? If it has been a while since Medium cross-posting was enabled, you may also want to disable/re-enable it, which will update the authentication information in Micro.blog.
