Thanks for writing this up. The standard is stable enough to be used daily but as you said, the features to make the apps (including Indigenous for iOS, which I am developing) excel are still in development. I’ve been able to implement some of what you mentioned (mark posts as read/unread), but others are still on my list of things to tackle (sorting, filtering, etc). I think two things are needed to get where we need to be: 1) all Microsub developers need to use it daily (I’m pretty sure we all do) and 2) People that try it out need to write blog posts just like this one so that we see where we need to improve and iterate.
Thanks for trying Microsub out. Hopefully it won’t be too long before it supports the features you need! 🙂
You don’t have to live in public
I tried very hard in that book, when it came to social media, to be platform agnostic, to emphasize that social media sites come and go, and to always invest first and foremost in your own media (website, blog, etc.) and mailing list.
I still stand by that advice, but if I re-wrote the book now, I would encourage artists to use much more caution when it comes to using social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
This just made it so much easier to post events to my site, so I expect to be posting a lot more now!
Yeah, I think from the micro.blog side of things it makes sense to hide it from the UI. From the IndieWeb side of things, I think over the next year we’ll see expansion into follower lists to help readers, recommendations and the vouch system. For this reason, I think data wise keeping the full follower list is important.
In fact, that reply (and this reply) was sent into Micro.blog system via webmention from my website.
Hey there! M.b does support webmentions, just not 100%. There are definitely more improvements @manton can (and has expressed a desire) to make. Unfortunately, every feature has to be prioritized 🙂 This has the current info on what is working for webmentions: http://help.micro.blog/2017/webmention/
Homebrew Website Club returns! Come on out and work on your personal website, or learn more about how to escape the social media silos by building something of your own!
We’ll have updates about the recent IndieWeb Summit, a return of webrings, and much more!
I think something like Slack’s reactions could be great. It lines up with something we’ve been experimenting with in the IndieWeb as “reacji”. Essentially they are replies with just a single emoji under the hood. But in processing and UIs we can think of them as reactions. I find Slack’s approach very beneficial.
There’s a new Micro Monday podcast episode out! “Eli Mellen, an art historian and printmaker turned web developer, talks to Jean about…” LiveJournal, the IndieWeb, 🕸️💍, Micro.wiki, and more.
Over the past couple of days I've noticed a problem when posting a comment on the blog.
The comment is submitted but you are not directed back to the post. No follow-up actions occur either such as sending a webmention where appropriate or mailing me to advise that a comment has been submitted.
After checking, I saw the site is generating a 405 error in wp-comments-post.php which checks that the request method is POST and fails if the method doesn't match.
I'm not sure when it started but I think it might have coincided with the update to WordPress 4.9.7.
I tried disabling a number of plugins and custom functions to no avail. Searches revealed that this is a relatively common issue with some saying it relates to a problem sending emails from WordPress. I turned off the email notification options in Discussion Settings and comments started working.
Email is definitely the issue. I've tried a couple of SMTP plugins instead of relying on defaults but get the same error so I don't know what's actually causing it.
I've left the email notifications off for now so that things work until I can find the cause. There may, consequently, be a delay in me responding or reacting to comments.
Liked: Scripting News: What became of the blogosphere?...
"I doubt if the blogosphere of 2018 is smaller in absolute terms than the blogosphere of the early 2000s. In fact I'm pretty sure it's orders of magnitude larger...
What changed is we lost the center."
The emergence of social networks as a driving force on the internet gave people quicker, easier ways to make a point, connect and have conversations. Blogs still existed but became isolated, the strands that wove them together as more of a community unraveled.
Things have been getting better:
- a backlash in some quarters
- the indieweb movement seeking to facilitate cross-talk using technologies like webmentions
- micro.blog aiming to get people focused on blogging again
But it is still too easy to jump on your social platform of choice rather than have discussions via blogs.