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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!
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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.
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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.
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Improved Micropub API for bookmarking web pages (
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Fixed an issue with category names that contain accents and other special characters.
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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.
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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.
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Updated categories page on the web to load much more quickly for blogs with lots of posts, calculating the posts count in the background.
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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. 🧐
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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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There continue to be delays with processing ActivityPub-based fediverse interactions after a server problem earlier this morning. New blog posts and replies will eventually be synced up. This problem does not affect publishing to your blog or cross-posting to other services.
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Fixed notifying the Wayback Machine about new blog posts. You can enable this with the checkbox on the Design page.
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Fixed exporting very large archives (over 5 GB .bar file).
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Micro.blog 3.4.7 for iOS has been released with just one change: fixing push notification settings. Sometimes the setting would not take effect or reflect whether notifications were enabled. Android version coming soon, just putting it through Google review.
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Fixed uploading videos to properly scale down resolution. Videos hosted on Micro.blog are usually some variation of 720 x 1280. We will be increasing this and maximum storage per file in the future.
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If you’re on the TestFlight beta for iOS, there’s a new Micro.blog update that fixes more problems with push notifications.
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Updated the default theme to latest version of Sumo, fixing a couple minor issues.
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Some users may have received a “your archive is ready” email this morning because of a server error. You can ignore the email. But an extra backup can be nice, so save the archive file if you want! You can always request a new archive under Posts → Export.
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Fixed push notifications not getting delivered for official Micro.blog mobile apps.
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We are monitoring our servers again today after some brief downtown due to unexpected load. Thanks for your patience.
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Updated auto-generated accessibility text for photos to use your default language if set on the Account page.
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Updated Epilogue for iOS, fixing searching for some books by ISBN alone. 📚
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Released a new version of Micro.blog for iOS, version 3.4.6, adding a Drafts button to the Posts screen to only show draft blog posts.
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New feature on the web for desktop users: press the “/” key on any page to get a quick search bar. Great for jumping to different sections. Type “new post”, “logs”, “books”, and other keywords to navigate Micro.blog quickly.
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Rolled out more blog publishing performance improvements and upgraded another one of our servers.
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