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.

We’ve started adding author pages to the web, and via the books API. The book list is a little jumbled right now for an author that has many editions of their books. We’ll clean that up in the future.

Minor update to Micro.blog’s design on the web, tightening the sidebar and headers, and improving dark mode in a few places.

We’ve fixed some important bugs with buttons on Android. Update to 3.0.1 to get the latest version.

Fixed some spacing issues in the Bookmarks section for Mac, iOS, and Android apps. Less cramped now with the “reader” links and summaries, for archived pages available in Micro.blog Premium.

Improved the web bookshelves layout on mobile and small screens. Added a popup menu to switch between the current bookshelf.

We’ve released a big update to Micro.blog for Android, version 3.0, improving a bunch of things across the app including Markdown highlighting when writing posts. Download it in Google Play.

There’s an update to Micro.blog for iOS available with bug fixes to the timeline getting stuck, and other fixes. Update to the latest in the App Store.

Fixed color issues with code blocks in the timeline.

LinkedIn cross-posting has been updated with uploading the first photo in a post and more reliable auth that won’t need resetting.