History
To see updates made to Micro.blog take a look at the News site and Manton's blog.
This is a record of official updates to Micro.blog; covering the service, the apps, the community initiatives, and whatever else might be released by the team.
Sources:
- Manton’s blog;
- Jean’s blog;
- Jonathan’s blog;
- Vincent’s blog;
- Micro.blog News;
- @microdotblog on Twitter;
- Micro Monday;
- Film Fest Friday;
- iOS changelog;
- iOS App Store Preview;
- Micro.blog for Mac changelog;
- Sunlit App Store Preview;
- Wavelength App Store Preview;
- the Kickstarter project page.
- The web.
PREVIOUS YEARS
2021
January
- 30th |
- February 2021 Photoblogging Challenge.
- Jean’s post
February
- No updates
March
- 11th |
- Help moved to a Discourse forum.
- Manton’s post
- 23rd |
- Cypress theme added to the built-in options.
- Manton’s post
- 25th |
- Edits to the “Supporting services” section of the privacy policy.
- Manton’s post
- 27th |
- Redirect via URL path.
- Redirect via Pages performance improved.
- Manton’s post
April
- 5th |
- Micro Monday, episode 100.
- Monday post
- 15th |
- RSVP reply with Webmention.
- Manton’s post
- 19th |
- Red Oak theme added to the built-in options.
- Manton’s post
- How does Micro.blog work.
- Manton’s post
- 27th | multiple iOS updates
- Save as draft.
- Edit replies.
- Full new-post support for bookmark highlights.
- Add URL from clipboard via link button.
- PNG uploads do not convert to JPEG or cause prompt for filters.
- Help screen links to email and new help center.
- Manton’s post
- 29th |
- Micro Camp 2021, the first official community-based event.
- Jean’s post
May
- 5th |
- Testflight beta for Wavelength.
- Manton’s post
- 10th | multiple podcast updates
- Dark Mode in Wavelength.
- Wavelength now uses the system font.
- Wavelength open-sourced.
- Podcast hosting made available for all Hosted accounts for 2 weeks.
- Manton’s post
- 11th |
- Bookshelves beta.
- Add books to shelves.
- Integrated with existing book-based features.
- Manton’s post
- 13th |
- Webmention for external blogs video.
- Manton’s post
- 19th |
- Twitter replies.
- Use Bridgy to host twitter replies on your blog.
- Manton’s post
- 27th | multiple Mac OS updates
- Support for new Instagram import file format.
- Categories pane shows once they are set.
- Fixes for editing live categories, photo, and video uploading.
- Manton’s post
- 28th |
- Bookshelves Help document.
- Manton’s post
- Micro Camp site.
- Manton’s post
June
- 4th |
- Bookshelves made available for everyone.
- Add new books not found in search.
- Manton’s post
- 16th |
- New Tagmoji added to Discover, for pens and ink.
- Jean’s post
- 17th |
- Bookshelves added to the API for Books.
- Manton’s post
- 18th | multiple iPad OS updates
- Functional keyboard shortcuts.
- Fixes to navigation and design.
- Manton’s post
- 21st |
- Widgets and multiple fixes for Sulit 3.3.
- Manton’s post
- 28th | multiple Mac OS updates
- Better results when searching your posts.
- Website URL in profiles.
- Better contrast in the sidebar.
- Manton’s post
- 30th |
- The Micro.blog for iOS and Mac OS apps are made available as open source software.
- Manton’s post
July
- 13th | multiple Micro Camp updates
- The first batch of presenters.
- The first two panels.
- Some details of how exactly the event will proceed.
- Jean’s post
- 14th |
- Tagmoji pop-up menu.
- Export for multiple options.
- Manton’s post
- 15th |
- Vincent Ritter joins the team.
- Manton’s post
- Vincent’s post
- 19th |
- Help document for bug reporting.
- Manton’s post
- 24th |
- An extra blog added to the Status page for more thorough reporting of issues.
- Manton’s post
- 27th |
- Visual and audio work from the community will be featured during Micro Camp.
- Jean’s post
- 30th |
- More presenters announced for Micro Camp.
- A special logo for Micro Camp.
- Jean’s post
August
- 2nd |
- Micro Monday returns.
- Jean’s post
- 4th |
- An additional presenter added to Micro Camp.
- Jean’s post
- 7th |
- Smaller meet-ups during Micro Camp.
- Jean’s post
- 10th |
- Session titles and registration link available on the Micro Camp website.
- Manton’s post
- Stickers made available for Micro Camp.
- Manton’s post
- 12th |
- Meet-ups schedule and RSVP link.
- Jean’s post
- 16th |
- Share with Glass.
- Manton’s post
- 23rd | multiple Hosted updates
- Faster publishing.
- Automatic HTTPS.
- Hostname redirects.
- Scaling.
- Manton’s post
- 25th |
- Micro Camp pin.
- Manton’s post
- 30th |
- Ink theme added to built-in options as a plug-in.
- Manton’s post
- 31st |
- Dark Mode for the web.
- Manton’s post
September
- 13th | multiple Sunlit updates
- Design refresh for smoother experience.
- Blurred placeholder backgrounds for better performance.
- Toolbar translucency.
- Manton’s post
- 17th |
- New website for the Micro Camp event.
- Manton’s post
- 20th |
- October Photoblogging Challenge announced.
- Jean’s post
- 30th |
- 30-day blog posts book for print-edition Kickstarter backers.
- Manton’s post
- October Photoblogging Challenge prompts revealed.
- New
@challenges
account for all news and reminders regarding Challenge events. - Jean’s post
October
- 10th |
- Web text editor improvements; emoji on mobile, spellcheck, dark mode, and multiple fixes.
- Manton’s post
- 17th |
- Development of an official app for Android.
- Vincent’s post
- 18th |
- Drummer integration.
- Manton’s post
- 20th |
- Tufte theme added to built-in options as a plug-in.
- Manton’s post
- Share with Glass from Sunlit.
- Manton’s post
- 22nd
- Flickr cross-posting.
- Manton’s post
November
- 2nd |
- Epilogue app for books.
- Beta available on Testflight.
- Android version confirmed.
- Open source via GitHub.
- Manton’s post
- 3rd |
- Instant CSS updates.
- Manton’s post
- 5th |
- Publishing progress bar.
- Manton’s post
- 9th |
- Epilogue public release.
- Available on Google Play.
- Manton’s post
Notes
I will not include fixes and minor improvements since they are assumed to be part of continuous development, and include hundreds of small changes made on a regular basis. Significant fixes are an exception to this rule.
As with the rest of Today I Learned, this is not an official source of information and so may contain errors as well as miss suitable events; I will improve this as much as I can through continuous edits and additions.
You can see updates as they happen with Updates posts, additions with Follow Ups, and a monthly summary in The Macro Report.
Updated: 15th November