Micro.blog News

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:15:06 -0500

Fixed some potential new flakiness with cross-posting photos to other social networks.

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:11:23 -0500

Minor improvements today to the Uploads page (better mouse highlighting) and collections list (added photo thumbnails).

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:22:11 -0500

Fixed a new issue where profile photos would revert to a favicon from your external blog instead of Gravatar. Now only sets to an external favicon if Gravatar is blank and you haven’t uploaded a photo.

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:41:50 -0500

Epilogue 2.5.1 is now available for both iOS and Android, fixing a couple things and showing better progress when loading your books.

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:07:00 -0500

If you’re already using Bluesky in Micro.blog, you’ll now also see an “Add Grain” link in Sources. Enable it to automatically share your photo blog posts as galleries on Grain.social.

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:07:27 -0500

Added rudimentary support for loading RSS.chat conversations from a timeline post that has been added via a user’s RSS.chat feed.

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:08 -0500

Fixed compatibility with RSS.chat feeds.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:41:50 -0500

Added a “Copy Shortcode” button to the Design → “Edit Recommendations” page. You can paste this into a new page to show your blogroll. It will automatically install the blogrolls plug-in.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:02:51 -0500

Inkwell feed refresh is now faster, quicker to update for new blog posts.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:36:49 -0500

Fixed not loading some WebP files that are cached in the timeline, especially from Bluesky.

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:49:37 -0500

There’s a new 🦋 Starter Packs button in Discover on the web, if you are using Bluesky. We are featuring some starter packs of authors and photographers, but you can search for others, or paste in the Bluesky URL of a starter pack. This is a new experiment and will evolve.

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:38:21 -0500

Fixed some potential Hugo errors when previewing a new theme or switching themes.

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:26:43 -0500

We’ve released Epilogue 2.5 for Android. This adds a new screen for showing an author’s books, and a better context menu design.

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:01:01 -0500

Fixed an API error when using count with the mentions endpoint.

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:45:48 -0500

Released Epilogue 2.5 for iOS, adding a new screen to browse an author’s other books.

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:40:34 -0500

Added a new Bookshelves → Calendar tab on the web to view a calendar interface for your finished books, to embed on your own blog. Manton shared a short video on YouTube walking through it.

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:54:47 -0500

Improved verbose Hugo errors. We now try to summarize them down to something that makes sense.

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:09:32 -0500

Improved automatic podcast transcripts to avoid skipping the transcription or truncating it too early.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:59:42 -0500

Fixed accidentally stripping out styling from custom 404 pages.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:46:47 -0500

For cross-posting to Mastodon, you can now change the default visibility of your posts to unlisted or followers-only. Click on Sources to see the options.

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:23:12 -0500

Fixed several bugs in Inkwell for Mac. Grab the latest version with “Check for Updates” or directly from the help page.

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:27:38 -0500

We’ve started adding author pages to the web, and via the books API. The book list is a little jumbled right now for an author that has many editions of their books. We’ll clean that up in the future.

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:35:51 -0500

Minor update to Micro.blog’s design on the web, tightening the sidebar and headers, and improving dark mode in a few places.

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:26:20 -0500

We’ve fixed some important bugs with buttons on Android. Update to 3.0.1 to get the latest version.

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:33:20 -0500

Fixed some spacing issues in the Bookmarks section for Mac, iOS, and Android apps. Less cramped now with the “reader” links and summaries, for archived pages available in Micro.blog Premium.