There is now a new blog settings screen called "crossposting" that shows you all of your available feeds, which you can copy and add to Micro.blog, EchoFeed or any other services that digests RSS feeds and then cross posts them.If you have an account with EchoFeed just use the "Add to EchoFeed" button and we'll redirect you over, with the URL pre-filled and checked, and you can finish setting it up on your end on the EchoFeed site. It's super easy.
Shipped last week, you now have the ability to create categories to your posts with a super simple and slick interface to get started. Categories allows you to add one category per post so that you separate out your content into... well... categories of course. Head on over to the Categories page using the main menu and you'll be presented with a simple input box. Just give it a name and hit enter (or create).Every category you create here will also assign a random, tasteful, accent colour — don't worry, you change this later on. Scribbles will also create a...
What a few weeks! So wild. I am especially thankful to everyone that has purchased a Lifetime Plan for Scribbles. It really means a lot and I am really blown away by all the support. A few people have asked how long the lifetime plan is available for, especially now that we're approaching April. So taking into account some of the email conversations I had and what I think is fair, I decided, as long as you're part of the early adopters (registered before April 2024), that the lifetime plan will be available until the end of April. Early adopters...
By chance I looked at the storage space used on Scribbles for all the images that are uploaded, and then also each variant that is created afterwards — because it'll keep the original and then use that to make more optimised versions of those for rendering purpose on a post page. What I noticed is that in the last few days alone, the storage used has doubled — which means it's been getting busy 🥳 The way I set it up initially is to have an attached drive to the server, which acts as the primary storage, and then it...
Yesterday, after a request from Jason, I added support for Letterbird, a super nice service for embedding a contact form — or you can also link straight to it — from the folks at Good Enough. It's a perfect fit and I wanted to make sure you can embed these to your pages or posts as you want. So introducing a new "Contact Form" Blog Setting.Just go ahead and add your username or just paste in the contact form link — Scribbles will do the rest and extract that username for you. Just press Save and then you're set. Next...
Hello friends. Something is eating at the back of my mind, and I was wondering if you could give me your input — or let me just write about it and you can absorb (or ignore). You see, my plan was to launch Scribbles on April 1st for anyone to register and get blogging — and you know, it's probably ready for it too. It has come a very long way since then, and even hit the upper limits of the server, so now it's been battle tested against virtual bare metal. Right now everything is going good and expectations...
Hey there, just wanted to give a quick update on what has happened today with the downtime — it was around 10 - 15 mins of chaos before. I was working on fixing some N+1 queries, especially around loading content and images for posts. So that basically means instead of requesting multiple sets of data multiple times, everything is kinda fetched ahead of time before I need it during rendering. Whilst I deployed this, and not taking into account how busy Scribbles is already, some feeds and sites were being fetched on top of me also fetching data to make...
Late last week, thanks to Sticker Spotter, I worked on general improvements on handling posts with just images. The problem being that short posts (posts without title), with a non-expanded post page, or just on your archive page, would render... nothing. That obviously isn't good at all. I also noticed this on other blog posts that came through on the Explore Shorts page, where it would render just the date and the grey outline of where text would be. Well, no more. Now it does the right thing and fetches the image.It was well worth the effort to get this...