Please focus on bugs

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@manton , I like Micro.blog and have no plans to jump ship, but I have to say the service is buggy, and I find your responsiveness to my bug reports sporadic. I know I formerly posted a lot of bugs and feature requests, but I was excited by the potential of Micro.blog. Perhaps my earlier volume has caused you to tune me out. For months, I have tried to be circumspect in bug reporting and feature requests, and still, I sometimes get no response — not even an acknowledgment.

A few bugs off the top of my head, all of which I have previously reported:

  • Newsletters are too wide when viewed in desktop email. I eventually went back to MailChimp.
  • At least two serious bugs in Mastodon replies appearing on the timeline. I just posted an additional bug report here a few minutes ago. This feature is unreliable and therefore I do not use it.
  • The new web editor introduces weird formatting glitches in Chrome, and in the Vivaldi browser, which is Chromium-based.

These bugs and the lack of responsiveness to them are frustrating to me as a Micro.blog user. And they are the reasons I do not recommend MB to other people, or when I do recommend it, it’s with a cautionary note.

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Sorry to hear it. Thanks for mentioning these again. I’m looking at the latest Mastodon reply bug now.

I’ve still never seen the newsletter issue, but that’s probably because we’re using different email clients. I’ll review that too.

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Thanks, Manton. And please understand that I’m sending this feedback because I appreciate Micro.blog.

Paraphrasing a comment Nolan Bushnell supposedly said about Apple: Micro.blog is the only personal blogging service worth complaining about!

On the newsletter issue: I’m using Gmail on the web and also Mimestream for my Gmail account. And the width bug is only part of the reason why I’ve moved on — the other reason is that Micro.blog isn’t really suited to the Internet found media I like to share (mainly memes and vintage photos). So instead I reconnected my Tumblr RSS feed to Mailchimp, which is what I did until earlier this year. I hate the way Tumblr’s RSS feed handle untitled items but c’est la vie.

And I’m not suggesting or requesting that you change the way you handle image uploads. I think I’m probably the only person who wants to use Micro.blog for sharing Internet found media.

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Thanks! The feedback is good, keep it coming.

I’ve also made that Mastodon and Bluesky replies change, so I hope it will be faster and more reliable now.

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Still lagging — but thank you nonetheless. I’ll keep an eye on it. It seems possible that whatever you changed has not caught up with my timeline yet.