Temporarily closing new registrations

Today I decided to remove the ability to create new accounts on Scribbles. The reality is, is that it gets a lot of spam sign ups — and that just totally isn't great for me. It's mostly from gmail addresses. Blocking gmail would be easy enough, but it won't solve the problem. At this time, Scribbles has its own legs — it pays for its own server and hosting bills, with just under 400 total blogs (that are not just the default "My new blog"). In the past I mentioned capping the amount of users on the platform and just...

🐛 Fixed an issue that would not correctly clear the RSS feed cache when publishing posts within the space of 1 hour. Sorry about this. Feeds should start updating normally after publishing a post now.

✅ Looks like issues with Cloudflare have been resolved. Today has been out of my control and I apologise for any downtime — the services remained up, but were not reachable because of the layer between the network (Cloudflare) and my servers.

🚨 There is currently a massive outage with Cloudflare that is causing a lot of services to be offline, including Scribbles. Monitoring. Blogs on a custom domain should not be affected by this.

🎨 Tweaked and fixed a layout issue with the overflow menu on the new text editor. Should flow nicer now on smaller screens.

A new editor

You can now test the new editor that will eventually replace the current one. The current editor uses Trix underneath, which is basically built-in with the framework Scribbles is built on. As the years passed there were talks that there one day will be a replacement for Trix. It's now here, called Lexxy — it's based on Lexical for those interested and I invite you to explore the features, here are some taken straight from the Lexxy repo: • Built on top of Lexical, the powerful text editor framework from Meta. • Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should...

🐛 Fixed some edge cases with the way your page content was rendered depending on the order of text, images, and other markup.

• ✨ You can now create a "simple menu" on your blog that basically creates an un-styled version of the menu to keep it... simple. Separated by a • for each item. Thank you to Nicola's site for the inspiration.