Changelog

• 🫧 You can now set individual categories to be ephemeral instead of all posts — great for categories that are meant to be fire and forget type posts, that don't need to hang around too much.
• 📰 Added extra settings for the Buttondown integration allowing you to change the title and add a short description.

• ⚡️ There is a new "Actions" blog settings that, for now, enables sending a PING to Micro.blog to fetch your latest posts and get it into the timeline quicker.

• ✌️ Added a proper Archive Kit to backups, so you now get CSV, JSONL, and bookmark exports out of the box (great for Raindrop/EagleFiler and general peace of mind).
• 🔗 Exported posts now include cleaner canonical links, so sharing/moving your posts keeps pointing to the right place.
• 📦 Archives are now much easier to reuse — you can pull your archive data in formats that are actually useful.
• 🔎 Search across your archive got a nice bump: faster and generally better at finding what you meant.
• 🧭 Added browser search support (OpenSearch), so your blog archive can be searched more directly from compatible browsers.
• 🔐 Private blogs still behave as expected: archive exports stay protected behind your privacy/passcode settings.

• ✌️ Added support for adding a Buttondown newsletter subscribe form to the footer of your website, just visit "Reply by Email, Newsletter & Form" on your blog settings page and set your username.

• 👾 When using your feeds for categories or main feed across third-party services, like Micro.blog, and you have the option to show a "Reply by email" set up in your feeds, you can now include ?no_email to disable showing this with any given feed.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue when viewing and exporting posts in markdown when using the new editor.

• 🥴 Fixed an issue that would return a 404 error when a web uptime monitor would hit your blog. Sorry. No actual downtime happened (because that's not how I roll).

• 🐛 Fixed an issue with auto-save creating drafts of the post you just published.

• ✨ You now create a new category straight form the new post editor. Just click on the "new" button, add a name, create —> and then select it. Easy. If you don't yet have the new editor enabled (enabled by default for new accounts), you can do so from your account settings page.

• ✌️ Added some random quotes on Explore. Keep you motivated.
• ... of note — if you are still using the original editor, I will be switching over to the new one come end of February.

• 🐛 Fixed an issue that would prevent you from publishing when auto save failed. Sorry about that.

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 ✌️❤️

• ✨ 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 pages also and general flow, which you shouldn't notice.
• 💅 Various visual improvements and betterment across different UI elements, like the account page and other areas.
• 💵 ... I changed payment provider for new accounts and for accounts that don't have a subscription. Happy days. The general checkout and billing experience just feels nicer — and it... works. I know... blogging is more important of course.
• ... and a few more things here and there.

• 💅 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 is correctly displayed on your blog when you're using the new default theme.

• 😏 And back to the new editor, you can also now trigger a pop up whilst typing to get to the shortcuts menu. Just type / and you're good to go whilst writing. Easy.
• 👾 I am still working on integrating the new editor, so if you find oddities... you know where I live.

Happy blogging!

— Vincent ✌️❤️

• 🚀 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 it would trigger the first auto-save.
• 🧹 Reworded "Crossposting" to "Feed URL" in blog settings to avoid confusion. Tweaked the layout slightly also.
• 🧹 Other tweaks here and there.
• 📺 Added underlying platform updates.

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

• ❤️ 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!

🐛 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.

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

🐛 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.

  

• 🔎 Added the ability to search blog settings. Still basic for now, but works a treat because I never know where things are (kidding)!

• 💬 Added a new send a scribble feature.
• 🎨 You can choose and select the new default theme (v2) in your blog appearance settings. There is more for me to do here. This is now the default theme for new blogs.
• 🎨 New homepage! New error pages. Just playing around and loving it.
• 👾 Added a quick link to go the blog settings page from the dashboard.
• 👾 The "Published" posts section is now paged to 20 posts maximum so it loads quicker.
• ✨ Added a new option to load Micro.blog comments at the bottom of your post. It uses conversation.js from Micro.blog to make this happen. Enable it in your blog settings under "Comments".
• ✨ New little help icon on the bottom right showing you the latest updates from the Scribbles Update blog. You'll see a little pulsing icon when there is something new. It's not real time, but will eventually show up.
• 🎨 Tweaking the Explore section a little that shows a little date separator between days.