In an effort to provide absolutely everything I want for a social-focused micro.blog app, I have been thinking about ‘reblogging’ posts. This is relatively easy to implement but requires a lot of thought so it doesn’t ruin users’ experience — hence my desire to seek feedback.

My current state is as follows. A user of Micro Social will be able to share the post to external apps or select reblog to be able to share their thoughts on it. This is a typical retweet or boost with a comment on Mastodon. Unfortunately, on social media, it is often used as associated with ‘dunking’ on others.

As this is typically the case, I have thought long and hard about how this will be done. I typically do this quite a bit for blog posts using Jarrod’s excellent Shortcut, and my aim is for this to cut down on the need for external apps.

When a user taps reblog, they will be greeted with a screen that does not allow them to edit or remove the link, and also text urging them not to change too much about the quote. I considered not allowing editing at all; however, this often resulted in posts being too long, so I settled on this. However, I am happy to receive feedback on this.

You can then leave your comments below and share the post as you would any other.

These will all appear in the same format to allow them to easily be consumed no matter where you see the new posts. I aim to improve this further with styling unique to Micro Social, but make this optional and not affect viewing them in other places. What I really don’t want is to make the experience different for users of different apps.

Feedback Required

My overall aim is to make something useful for the micro.blog community and I’d love feedback on this. This enables me to gauge the feelings around this feature to ensure the community builds this with me and dictates where things go. Features such as this that make an a large impact on the community may not launch as a result of feedback.

Feel free to reply to this post or email me using the link in Micro Social.