Wrote up some documentation for the first phase of our blog post “summary” feature rollout. Like a lot of things in Micro.blog, this is a foundation. Other things can be built on top of it.
Mitch Wagner I don’t see the summary box. Is this a phased roll-out?
This will be useful to me for cross-posting. I don’t check the timeline and I don’t know if anyone’s reading my posts there, so for now the value to me is theoretical.
Art Kavanagh Thank you, Manton, this seems to be exactly what I was hoping for. For a long time, I was adding a description to my newsletter posts (i.e. ones with titles), using a JSON data template. Then I switched to putting the description in the first paragraph and styling it differently using the pseudoclass :first-of-type. Unfortunately, that pseudoclass doesn’t seem to be recognized by most email clients. More recently I started to use a real class <p class="description"> for the first paragraph. Unfortunately, that meant that my description was being displayed in the RSS feed as if it was the first paragraph of the post, indistinguishable from the body. But this looks as if it will solve my problems. I’m looking forward to trying it out. Thanks again.
Hall Any further thoughts on exposing Hugo’s Front Matter (feel like a broken record here 🤣) but rathe than hijack the Title field - still raising my hand for that access ala Yellow YAML..
Manton Reece @hall I still want to do it, but I need to work out whether there’s a full editing UI or just including the front matter directly in the post, which Micro.blog would then add its own standard fields to.
Hall OK good to know it’s still on the radar. A customisable field would be useful for all sorts af stuff.
prealpinux I tested the new Summary AI generated content, it’s great, but I noticed that when using the dark theme on micro.blog the word “Summary” is written in white over a white background box 🤣
Manton Reece @prealpinux Just fixed the dark mode, sorry! I thought I had fixed it but the old version was still cached.