Markdown preview and more

I updated Micro.blog with several improvements today:

  • Added a Markdown preview button when writing a post on the web, to test what the post will look like when published.
  • Added a “Show More” button to the timeline and mentions on the web for scrolling further back.
  • Fixed muting users to also hide posts in conversations.
  • Fixed reliability of the before_id parameter in more places in the API.

Plus some other tweaks. These changes focus mostly on the web version of Micro.blog. We have updates to the native apps that will follow.

Mayo Jordanov

Yay, thank you!!!

2018-10-02 12:28 pm
Stephen B

Any chance the webform will get updated to allow system spellcheck to work? I keep having to either write things outside of the form and paste them in or go back and edit things when I inevitably misspell something and don't notice it until reading back again later.

2018-10-02 1:11 pm
Manton Reece

@DrOct Yes, I really want to improve this. Micro.blog on the web uses a custom text box for Markdown highlighting which prevents spell-check from working. Still evaluating options to replace or disable it.

2018-10-02 1:22 pm
Stephen B

Excellent! Glad to hear it. It sounds like a tricky issue, but I hope you come up with a solution soon!

2018-10-02 1:41 pm
Michael Fürstenberg

Great news. Thank you.

2018-10-02 2:20 pm
Simon Woods

🎉🙌

2018-10-02 2:35 pm
Cheri

Awesome! Thank you.

2018-10-02 2:48 pm
John Brayton

I’m excited to see Markdown preview!

2018-10-02 2:49 pm

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