Micro.blog News

  • Fixed being able to download .epub files from a blog. A reminder that you can upload almost any kind of file to your blog, not just photos. If a file type isn’t supported, let us know.

  • Micro.blog is a little bogged down today. Thanks for your patience. I’m upgrading one of our servers and will pick up some optimization work from earlier in the week.

  • Released version 3.5 of Micro.blog for macOS, improving the preview window and uploading photos from the clipboard.

  • Fixed paging through lots of drafts on the web.

  • Fixed a few issues with handling errors, including when setting up Pixelfed cross-posting and domain name redirects for Micro.blog Premium.

  • Finished a server upgrade that should improve publishing performance, especially running Hugo behind the scenes. We’ll keep making things faster this week.

  • Released a new version of Micro.blog for Mac, fixing cross-posting with drafts, adding editable accessibility text for uploads, and other fixes.

  • Fixed an issue with cross-posting where it would sometimes disable all services for a post. Apologies for the new problem this week!

  • For developers, added a syndication property when getting posts via Micropub so that clients can maintain the cross-post services list for draft blog posts. Also now reliably accepts mp-syndicate-to in both form-encoded POSTs and via JSON.

  • Updated new posts, editing, and notes to support command-S for saving. The convention in Micro.blog on the web will be command-return to save something and close the thing, and command-S to stay where you are if you don’t want to leave the page.

  • Improved the reader mode for archived bookmarks, tweaking the spacing and link color so it’s more readable. To learn more about archiving and highlights, watch this video introducing the feature from a while back.

  • Updated the Markdown processing in Micro.blog so that it’s more consistent with the output when publishing to your blog. This also fixes an issue with underscores interfering with links.

    Let us know if you notice any issues with your blog, previews, newsletter, or anywhere else where Markdown is used.

  • Improved uploads on the web to allow editing auto-generated alt text, automatically using alt text when choosing “New Post”, adding a “Copy Link” context menu item, and other related tweaks.

  • New release of the Micro.blog app, version 3.4.5, adding an “Upload” toolbar button and “New Post” when selecting an existing upload, plus bug fixes and other improvements. “Check for Updates” to grab the latest version and see what’s new.

  • Fixed an issue that prevented sign in, registration, and some other features from working. No longer depending on an external JavaScript server that was down today.

  • Updated the blog settings to now warn when changing to EU servers if your domain name is not pointed to the right place yet.

  • We’ve released Strata 1.2.1 for iOS. Fixes refreshing notes and some other tweaks. You can find the release notes and download link on this help page.

  • Fixed an expired HTTPS certificate for the username.micro.blog hostnames. Sorry about that!

  • Add a new “New Book” option in the bookshelves “…” context menu, with improved support for looking up a book on Goodreads by ID when it can’t be found anywhere else. Searching for a book by title or ISBN is still preferred. Also added the Bookshelves sidebar item for Micro.one subscribers.

  • We’re testing a new version of Strata with some bug fixes. If you’d like to follow along on iOS, you can join the TestFlight beta.

  • Fixed an issue with some styling from external blogs interfering with the layout in the Micro.blog timeline.

  • We’ve built on our initial support for servers in Europe to also have full photo and uploads hosting in the EU. Manton has a blog post with more details.

  • Changed profile photo URL for blogs to move away from micro.blog platform URLs, to remove dependency on main platform.
    Updated logging for EU servers and fixed related issues clearing old domains.

  • Started blocking all .php requests to minimize load on our servers when “hackers” try to exploit WordPress-related problems. We don’t expect this will cause any problems, but reach out if you had an older WordPress blog that was migrated to Micro.blog and notice any issues with old redirects. (Most WordPress blogs no longer include .php in the post URLs.)

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