: Fixed accidentally showing “Show More” button when browsing bookmarks in the iOS and …
: 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 …
: A couple updates after the server failure today: You may have noticed some recent replies missing …
: We had some downtime today after one of our servers crashed. The platform is coming back online now, …
: Fixed a temporary glitch with the new post page on the web, along with some other behind-the-scenes …
: Added import for Write.as blogs, and improved the list of services on the import page so it’s …
: Updated drafts editing on the web to show cross-posting services, so you can change where a post …
: Fixed caching photos in the timeline to not strip colorspace. This combined with a change last week …
: 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 …
: Improved how photos are processed when uploaded to your blog, better preserving the colorspace of …
: Added some more logging for cross-posting, to help troubleshoot issues. Micro.blog now tries to log …
: Improved the publishing progress bar on the web. Also now hides the text box after posting instead …
: Micro.blog is coming back online after significant downtime today from a server failure. We will be …
: Updated ActivityPub support for replies to attach photos/videos when sending to Mastodon and other …
: Added support for Mastodon’s “follow” box. If you’re browsing Mastodon but …
: Released Micro.blog 2.0 for Android. This version adds a system share action, so you can start a new …
: Added new endpoint in the books API to change the book cover used for one of your books. Future apps …
: Updated the Font Awesome plug-in with the latest set of icons, like the Threads logo. It even has …
: Updated Micro.blog to support Bluesky replies sent via Bridgy. For full-length blog posts that link …
: We’ve started moving away from the label “Mastodon-compatible” and instead to …
: We’ve updated Micro.blog for Android to version 1.9.1 today, fixing several issues and …
: You can now have multiple “finished” bookshelves to track books, for example for …
: Fixed a potential issue with errors saving the Account screen, fallout from the new language setting …
: Fixed accidentally hiding the Uninstall button for disabled plug-in themes. Also improved the …
: Added a default language option to the Account screen. This will initially be used to tell other …
: Updated the ActivityPub profile information to include url, which fixes compatibility with …
: Fixed accidentally creating duplicate links in the Links tab for some blog posts.
: Fixed some photo URLs on certain blogs with custom domains not loading from the CDN correctly.
: Fixed Conversation.js links using wrong username for some URLs.
: Added newsletter email address import to help migrate subscribers from other platforms.
: We’ve finished recovering from an outage at our hosting provider Linode. All photo uploads …
: Improved the book cover thumbnails in Bookshelves to all be the same size.
: Updated the photo thumbnails in Uploads on the web to be square. This makes for a nicer grid and …
: We’re seeing some intermittent slowness today on the platform. Looking into it and expect …
: Fixed hang when saving blog settings with a different custom domain name for some sites with …
: We’ve released Micro.blog 1.9 for Android, adding search of your posts and pages, bookmark …
: Fixed conversation on blogs to not accidentally show replies that have been hidden by the curation …
: Added a progress bar on the web for background publishing. It might be a little sporadic right now …
: Improved formatting of Account → View logs. Added new Errors tab to only see recent publishing …
: Some parts of Micro.blog are slower than usual today, including updating the timeline. We are …
: Released version 3.2 of Micro.blog for iOS, adding a new bookmark tags interface for Micro.blog …
: Fixed button not updating when scheduling posts on the web.
: Fixed newsletter email sending after a recent change.
: We are now rolling out updates to all the built-in themes for compatibility with Hugo version 0.117. …
: Fixed Bluesky cross-posting truncation when blog post was longer than 300 characters.
: Fixed cross-posting photos for Mastodon and Pixelfed including tiny thumbnails for full-length blog …
: Added standalone pages to the WordPress (WXR) export format, in addition to blog posts.
: Unusually high background task load was messing up a few things in Micro.blog. We’ve rolled …
: Updated feed processing to include photos from pixelfed.social Atom feeds.
: Added full URL with hostname to transcript links. Fixed handling photos in Hugo front matter if the …
: Fixed latest bookmark not always immediately appearing in list after bookmarking a web page.
: Improved reliability of cross-posting by adding more retry attempts for failed image uploads.
: We’ve released the first beta of Micro.blog 3.2 for iOS. This adds a bookmarks highlights …
: The hosting service responsible for our help center discussion forums appears to be having trouble. …
: Added date picker to scheduling posts on the web.
: Troubleshooting some server slowness this morning. Apologies for any errors that might pop up while …
: Added “date read” to the Goodreads CSV import. Added HTML tag s (strikethrough) to the …
: Added Hugo version 0.117 as an option on the Design page for your blog. The default is still Hugo …
: Released a new version of Micro.blog for macOS, fixing a bug and adding a new window to show all …
: Epilogue 1.6.1 for Android is available. This adds an updated profile screen with book post editing, …
: Fixed a couple issues importing Markdown files with certain categories and title quoting.
: Fixed error with handling some type of photo upload requests from Quill.
: Added Open Library button to the individual book pages, in addition to Amazon, Goodreads, and …
: Epilogue 1.7 for iOS is now available, adding a posts list in the profile screen with any blog posts …
: This week we added Pixelfed as a cross-posting option for your blog photos. We now have 8 …
: Background feed tasks are running a little slowly today, which will show up as …
: Moved the bookshelves export and import options under a new “…” button, to make …
: Improved the Highlight button for Micro.blog Premium when in reading mode to center the button over …
: Added tags to bookmarks JSON Feed. Updated front matter with new parameter location with url, name, …
: Another update to Micro.blog for Mac is out today with more bug fixes. Special thanks to @otaviocc …
: Fixed potential errors in Mentions tab in mobile apps if a user was deleted. Added location metadata …
: There’s a new release of Epilogue for iOS now available, version 1.6: Added signing up using …
: Fixed loading the wrong profile from ActivityPub usernames using custom domain names when clicked …
: Fixed ActivityPub profile pages showing JSON instead of a web page.
