girlinblack, 21 days ago

@pfefferle I tried federating my wp.com blog but it barfed my very long posts on the timeline, and there was no way to customize how long the extract would be. The wp.com federation needs a lot more finetuning and I don't have the money to pay 25€/month for a personal blog.

pfefferle, 21 days ago

@girlinblack good point! Thanks for your feedback!

girlinblack, 21 days ago

@pfefferle Honestly, 80%+ of my problems with the federation as it appears in wp.com would be solved if the plugin respected the "read more" element in wordpress and replaced the rest of the post with a link. It's fine with shorter posts, but it does not work for my particular use case.

wpcommaven, 21 days ago

@pfefferle @girlinblack exactly the reason I stopped federating my WordPressDotCom blog.

Most annoying was realizing that images didn't appear where they should in the federated post, but image captions did. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

pfefferle, 21 days ago

@wpcommaven @girlinblack but this is not really a WordPress problem or is it? https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29747

wpcommaven, 20 days ago

@pfefferle knowing the origin of the issue hopefully will help to get it resolved. 😊 And thank you for all your hard work on this. ❤️

Regardless, until there is more granular control over how federated blog posts appear here, I've removed my WPcom site connection for now.

john_fisherman, 21 days ago

@pfefferle care to expand, sir?

rhrwllnrtr, 21 days ago

@pfefferle Let's have another look at the numbers in 20 years... ;-)