Micro.blog News

  • Fixed accidentally showing “Show More” button when browsing bookmarks in the iOS and macOS apps.

  • Improved the error logging for Hugo 0.117. Also cleaned up the errors so they look a little nicer.

  • Fixed some missing recent followed users that were temporary reset yesterday. This should also fix issues with notifying Mastodon followers if they followed you recently.

  • A couple updates after the server failure today:

    • You may have noticed some recent replies missing in your Mentions tab. We are in the process of restoring those.
    • You may also notice that recent changes to who you were following have been reset. Unfortunately those are likely not recoverable. If you followed someone recently, you may need to re-follow them. Update: Actually we should be able to restore these as well.

    I’m very sorry about these issues. We’ll be making some changes so this doesn’t happen again.

  • We had some downtime today after one of our servers crashed. The platform is coming back online now, although it might be a little longer until everything is at 100%. Very sorry.

  • Fixed a temporary glitch with the new post page on the web, along with some other behind-the-scenes changes.

  • Added import for Write.as blogs, and improved the list of services on the import page so it’s cleaner and easier to scroll through.

  • Updated drafts editing on the web to show cross-posting services, so you can change where a post will be copied to before it is published.

  • Fixed caching photos in the timeline to not strip colorspace. This combined with a change last week should improve the quality of photos in Micro.blog.

  • Fixed potential error getting highlights from the API for some bookmarks.

  • Fixed some photo uploads that temporarily broke after an improvement was rolled out today. Apologies for the errors. If a photo didn’t upload successfully, you’ll need to re-upload it.

  • Improved how photos are processed when uploaded to your blog, better preserving the colorspace of the original photo. There is not yet a change to the Micro.blog timeline, which has its own photo caching.

  • Added some more logging for cross-posting, to help troubleshoot issues. Micro.blog now tries to log when it is going to attempt copying a post to external services, as well as (sometimes) the unique ID it got back.

  • Improved the publishing progress bar on the web. Also now hides the text box after posting instead of clearing it.

  • Micro.blog is coming back online after significant downtime today from a server failure. We will be looking into how to make this more robust in the future.

  • Updated ActivityPub support for replies to attach photos/videos when sending to Mastodon and other servers. Micro.blog apps don’t usually include a UI for adding media in replies, but this will help Mastodon see the attachment when it’s manually added with Markdown or HTML.

  • Added support for Mastodon’s “follow” box. If you’re browsing Mastodon but not signed into a server, when you click Mastodon’s follow button, enter “micro.blog” as your server and you’ll be redirected to follow the Mastodon account from within Micro.blog.

  • Released Micro.blog 2.0 for Android. This version adds a system share action, so you can start a new blog post from within other Android apps.

  • Added new endpoint in the books API to change the book cover used for one of your books. Future apps could use this to better manage book covers.

  • Updated the Font Awesome plug-in with the latest set of icons, like the Threads logo. It even has x-twitter if you’re holding on to that rebranded network.

  • Updated Micro.blog to support Bluesky replies sent via Bridgy. For full-length blog posts that link back to your blog, enabling Bridgy will copy Bluesky replies into your timeline and mentions. Still early days, more refinement on this later.

  • We’ve started moving away from the label “Mastodon-compatible” and instead to “fediverse”, as that term becomes more common. You’ll see this change in parts of the web platform already. Also rolled out a few fixes today to languages, clearing profile photos, and cross-posting.

  • We’ve updated Micro.blog for Android to version 1.9.1 today, fixing several issues and catching up on some improvements already released for iOS. See the full release notes here.

  • You can now have multiple “finished” bookshelves to track books, for example for different years. Use the “i” button on the web to edit a shelf. The reading goals feature has also been updated to reflect bookshelves and not just whether you’ve blogged about a book.

  • Fixed a potential issue with errors saving the Account screen, fallout from the new language setting for some people. If you got an error, please try again and it should be fine.

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