: Updated the Mac version of Micro.blog with a few more improvements and bug fixes around bookmarks …
: Today we launched a new tags feature for bookmarks in Micro.blog Premium. Check out Manton’s …
: Fixed handling videos from Mastodon RSS feeds. Some layout and bookmarks tweaks ahead of new …
: Fixed saving bookmarks which was broken for a few minutes today. Sorry about that!
: We are fixing an issue with billing that sometimes caused unpaid invoices to remain in draft form …
: Fixed another issue with Mastodon replies and links to ActivityPub usernames that use @micro.blog …
: Fixed updating some blank book covers.
: Fixed dates in email newsletters not taking into account time zone, so often being off by one day. …
: Sign in with Apple is now available on the web! Skip the usual sign-in emails and get signed into …
: We’ve shipped Micro.blog 3.1 for iOS! Get the update in the App Store. Video upload, …
: Fixed a bug that prevented Mastodon replies from reaching their users on the Mastodon side, when …
: Added video thumbnails to the Uploads section of Micro.blog on the web, if Micro.blog has generated …
: Fixed an additional video upload issue for some orientations and sizes. I think we’re good …
: Fixed issue with uploading some videos where the resulting video would not play.
: For folks using the TestFlight beta, we’ve posted a new beta with some little improvements to …
: Fixed more issues with importing from a Goodreads CSV file.
: Fixed an issue processing some Substack feeds. Also now prefers the full-length text of a post …
: Fixed profile photos sometimes being overwritten by cached images from Mastodon. Fixed duplicate …
: Fixed a few problems with Goodreads CSV import. Should more reliably fill in missing book metadata …
: Reminder that Twitter cross-posting is going away July 15th because of Twitter API changes. It had a …
: Fixed an error with some bookmarks for Micro.blog Premium when clicking the Highlights or Links …
: Fixed accidentally showing incomplete archived links for non-Premium subscribers.
: Changed the Design page to simplify things a little. Podcast settings are now behind a …
: A few changes: Fixed errors signing in after setting the mobile phone number if the format or …
: Added a “phone” field to your Account page on the web. If you add your phone number, …
: Updated some upload serving to redirect to the CDN if it’s available, to improve performance. …
: Investigating some intermittent errors today because of degraded performance at our hosting …
: A collection of fixes this morning: Improved deleting posts across all servers. Added alt text to …
: Released a new Mac version with better publishing status and a bunch of other little fixes. Full …
: We updated the Android version of Micro.blog to version 1.8 with a bunch of bug fixes. See the help …
: Micro.blog 3.0.4 for iOS We’ve released an updated version with these changes: Improved font size to better match system …
: Added a link to the new Libby sync under Bookshelves → Import. People using Libby to manage their …
: Updated the books API to have a read-only type field for bookshelves. This can help clients that …
: Fixed video format when uploading some videos that would not play in Safari. Unfortunately if you …
: Happy Monday! Improvements to start the week: Added a 📝 tab to the Uploads page (Micro.blog …
: Improved some of the spacing and menus in bookmarks on mobile web browsers.
: Fixed issues with blank text archives for Micro.blog Premium for some web pages.
: Added Discover tab to Bookshelves and Goals pages on the web, to better integrate browsing book …
: Added two new emoji to Discover: 🧘 for meditation and 🎭 for theater. Also added 🏳️⚧️ to LGBTQ+ in …
: We’ve updated the TestFlight beta for Micro.blog to include several more bug fixes that will …
: Added cross-posting info available to themes and plug-ins. See documentation on the help site. Still …
: Big improvements to uploaded filenames: When uploading a photo on the web, Micro.blog now tries to …
: Twitter has reinstated our application, so cross-posting will resume. Reminder that we have …
: Twitter cross-posting is not currently working because Twitter has suspended our app. We had planned …
: We’ve added a new Goals tab to the Bookshelves section of Micro.blog, to keep track of reading …
: Improved Uploads page on the web for Micro.blog Premium subscribers to include a toggle to only show …
: Fixed width editing email newsletters with some photos.
: Fixed caching issues for profile photos. Fixed book goals case-sensitivity for bookshelf names.
: Re-enabled Nostr cross-posting. Will be keeping an eye on whether the glitches have been fixed now. …
: Fixed an issue with some photo uploads being delayed making it to the CDN. Temporary disabled Nostr …
: Fixed videos embedded in Quotebacks embeds. Improved tap targets for post action links in native …
: A few updates this morning: Fixed not being able to set alt text on the web for photos with .jpeg …
: Fixed errors saving and sending newsletters that use custom CSS. Fixed getting wrong Tumblr hostname …
: Micro.blog 3.0.3 for iOS has shipped with improvements to the sharing extension and related fixes.
: One of our servers had a networking problem that caused some errors while using Micro.blog. Sorry …
: Some background tasks such as saving bookmarks and refreshing external feeds were slower than usual …
: Changed blog defaults to not automatically enable the CDN for new accounts. You can still enable it …
: Fixed an issue with the CDN not loading photos overnight.
: Added Nostr cross-posting. You can enable Nostr and any of the other platforms we support under …
: We rolled out a major change to email newsletters today. See Manton’s blog post and this help …
: Fixed issues handling .jpeg file extensions. Fixed recovering from Mastodon server errors.
: Added “Show More” button on the web in Discover, so you can scroll back to older posts.
