There was some downtime and slow connections earlier today because of extra traffic. We have throttled some connections to mitigate the problem. Not sure if it was nefarious activity but we are keeping an eye on things.

Fixed not assigning categories from filters that used keywords until a post had been edited. We also now show the auto-generated keywords on the posts edit page. There’s a new help page with a little more info about this and link to a video explaining it.

Fixed an issue that could cause slow full rebuilds with Hugo occasionally.

Updated the style of the header on blog-related pages like Posts, Pages, and Uploads to have a cleaner look that also takes up less space.

Added domain name expiration emails even if auto-renewal is disabled. We had erred on the side of fewer emails, thinking that if you had auto-renewal off you didn’t want the domain, but some people might want to disable renewal but change their mind and keep the domain.

Fixed video processing for some videos with uncommon resolutions and colorspaces.

Improved the quick search (press the / key on most web pages in Micro.blog) to better handle keyboard selection, added more locations to jump to.

Released Micro.blog 2.5.2 for Android, improving the reply pane and fixing related issues.

Added a new poster frame selection page to the web, for new video uploads. For videos uploaded starting today, you’ll see a “Change Poster” button when clicking a video on the Uploads page, with a selection of frames from the video.

Threads cross-posting appears disabled right now as Meta reviews our data policies. Should be working again soon when they approve us.

Released update for Micro.blog for Android, version 2.6.1, with a few bug fixes. This was intended for release last week, so we already have another update in the queue for Google to approve, with reply pane improvements. Should be out soon.

Fixed editing the email intro for a newsletter.

Released new Mac app with improvements for opening videos and other fixes. “Check for Updates” to download the latest, version 3.8.2.

Fixed adding and editing standalone pages on the web. This and a couple other pages with the editor broke recently. Sorry about that!

Fixed editing recent replies on the web.

Released an update to Strata for iOS, fixing a bug with new Micro.blog users signing in via email.

Added support for following Bluesky users with either their .bsky.social handle or their own custom domain name. When following a custom domain name, Micro.blog will attempt to merge posts from their blog and their Bluesky account together in the timeline.

Improved video playback sizing in the timeline, and added width and height to the default Copy HTML tag on the web.

Strata for Android has also been updated to version 1.3. We’ve skipped version 1.2 to keep the version numbers in sync between mobile platforms going forward. See the full release notes here.

Strata for iOS has been updated with improvements to search and UI tweaks. We’ll follow up with the Android version in a few days.

Optimized blog publishing after you post a reply, especially for blogs with thousands of posts. Micro.blog will now update your Replies page (if you have one) without running other pages through Hugo if they are not affected by new replies. Much faster in some cases.

Fixed issues with sorting in blogrolls. You can edit or add new blog recommendations under Design → Edit Recommendations. These recommendations will show up on your profile, and there are plug-ins to add them to your blog too.

Fixed an issue showing the archived text for older bookmarked web pages. As a reminder for Micro.blog Premium, we save a copy of any bookmarked web pages, including the styling and images used in the web page.

Fixed errors from Medium cross-posting interfering with other Micro.blog cross-posting services. The Medium API is no longer working. We are investigating and hope it’s something Medium can resolve.

Updated Micro.blog for iOS to version 3.6.2 with some more bug fixes.

Removed the 25-minute limit for auto-generated podcast transcripts. For longer audio files, Micro.blog will split the MP3 into segments so that each can be transcribed without hitting backend limits, then assembled together again. There may be a minor glitch in the text if it was split on a word.

Updated Epilogue for Android to version 2.0.1, fixing a bug with tapping some buttons such as close and new post.

Sped up loading Posts page on the web. The initial set of posts should load much faster now.

Added a 🍿 tab for showing only videos on the Posts page. Also related minor tweaks, hiding the 📝 tab on Uploads if there are no text documents.

Fixed an issue where uploads could appear duplicated, or not properly handling deleting duplicate uploads.

Added new “Level audio and reduce noise” checkbox for Micro.blog Studio, when uploading audio files. See Manton’s post for screenshots and more details.

Fixed switching between user accounts in Micro.blog for Mac, iOS, and Android apps.

Improved delays when generating accessibility text for photos. If you have AI enabled, you should see the default accessibility text show up more quickly now.

Added automatic cross-posting to Day One journals. See this help page for details.

Fixed a new error with cross-posting where you might have seen a “Processing post failed” message. Very sorry for this. If any of your recent blog posts weren’t cross-posted, you may need to manually copy them to other services.

Fixed uploading videos that don’t have an audio track. Previously you’d see an error for these and they would not be processed.

Fixed a problem with our European web servers for hosted blogs. Sorry for the downtime!

Fixed the Edit Themes button for Micro.blog Studio. It had accidentally been hidden this week.

Updated the iOS app to fix an issue with push notifications and signing in for new users.

Added a new subscription plan called Micro.blog Studio. This adds 20-minute video uploads for your blog. You’ll also see a new option on the Sources page: cross-posting to PeerTube.

Released new versions of the mobile app — for both iOS and Android! — with new video uploads for the upcoming Micro.blog Studio subscription, which supports hosting longer videos up to 20 minutes.

Improved the Bookmarks page to support searching the links tab, with results linking to pages and archived versions. The search box now changes what it searched depending on the selected tab: Bookmarks, Highlights, or Links.

Updated the Mac app with a couple fixes. Choose “Check for Updates” to get the latest, version 3.8.1.

Fixed the “New Post” menu option in Uploads for videos. It now appends the HTML <video> tag.

Updated the timeline so that if there are multiple photos, Micro.blog will try to collect them together in a horizontally scrolling pane, if there is no other text between the photos. This matches the UI that was previously only for photo collections.

Added a new setting to control whether to insert the book cover into a blog post when blogging about a book. Click on Bookshelves → Settings.

Released version 3.8 of Micro.blog for macOS with Movies sidebar and other improvements. Easily search and blog about movies and TV shows on your Mac.

Added a new “Manage Paths” option on the Posts → “…” menu. This allows you to edit the slug for a post and (for the first time) see and edit the migration URL that is set internally when importing from a previous blog platform.

Updated default RSS feeds to include Markdown source, as supported by NetNewsWire 6.2.

Fixed an issue following Bluesky users, and improved Bluesky users so that photos from Bluesky are included in the timeline.