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RE: My Initial Impressions of Posting Using InLeo
I suspect but have not tested yet that any formatting you create in PeakD would likely be viable to copy/paste over into InLeo and it likely will still work. Images are maybe the sticking point - I feel like when you upload an image in PeakD it's given a relative URL at that point. If that IS the case, you could technically get a post fully written in PeakD, and then copy/paste it over to InLeo. It sucks because it's an entirely unnecessary extra step and overhead like that is a great way to kill the desire to post... but it's probably viable short-term.
Along with your list, I found that InLeo lacked the basic analytics I use frequently in PeakD, and I dislike the bouncing "click me for your rewards!" icon as well - If I wanted to claim rewards I would. The extra movement to pull at my eye feels like a design choice I haven't seen any serious businesses use in... a decade? Maybe more?
It has a lot of potential I think, but it feels very much like a beta test at this stage. I don't hate it, but I don't love it. I think in a few months or a year, it may win me over, but right now it's just not quite where it needs to be for my personal use.
That SAID, I think the threads portion of InLeo is one-hundred-percent what we needed and does a lot better than the alternatives we have. I love the threads. I don't love the full posts.
I've tried copying a post from PeakD to InLeo and it worked; it was a little indirect because it was a post I'd previously made and used the "edit" button to get the version with markdown. The initial image generation was a little slow, but it worked and once it had been created it behaved itself.
I think the most frustrating gap for me right now is the lack of templates. For some reason I find copying tags from an old post to a the next one in the series to be a psychological barrier, and being able to set up templates where all that is done is a big help.
But you're spot on about Threads. I still haven't got my head fully around them (I was never a Twitter user), but when I've dipped in, I've enjoyed the process 😀
Yeah, honestly I don't know what that heck I'd do if it wasn't for PeakD's ability to Clone previously published posts (found in the Drafts section). Templates were great, and I still use them occasionally, but almost everything I do is via the Clone option now - I gut the stuff I don't need and it keeps all the rest of my footers/tags/chosen community/etc all selected and it's amazing.