: Some cross-posting and publishing improvements today: Improved reliability if there were any delays …
: Increased the maximum upload size to 75 MB, allowing longer podcasts and videos. Added .zip and .gz …
: Updated the iOS app to version 3.0.2, fixing a few more issues with external blogs.
: Added ⌘-return keyboard shortcut (control key on Windows) to submit a new post on the web.
: All of the official Micro.blog themes have now been updated with Microformats fixes and other …
: Feed refreshing and photo uploads were delayed. Things should be catching up now… Apologies …
: Renamed “Edit Feeds” to “Edit Sources”, to hopefully better convey that …
: Fixed progress spinner when saving bookmarks, showing errors. Fixed some photos with their own style …
: Updated blog categories to sort alphabetically in most places in the Micro.blog interface.
: Fixed email newsletter subject and footer to allow emoji.
: Added category option for weekly email newsletters. Now you can have Micro.blog collect posts from a …
: Fixed a temporary issue that lasted a few minutes this morning where posts were not properly added …
: Updated Micro.blog for iOS to version 3.0.1 with these changes: Fixed app freezing when swiping to …
: Released Micro.blog 1.7 for Android. Full release notes history in the Help Center.
: We are releasing version 3.0 of Micro.blog for iOS today! 🎉 One bug that snuck in that I want to …
: Updated deleting categories to clear the cache of posts for your blog, fixing categories lingering …
: Fixed not always redirecting your Micro.blog subdomain to your custom domain when first setting up …
: Fixed an issue with feed refresh and cross-posting delays after posting to your blog. Should be …
: Fixed another issue with uploads and blog publishing being delayed, which would cascade into …
: We’ve updated the beta iOS app to fix problems authorization with external Micropub servers, …
: Fixed a server problem that caused a large backlog of tasks overnight. Apologies for the delay. Any …
: Fixed issue automatically reloading feeds if the feed is used in multiple user accounts, and related …
: Added ⌘-K shortcut (control key on Windows) to start a Markdown link with the selected text in a new …
: Fixed problem cross-posting to Bluesky for some posts with links.
: Fixed Bluesky sign in to better support domain name usernames. Rolled out some other performance …
: Added text on the Bookmarks page to let people know about Micro.blog Premium features they’re …
: We are monitoring some performance problems because of unexpected server load. Thanks for your …
: Fixed problem in Micro.blog Premium saving links in blog posts multiple times.
: Fixed error when adding a new blog on the Micro.blog Family plan. Oops! You can now upgrade your …
: Fixed another link issue with Bluesky cross-posting when needing to truncate the post because …
: Revamped direct messages from Mastodon to no longer send an email. Instead you’ll see a …
: Temporary disabled direct messages from Mastodon while mastodon.social is being overrun by Bitcoin …
: Fixed link position in Bluesky cross-posting for microblog posts that contained emoji.
: Added web page titles to Bookmarks → Links tab. If you don’t have Micro.blog Premium, …
: Fixed new auto-complete usernames in dark mode.
: Added username auto-complete to the post and reply text boxes on the web. Still a bit quirky so …
: Fixed emails not being delivered. This was a server problem that affected sign-in emails, …
: Fixed errors with Twitter cross-posting. Reminder that photos are no longer copied to Twitter. Only …
: Added ⌘-B and ⌘-I keyboard shortcuts (control key on Windows) for bold and italics in web post …
: Added a web server back that we had recently taken out of rotation. Should improve reliability of …
: Optimized a few things under the hood. Loading the initial timeline should (sometimes) be faster.
: Improved Bluesky cross-posting with inline HTML links.
: Added a new pronouns field to Account on the web. This is included at the end of your “about …
: Added posts import for Substack. We do not yet support importing subscriber email addresses.
: Fixed a bug with Bluesky cross-posting that didn’t auto-link URLs that are appended to a post, …
: Added Bluesky as an option for cross-posting. Bluesky is currently in beta and has a waiting list to …
: Added sync to Readwise.io when making new highlights. Older highlights will need to be exported and …
: Redesigned bookmarks page for Micro.blog Premium subscribers. Tabs to switch between bookmarks, …
: Fixed refreshing old profile icons for bookmarked web sites, so you don’t see blank icons as …
: Fixed layout of Plans page on mobile. Fixed hidden Twitter archive upload button when using …
: Fixed ActivityPub to support audio file attachments in posts from other services. Added a convenient …
: Improved a couple more things with processing very large Twitter archives. Uploads should be faster …
: Fixed the tweets import for very large archives that Twitter splits into multiple parts. Micro.blog …
: Added a “Verify” button next to verification code when signing in on the web. If …
: Fixed saving blog settings being very slow or timing out when changing the domain name.
: Fixed an issue processing tweets archives if they were re-zipped. Micro.blog isn’t as strict …
: Fixed an issue with tweets import where your theme wasn’t copied to new blog. If you’ve …
: Added new tweets import. See Manton’s blog post for details.
: We’re rolling out some Twitter plumbing changes today and tomorrow. Not expecting any downtime …
: As we attempt to adapt to Twitter’s API changes, there may be some rearranging of deck chairs. …
: Improved the uploads page on the web to show video icons and file extensions where appropriate for …
: Added post_id to the front matter of blog posts, for use in Hugo templates. This is …
: Added audio file size and duration to podcast XML feeds for new uploads. In the Hugo front matter, …
: Changed mini photo thumbnail previews for full-length blog posts to expand to full-sized images when …
: We’ve updated our privacy policy with a note that we’re now sending podcasts through …
: Added .webp and .ico to theme and plug-in cloning from GitHub. Previously Micro.blog would skip …
: Added an experimental change when signing in to allow pasting in a verification code from the …
: Fixed a couple bugs with the new feature to migrate followers from Micro.blog to Mastodon.
