Working on an update to Micro.blog for macOS. Anyone have any Mac-specific gripes that need attention?

Simon Woods

Conversations are often just blank white pages. It used to be restricted to when clicking through from Discover but after recent updates it has spread elsewhere.

Matthew Bradley

I'd love to be able to see cross-posting & categories simultaneously and let them stay visible for a new post if I left either or both visible the past time I authored and posted.

Scott Yoshinaga

when I do a Google search for micro.blog macos app it brings up a Netlify link to an old version of the app as the 2nd choice: https://micro-blog-help.netlify.app/2017/mac-version/

Manton Reece

@rpmik I had mixed feelings about that so I gave notes their own shortcut: command-option-N.

Manton Reece

@kimonostereo Good catch. That was a mirror set up by @paulrobertlloyd years ago for a redesign... I don't think I have access to it. Paul, do you think you could just zap micro-blog-help.netlify.app?

Manton Reece

@rpmik Yeah, it's a good point. I'll think more about this and maybe there will be a natural way to improve this in the future so that it's consistent everywhere.

Pratik

  • Please have the cross-posting options and categories list available via the new post window rather than navigating to the menu bar. Brownie points if I can keep both visible whenever I open the new post window again.
  • browse multiple photos in a post horizontally instead of vertically
  • Have an indicator for when a post has replies
  • Include the embed link at the bottom of each post.
James Manes

You got my bug report note page. :)

Manton Reece

@jmanes Yep! Already have the Markdown headers color fixed, not sure about the others yet.

Manton Reece

@pratik I've been thinking about embed too. I don't like that it's not available in any form (even if slightly buried) on the Mac right now.

JL Gatewood

How about some way to bring up the edit post screen on your own replies without having to navigate to it yourself. I make too many typos in my initial comments and posts. (Also the same on iOS as well 🙏🏾)

Rob Raguet-Schofield

macOS system text replacements don't work in the post editor. They do work in the iOS app post editor.

@manton This one’s petty, but… The faint divider line between posts, bookmarks, etc. could use just a little more contrast - but not a lot. It’s just a visual thing for me. Like I said, kind of petty.

Devon Greene

When you're in a bookshelf, it's not obvious that you can right-click/control-click to pull up a contextual menu. I like the menu as is, but I'm not sure if some visual marker (is it called an ellipsis menu? - sorry, I'm a doctor, not a interface programmer!) would be helpful to more easily access it than just randomly click and hope it does something.

Paul Robert Lloyd

@kimonostereo Eek. Zapped!

Manton Reece
Manton Reece

@dgreene196 That makes sense. Those options are a little too hidden.

Paul Robert Lloyd

Have updated my wish list ☺️

Manton Reece
Daniel Rose

I'm just going to say, +1 to all these. I very much resonate with @pratik's list.

Chris Enns

Not sure how feasible it is, but being able to insert images inline in the text rather than just at the end on a post?

Pratik

Another very minor and perhaps a bug. If you click on a post, the conversation view appears. In that view, if you click on a post again, the conversation view appears in a new sliding window and keeps happening with each click. Perhaps the click should be disabled after it opens the first time?

Pratik

@paulrobertlloyd #259 has bugged me too, pun intended.

Manton Reece

@sebfontan Thanks! I'll add "delete" to the right-click options as a first step. That was definitely an oversight.

Jason Becker

click an image to inline with Markdown would be my main vote.

Oz

@mjb @manton 100% this

Dr. Adam Procter

option to keeping the category options in view. stop the main window unminimising when clicking into the post window

Dr. Adam Procter

make it way clearer which blog your are posting to if you have more than one

Dr. Adam Procter

recently the publishing changes to blog seems to be really slow and I fear quiting the app. And related to my other push the ability to import from instagram etc from the app to other blogs your own on your account

Manton Reece

@adamprocter More clear than the domain name at the bottom of the new post window? I'd like to add a favicon next to it, although most blogs don't have a separate favicon currently.

Dr. Adam Procter

if you think it’s possible? it just doesn’t always register to me visually, maybe at the top like on the web post

Sven Dahlstrand

A minor gripe but don't know if it's a minor fix. 😅

Colin Devroe

@manton To see if there is a conversation!

David Hall

Still only the one main ask is timeline synching/remembering point within timeline 😀

Dr. Adam Procter

import Instagram to another blog in your MB account 😉

Dr. Adam Procter

@mjb +1

Devon Greene

I hadn't had the chance to really play around with the new Mac version of Micro.blog. Thank you for making that change to bookshelves - it's definitely more intuitive now!

Manton Reece

@dgreene196 Glad to hear it!

Manton Reece @manton
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