Today we updated another part of Micro.blog to support blog post summaries. When automatically cross-posting to Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and LinkedIn, the summary will now be included for long-form posts with a title. It will look something like this after being copied to the other platform:
Your title here: <link to blog post>
The summary of the post here.
For example, here’s this very post on Bluesky:
You can write these summaries yourself or have AI generate them for you from the text on the new post or draft editing screens. They are also included in your published JSON Feed. And for external feeds using JSON Feed, Micro.blog will also look for the summary and use it in the timeline and cross-posting.
I’ve also added support in the APIs — Micropub as summary and XML-RPC as mt_excerpt — so that third-party apps can get and set summaries. This is being tested now for an upcoming MarsEdit release.