: Added experimental feature for Micro.blog Premium subscribers to archive a copy of web pages you …
: We’ve finished enabling ActivityPub for all users (who haven’t opted out) and added a …
: We are continuing to enable ActivityPub for everyone on Micro.blog, but we’re now only sending …
: Fixed @-mentioning Mastodon users in a normal blog post, not a reply. Previously it did not properly …
: Fixed some problems with editing drafts and scheduling posts.
: Fixed an issue that would cause new Mastodon username searches to fail.
: Fixed uploading photos in HEIC format so they are converted to JPEG for serving and stripped of …
: When the CDN is enabled, blogs will now use it for audio and video too, not just for photos.
: Fixed saving title for bookmarked web pages.
: Improved checking feeds. Should be faster now to get posts into the timeline, especially from …
: There was another server issue that may have caused some erratic behavior in Micro.blog. Should be …
: Fixed an issue loading photos from our CDN after an expired certificate. Apologies for the downtime!
: We had some connectivity problems at our hosting provider this morning that seemed to introduce …
: Changed all hosted blogs to use the CDN for images. It will be enabled next time you post. This will …
: Updated our Discover challenge photos grid to use the CDN.
: Added an Export button to download your highlights (with bookmarked URLs) for Micro.blog Premium …
: Fixed errors if the bookmarked “read” links are shared to other users. It now redirects …
: Changed the default character limit to 300 characters. Full details in Manton’s blog post …
: Improved photo caching to not strip all EXIF metadata when there is no GPS location information. …
: Fixed cross-posting for posts that are automatically imported to a hosted blog from an external …
: Overnight and this morning we seem to be under significantly more load than usual, causing some …
: Added new “Show Cross-posting” menu item to Micro.blog on the web and macOS. Select …
: Fixed an issue (from a recent related bug fix) that could cause publishing errors for some blog post …
: Micro.blog for Android has been updated to version 1.5 with posts editing.
: Enabled spell checking as you type in new posts for desktop web browsers. For mobile, the best …
: Fixed some Mastodon accounts accidentally including “acct” in the username.
: Added support for Mastodon profile header images. Upload a new image in Account → View Mastodon …
: Fixed a bug when deleting blogs that didn’t properly reflect how the subscription had been …
: Fixed sending webmentions when endpoint did not include a URL scheme.
: Fixed an issue with multiple blogs (especially if posting to a shared blog in a Micro.blog Family …
: Updated Epilogue for iOS to version 1.5.2, fixing a few issues with the reading goals text and book …
: Added support for showing Mastodon custom emoji. Micro.blog will ask an instance what custom emoji …
: Fixed not including links when cross-posting text to Mastodon for some posts.
: Fixed an issue with Micro.blog not regularly refreshing some older feeds, especially if they were …
: Rolled out design improvements to the home page (if you’re signed out), sign in, and …
: We upgraded one of our servers last night for hosted blogs. No downtime, just more space and a …
: We had a server problem that was making some blog posts not get published consistently. It is fixed …
: Changed cross-posting to send up to 500 characters to Mastodon. Also improved retrying if a Mastodon …
: Fixed the icons for the plug-ins Gateway and Font Awesome. A new version of these plug-ins can be …
: Fixed a couple issues with bookmarking URLs (like tweets) that didn’t contain any meaningful …
: We’ve updated the Micro.blog 3.0 beta on TestFlight with some additional improvements. If you …
: Fixed some issues looking up Mastodon users and duplicate references in Micro.blog.
: Micro.blog for Android is back in Google Play. Version 1.4 includes several improvements and bug …
: Improved ActivityPub to send photos to Mastodon without going through the Micro.blog timeline photos …
: Improved cross-posting to try to change Markdown/HTML block quotes to include quoted text.
: Improved cross-posting to Mastodon (and other services) to better preserve multiple paragraphs from …
: Updated Micro.blog to use Mastodon’s “shared” inbox, for more efficient sending of …
: Fixed accidentally sending posts from RSS feeds to Mastodon multiple times, over and over. Would not …
: ActivityPub posts to Mastodon are slower than usual today because of slow responses and timeouts …
: Changed Mastodon profile pages on Micro.blog to not be indexed by Google.
: Fixed sending video in blog posts to Mastodon.
: Added import/export of Mastodon’s CSV format for who you are following. Access it under …
: Fixed showing videos from Mastodon posts, not just replies. Fixed formatting for block quotes sent …
: We are slowly enabling ActivityPub support for more users. If you haven’t added a …
: Added replying to Mastodon direct messages. When you receive a message, Micro.blog will forward it …
: Fixed federating replies to Mastodon when you’re replying to your own post without mentioning …
: Changed Mastodon @-username links to just include the first part of the username, not the full name …
: Improved checking older feeds that were sometimes skipped, especially for inactive users.
: Fixed videos in posts from Mastodon.
: Fixed issues uninstalling the last theme plug-in. Also now shows current theme at top of plug-ins …
: Fixed push notifications in the Micro.blog iOS app.
: We are upgrading a server today to fix some continued intermittent problems with blog publishing. …
: There were some intermittent problems with posts publishing to blogs today. Should be resolved.
: Enabled photos CDN for new accounts by default. Fixed book search error for some searches with …
: Improved archiving bookmarked Mastodon pages so it includes the real post text, not a JavaScript …
: Improved books import compatibility with LibraryThing.
: Fixed an issue with renaming the custom domain for your blog that could cause broken links in the …
: After faithfully serving us for 896 days uptime, one of our servers needs a quick upgrade. I’m …
: Updates to and from Mastodon are quite delayed this morning. We are monitoring it, and expect …
: Fixed handling Mastodon replies from Brid.gy.
