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Micro.blog is a platform made and maintained in the spirit of collaboration; it is developed using open standards, whilst the team makes design decisions with flexibility in mind. As such people are encouraged to make feature requests and generally provide whatever thoughts they might have along those lines.

This is a log of all publicly known feature requests, a community wishlist as it were.

Sources:

• GitHub
• Slack
• @manton
• People’s blog posts.

Understanding Micro.blog

Show lists of followers and following

• Details: Have public lists of followers and following for each account.
• By: Isiah
• Link: GitHub post

Getting started

Link to post source

• Details: For all posts in the timeline, display a more obvious link to the source whether it is hosted on Micro.blog or an external site.
• By: Hans Gerwitz
• Link: GitHub post

Apps

Add rel="me" to link on profile

• Details: The verifiable website link in a profile includes rel="me".
• By: Paul Robert Lloyd
• Link: GitHub post

Better access to profile and blog links

• Details: More obvious links to your profile and website available when reading the timeline.
• By: Brent Jones
• Link: GitHub post

Better feedback on submitting a post

• Details: After submitting a post you are either taken to the post itself or given better information/information including links on which to act.
• By: Chris Aldrich
• Link: GitHub post

Category support for external sites

• Details: Show and be able to select categories made available via non-hosted sites.
• By: Paul Robert Lloyd
• Link: GitHub post

Clickable images on the web

• Details: Make images clickable in the web app, without resorting to the context menu.
• By: Simon Woods
• Link: GitHub post

Empty mentions and favorites timelines should contain something

• Details: Without activity the mentions and favorite timelines would have at least some sort of message, preferably a clear call-to-action for using the timelines. Maybe include links in the message.
• By: Paul Robert Lloyd
• Link: GitHub post

Improve syntax support for code blocks

• Details: Add the syntax of three back-ticks as a way to create code blocks in Markdown.
• By: Paolo Amoroso
• Link: GitHub post

Include profile URL in Mac OS

• Details: Make links in a profile clickable and add a clickable link to the profile itself.
• By: Hans Gerwitz
• Link: GitHub post

Open links in new tab on the web

• Details: Option for opening all timeline links in a new tab on a single click.
• By: Josh Sullivan
• Link: GitHub post

Preview button in more places

• Details: Include Preview feature in post editing and draft editing screens.
• By: Paolo Amoroso
• Link: GitHub post

Remember position in timeline

• Details: Option to save your position when reading the main timeline, which also syncs across apps.
• By: Hans Gerwitz
• Link: GitHub post

Show all replies sent

• Details: Provide a page that shows all of your replies.
• By: Josh Sullivan
• Link: GitHub post

‘Show More’ made available on more timeline pages

• Details: The ‘Show More’ button should be present on the replies page, Discover, and all such timelines.
• By: Simon Woods
• Link: GitHub comment

Toggle visibility of replies

• Details: Choose an alternate view of the timeline in which replies are not visible.
• By: Hans Gerwitz
• Link: GitHub post

Hosting on Micro.blog

Add theme previews

• Details: Re-introduce the theme previews, with which you can see how your website would look with the selected theme.
• By: Simon Woods
• Link: GitHub post

Change blog URL

• Details: The hostname of a hosted site (username.micro.blog) can be changed.
• By: Manton Reece
• Link: GitHub comment

Improve navigation for Archive page

• Details: Make it easier to find posts on the Archive page, for example by dividing the page into date-based sections.
• By: Jan Erik Moström
• Link: GitHub post

Set the primary language for the blog

• Details: Add support for switching the site into a different default language. Especially useful for screen readers.
• By: Marco Zehe
• Link: GitHub post

Theme similar in design to the profile pages

• Details: One of the default themes to choose from looks much like the profile pages.
• By: Manton Reece
• Link: GitHub comment

Photoblogging

Image alt tag tool for the web

• Details: Add the alt tag tool to the web app.
• By: Simon Woods
• Link: GitHub post

Photos hosted over SSL

• Details: All images uploaded, whether via single-image upload in a post or the upload manager, should load over SSL to avoid mixed content warnings and the like.
• By: Kitt Hodsden
• Link: GitHub post

Cross-posting to other social networks

Maintain markdown syntax

• Details: Pre-rendered Markdown should be conserved on the syndicated side of the cross-post.
• By: Ethan Huang
• Link: GitHub post

Name Optional title creation for short posts

• Details: Option to create titles for short posts, exclusively for auto-linking when cross-posting.
• By: David Owens II
• Link: GitHub post

Per-post cross-posting

• Details: Cross-posting target switches for each post.
• By: Multiple people, in different feedback spaces.
• Link: GitHub post

Use JSON feed external_url when there is no link

• Details: If there is no link in a post, or if the style is a “link blog” post use the external_url field to create a link in the associated tweet.
• By: Paul Roub
• Link: GitHub post

Connecting external sites to Micro.blog

Send webmention to profile URL

• Details: When a username is @-mentioned, Micro.blog passes the @-mention to both the mentions feed and as a webmention to the website in the profile.
• By: Eddie Hinkle
• Link: GitHub post

Developers

Image metadata for posts

• Details: Include image URLs in an array when posts contain images.
• By: Jamie Thingelstad
• Link: GitHub post

Make conversation thread JSON feed public

• Details: Open the feeds for conversations to be publicly accessible, for readers and the like.
• By: Eddie Hinkle
• Link: GitHub post

More data in YAML

• Details: Increase capabilities for GitHub mirroring.
• By: Jamie Thingelstad, Chris Aldrich
• Link: GitHub post

More user stats in the API

• Details: Add “RSS Feed”, “Location (in the real world)”, and “Time Zone” to the stats in the API.
• By: Isaiah
• Link: GitHub post

Return more data in the “check since” endpoint

• Details: Add more information to the “check since” endpoint to better sync timelines in third-party apps.
• By: Isaiah
• Link: GitHub post

Support for cross-site replies

• Details: Replies from external sites appear in your timeline, as well as mentions and conversations.
• By: Eddie Hinkle, Aaron Parecki, David Shanske
• Link: GitHub post

Webhook

• Details: Push to a webhook when publishing a post.
• By: Rick Cogley
• Link: GitHub post

Account and policies

Make URLs in “Paid microblogs” settings clickable

• Details: The URLs listed in the “Paid microblogs” section of the main Account settings are turned into hyperlinks to your sites.
• By: Eryn
• Link: GitHub post

Account-based lists

• Details: Followed accounts can be sorted into private lists, which can then be used to create custom timelines.
• By: Hans Gerwitz
• Link: GitHub post

Notes

I will endeavour to explain requests as clearly as possible, and will make edits accordingly. When it comes to sources, blog posts and GitHub posts are the form of request most likely to succeed in being included, since they are most often reliably found and linked.

If you have made an ephemeral request – a Slack comment, a reply to Manton, or an email – consider turning it into either a blog post or a GitHub post!

You can see feature requests on GitHub and Slack, where you can also make your own requests and post about bugs. Updates about the latest issues are on Tracked. For help in general you can use the official documentation, the aforementioned platforms, as well as by way of email(help@micro.blog).

If you want to let me know about feature requests I have missed or any mistakes on this page, you can @ me or send me [a message via email](mailto:tilmb@protonmail.com?subject=Update for the Wishlist).