It has been a busy last week at Micro.blog! Manton has released the complete draft of book.micro.blog, we held our 2nd Micro.camp event, shipped 1.0 of M.b for Android, and rolled out bug fixes to Wavelength for iOS and other parts of M.b.
Congratulations to my @microdotblog business partner Manton Reece for releasing his book Indie Microblogging!
manton.org/2022/03/09/comple…
You can read it for free online, or pre-order the PDF or print edition. (At 400 pages, it’s not a micro project. 😏)
We usually update M.b a couple times a week. Recent changes:
* Added photo to the top of profile page.
* Improved how plug-in themes are handled, so other plug-ins can override smaller parts of a theme.
* Fixed uploading profile photos.
* Fixed not archiving bookmarks sometimes.
Micro.blog for macOS has seen a few updates since the start of 2022, adding a preview window, HTML syntax highlighting, bug fixes for drafts and photos, and a new context menu. You can see all the release notes at the Help Center. help.micro.blog/t/micro-blog…
If you’re using a Micro.blog subdomain for your blog, you can register your own custom domain in Micro.blog and we’ll set everything up for you automatically. Click Account → Get a Domain Name.
We've added a few features for books in Micro.blog and always want to add more. Help us understand how you track books you're reading with this quick survey: forms.gle/6mUbvsohRiiSf4ff8 📚
We are live for day 2 of Micro Camp! The current session is Getting Started with Sketchnotes, with Chad Moore and Chris Wilson. Videos from yesterday are also up. micro.camp
Micro Camp is our online community event for Micro.blog, coming up August 13-14. We've posted a list of speakers and panels on the web site. Hope to see you there! Totally free. camp.micro.blog
The downtime for hosted blogs should be mostly resolved now, but we are still keeping an eye on things and there may be further fixes. If you notice any problems, don’t hesitate to reach out to help@micro.blog. Thank you!
We are working to restore access to hosted blogs, although the rest of Micro.blog remains up. Very sorry for the downtime! Got hit by a few problems at our hosting provider that we'll learn from to make things more robust in the future.
We are planning Micro Camp, the first virtual conference for Micro.blog! See this announcement blog post from @macgenie with details and a quick survey to let us know what times work best for you. micro.welltempered.net/2021/…
Milestone achieved! Ep. 100 of Micro Monday, the @microdotblog community profile podcast.
Special guest @patrickrhone offered this insight on why a welcome bot can’t replace a human:
“A community can only be built by those who can commune.”
monday.micro.blog/2021/04/05…