: Fixed an issue processing incoming webmentions to Micro.blog conversations.
: Fixed an issue with the CDN sometimes caching a redirect for a broken image, leading to blank images …
: Fixed accessibility text on photos sent to Mastodon via ActivityPub.
: Fixed a problem with new posts not showing up in the timeline or sent via cross-posting right away.
: Fixed an issue that could some recently cancelled subscriptions to prompt for payment again.
: Extended blog hosting trials to last 30 days instead of 10 days.
: Fixed allowing special characters and emoji in Design → Edit CSS.
: Released Micro.blog 2.7 for macOS with new icon, click interaction in timeline, and bug fixes.
: Changed XML-RPC so that new posts from MarsEdit and other apps will automatically link usernames. No …
: Fixed adding new reading goal for 2023 in the goals API (and so Epilogue).
: Added a “finished date” field when editing a book on the web. This will initially be …
: While updating book covers, we inadvertently reset some dates for books, so you may see the sorting …
: Fixed another server glitch that caused some errors in Micro.blog. Thanks for your patience.
: Fixed a server issue this morning that may have prevented some new blog posts from being published …
: Changed how we get book covers and metadata, fixing some issues with adding new books to your …
: Added books field to Hugo frontmatter with a list of ISBNs linked in the post. May not show up right …
: Fixed correcting missing book covers. When no cover in Open Library, will do a better job of trying …
: Fixed following redirects to discover feed of some non-Mastodon ActivityPub servers.
: Released new versions of Epilogue for iOS and Android, adding a new post screen to blog about books …
: Sorry for the downtime on Christmas evening! We had a server error that is now resolved. 🎄
: Fixed a JavaScript security problem with older versions of jQuery. Thanks @sod!
: Added new site param .Site.Params.feeds.bookmarks_json for plug-ins to access the URL for your …
: Fixed the “Show More” button on the web accidentally being hidden.
: Fixed a bug setting up Mastodon-compatible usernames for new users who register with the iOS app …
: We are experimenting with a change to require activating your subscription with a credit card before …
: Fixed new issue with archiving bookmarked web pages for Micro.blog Premium subscribers. Fixed a …
: Fixed server reliability because of bug responding to very slow Mastodon servers.
: Fixed potential downtime with new database optimizations. Apologies for some server recent …
: Added setting alt text when cross-posting to Twitter. Improved reliability of Mastodon cross-posting …
: Improved titles when bookmarking some web pages.
: Fixed replies to some Mastodon posts not working.
: Fixed an issue with updating some feeds that include links to Substack.
: Introduced a new content delivery network option for hosted images. Manton has the details on his …
: Fixed an issue with rssCloud support. Fixed some slowdowns in the following users page by …
: Fixed muting long Mastodon usernames.
: Fixed a security problem that could be exploited via JavaScript on some pages.
: Fixed an issue with new user registrations not completing.
: Fixed a server issue that caused some recent posts to not be fully published. We’ve …
: Added new “Aliases” page under Account → Mastodon to set up links between Micro.blog and …
: Added support for lang attributes in the timeline. Updated better use of the CDN for mobile and …
: Added new “Reveal token” link on the Account → “App tokens” page, so we …
: Fixed issue that caused posts to be duplicated in the timeline when receiving a reply from Mastodon …
: Added support for Mastodon “move” activity so that if Mastodon users you are following …
: Updated Mastodon hashtags to highlight in gray. Updated Mastodon-compatible usernames on Micro.blog …
: Fixed a recent source of server instability and performance problems. Fixed downloading recent posts …
: Fixed errors adding books from some Google Books results. Fixed errors when reporting users.
: Updated Micro.blog for macOS to version 2.6.1 with the following changes: Improved Mastodon …
: Fixed an issue with sending Mastodon replies that caused a preview link in Mastodon. Improved …
: Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 We’re taking a break for the day and will be catching up on any …
: Fixed push notifications for third-party app Gluon.
: Fixed an issue with importing Mastodon feeds.
: Added Mastodon user bio to profile pages in Micro.blog.
: Improved links in a post from Mastodon to display truncated in the native Micro.blog apps.
: Fixed a server configuration to improve performance. Updated our user search to work with more …
: Fixed accidentally sending incomplete posts to Mastodon before they’ve been updated from your …
: Fixed potential issue with verifying signatures from Mastodon posts. Did it cause actual problems? …
: Optimized a few more parts of our ActivityPub plumbing, fixing 502 and 503 errors that were common …
: Added support for ActivityPub “shared inbox”, optimizing how posts are added to …
: Fixed searching for Mastodon users on instances with “secure mode” enabled.
: Fixed an issue importing posts from a feed to your blog if an RSS feed item title was very long.
: Moved some resources like scripts and book covers to a content-delivery network to improve …
: We added a new setting under Account: “Show posts but no replies”. This is for people …
: Added support for searching for Mastodon users by their profile URL, not just their username.
: Fixed an issue with some Mastodon tools not finding the right Micro.blog profile page. Fixed …
: Added support for accessibility description (alt text) in Mastodon cross-posts.
: Added Mastodon-compatible username to profile pages for Micro.blog users who have it enabled. Links …
: Fixed Mastodon user search to work with users who have a redirect.
: Improved performance of deleting blog posts. Before, it could take too long for a deletion to be …
: Fixed an error that could happen when adding some books to bookshelves.
: Fixed timezone problems importing some RSS feeds, like from Letterbox. Fixed Micropub API posting …
: Adjusted mobile user search to limit results to users who have an “about me” profile …
: Changed read-later JSON Feed to include recent 100 bookmarks instead of everything.
