Howdy! I made general speed improvements to the platform, especially loading large amount of assets in the admin panel. I've also gave Explore a bit of a speed bump so it's quicker and actually more reliable when data changes like blog icons. — Vincent ✌️❤️

Share a blog with family and friends

Howdy! Big update today: you can now share your blog (and your subscription) with family, friends, or collaborators so multiple people can write together — no extra payments needed. Whether it’s a family memory blog, a shared travel journal, or just you and a friend co-writing, this makes it super easy for everyone to contribute using the same Scribbles subscription. It's super easy to get started: Head over to your blog settings → Family & Collaborators. Enter their email address and hit “Create invite”. By default, Scribbles sends them a nice email with a special invite link. Or you can...

• ✨ For new blogs that have registered, or for blogs that have not yet blogged or set up their blog, there is now a nice simple onboarding view to help you get started. You can always skip it if it's not for you. • ❤️ New blogs now have nicer "slugs"/urls — no more random letters and numbers. Just words. Much nicer. • 🔐 If you were logged out recently, that was on purpose. I've removed some code, rewrote auth with the inbuilt Rails best practices (huh?). Small thing that I wanted to do. Happy! That means new account...

• 💅 Added the ability to tweak some of your theme settings under Appearance in your blog settings. This works for the new default theme only. You can also quickly select some pre-made default styles to get quickly started or reset back to default. I'll expand this as I go. • ✨ The new editor, which you can enable in the account settings, now has some upgrades: You can now add alt tags to images and also add styled code blocks. Code blocks have a new dropdown that allows you to set a language of your choosing — and this...

• 🚀 Made the new editor the default for new accounts — it's pretty solid. • ✨ Changed the url structure when logged into Scribbles — you'll now see "/admin" for any admin related pages. • ❤️ Tweaked the invite screen for non logged in users to allow you to add an invite code if you have one. • 😏 During sign up it will now check if your email is flagged for spam or will have problems being delivered to — if so, use another email address. • 🐛 Fixed an issue where the auto-save icon would show before...

• 🧹 Fixed an issue where when a page contained a contact form, the main content took up the whole screen before the form was shown.

Invites

Today I added the ability for you to create invite codes that allows fellow friends, family and new bloggers to create an account on Scribbles. Your account needs to be eligible first, before unlocking invite codes. It needs to be older than 6 months and also have an active subscription (or lifetime account). Meeting that criteria, you will see a new section in our account settings screen called "Invites". Just go ahead and you can create your first code. Invite codes can be used 3 times, after which you will have to create a new one. You just go ahead...

• ❤️ Re-added the explore RSS feed so you can subscribe to the feed. • 😘 Made the explore page public again, so visitors that do not use Scribbles can explore your posts. • ✌️ Added a random "Discover Blogs" on the Explore page that will bring through blogs at random that appear in the section so others can find your blog. In addition to this, on the homepage you'll now see 5 random blog avatars that links to the explore page. Just want to give a sense of "real" for Scribbles. • ... more to come!