Changelog July 17th — July 19th
A refined interface — calmer admin and settings, a fresher Explore, passkeys, Send a Scribble...
Updates
Notes from the projects I build and maintain. Personal writing lives on my blog.
Refining the interface, bits & bobs
Over the last few days, I've been motivated to work on the general interface for Scribbles. It...
Scribbles is now sending email from a new provider. Everything should be working as expected, but...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue where custom domains may have not provisioned. Sorry about that. All domains...
• 🚀 Faster-loading post images — inline images on your public blog now serve responsive sizes...
Changelog — July 2nd
Some smaller tweaks and fixes since the last few updates. • 💅 Homepage and Explore blog tiles...
Custom themes
A few weeks ago I teased support for custom themes. You can now get started with creating your...
New menu sidebar
You can now pin the main menu, that you can get from clicking on the Scribbles logo, to the...
Some smaller tweaks and fixes for you today, and as always, appreciate all the feedback and...
If you're keen to design your own blog themes, please get in touch with me — I've been working on...
Analytics dashboard with Tinylytics
If you're using Tinylytics for your blog, Scribbles now surface this data straight in your...
• 💅 Tweaked the colouring of the pager in the default theme (version 2) to match the blog accent...
• 💅 Tweaked the accessibility of category names in the themes so they are easier to read and...
Typewriter theme & theme previews
Today I worked on a new theme, to bring back the fun into the digital realm — whilst keeping...
• ✨ Added an action menu to your post list in the admin area, when you hover over them, so you...
• 🚀 Added a new bulk actions screen allowing you to make changes to all your posts in one go —...
• 🎥 Video only posts now generate a correct image on your blog and also on Explore (so it doesn't...
• 🚀 Added support for importing Wordpress exports. I need a few testers for this, so let me know....
• 🐛 Fixed an issue when using the API and passing in the blog_id for example...
• 🤖 For API users I just added the ability to exclude certain categories from both /api/v1/posts...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue that may have caused pages to be saved as drafts, without you being able to...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue with deleting blogs. • 💅 Fixed an issue with navigating to the discover...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue when using the pound sign (#) within a code block.
• 🚀🧪 If you're running on a custom domain, including the Scribbles sub-domain, you can now access...
• ✨ You can now change your blog slug if you need to — this does not affect custom domains...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue where a shared draft URL would throw an error when you had the "Send a...
• 🎆 Fixed an issue with the Scribbles default favicon being loaded when a feed reader would...
• ✍️ When you receive a "scribble" via email and click the link, it will now take you to the...
• ✨ Added a few options to the explore page, when logged in, that allows you to see more details...
• 🔀 If you're logged in and on the Explore page, you can load up a random post or blog if they...
• 🐛⏱️ Improved the way the RSS feeds update when you have a scheduled post.
• ✌️ I re-added the lifetime plan option, after having removed it for some time. Thanks to all...
• 🧹 Tweaked the padding in the editor when on mobile screens so you have a bit more space.
• ✨ Enabled the new editor for everyone now. Thank you to all for your feedback over the past...
• 🐶 Tweaked wording for the Small Web section so it's clearer what this is. "Kagi Small Web is an...
• ❤️ Tweaked the footer icons for small web to link to the Kagi Small Web site instead of the...
• 🔐 You can now transfer your session to another device, without having to enter your email &...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue when you used single line breaks using the new editor, where the lines...
• 🐛 Fixed a small issue where when you had comments enabled by Micro.blog and it showed "comments...
• ❤️ Added a new section in blog settings called "Small Web", which shows info about the Kagi...
• 🫧 You can now set individual categories to be ephemeral instead of all posts — great for...
• ✌️ Added a proper Archive Kit to backups, so you now get CSV, JSONL, and bookmark exports out...
• ✌️ Added support for adding a Buttondown newsletter subscribe form to the footer of your...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue when viewing and exporting posts in markdown when using the new editor.
• 🥴 Fixed an issue that would return a 404 error when a web uptime monitor would hit your blog....
Registration is open again
During the weekend I finally found the time to open back up registrations for Scribbles. My real...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue with auto-save creating drafts of the post you just published.
• ✨ You now create a new category straight form the new post editor. Just click on the "new"...
• 🐛 Fixed an issue that would prevent you from publishing when auto save failed. Sorry about that.
Howdy! I made general speed improvements to the platform, especially loading large amount of...
Share a blog with family and friends
Howdy! Big update today: you can now share your blog (and your subscription) with family,...
• ✨ For new blogs that have registered, or for blogs that have not yet blogged or set up their...
• 💅 Added the ability to tweak some of your theme settings under Appearance in your blog...
• 🚀 Made the new editor the default for new accounts — it's pretty solid. • ✨ Changed the url...
• 🧹 Fixed an issue where when a page contained a contact form, the main content took up the whole...
Invites
Today I added the ability for you to create invite codes that allows fellow friends, family and...