: Fixed loading some profile photos for followed blogs. Fixed including alt text from Mastodon photos.
: Fixed a couple issues introduced today that could cause problems saving user accounts.
: We introduced big changes to our support for Mastodon and ActivityPub this week. See Manton’s …
: Updated the No robots plug-in to also add a noindex meta tag to tell Google and other search engines …
: Fixed a books API issue that would cause book covers to be blank in Epilogue’s Discover tab.
: Updated file or RSS feed import to include posts in upcoming newsletters, assuming they fall within …
: Fixed an issue with Goodreads import that could prevent the import from processing all books in the …
: Fixed missing covers in Epilogue in some cases. Discover books JSON now won’t have blank cover …
: Added reload button to themes template list to download templates from GitHub again. Good for theme …
: We added support for uploading multiple photos with a new post on the web. Details and screenshot on …
: Added option under Account → Edit Feeds to import posts to a blog from a feed. Does not currently …
: Added lazy loading for more profile photos.
: Added book cover thumbnails to Bookshelves page on the web. Shows about a dozen recent books and …
: Added re-creating the special About page if you create a blank page called About. The special page …
: Update mobile web pages for posting, posts, and uploads to improve layout and fix bugs.
: We updated Epilogue for iOS to version 1.4.3 with a couple tweaks including tapping and holding on …
: Epilogue has been updated to version 1.4.2, improving ISBN-13 lookup and updating the book list …
: Added “Show More” link to the Mentions screen in the iOS, Android, and macOS apps. …
: Added search box directly to Bookshelves page. Added support for media element in some Mastodon …
: Redesigned feeds page to more clearly show when cross-posting is disabled, grouping feed and …
: Fixed an issue preventing new photos from appearing in the Sunlit profile screen, and other apps …
: Fixed an issue threading replies from Mastodon into the Micro.blog conversation when the root …
: Epilogue was updated to version 1.4.1 with a few bug fixes.
: Improved how book covers are updated when it can’t initially find a good cover image.
: Updated the Design → “Edit CSS” screen to use a larger editor with much faster site …
: A couple weeks we changed how sign-in email links work to make them more secure, so they can’t …
: Fixed a potential issue that could cause photos to not be uploaded to our long-term storage if there …
: Epilogue for Android has been updated to version 1.2 with reading goals and the Discover screen. …
: Updated the “Default” theme plug-in to include author names on post pages for multi-user …
: We’ve released version 1.1 of Micro.blog for Android. It adds dark mode and a bunch of other …
: Updated Ghost file import to adapt to new changes in Ghost file format. Fixed accidentally …
: Fixed photo upload to no longer re-compress JPEGs if they are already small enough and have their …
: Added a few new API endpoints to our Books API for setting reading books.
: Fixed sorting of bookshelves so that newly finished books appear at the top. Improved updating best …
: Epilogue 1.3 for iOS has been released in the App Store! This version adds a new Discover tab for …
: Fixed compatibility with some ActivityPub servers that include multiple URLs for a post.
: There’s a new set of buttons in Micro.blog on the web to toggle the Posts section to a more …
: Improved managing feeds for multi-user team blogs. When inviting a member, their author-specific RSS …
: Fixed allowing emoji in blog titles.
: There’s been some sporadic downtime today because of high server load. Of course when @manton is on …
: There’s a new beta of Epilogue for iOS with a crash fix on iPad. We’ve been working on a …
: We’ve submitted a bug fix update for Sunlit to Apple. Improves scrolling performance and other …
: Increased the maximum text length of standalone pages.
: We added a delay to the new user profile popups, so they are less likely to get in the way while …
: Added profile popovers to Micro.blog on the web. Hover the mouse over someone’s profile photo …
: Micro.blog for macOS has been updated with these changes: Fixed dragging files from the Finder to …
: Micro.blog 2.5.3 for macOS is now available. This is a bug fix release with a bunch of fixes. Check …
: Fixed creating new categories from XML-RPC API for apps like MarsEdit.
: We released a bug fix update to Micro.blog for Android, version 1.0.1. You can see what’s new …
: Fixed an issue with the first reply from Mastodon to a post on Micro.blog not correctly threaded …
: There have been several new plug-ins added recently. “Photos page” by @kottkrig gives …
: Improved JSON API for /posts/discover/books to include book ISBN and cover URL.
: Updated Micro.blog for macOS with improvements to the Day One export and a bug fix.
: Changed the newsletter subscribers list to hide the email addresses by default. You can click to …
: Added a batch find-and-replace option to change multiple posts at once on your blog. Search under …
: Added a new “Publishing changes” status bubble to the lower-right corner of the web …
: Added experimental support for excluding a user profile page from being indexed by search engines. …
: Added new Photos tab to Find Plug-ins page as a quick way to find photo-related plug-ins. It’s …
: Fixed bug preventing some plug-in screenshots from loading thumbnail versions in Micro.blog.
: Rolled out a few changes this weekend: Improved keeping track of photo metadata for test blogs and …
: Fixed some issues with book cover URLs and Micropub errors when creating new very long categories.
