Micro.blog News

  • Apologies for the slow web pages and timeouts in Micro.blog today. Our servers were getting overloaded, but I’ve rolled out an optimization and things should be fast again.

  • Redesigned audio player on the web, including the ability to keep playing a podcast episode while you browse other pages in Micro.blog.

  • Released a new Mac version with bug fixes and automatically saving drafts to Micro.blog when writing longer posts.

  • Added auto-saving drafts on the web, for longer posts. If you start writing a new post and it gets over 300 characters, Micro.blog will now occasionally save a copy of it in the background so you won’t lose the text if something happens. Also works when editing drafts.

  • Improved the style of headers on the web to be more consistent across pages like Discover and Bookshelves.

  • Added new Bluesky PDS option for new Micro.blog users under the Account screen. If you are already using Bluesky, you won’t see anything new. More details in Manton’s blog post.

  • Updated Bluesky automatic cross-posting to also delete the copy of a post on Bluesky when the blog post is deleted in Micro.blog.

  • Fixed an issue with embedding Bluesky cards and Standard.site publishing for AT Protocol.

  • Added RSS.chat as an option when manually cross-posting to other services. Manual cross-posting uses a different list of platforms, available on the Posts page → “Cross-post…” button.

  • Sunlit has been updated with some more little fixes. If you’ve been waiting to try Sunlit again, this is the version to try.

  • Micro.blog for Mac version 4.0.5 is now available. It features a better publishing progress pane and a few bug fixes.

  • Fixed another issue today with blog publishing not updating with latest posts.

  • Improved post deletion to more consistently handle removing posts from the timeline and your blog. Before, the social and blog hosting parts of Micro.blog were more disconnected, sometimes requiring removing a post in multiple places. It’s now smarter about doing the right thing.

  • Fixed some temporarily glitches with blog publishing. Also fixed signing in with email for Sunlit. Apologies for the flakiness!

  • Fixed adding muted domain names. Before, it could mute Bluesky usernames but not reliably mute everything from a particular Mastodon hostname, for example.

  • Sunlit has been updated with fixes and design improvements for Liquid Glass. Sunlit is our iOS app for photo-blogging, with great support for posting longer posts with multiple photos and text sections.

  • Fixed an intermittent issue today with posting errors, especially when uploading a photo. Sorry about that.

  • Fixed import from Write.as and added option to only import specific blogs.

  • Updated the Mac app to version 4.0.4, fixing a few issues and adding a new Scheduled tab to more easily keep track of posts scheduled to publish later. Reminder you can use File → Schedule when writing a new post.

  • Fixed an issue with processing RSS feeds where the summary was set incorrectly, which would lead to too much text for long-form blog posts being included in fediverse posts.

  • There was some downtime for our EU servers. We’ve fixed the issue and hosted blogs in the EU should be back online now.

  • Added custom channels (for grouping multiple RSS feeds) to our Microsub API support. There is also a new default Feeds channel for seeing all posts. Compatible with client apps like Monocle.

  • Improved accessibility text generation to prefer using a blog’s defaultContentLanguage Hugo field if set, otherwise it will use the account’s language.

  • Upgraded a couple servers this morning. The upgrade went smoothly and you shouldn’t notice any changes.

  • Improved automatic podcast transcripts with new model. Works better for longer episodes.

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