So. If you have a friend who would like to join, head over to your settings an create an invite-link for them. 🧡

~jan

Anyway, check out the changelog.

User-Facing Changes

• Title fixes for ActivityPub by @thebaer in #1491
• Fix collection Customize page header nav on single-user instances by @thebaer in #1505
• Fix single-user blog URL on Customize page by @thebaer in #1508
• Add support for alternative smallweb URL schemes by @smazmi in #1565
• Fix font toggle in classic editor #876 by @vtyeh in #1135
• Display stat numbers as monospace by @lolbinarycat in #1142
• Support changing published post font on web by @thebaer in #1609
• Fix character set for post signature column on MySQL / MariaDB instances by @thebaer in #1608
• Redirect /read/feed to correct /read/feed/ URL by @thebaer in #1522
• Fix ProseMirror HTML handling by @thebaer in #1644
• Use datetime picker on Post Metadata page and fix API inconsistency by @thebaer in #1492
• Markdown preview by @thebaer in #1647
• Sort list of Fediverse followers by subscription date, descending by @thebaer in #1630
• Limit password to max characters supported by bcrypt by @thebaer in #1664
• Improve and fix up data exports by @thebaer in #1623
• Fix missing user nav on blog Customize page by @thebaer in #1687

Anyway, we just updated to server to the latest version of Writefreely. You may have a look at the full changelog here: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/discussions/1485

Some of the highlight: – Fediverse Likes – Improved Articles in the Fediverse – Fediverse Creator Tag

Let's go! 🍪

If you want to know what's changed, have a look at the official changelog on GitHub.

If you encounter anything unusual feel free to contact me! mfi@jan.su

Major new features

• Fediverse verification
• An official contact page

You may want to check out the official changelog on GitHub

Future update

It seems like the writefreely developer(s) got some free time and it looks like the next update may arrive sooner™

Server update

We plan to move this instance to a different server in the coming weeks. This should improve monitoring for admins and a better backup solution (which was luckily not needed yet).

This instance has just been updated to the latest version of WriteFreely (v0.13.2) – it just took me 2 months & a mail from one of our users. 😪

Apperently the last big Mastodon update (v4) broke some compatability with WriteFreely – resulting that you could not follow new blogs from Mastodon instances. (You can read about it here, where other humans brought up the issue.)

Already followed blogs/follow relationships where not affacted, so I did not noticed the bug myself. Instead I got a mail from one of our users this morning, alerting me to this bug.

Long story short: fixed & updated to the latest version 🎉 If you wanna know what's new, have a look at the official changelog.

Good timing, I guess.

I tried to keep manually deleting all these spam posts, but it was to much too handle (or more: I was too lazy to check the database regularly for new spam posts).

The current registration system is working out great for the moment. People even add some introduction/CV on their mails – and they are all great. I never required this (nor do I plan to require it in the future), but it is very lovely. 🧡 Thanks!

BTW: There was a new #WriteFreely release a few days ago and I'm planning to update this instance soon™.

~ Jan

If I have deleted your post by accident too, please feel free to contact me by mail. I have a backup and will restore your posts as soon as possible.

WriteFreely needs a way to deal with this SEO spam issue. Maybe I'll look into adding a captcha for registration – even though these are rarely accessible for handicapped people.