: Fixed some inconsistencies in the dark mode version of Micro.blog on the web, for popup menu …
: Added a new photos_with_metadata field to the front matter available for processing with themes and …
: Added blog post versions to keep track of previous versions of a blog post when it’s saved. …
: Bookmarklet for saving web pages In the help page about bookmarks, we mention that you can bookmark a web page from your web browser. …
: It has been a busy last week at Micro.blog! Manton has released the complete draft of his book, we …
: Micro Camp kicks off in 24 hours! Have you registered yet? It’s free. We have a stellar lineup …
: Updates to Micro.blog Help In March 2021, we decided to move the Help documents to Discourse, and simultaneously create a forum …
: Micro.blog for Android is in Google Play as a public beta. It was recently updated with some more …
: A few new changes were rolled out in Micro.blog today, including better status of plug-in versions, …
: We usually update Micro.blog a couple times a week. Recent changes: Added photo to the top of …
: Micro.blog for macOS has seen a few updates since the start of 2022, adding a preview window, HTML …
: If you’re using a Micro.blog subdomain like you.micro.blog for your blog, you can register …
: Over the last couple of weeks we’ve updated most of our apps with bug fixes, including new …
: We had some downtime this morning because of a networking issue at one of our hosting …
: Micro.blog 2.2.1 for iOS has been released in the App Store with bug fixes for iOS 15.1. Full …
: We added a major new feature to Micro.blog Premium this week: email newsletters. Your blog readers …
: Micro.blog was down because of a server error that has now been resolved. Very sorry! Unfortunately …
: There was some brief unexpected downtime today during a server deploy, getting ready for a new …
: Not receiving push notifications? We think we’ve resolved the issue, although you may need to …
: Fixed a couple issues with following Micro.blog accounts from Mastodon. If you’re using a …
: Micro.blog for macOS has been updated to version 2.1.2 with several improvements. @manton has a blog …
: Some more Micro.blog fixes today: book search using Google Books, better sizing for Copy HTML button …
: If you missed last week’s changes, we rolled out much faster CSS editing and a new progress …
: A database migration (new feature coming soon!) took longer than expected today, which …
: Some of y’all noticed that profile photos weren’t always loading in the timeline this …
: There was a bug this morning affecting new @-mentions from showing up. Apologies if you received …
: Micro.blog was down in the middle of the night (@manton time). We’re sorry for the downtime. …
: As part of an upcoming server upgrade, if you are currently using Cloudflare with your custom domain …
: We hit a rate limit with HTTPS certificates today while rolling out a server upgrade. We’ve …
: There have been some errors with Micro.blog-hosted blogs today because of a server failure. …
: We’re running a little behind schedule with Micro Camp, so we’ve shifted some of the …
: Micro Camp is today! Check out micro.camp for the speakers, schedule, and registration link. …
: The downtime for hosted blogs should be mostly resolved now, but we are still keeping an eye on …
: We’ve announced the first set of speakers and live panels for Micro Camp 2021!
: We added a new pens emoji to Discover! @jean has the details in her post.
: Apologies for the downtime on help.micro.blog. It’s back online now. And you can always email …
: Parts of Micro.blog (for hosted blogs) will be down tonight at 11pm CST for maintenance at our …
: Looking for another great text editor for iOS and macOS that can post to Micro.blog? Ulysses is …
: We are looking into some new issues with posts and replies showing up in the timeline, and …
: Ulysses 22 is now available with support for publishing to Micro.blog. Manton has an overview blog …
: We launched a new Help Center this week, based on Discourse. It automatically uses your Micro.blog …
: The earlier issues of not updating the timeline right away should be resolving now. Sorry for the …
: If your posts are showing up on your blog but not in the timeline… We’re trying to fix …
: There has been some downtime at our DNS provider today that is affecting access to Micro.blog. We …
: Some parts of Micro.blog were slow this morning. We have temporarily disabled custom 404 pages, …
: If you’ve posted a photo for the challenge, you should see your new pin by going to your …
: One hour left. Post a photo before the 24-hour challenge window closes. Or just enjoy the 128 photos …
: Reminder: there are still 3+ hours left in A Day In The Life photo challenge. Here is a list of what …
: The 24-Hour Photo Challenge starts in less than 24 hours! Starting at 12 noon U.S. Central Daylight …
: There were glitches for some blogs and the Micro.blog timeline today after an SSL certificate …
: Press Release: Micro.blog 2.0 Makes It Easier to Customize Your Blog Micro.blog 2.0 Makes It Easier to Customize Your Blog, Adds Bookmark Archiving and Highlighting to …
: Bookmarks and highlights tour This 3-minute screencast video is a preview of upcoming features in Micro.blog 2.0, set to launch …
: Over on his blog, Manton has shared details and screenshots of new features coming in Micro.blog …
: Apologies for the HTTPS issue with Micro.blog today. Accidentally let the certificate expire despite …
: There was some unexpected downtime in parts of Micro.blog because of network maintenance problems at …
: The emoji sections of Discover have been updated to add a “Show More” button, to go …
: Sunlit 3.0 will ship on Tuesday, September 1st. @manton is highlighting a new feature each day over …
: We’re now into the fourth week of the photo challenge! The next 7 days of prompts have been …
: Fixed an issue with GitHub archiving and updated the help page with some tips. If you enable this …
: The third week of photo challenge prompts has been posted. Happy photo-blogging! 📷
: There will be some downtime for Micro.blog tonight at 11pm central time because of maintenance at …
: There’s going to be some downtime around 10pm central time tonight for maintenance at our …
: Prompts for the first 7 days of the August photo challenge have now been posted! Post a photo …
: Looking for a video walk-through of Micro.blog? The tutorial at ScreenCastsOnline is now available …
: Today we launched a brand new plug-in system for Micro.blog. Manton has an introduction on his blog, …
: We’ve rolled out a fix for importing from WordPress blogs. Recently, the import was missing …
: We fixed saving drafts on the web today, plus a handful of under-the-hood improvements in …
: The downtime was mostly the result of a networking issue at our hosting provider, but there is more …
: We’ve had some significant downtime since the early morning CST. Things are starting to come …
: Micro.blog was slow or down for a few minutes today. We also have a new status page at …
: Micro.blog has been updated with several improvements this week to make posting from the web easier. …
: While our hosting provider works on some emergency network maintenance, we’ve had to turn off …
: Upgrading a server this morning has introduced a glitch with publishing new blog posts. It should be …
: A server error tonight may have caused some new posts or photos to not appear on your hosted blog. …
: There was an outage at our hosting provider that also impacted Micro.blog. Sorry for the downtime! …
: Over the weekend I’ll be upgrading a couple servers. I don’t expect any downtime, but …
: Today we launched a new subscription for teams in Micro.blog. It’s designed for anyone who …
: A server failure today caused some recent uploads to be temporarily unavailable. It is fixed now and …
: We added 2 new help pages recently: updating your profile photo when using multiple blogs, and …
: Micro.blog for iOS was updated today with several bug fixes. You can download it in the App Store.
