Changelog July 17th — July 19th

A refined interface — calmer admin and settings, a fresher Explore, passkeys, Send a Scribble that stays on the post, and outbound webhooks for the folks who automate. You can read about the latest interface changes here. July 17, 2026• ✨ Passkeys — add a passkey under Login & Security and sign in without typing your password. Your browser can offer it automatically on the sign-in screen. Easy. July 18, 2026• ✨ Send a Scribble stays on the post — readers compose in an embed modal instead of leaving the page. Sign-in and send work on custom domains too, then...

Refining the interface, bits & bobs

Over the last few days, I've been motivated to work on the general interface for Scribbles. It was already quite unique, in a way, but a lot of areas felt tacked on without much thought — chaos in a simple interface. This is not how I wanted it to be. It's easy to launch new things and just keep layering features without considering how everything fits together. Scribbles is for writing — and it should get out of the way. That's the philosophy from the start. I believe in good defaults and a few strong opinions — Omakase お任せ —...

Scribbles is now sending email from a new provider. Everything should be working as expected, but will monitor over the next few days. Let me know if you're having any issues though (shouldn't be). ✌️

• 🐛 Fixed an issue where custom domains may have not provisioned. Sorry about that. All domains should be working, however get in touch if you continue to have issues — I checked and everything is looking good now.

• 🚀 Faster-loading post images — inline images on your public blog now serve responsive sizes based on the reader's screen, so posts use less data on phones and tablets. Tap to open the lightbox and you still get the full-resolution original. Small changes, but important. ✌️❤️ — Vincent

Changelog — July 2nd

Some smaller tweaks and fixes since the last few updates. • 💅 Homepage and Explore blog tiles are now fully clickable. • 💅 Swapped the main menu icons to new ones for clearer, more consistent visuals. • 💅 Keyboard shortcut badges now appear on hover in the expanded pinned sidebar. • 💅 Archived posts no longer show up on the main posts dashboard — they're still on the dedicated archived page. • 💅 Rebuilt social preview image generation for posts and pages. Share cards should look sharper and more consistent. • 🎨 Custom themes can now load external fonts via...

Custom themes

A few weeks ago I teased support for custom themes. You can now get started with creating your own. This is perfect for the more advanced users that want ultimate control of themes and the way they work. This is still very early preview, but I can't keep building this on my own — so if you're keen, you can get started by heading to your blog settings page, and then Appearance. Here you'll get a link to the custom themes. It's super easy to get started and we provide a starter kit with minimal styling to set the tone....

New menu sidebar

You can now pin the main menu, that you can get from clicking on the Scribbles logo, to the sidebar. Just click on "pin sidebar" and it'll stay where you've set it. Here is a video. At any time you can always bring it back to the top as always — and for mobile view it is still the same as always. Hope you like it. My favourite is the collapsed sidebar. — Vincent