Thanks @jsonbecker, that’s a good summary. @khurtwilliams: I would say that Micro.blog’s default apps are optimized for short posts. Posts with a single photo are just much more common in my experience. We want that to be fast and easy.
I love multi-photo posts too, though, and that’s why we built Sunlit for iOS. Sunlit’s posting interface is all about photos + text interspersed. I created this post on my blog in Sunlit and then could tweak it after the basic layout and photos were all there.
It’s difficult to have a single UI that is good at both Twitter/Instagram-style posts and complex blog posts. It’s better to have a variety of apps that are good at what they do. WordPress’s block editor leans toward complex posts. Micro.blog leans to short posts.
Understood. My image editing workflows starts and ends on a Mac (Adobe Lightroom Classic). My writing workflow starts and ends on a Mac. I tend to write photos essays. Lots of text with images in between. I think that would be tedious on micro.blog and is the reason I gave up on the idea of moving entirely to micro.blog.
I wrote this post on my Mac and copied it to micro.blog, then uploaded the images and then edited the draft and painstaking copy/pasted each image link to the right spot. Friction.
I cannot speak highly enough of MarsEdit for writing and posting blog posts on a Mac. It handles both WordPress and Micro.Blog (and probably others), multiple accounts. You can write in HTML or (I think rich text or markdown, I really only write in HTML), upload images via ME, placing them where you like within the text. I’ve been using it for longer than I can remember (15+ years at a guess). Its creator is on Micro.Blog and incredibly responsive to bug reports (if you can find a bug), feature requests etc. I use it currently for one WordPress blog for my local community, my own Micro.Blog and for the @custom Micro.Blog.