: There’s an update to Micro.blog for macOS available with better window resizing and fixed …
: We’ve updated the Micro.blog cross-posting to support LinkedIn again. If it stopped working …
: Interested in having your own podcast? @macgenie has a new series where she and @manton talk about …
: There was a server failure in the middle of the night (US-time) that affected hosted blogs. …
: We’re now offering teachers 6 months of free hosting on Micro.blog. For blog posts, podcasts, …
: Today we released an update to Micro.blog for iOS with several bug fixes. Over the weekend, we also …
: We are monitoring an issue that is preventing some sign-in or newsletter emails from being delivered …
: Sorry for the unexpectedly Micro.blog downtime. There was a server glitch that has now been fixed, …
: We’re going to take parts of Micro.blog down for an upgrade tonight, 11pm CST. Shouldn’t …
: Micro.blog was down this morning, but everything is back up. Thanks for your patience. Hosted blogs …
: It’s not just for Cyber Monday: you can always invite someone to Micro.blog and pay for a year …
: One of our photo storage servers failed overnight. It should be good now, but I’ll be …
: Fixed an issue this morning with category RSS feeds. Reminder that we have a help page with the …
: Another new feature for hosted blogs: filters can automatically assign categories to your blog posts …
: This week’s newsletter has links to the new domain name registration feature, the latest …
: The community is still growing, and not everyone is on Micro.blog yet. But you can also use your …
: This weekend we updated Micro.blog for iOS to version 1.7.2. The full release history is on the help …
: November is a great time to write. You can follow along in the Discover section for NaNoWriMo, or …
: We launched domain name registration today, to make it easy to get your own domain name for your …
: Sunlit 2.5.7 is available with several bug fixes and improvements. If you’d like a more …
: Micro.blog was down for a few minutes tonight for maintenance at our hosting provider. Hosted blogs …
: We’ve had to turn off cross-posting to Facebook because they have not re-approved …
: We updated Micro.blog for Mac today with a fix when running on macOS 10.15 Catalina. “Check …
: Micro.blog 1.7.1 for iOS is available in the App Store. Fixes a bunch of issues.
: Sometimes we’re asked how to add comments to hosted blogs using Disqus. The plan is still to …
: Hosted blogs on Micro.blog were down this evening, but everything is back up now. Sorry for the …
: Participating in Inktober? There’s a special pin on Micro.blog you can unlock. Post your …
: There’s a new filters interface in Micro.blog that can automatically set categories on your …
: We added importing from Ghost blogs. You can also import from WordPress, Medium, and Tumblr.
: If you used Sign in with Apple to register on Micro.blog using Apple’s private email relay, …
: Micro.blog version 1.7 for iOS is now available in the App Store. This version adds Dark Mode and …
: iOS 13 ships tomorrow. Keep an eye out for the upcoming Micro.blog update that includes Dark Mode …
: New feature if you use categories on your blog: we’ve added the number of posts for each …
: Backup archives to .bar format (a ZIP file with standalone HTML, JSON Feed, and photos) were …
: Like Tumblr? We’ve added or improved several Tumblr-related features this summer. …
: New features this week! It’s easier to follow Micro.blog users from Mastodon, and now hosted …
: We’ve added a new photos page for your blog. Manton has the details with a screenshot and …
: Fixed our LinkedIn cross-posting to adapt to a change in LinkedIn’s API. You can click Account …
: The series of performance tweaks we’ve made over the last week have started to add up to a …
: Sorry for the unexpected downtime today. One of our database servers temporarily imploded. …
: Hopefully a quiet Sunday evening, at least in parts of the world… I’m going to briefly …
: There will be some brief downtown around 10pm central time tonight for an upgrade at our hosting …
: Parts of Micro.blog will be down for an upgrade around 8pm central time. Hosted blogs will continue …
: Uploading photos will be temporarily disabled around midnight (central time) while we upgrade a …
: Wavelength has been updated to version 1.0.3, improving stability of the app.
: There’s an issue at our hosting provider that is impacting one of our photo storage servers. …
: We just fixed an issue (introduced last night) that prevented new posts from being saved in some …
: We’ve updated Sunlit and the Micro.blog iOS app this week with improvements to video upload …
: Sorry for the downtime! Micro.blog is back up now after being offline in the middle of the night (in …
: Version 1.5 of the iOS app is now available with support for setting post categories. Create new …
: We launched a bunch of new features this week: categories for posts, custom themes, and more. You …
: Last week we wrapped up the 12 days of microblogging series, covering photo blogs, microcasting, …
: There’s a new episode of Micro Monday out: This week, Khaled Abou Alfa discusses his …
: From the help account today: Apologies for some extra flakiness (and “not found” error messages) …
: Linkblogging is the topic for today’s 12 days of microblogging blog post: Micro.blog users …
: Welcome! The purpose of this microblog will be to write about recent changes to the platform or to …