Dates on Micro.Blog bug me. I changed the theme on my blog and now see this date format: 1:11 PM, Mar 6
. I hate it. The trouble is, to get my preferred format: 1311 on 06 March 2023
I have to go through a million theme files to find the right ones and change it in each. I’d like a single setting.
Simon Woods I think the theming part of the platform is due for a change. Not only are file-based customisations a tedious experience, the UI in settings lacks clarity, and even the improved performance of edit-to-live-change can quickly become outstripped by an inevitable effort to make increasingly layered changes from even those of us who are hobbyists.
Plug-ins have helped, for sure, as well as your work on @custom and further generosity from people blogging about their own edits; however, that is all very manual and entirely based on random virtue. Feels like core, system-level improvements would raise all boats.
Miraz Jordan @SimonWoods That would be good. Thanks for your kind words too. Even though I created @custom to help with understanding themes (as I learned myself by starting at zero) every time I try to achieve something slightly different with a theme (or even when choosing a theme to start with on the new blog I've just set up), it just about brings me to tears. Every time. It's bewildering and frustrating, tedious, error prone. I'm using a new theme on my personal blog because yesterday I broke things so badly my Home Page simply said "Not Found". Not helpful!
Greg Moore Theming on M.b/Hugo is more than just a barrier to entry, it’s a huge hassle to get what you want. (And I’m saying this after successfully coding my own theme!) Beyond the requirement of spinning up a local dev environment, changing anything across the site also requires digging through multiple files with unintuitive names and locations. Heck, part of why I coded my own custom theme was because it was actually easier to figure out than the “plug-in-themes” and “plug-in-plug-ins” stuff.
Miraz Jordan @gregmoore It's started with wanting to change a date format and led to me wondering if I have the energy to learn how to make a whole theme… I can see why you coded your own.