Micro.blog News

  • Updated the default theme to the latest version of Sumo, fixing an issue with categories. You can always update your blog to the latest version of a theme on the Plug-ins page.

  • Fixed showing blog post title and link back to Ghost in the timeline for full-length blog posts from the fediverse.

  • Fixed more Ghost compatibility problems, so now your blog posts will show up in the Ghost home feed when your blog is followed from Ghost.

  • Tomorrow we’re starting a photo challenge! Follow @challenges to see the prompts when they’re posted. 📷

  • Added compatibility with Ghost’s beta fediverse support. New posts from Ghost users should now show up in the timeline if you’re following them. We’ll likely make additional improvements here in the future.

  • Improved cross-posting to tell Bluesky about an image’s aspect ratio, so that non-square images look good in Bluesky.

  • Fixed the “New Post…” option in the Uploads page on the web to properly create a Markdown link to the upload if it’s not a photo, video, or audio file. Media is “attached” to the post, but other files are just linked from it.

  • Micro.blog 3.5 for iOS is now available in the App Store. This release adds a new publishing progress status and a smaller, non-modal reply pane. (Android will follow later this week.)

  • Fixed some additional issues with making highlights in bookmarked web pages. It should work better when the selected text spans across a paragraph.

  • For beta testers, there’s a new version of Micro.blog for iOS with a redesigned reply pane. Give it a try if you’re on the TestFlight beta!

  • For archiving and highlights for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, making and viewing highlights is much improved. The position of highlighted passages of text is more accurate and less likely to interfere with the archived web page layout.

  • Another new update to Micro.blog for macOS: this adds a new “Use blog theme” checkbox to the preview window. For compatible themes, it will download your blog’s HTML and use that in the preview as you type in a new blog post.

  • Updated the Replies page to link usernames you have replied to. Also added a Conversation link for consistency (same as timestamp).

  • Updated the bookmarks import for Pocket to support both the older HTML file and newer CSV format. You can import bookmarks in Micro.blog → Bookmarks → “…” → Import.

  • Updated Micro.blog for Mac with several little improvements and bug fixes. Choose “Micro.blog” menu → “Check for Updates” to get the latest version.

  • We don’t want to get in the way of developers, so we’ve rarely put any limits on API requests. With crawlers a little out of control lately, it’s time to document some simple rate limiting: 300 requests / minute from the same IP address. Should be very rare to hit this. Happy building!

  • Fixed problems with category paths when the name had a dot in it. When first creating a category, “.” is now updated to “-” just like spaces.

  • If you use Chrome (or Chromium-based web browsers like Arc) there’s a new version of the Micro.blog bookmark extension. It now saves a copy of the web page you’re looking at, helping archive web pages that are behind a paywall.

  • Improved Micropub API for bookmarking web pages (bookmark-of) to add a new parameter (bookmark-content) for sending the HTML directly to Micro.blog. This can be used by bookmarking tools to better save web pages that are behind a paywall. The web extension for Chrome will be updated for this soon.

  • Fixed an issue with category names that contain accents and other special characters.
    Fixed removing a post from the timeline when it was very slow and could time out before deleting from followers’ ActivityPub servers.

  • Improved Bluesky sign-in page to clarify app passwords and hosting provider field, with button to open Bluesky settings for generating a new app password.

  • New feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, Micro.blog can now summarize your blog posts into keywords. These keywords can then be used with filters to automatically assign categories to your blog posts. Check out Manton’s video explaining the feature.

  • Updated categories page on the web to load much more quickly for blogs with lots of posts, calculating the posts count in the background.

  • If you notice a tiny change in Micro.blog on the web today but can’t tell what it is… We did slightly tweak the font size so it’s smaller. Just barely. 🧐

  • Released version 2.4 of Micro.blog for Android, adding a button to only show drafts and fixing a couple bugs including problems enabling push notifications.

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