Comment by Andrew Shell on I think the marketing for this new theme missed its …
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I think the marketing for this new theme missed its mark. Dave thinks this is a new short-form blogging app when it's really just a new theme. I was able to post to it from WordLand with no issues. It's still a regular WordPress.com website. This is just a new theme built in a week …
The frontend text box for now seems very simple. Capped at 500 characters, auto-detects urls and auto sets the title to the start of the content (default WordPress behavior).
If you go under WordPress Settings > Writing and enable "Use Markdown for posts and pages." you can use markdown in your posts from the frontend.
That's a good piece of feedback. Since it's just a regular WordPress.com site you get all the usual WordPress.com features out of the box, but maybe features like Markdown (or ActivityPub) should be automatically created when you create the site so you don't have to go hunt for them.
I'll pass this along to the folks working on this!
Awesome! Thanks
The other thing they might do is make the default post type "aside" as I think that will pass through correctly to ActivityPub.