What's new in Skryf

Skryf now answers to the keyboard: each main action wears its own key, and Tab shows you where you are.

New

• Each main action shows a letter beside it that you press with your browser's shortcut key (usually Alt, or Control and Option on a Mac): s to sign in, p for your posts, n for a new post, w to start writing, v to view your blog and o to sign out.
• In the editor, b goes back to Posts, p publishes and u unpublishes, v views a published post, and a, d, h and x open its web address, publish date, history and delete pages.

Better

• Tab draws a ring around the link you're on, and on a blog the first press of Tab offers to skip straight to the writing.
• Under the writing field, the marks a post can use sit in two groups, In a sentence and Starts a line, with a note on footnote sources and image captions.

Fixed

• Search engines and link previews show an "&" in a post's automatic description as written, not as &.
• An assistant writing to an address no blog answers on gets a short not-found reply it can read, not a web page.

You can point at a source from the middle of a sentence, and the page you write on has a bit more room.

New

• You write a footnote as [^label] in the sentence and [^label]: with the source underneath. It shows as a number that jumps to that source at the foot of the page.

Better

• The editor says Saved just now, then Saved 2 min ago, and it saves at least every ten seconds while you type.
• The writing column is a third wider, and under the image hint it lists the marks a post can use.
• Sign in sits beside About and RSS on your blog's front page.
• About shows the words you wrote.
• A link in a post or on About that leaves your site opens in a new tab, and the address tells the other site it came from Skryf.

A quieter housekeep: a report's email isn't kept, a new blog waits a day from its first post, and a post can't take a Skryf page's name.

Better

• Sign in, create your blog, reset and verify say "Made with Skryf" in the footer, like the rest of Skryf's own pages.
• A post's web address can no longer be set to a word Skryf already uses for one of its own pages, like report or about.
• A new blog made through open sign-up stays out of search for a day from its first post.

Fixed

• If you report a post and leave an email, it goes only to the site's operator in that one message, and the privacy page says so.

Security and reliability improvements.

Skryf now says what it means on every page and sits better on a phone: tidying, but the satisfying kind.

Better

• On a phone, each assistant key shows as a card with its Revoke button in view, and a long blog address no longer pushes Sign out onto a line of its own.
• The Check your email page says a code was sent only once one has been, and too many attempts now says how many minutes to wait.
• When publishing or unpublishing fails, the editor says which, and adding an image shows the time it saved.
• A blog's footer now links to "Create your blog", and the report form says how many minutes to wait after too many reports.
• Wording across Skryf's pages and messages follows one plain style, with no jargon.

Fixed

• Older and newer links at the foot of a post follow the same order as the blog's index, even when two posts share a publish date.

Security and reliability improvements.

Readers can now report the odd post that doesn't belong, and Skryf says which release you're on: neighbourly, not nosy.

New

• Every post has a small Report link. A reader can tell the person who runs the site about spam, abuse or illegal content, with no account needed.
• Admin has a Reports tab. Each report can be read, then the post unpublished, the blog suspended or the report dismissed.
• Skryf's own pages show which release you're on, linking to What's new in Skryf, which you can also follow in a feed reader.
• You get an email when your password is changed, from Settings or by a reset.

Better

• A new blog made through open sign-up takes a little while to appear in search engines. Readers can read it and follow its feed straight away.
• A post title can be up to 200 characters wherever it comes from, and the editor says so if a longer one can't be saved.

Fixed

• Signing in works on a self-hosted blog served over plain HTTP.
• Choosing Light, Dark or Auto keeps you on the page you were reading.

Security and reliability improvements.