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 would be content with it using the search string:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/browse?search_term=test
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.
Could Micro.blog categories selected for a post be transposed as #hashtags on Mastodon cross-post?
Wouldn’t you have to create a ton of categories? I’ve always visualized hashtags as well…tags instead of categories.
Well, I would limit the hashtags to a low number. Some categories could be marked as “include in any mastodon cross-post” or something like that.
My idea for this is here: Micro.blog Feature Requests - #45 by toddgrotenhuis
Because the list will start to get long, I’m thinking about only having Goodreads and Open Library at the top, then a “More…” popup button that has Amazon, Bookshop, StoryGraph, and Literal.
Feature: OPML export of follows
Do you mean of people you follow or those that follow you? I don’t think the latter will ever happen as Micro.blog is unique in that it never shows who follows you. The former should be possible.
The people you follow (i.e. to follow them in another feed reader)
Unless this is already a feature, but I couldn’t find it in the help.
There’s an existing RSS and JSON feed of your timeline, but there is not, to my knowledge, an export that includes the feeds of each person you’re following separately.
It looks like this was partially implemented, at least for Bluesky. I now sometimes see “[contains quote post or other embedded content]”. I have not seen it say anything about missing media or polls, however?
Request:
Screenshot attached, not in any way to ‘get at’ the person, but look at this loooong reply. I wish it had been one para plus link to read more.
I guess I’d like to see the Timeline showing only short items with links to see longer items. I unsubbed from one person who would regularly write one sentence then add 15 photos.
Yep, this is no good. 
The plan was to limit replies to 300 characters, but we’ve never enforced it. For longer replies, I think Micro.blog should offer to turn it into a full blog post, with a truncated link woven into the timeline.
+1 @Miraz and this has been debated in other threads, more recently this one. However, I hope this won’t go extreme in the other direction and limit replies to only 300 characters coz people might think it’s not worth replying if I have to make a separate blog post, thus reducing interactions.
Offering to turn it into a full blog post is good, but only if it carries some context. I’m not going to have random replies as posts on my blog. Miraz’s beef (I presume) is with the timeline view (incl. with multiple photos) and not with the actual length of the reply so rethinking the timeline UI may be in order and not creating another class of posts.
After I’d written the above I realised that even a disclosure triangle could help with long replies and posts with loads of photos.
As I read through my Timeline I guess I like fairly short blocks. Sometimes folks are having long discussions about things that don’t interest me too much and to have to scroll a lot to get to the next item is the annoying thing.
Same. I don’t want to dictate what people post or how long they chose to respond. Everything can be designed with good UI even on the web. Phanpy does this so well that I went looking for an example and coincidentally found this first as I scrolled down:
Agreed with both, a link or disclosure triangle would be great. I’d actually like to see more of what Loura has done with LilliHub implemented on the official site. Her separation of posts/conversations at the top of the page is an excellent idea.
