So I have been working away on some new features on my site for quite a while now and it looks like everything is about ready.Honestly I don't particularly enjoy writing long-form content, so it is kind of strange that I have really enjoyed working on this new functionality.The InspirationI was rather inspired by the new block editor in WordPress (a.k.a. Gutenberg), there has been a lot of talk about it - with many varying opinions. But what I think can be almost universally agreed on is that an editor that is a bit more flexible than just a single rich text box leads to much more engaging content.So with that in mind I set about first updating my own site to support long form articles in a much richer manner.The ArticlesSetting up an article view for my site was fairly straightforward. I wanted it to be about as simple as you could get.So this view you are looking at is pretty close to the default post view with a few changes: No topography background (cool, but distracting when reading) Hidden navigation (minimalism ftw) The content is centered and a bit wider than normal. After that I knew I wanted to support at least wide and full aligned content - much like WordPress, so I borrowed their .alignfull and .alignwide class names and added support for them on this view.The EditorNow here is the real challenge! I wanted a feature rich editor to run on the frontend of my site, and it turned out I was able to make an editor that has the potential to work for anyone with an indieweb site thanks to microformats.The editor looks for the microformats .p-name and .e-content classes, and injects itself into those elements.Core FeaturesInline editingYou can load the editor on you own site and uses the styles of your websiteMarkdown ShortcutsIf you start a paragraph with ### and a space it will turn that block into a h3, if you start with a > you get a blockquote, etc.BlocksThe editor has a fairly loose idea of blocks. They can be added using a / in a empty paragraph or some are automatically made when you drop a file into the editor. At the moment I have kept them fairly simple: Image block Audio block Video block Embed block AlignmentBlocks can be wide or full aligned (if you have the right css styles)MentionsYou can @mention IndieWeb people. Currently it is only people from the IndieWeb Directory, but in the future I'd like to make it work with users personal nickname caches.Other Micropub PropertiesI've enabled a decent set of other micropub properties in the sidebar.The FutureAlthough the PostrChild extension is fairly usable right now, I think it is a long way from complete, I've had a bunch of ideas I'd like to at least look into: Using nickname caches for mentions Potentially more block types - a code snippet and raw html block would probably be useful Auto saving posts as drafts Maybe a UI to list posts or drafts via micropub queries Ability to create a new post / reply from anywhere, without first needing to visit your site Improve user on-boarding Fix some UX issues, like scrolling the cursor into view when at the bottom of the page and always having a blank paragraph available to type in.