Changelog

01 Nov, 2023

The following only logs functional changes. Minor bug fixes, patches and updates are not logged here, but can be viewed in the GitHub repository commit history (if you're very interested).

March 2026

• Exclude tags in post lists
• Add italics and bold in post titles
• Date range on post lists
• Export backup as MD files instead of CSV
• Full text search on discover
• Random link to other blogs/posts
• Random blogs on discovery feed

February 2026

• Plugins are officially available
• Restore unsaved drafts on accidental navigation/reload
• Paste image into content field to upload
• Fixed viewed state on Discovery feed
• Save draft on accidental redirect/reloads

January 2026

• Rendering updates
• Hide blogs in discovery feed
• Bot storm protection on reverse proxy

November 2025

• Robust caching on the edge (about 60% speedier loads)
• Monitoring and redundancy
• Hit and upvote upgrades
• Added homepage to analytics

October 2025

• More admin tools
• Plugins repo
• Improved reverse proxy
• Transitioning to static upvoting

September 2025

• Changed code license
• Fixed favicon issue in Google and RSS readers
• Upload raw checkbox in media center
• Security updates
• Analytics speedup

August 2025

• Add a tag list anywhere using {{ tags }}
• Pasting url over selected text generates markdown link
• Support image in embedded post lists
• Add Next/Previous post links using {{ previous_post }} and {{ next_post }}

July 2025

• Styling changes to the blog list/account page
• Added RSS/Atom meta links to all pages
• More moderation tools (as always)

June 2025

• Minor dashboard updates
• Moderation tooling
• Fallbacks for infrastructure outages

May 2025

• Discovery feed work
• Minor bug fixes

April 2025

• Bot mitigation tools
• More moderation tools
• More caching and dynamic cache invalidation

March 2025

• Support paths for posts (eg: /blog/post-title/)
• Search by tag
• Community management tools
• Backup recovery tools

February 2025

• Small rendering tweaks and fixes
• Added blog hiding filter to discovery feed
• More bot fighting and redundancy work

January 2025

• Dealt with a deluge of AI scrapers and bots
• Added rate-limiting, WAF rules, and extra security
• RSS and post optimisations
• Search optimisation

December 2024

• Improved admin tooling
• Added more file support in the media center

November 2024

• Bug fixes
• Improved review process
• DB speedup and migration
• Added filtering by multiple tags

October 2024

• Database speedup
• Performance monitoring

27 September 2024

• Optimise images on upload

17 September 2024

• Allow favicons to be either emojis or links

04 September 2024

• Moved lang and date_format into settings

03 September 2024

• Improved media center
• Upload more file types
• Strip metadata from images on upload

August 2024

• Reduced dependencies
• Improved DB performance

29 July 2024

• Discovery feed language filter
• Removed email confirmation links for blog subscribers

12 July 2024

• Made the media center publicly available on the dashboard to upgraded blogs

08 July 2024

• Made error on post saving fail gracefully

05 July 2024

• Page named blog can overwrite default blog page

June 2024

• Cache RSS feeds
• Auto scaling enabled
• Better moderation tools
• Show local time instead of UTC

May 2024

• Ability to remove emoji favicon
• Rearranged a bunch of dashboard settings
• Rewrite of the Markdown and LaTeX renderer

08 March 2024

• Separated Post and Page logic for brevity

07 March 2024

• Post previews are now token protected, as opposed to just using ?preview=True flag

27 February 2024

• Added the ability to manage multiple blogs on one user account

19 February 2024

• Added custom footer content (which allows the addition of your own scripts, etc) for the dashboard. This can be found in Account > Customise dashboard

04 January 2024

• Started work on auth tokens
• Added RSS subscriber count to analytics

23 November 2023

• Added blog_last_posted attribute
• Dashboard uses uid instead of slug to handle "new"
• Cleanup Blog domain functions

21 November 2023

• Fixes:
  • Localisation bleeding
  • XSS injection in frontmatter
  • Only show relevant tags in posts

17 November 2023

• Added the ability to reference blog and post attributes in content

09 November 2023

• Removed all public instances of pk and replaced them with random uid
• Removed all dashboard instances of pk and replaced them with slug

08 November 2023

• robots.txt editor in Blog dashboard > Settings > Advanced settings
• Customise dashboard CSS in Blog dashboard > Settings > Advanced settings
• Directives editor relocated to Blog dashboard > Settings > Header and footer directives
• Refactored tags to be native instead of using taggit

07 November 2023

• Ability to embed filtered post lists in page content
• Cleaned out and refactored old code

01 November 2023

• Automated daily hash_id scrubbing
• Started this Changelog