๐ You can now view all of your uploads (assets) that are part of your posts on a dedicated screen. This allows you to quickly download them in original format, view the post they are attached to and also search by filename or your post content. This is still a work in progress, so please expect some tweaks. You'll find this in the new "Assets" section that you can get to in the main dropdown.
โ ๏ธ Assets are tied to a post, so when you delete the post, the attached uploads will also be deleted โ that's by design. OK, moving on...
๐พ When you have multiple blogs you can now make a blog active from the "Blogs & Settings" screen that shows all your blog alongside your account settings. This will lead to another feature one day. When viewing blog settings, you can also see if it's the currently active one... if not, you can "make it so".
๐ค Tweak some icons. Fixed some missing colours.
๐พ Explore will now show both posts with and without title on the same page. This is something I wanted to do for some time as I didn't like to switch between the two and thought it was silly. Also, Amit, nails it that they're not supposed to be just "shorts" or labelled otherwise. There is also a new RSS feed for this. The existing feeds work as they did as I didn't want to mess with your flow.
๐พ Improved the blog export to now also include all of your original images and videos. The HTML that will be created will use the images or videos as found in the folder instead of the Scribbles CDN URL.
โค๏ธ Added a Nitpick option to set a "powered by scribbles" image into the footer of your site. It's a lovely icon created by Ning. By default, any new blog will have this option enabled by default. Existing blogs will have it disabled โ didn't want to mess with the Zen. Give it a try. You can see it on this blog, just scroll down to the end.
๐งน Moved a few things around on your blog settings page so it doesn't look like one giant wall.
๐งน When editing a post, the trash icon has now been moved to the top bar instead of next to the Update button. Just feels nicer.
๐ For posts with images, you can now click on those images to open up a lightbox. Works great. Click to open, click to close. It'll always load the higher resolution image to maximise the space. It's super simple and hopefully will tick a lot of boxes. It'll have a blurred background in either white or black, depending on the colour scheme. You can of course override some elements with the ".lightbox" class in your custom CSS. The image will also take into account your screen height, so it'll fit as it needs. Give it a try:
A lightbox showing an image. The blog is hidden behind.
๐พ Tweaked the explore section to show image previews for posts that have them. I think it looks nicer and it's easier to see when a post does include an image or not. Especially great for photos that have a little bit of text. More work needs to be done here though, but a great step to make it look nicer.
๐ Fixed an issue that wouldn't correctly check for domain name set up. Sorry about that.
๐พ Changed the interval for when archiving posts, if enabled. This used to run in the background every hour, but will now check every 5 minutes instead.
๐พ After some feedback, we're making a few changes to the editor. We're moving a few things into the settings icon next to the Publish button, for example setting the post as draft. We've also hidden the live preview button in the auto-save pop-up, so you can find it here. The auto-save will only show up once it saved to remove visual clutter. The editor now also takes up the full height of the screen. More to come and think about.
๐ฅธ FYI, markdown support will come hopefully closer to the end of this year โ waiting on the proper "sanctioned" Ruby on Rails editor that will be built into the framework. Didn't want to sway too much away from the official channels.
๐งน When you're on the trial you'll now also see a link to the billing page in the header area. So it's easier for you to find.
๐ Hopefully fixed an issue with domain names not being checked correctly and never setting you up correctly as intended. Please let me know if you encounter any issues with domains not setting up correctly.
๐พ Some behind the scenes upgrades, which of course should fix the above.
๐พ Added a new option, under your Blog's Verification & Proofs settings, that allows you to add your `fediverse:creator` tag. You can read more about what this is here on the Mastodon blog. Just enter the username you want and Scribbles will add the tag for you. Easy.
โ๏ธ Me again. Bumped up the amount of free posts when you first create an account. Now you get 25 posts (instead of 10) to try things out โ hopefully that allows you to get into a habit.
๐ค Things should be running smoothly again. Let me know if you find anything though.
๐ค Made underlying upgrades to the core systems of Scribbles. For now, everything looks and works as it should. If you notice anything that's not right, just let me know.
๐ข The Explore page is a little slower to load than previously as I am exploring new ways to "cache" the data.
๐ More behind the scenes updates as the day goes, so you might notice a few slowdowns.
๐ We launched live post previews. Check out the announcement post, which includes a video for your viewing pleasure.
๐พ In addition to the above, we fixed a few minor issues when category tags are present in the preview.
๐พ Tweaked the way the auto-save labels the submit button depending if you've set it as a draft or not so it's less confusing what the button will do.
๐ Temporarily disabled videos being delivered via CDN due to issues with Safari not loading them. Still looking into this. However, videos now work and should play as normal.
๐ Fixed an issue that would cause an error on the categories page in the admin area.
... also there is something else I deployed, but that post will have to wait.
๐ Added ephemeral posts and archives. See the announcement post for more info.
๐พ Tweaked the way blog settings are saved. You now get redirected to the page you were on when you make changes instead of back to the blog settings overview screen.
๐ Fixed an issue that wouldn't automatically archive posts ๐
๐ Fixed an issue that would cause the app to load a logged in view before checking if you were logged in or not โ causing an error.
๐พ Tweaked some icons around the dashboard and improving some layouts on the blog settings.
๐๐พ Last night we launched auto-saving for new posts. Now it's also enabled for any draft post so you can keep on writing without worrying.
๐ Added a "delete all drafts" option if you have more than 4 active drafts. This will delete all drafts โ great for someone like me who had over 50 drafts but wanted a quick way to remove them. It will show at the bottom of the drafts page.
๐ Posts you write are now auto saved along the way. Read more about it here. This is only rolled out for new posts only and will come to drafts at some point also.
๐พ๐ When you upload attachments, like images or videos, the publish/update button will now pulse and be disabled until everything is where it should be. Great when you're uploading larger files, but you accidentally published the post before it was finished โ causing broken images in your posts.
๐พ Tweaked the position of the Kudos button to now display straight after the post. The "Leave a comment" and "Reply by email" buttons, if enabled, will show below.
๐ค Made tweaks to the CDN and DNS which shouldn't have affected anyone. So, just saying... that I've done it a few days ago.
๐พ You can now add alternative text to your blog logo which will help with general accessibility for users. Find this setting on your blog settings page -> "Change Image" and find the new option there.
๐พ Further on accessibility I have added an aria-label of "Kudos" to the kudos button when you have Tinylytics enabled.
