I’ve been thinking that it would be awesome to be able to permanently associate alt text with an image upon upload. I’d love for some alt text to be linked with an image’s URL so that if I ever “get” that image via the “Copy HTML” or “Copy Markdown” buttons, or any other method, I would also get that alt text with it.
I don’t know how the backend works, but it seems possible since when you upload a video, you also get back an image URL for the poster parameter along with the video’s URL. They’re at least loosely linked, right @manton?
Feature request: Hohoho - Xmas-wish to micro.blog by a non-developer, newbie-style. Maybe availible allready, but not that easy selectable, as for a beginner:
Description: I would like have micro.blog as the heart of my microblogging-life. All my posts shown on that micro.blog main page. Each post might been selected to be passed on (crossposted) to individual other social networks (i.e. Mastodon, Bluesky , etc.) Comments to those post should show up on my micro.blog page below the original posts automatically. This way your different social media accounts will end on that micro.blog page for you. Use public standards like ActivityPub, Webfinger etc. in the background if possible.
So every user can configure the content on the micro.blog page up to his needs. From being “pure” micro.blog up to central social media headquarter. Just use tick boxes to customize, so non-developers (like myself) having a chance to take part.
Maybe one day, this wish will become true. Thanks a lot for all your great work. Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Cross posting options have defaults and can be shown on each post when you author them.
Clicking Include conversation on post page will include replies on your blog if you want.
Bridgy can be used so that replies to crossposted replies are sent to your blog as webmentions and shown-- those platforms don’t generally do that, there are some caveats there, and to get ActivityPub replies to show up fully in Micro.blog it’s best to not cross post but instead just turn on your Micro.blog ActivityPub stream that people can subscribe to and reply to.
The real hiccup is Bluesky and Mastodon don’t send webmentions to a canonical source without the help of something like Bridgy. Using your blog’s ActivityPub stream solves that for an activitypub based social network, but otherwise, there’s little recourse for the fact that a cross post is actually generating a distinct copy of your content on another platform and that platform would have to choose to support some standards to make this work seamlessly like that.
tl;dr this is 98% possible with clicking tick boxes today.
Feature Request: Character count in post editing view
Description: I’m pretty strict about keeping my micro posts within the 300/600 character limit. But when I go back to edit a post after it’s published, I no longer have the benefit of a character counter. This is tricky when I’m near the limit and don’t want the posts to be truncated on the timeline.
Feature Request: I’d like to be able to preview the rendered version of a post while editing a draft or previous post, similar to the way you can preview on the new post page.
I’m using the web app, which has a preview feature on the new post page, but if you save as draft, go into edit it again, there’s no longer a preview button.
Editing the slug in the URL is still planned. I don’t think it’s going to happen this month, though, as we have a couple other things we’re finishing first.
I also wish there were a way to preview drafts in the context of my blog. Code block rendering is buggy in the “All posts” view and I use KaTeX to render math.
Separately: Feature: Support macOS text replacements in the desktop app. Description: Safari and Chrome support macOS text replacements in text boxes.
Feature request : add Storygraph to micro.blog books options Description : when viewing a book on Micro.blog - Discover books, add a button/search along with these options:
But you might object: “that’s too specific”, but I’d respond “amazon and goodreads are already there, and they are not only specific but hostile to the open web”.
StoryGraph doesn’t offer an API and it’s books pages use an internal GUID as opposed to a more universal value (like ISBN) in its URLs. I don’t think there’s any programmatic way to link into a page on StoryGraph.
Now, Literal.club does have a pretty extensive GraphQL-based API and support for that would be possible.
I expect that would hit about as effectively as the bookshop one is right now (meaning, often doesn’t go right to it but I can get there with a couple interactions.)
(actually, by some anecdotal testing…it’s hitting more often than bookshop when using the EAN/UPC or ISBN13)
Bookshop ISBN has gotten incredibly unreliable in the last year, which is annoying to me because that’s the link I use (with an affiliate link) on my own books page.
Then again it’s been years and not one person has bought off of those links so it may be time to just abandon that notion.
Anyway, I’d still request StoryGraph adopt and API or more useful URL scheme. Helps tremendously.
