There was some downtime for our EU servers. We’ve fixed the issue and hosted blogs in the EU should be back online now.

Added custom channels (for grouping multiple RSS feeds) to our Microsub API support. There is also a new default Feeds channel for seeing all posts. Compatible with client apps like Monocle.

Improved accessibility text generation to prefer using a blog’s defaultContentLanguage Hugo field if set, otherwise it will use the account’s language.

Upgraded a couple servers this morning. The upgrade went smoothly and you shouldn’t notice any changes.

Improved automatic podcast transcripts with new model. Works better for longer episodes.

There was a new issue that caused some recently-published blog posts to sporadically return 404 not found. The error has been fixed. Sorry about that!

Added video podcasts for Micro.blog Studio. Micro.blog can make an MP3 from uploaded videos, linking the audio and video in the podcast RSS feed. Manton has blogged more about it here.

Added YouTube as a video cross-posting option on the Sources page.

Fixed another new issue with cross-posting large images.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Fixed compatibility with RSS.chat feeds.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Fixed accidentally stripping out styling from custom 404 pages.

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.

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