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I'm transitioning Sublime Ads to be used more by indie devs, and less by big players, so I'm scrapping the Team features. I also added the "pay what you want" model to further help devs integrate this on their budget. Still need to figure out new pricing. 30 day trial now also.

Adding a few more push notification options to the Micro.blog app, allowing you to toggle if you want to enable them on a per account basis. By default they are on, but you can pop in over to settings if you wanted. (Not yet released).

Just added an extra little option in Sublime Ads to add a portal logo into the header for the client area. That including all the other portal settings too.

There were a few issues with the new Gluon feeds, for the TestFlight app (and also current ones). Which meant slow updates. Hope to have that resolved now after a few days of making a change in Bunny (was caching related).

OK, Android is building again for Micro.blog. Funny enough, the last time it built without issue was back in January, and then I upgraded React Native on iOS. Oh well. Should have seen that coming. There were a lot of changes to config files that I had to manually comb through...

🥳 Patience and persistence is the key. Micro.blog app for Android building again.

Kiddo finally in bed. Tea is ready. Time to fix the Micro.blog app for Android.

As a funny aside, Google emailed a week or so ago saying there are issues that we should look at… and that they “might” remove the app. And so they did.

And this is why I want direct downloads. So no big tech child can do what they want.

Imagine if they could also stop a website…

Current status of getting Micro.blog back into the play store is that I need to fix build errors, which has been a rollercoaster ride. Too much work on the iOS side, including React Native upgrades, caused this (I think).

Still a few hours away from getting anywhere.

Micro.blog for Android is currently unavailable on the Play Store.

Google probably hired all the dropouts from Apple App Review… and they removed it for an issue that was resolved months ago (allowing reporting and muting). Guess they are getting mixed up with naming.

Wonder what I was planning when I registered those domain names 🤷‍♂️ Fun aside... when I first created Gluon, I called it "Gluon Social".

For the eagle eyed devs, on the new Micro.blog homepage, you can see we are using ES Modules, and a shim for... SAFARI. Really nice to be able to make this work without build tools. Gonna work on replacing "legacy" code for sign in and register now, so we can ditch jQuery there.

There will also not be any timeline syncing anytime soon in Gluon. Work needs to happen on the Micro.blog end to make that happen. I can make it happen my end, but that's a lot of work for me. Would be a paid feature if I did it.

I'll be ripping out all the Gluon notification and profile "fun" options in the next build (probably). I need to do more work here to make it what I want. Also going to make it a paid option when it eventually ships.

Today I'm introducing a new minor feature for client portals on Sublime Ads.

You can now add extra info to your portals, for example a title, some welcome text and also a payment link.

At first, this will apply to all portals and I'm working on making these overridable on a per portal basis, giving you extra flexibility.

This is just a small step to run your whole ad system through Sublime Ads, giving you flexibility for portals, getting ads into your app, and of course getting paid.

For more information you can head on over to the documentation.

The new Micro.blog App for iOS (still in beta) and Android is now open-source. It's built on React Native. Most of the action happens in the develop branch. Happy to get this out there ✌️❤️

I've tweaked the pricing model for Sublime Ads today. Something I wanted to do since shoutouts.lol. Now pricing is a "pay what you want" kinda deal. Good for any budget.

I also removed API limits, so everyone gets the same service. Of course there is still the fair usage policy, but hopefully it won't stop a lot of folks.

You don't have to think about it which API limits you want. Pricing will change at some stage, but I am still thinking about price points. Probably $7, $14 (default), $21 etc. Existing plans are not affected.

Trials still exist but won't have everything enabled until you enter your card details. I think that's a good compromise.

Oh and I removed the yearly price plan. If you want anything yearly, just use shoutouts.lol.

Hoping to open-source the Micro.blog App for iOS and Android soon. Then you can all cry how I code in Javascript 😋

Just a general shout out to say thank you for all the donations and general love that you're all giving Gluon ✌️❤️ It means a lot, and makes me want to get out of bed in the morning. Can't wait to ship the next update.

I'm happy with the speed increase across the globe for feeds (for discover and tagmoji) coming into Gluon. Compare that to the other day.

Gluon uses its own "on edge" feeds for the discover feeds (including tagmoji). I just moved on over to use Bunny Storage. Let's see how response times work out here. Also using the Gluon Sync server to keep things fresh and updated.

Here are the current, old, response times:

I pulled the Gluon build from review. Needs more tweaking. Not happy with something. Might just remove the feature for now.

Gluon, for iOS, has been submitted for review ✌️ It's future is now in the hands of the Empire.

Just a quick shoutout to all the wonderful people using the Gluon iOS beta and trying out the new profile options within the app. So fun to see.

And here is the HOMEPAGE of Micro.blog:

And yes, just for historical archives 😋😏