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Bubbles is good

As mentioned before, I’ve been heading to Bubbles more and more to get my little blog fix every day. Hey, I’m an addict, I’ll happily admit that!

Bubbles is great, and is definitely having a moment given how often it drives traffic to this silly little blog, but it does have some limitations.

I don’t know if there is a way to even adjust for these but I do occasionally find myself wondering if there was a way it could flag more about the content of the post lying behind the title.

This is largely driven by my preference for text based content. Clicking a post title in Bubbles gives no indication of what lies behind it, specifically either the type of post (text, image, video), nor length/reading time.

I find myself clicking a title to be taken to a one line post, or a single image, or a video. All of which are fine but I’m, particularly for the one line posts, not sure I’d click through if I knew that in advance.

I know, I know, I want my cake AND to be able to eat every single slice at my leisure…

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One response to “Bubbles is good”

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    msd

    Honestly same – I love bubbles and my only complaint is I wish I had a better idea of ‘is this a longform’ or ‘is this one photo and a caption’.

    I don’t think I’m personally up to the task but writing some kind of meta reader UI for bubbles would be pretty sick, like if a blog post has both a meta image and a meta description, parse both of those to give a better idea of what you’re about to click into.

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