We rolled out a few improvements to Micro.blog this week. There’s a new page on the web for managing muted users — click Account and scroll down to the “Edit Muted Users” button — and a new macOS release with a photo upload bug fix and an options menu to mute or report users.
You can download Micro.blog for Mac here, or choose “Check for Updates” inside the app. If you missed it when it was first announced, the app now supports uploading your Instagram archive as microblog posts.
About a month ago we added experimental support for Indiepaper to Micro.blog. It’s in the spirit of Instapaper or Pocket, but built on IndieWeb standards. You can read more about Indiepaper in our help.
I wasn’t sure where this would lead, but people are using it, so we’ve improved Micro.blog to include a page on the web for viewing or managing saved articles. After you’ve added an article to read using Indiepaper, a new link to access it will appear under Account → “Edit Feeds & Cross-posting”.
Thanks for your support of Micro.blog. As expected, we’ve had a bunch of new people join Micro.blog, which always translates to great feedback for making the platform better.
Josh Dick Thanks for the update and for solid, incremental progress!
Niels Kobschätzki please add mastodon-support for the crossposter :)Especially with the new twitter-wave the service becomes more enjoyable
Manton Reece @nielsk We're considering it. I have a few ideas for Mastodon support, so don't want to rush out cross-posting until there's a complete plan.
Niels Kobschätzki the current Wordpress-autoposter aren’t that great unfortunately
Watts Martin it'd be cool if micro.blog supported integrating Mastodon posts into the timeline down the road, but that is probably a monumental task. :)
Eddie Hinkle Awesome, those sound like some great updates! 👍
ian @nielsk At present, the solution I'm using is cross posting Micro.blog to Twitter then using Mastodon Twitter Crossposter – of course this relies on you still having a Twitter account...
Niels Kobschätzki @TheDimPause thanks. I will try that
Brad Enslen Thank you. I am really enjoying Indiepaper and the additions are wonderful. Now I can dump Pocket.
Khaled Abou Alfa That's pretty cool. So now Micro.blog is Twitter, Instagram, Instapaper and Blogger all rolled into one :). There's your value proposition right there.
Manton Reece @khurt Any errors? I'd recommend trying the photo import in small batches of a few dozen at a time to start with. (Indiepaper isn't beta, but since there are a few moving pieces it might not be for everyone yet either.)
Manton Reece @khurt If 1 photo consistently fails, sounds like maybe something unexpected with the Instagram data. I'd probably post that manually (you can upload and set the original date using Quill on the web or MarsEdit on the Mac).