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@jean Thanks for all you hard work on the photo challenge! I think this photo isn't appearing on the challenge page.

@manton I just noticed that Sunlit doesn’t seem to post the alt text you enter in the Add Description field. I had to edit the post and add it manually.

@JohnPhilpin Thanks. 😀

@manton Such a fantastic series.

@manton If anything, you undersold it. 🤣

@jack I think fatigue nails it! We were bored of Hello Fresh and switched to Marley Spoon. It was like a whole new world. :)

@manton FYI. Here’s an example of the low res images in Ivory.

The top post is the Mastodon feed from Micro.blog. The bottom post is the cross post.

It would be awesome if the images were higher res in the Mastodon feed and also included in the cross post… I think it would make the posts much more compelling.

https://ryanbooker.com/uploads/2023/b01e849b92.png

@manton Great. Thanks! Thanks again for always being around and answering every little question. I hope you're doing ok over in Austin at the moment.

@JohnPhilpin Awesome. I just saw your reply on Mastodon, which was a nice surprise. I follow my micro.blog so I can see what it’s doing, and your reply appeared in the Mastodon thread as well. Open standards are a bit amazing. 😃

@manton Re: The Mastodon compatible feed of a micro.blog timeline…

When a post is edited, is the feed updated or does it always show the original version of the post? Will a follower on Mastodon eventually see the update?

e.g. Changing the title of a blog post, or editing the content of a micro post.

@manton No worries. Just getting feel for what to expect when the other services are down.

@manton What about normal blog posts?

I posted yesterday, while mastodon.social was having issues, and the post never made it it to mastodon. I ended up posting it manually later.

That might expected if the mastodon server is flakey for a while. Just curious.

@manton Micro.blog seems to post tiny low res images for some (not all?) images in a blog post to the Timeline. Is this intentional? FYI, they look very strange on other services. e.g. in Mastodon.

@manton If Mastodon cross posting fails for some reasons, does Micro.blog ever retry?

@manton My partner's family have been posting pictures of all the oaks etc split and fallen over around Austin. Amazing and scary! They have power back too. I'm glad things have improved. 🥶

@odd They’re pretty good. A little stiff on the achilles. Hoping they break in a bit. Much better arch support. Chucks are not exactly orthopaedic. 😂

@desparoz Nice!

@danielpunkass No marshmallow for you.

@danielpunkass That was a very funny little exchange. Haha.

@jack Full posts.

@jordon Yeah. Fair enough! I was mostly following Apple tech stuff and that seems to be almost completely migrated to Mastodon.

@jordon NetNewsWire is my favourite RSS reader, but for a Twitter-like I‘ve been enjoying Mastodon.

There‘a now a large and vibrant community reminiscent of early Twitter and loads of apps.

My personal favourite is Ivory.

@renevanbelzen I’m curious too. Craig has alluded to working on something a few times and the closing thoughts of his post about it all are intriguing.

@manton the downside of that is that the blog doesn’t exist on the same post feed. I don’t think?

I think micro.blog has the right idea making blog posts and status posts all part of the same identity and feed. Though I’d personally dearly love to use it via a Mastodon app with all the associated features like boosts etc. partly because I like those feature and partly to take advantage of all the great apps springing up. 😬

@manton e.g. The argument can be flipped. Someone who didn’t spend their formative years looping can find imperative code unreadable and difficult to reason about. I’ve seen (and experienced it) it a lot.