Micro.blog tries its best to be a good internet citizen and won’t spam other websites with feed requests. Sometimes it will take 5 minutes until you see your new post on the Micro.blog timeline. Other times it will take half an hour. Here are some recent log entries from my account:
2023-02-21 21:20:50: Feed: Not modified — dahlstrand.net/notes/feed.xml
2023-02-21 21:20:50: Feed: Downloading feed — dahlstrand.net/notes/feed.xml
2023-02-21 20:49:26: Feed: Not modified — dahlstrand.net/notes/feed.xml
2023-02-21 20:49:26: Feed: Downloading feed — dahlstrand.net/notes/feed.xml
2023-02-21 20:17:52: Feed: Not modified — dahlstrand.net/notes/feed.xml
2023-02-21 20:17:52: Feed: Downloading feed — dahlstrand.net/notes/feed.xml
If you take a look at your logs and see no Downloading feed entries, something is up with your account and you should contact support at help@micro.blog.
If you want “real-time” updates, you could implement rssCloud or WebSub on your blog. There might be plug-ins available that make it easy.
The Sweet Tooth post is just an embedded Bandcamp iframe player. The Micro.blog timeline only allows some HTML elements, like a and video. iframe is not allowed, unfortunately, so that’s why the post appeared empty on the timeline.
When posting an iframe it’s a good idea to add fallback content if you want the post to look good on the timeline. For example, in this case, you could add a link to the album right below the iframe:
Listening to Sweet Tooth by Mali Obomsawin.
Your blog post would then appear like this:
And the timeline like this:
