• Updated the iOS app to fix an issue with push notifications and signing in for new users.

  • Added a new subscription plan called Micro.blog Studio. This adds 20-minute video uploads for your blog. You’ll also see a new option on the Sources page: cross-posting to PeerTube.

  • Released new versions of the mobile app — for both iOS and Android! — with new video uploads for the upcoming Micro.blog Studio subscription, which supports hosting longer videos up to 20 minutes.

  • Improved the Bookmarks page to support searching the links tab, with results linking to pages and archived versions. The search box now changes what it searched depending on the selected tab: Bookmarks, Highlights, or Links.

  • Updated the Mac app with a couple fixes. Choose “Check for Updates” to get the latest, version 3.8.1.

  • Fixed the “New Post” menu option in Uploads for videos. It now appends the HTML <video> tag.

  • Updated the timeline so that if there are multiple photos, Micro.blog will try to collect them together in a horizontally scrolling pane, if there is no other text between the photos. This matches the UI that was previously only for photo collections.

  • Added a new setting to control whether to insert the book cover into a blog post when blogging about a book. Click on Bookshelves → Settings.

  • Released version 3.8 of Micro.blog for macOS with Movies sidebar and other improvements. Easily search and blog about movies and TV shows on your Mac.

  • Added a new “Manage Paths” option on the Posts → “…” menu. This allows you to edit the slug for a post and (for the first time) see and edit the migration URL that is set internally when importing from a previous blog platform.

  • Updated default RSS feeds to include Markdown source, as supported by NetNewsWire 6.2. Your feed will be updated the next time you post to your blog.

  • Fixed an issue following Bluesky users, and improved Bluesky users so that photos from Bluesky are included in the timeline.

  • Fixed replies export for accounts with many thousands of replies. It now archives the replies in the background and will email you when it’s ready. It’s a ZIP file with JSON Feed for each year.

  • Fixed several issues including broken XL link in uploads for Micro.blog Premium subscribers, added audio duration for podcasts in uploads, automatically redirect .html extensions when using folder-style URL paths, and more.

  • Updated the Movies and Books → Discover pages to be more consistent. Books now use the same layout with username. For both pages, the poster or cover will link to the blog post (for new posts starting today).

  • Fixed loading and layout quirkiness of Movies page. 🍿

  • Updated the Movies page of recent posts to include TV shows, so you can see what shows or episodes someone has blogged about.

  • Fixed occasional slow publishing, keeping things much faster for active Micro.blog users who are blogging regularly. If you haven’t posted or replied to anything in two weeks, there may be an initial slow publish if your blog has many thousands of posts.

  • Added an additional setting for movie and TV show blogging if you want to use a different default emoji for TV shows.

  • Improved photo compression artifacts when uploading photos as Micro.blog scales to different sizes.

  • Updated the new Movies section in Micro.blog to add TV show search and episodes browsing.

  • Added new Privacy section on Account page, for more control over whether all users can see your profile page on Micro.blog, and hiding replies on your profile page.

  • Fixed a federation issue where posts deleted in Micro.blog were not always deleted on Mastodon.

  • Fixed broken book cover images in some places. Sorry about that! 📚

  • Added a new “Clear Errors” button to the Account → Logs page, and adjusted when recent errors are shown on the home page.

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