Despite possibly picking the wrong time to work on micro.blog related things, I’m determined to push on a work in public to create something worthwhile. Anyway, my first target was threading, it’s one of my biggest frustrations on micro.blog and sometimes makes conversations challenging to follow, so getting this correct and intuitive is important to me.

When accessing a post that is a reply now, the post view displays the post you tapped on accented slightly. Directly above this is the post it is replying to (including a label), and if this is in a longer thread you will also see the ‘Thread Starter’ which is the original post that started it all.

Underneath this are any replies to the post you are viewing, and you can scroll down a little more to see all the replies to the Thread Starter. You can, of course, tap on any of the other posts to see where they fit in the chain and follow along the conversation more easily.

It’s still not perfect, but it shows where my ideas lie is and highlights the reason this app exists. To make all the social elements easier to use on micro.blog, and really focus on that goal. Leaving other apps to offer different features.

Thread Starters

If you tap on a post that is a single post, this displays all the replies underneath it as expected. Or if there are not any replies, it will encourage you to leave one and ‘start the conversation’. There’s still some work to tackle ensuring replies go to the right places, but things are going the right way.

As with all of these posts, as I move forward, I am delighted with feedback, good or especially bad, that is focused on the UI and usability. It will help shape the development of the app going forward and also help me improve as a designer. You can reach out to me by leaving a reply, or tap reply via email below, and we can chat about anything you like. As long as it’s not can I have a beta!