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Changelog

  • ๐Ÿš€ Made the new editor the default for new accounts โ€” it's pretty solid.
  • โœจ Changed the url structure when logged into Scribbles โ€” you'll now see "/admin" for any admin related pages.
  • โค๏ธ Tweaked the invite screen for non logged in users to allow you to add an invite code if you have one.
  • ๐Ÿ˜ During sign up it will now check if your email is flagged for spam or will have problems being delivered to โ€” if so, use another email address.
  • ๐Ÿ› Fixed an issue where the auto-save icon would show before it would trigger the first auto-save.
  • ๐Ÿงน Reworded "Crossposting" to "Feed URL" in blog settings to avoid confusion. Tweaked the layout slightly also.
  • ๐Ÿงน Other tweaks here and there.
  • ๐Ÿ“บ Added underlying platform updates.
  • ๐Ÿงน Fixed an issue where when a page contained a contact form, the main content took up the whole screen before the form was shown.
  • โค๏ธ Re-added the explore RSS feed so you can subscribe to the feed.
  • ๐Ÿ˜˜ Made the explore page public again, so visitors that do not use Scribbles can explore your posts.
  • โœŒ๏ธ 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!

๐Ÿ› 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.

๐Ÿ› Fixed some edge cases with the way your page content was rendered depending on the order of text, images, and other markup.

  • โœจ 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 โ€ข for each item. Thank you to Nicola's site for the inspiration.
  • ๐Ÿ”Ž Added the ability to search blog settings. Still basic for now, but works a treat because I never know where things are (kidding)!
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Added a new send a scribble feature.
  • ๐ŸŽจ 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.
  • ๐ŸŽจ New homepage! New error pages. Just playing around and loving it.
  • ๐Ÿ‘พ Added a quick link to go the blog settings page from the dashboard.
  • ๐Ÿ‘พ The "Published" posts section is now paged to 20 posts maximum so it loads quicker.
  • โœจ 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".
  • โœจ 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.
  • ๐ŸŽจ Tweaking the Explore section a little that shows a little date separator between days.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Launched something new... maybe you'll notice... maybe not... I will announce it during the week ๐Ÿ˜‹ And actually a whole lot of other tweaks during the last few days...

๐ŸŽจ I'm testing a new default theme and you can see it live on this update blog. It's inspired by the explore page. Not everything is yet working. I am planning to add the ability for you to switch to this theme soon. If you want to have your blog use this theme, please let me know. Note that customisation or otherwise is probably broken...

โœจ You can now feature the latest post, from any category (including multiple of), on the homepage and footer area. Just go to your category in question and select the option to show it. The footer featured post will only appear on internal pages and not your homepage. I hope you find this useful. It's great for the occasional social post or perhaps status messages.

  • ๐Ÿ‘พ When fetching posts from the API and the post has attachments, it will now also return a small 500px * 500px (keeping correct dimensions of course) thumbnail.
  • ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I brought back the Explore section, and you can get to it from the main menu. There is more I want to do here and at the moment it is not possible to add any more blogs or opt-in via settings to be featured here. I will start adding some extra info and how to get your posts here ๐Ÿ˜‹ Thank you Nicola for inspiring me to bring this back.
  • ๐Ÿ› Fixed an issue that would redirect a post to the homepage โ€” sorry about that, was a temporary mistake from today.
  • โœจ In addition to an ATOM feed for your blog, you can also now share a JSON feed. Here is ours. Sometimes feed fetchers look for a JSON feed, so this now just works without issue. By default we always use the ATOM/RSS feed.
  • โŒ When first signing up or your account is not confirmed, you now need to confirm before proceeding. Scribbles had an influx of spam accounts over the past weeks and months โ€” sorry if that's an extra step you have to take. Unconfirmed accounts will be deleted after 7 days.
  • ๐Ÿงน Fixed an issue that didn't correctly style the toolbar in the editor. Sorry about that.
  • ๐ŸŽจ Made tweaks to the contrast of a few elements.
  • ๐Ÿงน Fixed a layout issue on the post list in the admin when viewing it on smaller screens.
  • ๐Ÿ–– Removed the explore section including feeds.
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