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Happy to report that the Micro.blog iOS Share Extension now works a treat! No more crashes every other time 🥳 Hopefully there will be an update out soon with the fix. It didn't require a full rewrite.

Thank you so incredibly much to everyone that believes in my work and signed up for a Lifetime Account on Scribbles. It really means so much to me ✌️❤️

The funds gave the project legs, and is sustainable for the immediate future!

Probably going to rewrite most of the share extension code for the Micro.blog iOS App. Have been banging my head about it all morning with no "easy" win. Sigh.

For the folks using it, it should solve the "every other time I open it, it crashes" issue.

Just sent out another 20 Scribbles invites ✌️❤️

I just enabled the Lifetime prices for Scribbles. Many of you have asked for more price points, so left you some options ✌️❤️

Now I just need some daring souls to give this a go 😋🫣

"...now you can back-up and export your blog when you so wish. Having access to your content when you want is paramount"

— Blog Exports on the Scribbles Update Blog

I took a little step back to think more about launching and what's important for Scribbles, especially on the feature set — I had many feature requests (some of which have been implemented).

— An update, launch date, plans and setting it straight on the Scribbles blog.

"It's been difficult for me to think about pricing for Scribbles considering its featured set, yet simplicity."

— Thinking about pricing on the Scribbles Blog

Let me know what you think ✌️❤️

"Last week I deployed a few changes and tweaks that would be helpful to customise your site even more — as usual I get a request for some of these, so it's always fun to get these in as long as they fit with the overall vision of Scribbles."

— On the Scribbles Update Blog 😋

OK, all remaining Scribbles invites have been sent out. One more email with questions to answer. Main questions right now:

• Fediverse integration — nope, not happening. Use Micro.blog if you want that.
• Markdown — for now, nope. I prefer simplicity over syntax. Many requests for this 🤔

In the last post I wrote about some stretch goals. Namely expanded posts on the homepage, title-less posts and an RSS feed for Explore. Well, guess what? Yeah, those are all done ✅

— Expanded posts, title-less posts and explore tweaks on the Scribbles Update Blog

Scribbles is already pretty robust, but now it's time to work through my list that are essential for launch.

— Feature freeze as I get ready for public release on the Scribbles Update Blog

Also, the last batch of invites going out on Monday. And also... this allows me to concentrate on client work too 😅🫣

Link Me support is ready for you all under "Verification & Proofs" in your blog settings page. And it's super simple.

— Introducing link=me support on the Scribbles Update Blog

... also, slight spelling mistake there 😅

Alrighty! Time to spend on that "secret" project 🫣 Let's go!

I wanted to follow up on creating pages in Scribbles with giving a slightly better overview of what your end result will be when you're in the editor.

— Editor tweaks and kudos emoji on the Scribbles Update Blog

This one was fun!

I've seen some creative ways of getting around adding pages, by creating posts and linking to them, so I wanted to tackle that and add some support for pages that keeps things a little cleaner.

— Initial support for Pages on the Scribbles Update Blog

There's a new Gluon TestFlight out for iOS. Nothing major in this one, just some minor tweaks on picking up emoji and perhaps better mute filtering on those.

This one will be a slow one.

As I'm developing Scribbles I wanted an easy way to ignore hits of logged in users, without having to do any trickery with adding an ignore via localStorage. The need for this came because a blog could have Tinylytics enabled, and if it was your blog, it would always register a hit — and like any good blogger you probably check your blog a lot. However, to avoid a full on block on hits across all sites on Scribbles (because you are nice and caring), the localStorage options is not really an option.

— A new custom way to ignore hits on Tinylytics

"Well, it's been a week! Well, OK, about 10 days. Productive for sure and I have no idea where to start here except to say that there's been so many changes in the past week on Scribbles it's difficult to put them here."

— A raft of changes: blog settings, explore and much more on the Scribbles blog

Pretty sexy search page for Scribbles. Happy with the way it worked out.

Now you can request the script in SPA friendly format which will give you some extra goodies! To get started, all you have to do is add the `spa` parameter to the script tag.

— Support for SPA (Single Page Apps) apps — Tinylytics Update Blog

I deployed a lot of new tweaks and changes to Scribbles in the past week, especially in the past 24 hours. Remind me to write it all up in a blog post!

"Add to Dock..." — looks nice.

OK, step one of getting the Tinylytics Update Blog ready for that article I'm supposed to write 😋

I need to concentrate on getting a written update out for something I shipped last week on Tinylytics. Also realise there wasn't an email update in some time — aiming for next week though. Tiny is working great for many and that makes me happy.