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@kimberlyhirsh @maique @pimoore Yay! 🎉 What a great team effort. ☺️ Please let me know if I can make the plug-in better or more accessible in any way. Hopefully, it will find its way into the official directory for easy installation in the future.

@prologic Ah, I see, that makes two of us. 😊 My own sketchy mental model is pieced together by the Micro.blog and Hugo documentation and fragments from @manton‘s blog. I’m sure it’s not 100 % correct.

You can list replies on your blog, but you might have to change a setting for that to work. On the web version of Micro.blog, go to ⚙️ Account and look under the heading Replies. There you can choose to include replies on one of your blogs.

After that, you should be able to fetch replies in your templates like this:

{{ $replies := first 25 (where .Data.Pages.ByDate.Reverse "Type" "reply") }}

Take a look at the Marfa theme for a complete example. You might find Hosted replies helpful as well.

@JohnPhilpin Yep, me too, really. My gut tells me it’s somewhere in the hundreds to lower thousands. But I would have to dive deeper and review the data to find solid support for that. Or write that crawler…

@pratik @jasraj It’s possible to determine the number of users by building a crawler for the task like @JohnPhilpin is hinting at. But by gathering open-source intelligence, I’m pretty sure we could make an educated guess that wouldn’t be too far away from reality. Some observations:

  • The Kickstarter had 3,080 backers.
  • KnockPy reports around 9,650 subdomains for micro.blog. That includes non-blogs like help.micro.blog and test blogs like manton-test.micro.blog. There are definitely blogs missing as well.
  • The Discover timeline is curated by @jean and features the same handful of people, again and again. She’s either really picky 😊 or the pool of active users just isn’t that big.
  • Wayback Machine’s site map of micro.blog has roughly 1,500 users indexed for 2021. The graph is interesting; it clearly visualizes a handful of people creating most content.

So, my guess is less than 10,000 (human) users, most of them inactive.

@odd I’ve never tried julebrus, but we have something called julmust here in Sweden. After reading up on Wikipedia, I think they are at least related. Do you have julmust in Norway?

@ndreas Have you seen the radio button “Show mentions only to people I’m following”? Checking it to remove mentions of people you don’t follow, resulting in a less busy timeline.

@cygnoir If you’re on iOS 15, you should be able to use the camera to capture any text as I do in the video. You won’t have the “Draft In Micro.blog” action on your share sheet (that’s a custom shortcut I made), but you are free to do anything else with the captured text. For example, you could copy it or share it with any iOS app that accepts text (like Micro.blog).

@ndreas Apple Pay works everywhere contactless payment is available. It’s the same technology (NFC) you probably already have and use in your plastic card. If it’s possible to “blippa”, you can pay with Apple Pay. 😊

@renevanbelzen Nice! Looks like the Raspberry Pi is still doing its job as an educational tool. 😊 Now that you’ve spent some time with the machine, how do you find it?

@ndreas Apple Pay (or alternative digital wallet) in your phone/watch can be a lifesaver. I rarely use my plastic cards nowadays.

@odd I shared that island using a code block (three backticks) like this:

```
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```

@odd Oh, no, you are probably after something like this?

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@maique Hmm. 🤔 It might be possible to add support for Flickr by developing a Micro.blog plug-in. What is the result on the actual page when you enter /image URL? Can you provide an example?

@zorn Hitting the plus and minus buttons and screaming out of frustration has been a regular occurrence for me this weekend. 😅

@renevanbelzen I tried scraping amazon.nl just now with some of the tools in my toolbelt*, and it worked out okay. In which way does it break for you?

*Visualping, Apify, and the Firefox extension Distill Web Monitor.

@vincent I love that it’s possible to pin tagmoji for quick access to my favorite ones. Wouldn’t it be cool, though, if there was a view where posts from all pinned tagmoji were presented in a single feed?

@Cheri Me too! And I still have a couple of episodes left to enjoy. I’m trying to restrain myself from gobbling up the whole season at once. 😅

@crossingthethreshold @Miraz Speaking of automation on Apple’s platforms: it might be worth checking out the Shortcuts app as well. It’s been available on iOS and iPadOS for a while and enables automating things via drag and drop. It’s coming to macOS Monterey this fall.

@ajennische En röd stuga med vita knutar. That’s the Swedish Dream right there. 🥰

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