Leaflet: first impressions

I've been following Leaflet's development since it was first announced, but this was my first time taking it for a spin once I decided it was the standard.site implementation that best fit my needs. So far I've only written two medium length and one long blog post, but I already have some positive things to say:

• Setup was trivial.
• I really like how simple and effective the theme experience is, and how it propagates into the ATProto layer via the standard.site integration.
• The analytics are great. I'm happy with how many views I got on a first blog post, and a third of that traffic came from the Leaflet network rather than my Bsky followers.
• You can subscribe with Leaflet reader, with your email, or both - and either way you can see who those subscribers are.
• The Bluesky tagging and embed features are really nice.

There are some areas within the app that are a bit of a drag:

• There are some FOUC issues that are distracting when you have a very different theme.
• It would be great to make "view as theme" work like a dark mode checkbox does. I love my red-and-black aesthetic but there are some times when it clashes with how the editor works (like block highlights).
• Human-readable URLs, ideally with some browser-side config to aid in default patterns but remaining customizable.
• Static pages in a menu, as is common on platforms like Wordpress or Ghost. I want an "About" page!
• There are some editor quirks, like drag-to-select just generally being a bit... odd.
• Image embeds should have both alt text (invisible but searchable) and captions (visible beneath the image, searchable). Ghost does this really well.
• Code blocks! Ideally ones with Mermaid support too.
• I did hit a weird glitch on a publish where I was able to write an entire post, but got told I was "logged out" on trying to publish. After logging in, publishing appeared to hang indefinitely; the result is that the post successfully published on Leaflet (and therefore to my PDS) but was not syndicated as a Bluesky post (I had to do this manually). Seems like there's a bug here.

And then I have some thoughts on reading and writing interfaces:

• I move between desktop and mobile a lot. It would be cool to have a mobile app, especially one with seamless interop with the Bluesky app. I'd love to be able to open Leaflet posts for a more focused reading experience.
• I would love a fully featured "publish-to-standard.site-via-Obsidian" integration. I wouldn't use this for all writing, but perhaps certain interlinked articles or on certain publications. This isn't totally straightforward to implement, however; for example you'd want support for formatting and images.

Overall, this still feels like a beta product, but also that it's good enough to be worth paying for! I'm happy with my choice.