What's new in Skryf

Your writing assistant now knows its place. Politely.

New

• A draft your assistant left says which key it came from, in Posts and at the top of the editor.
• Revoking a key asks whether to clear out its waiting drafts. Anything you've edited or published stays put.

Better

• Once you've touched a draft, your assistant can't read it back. Your edits are your business.
• A key can leave at most 50 drafts waiting. Plenty for enthusiasm, not enough for a flood.

Security and reliability improvements.

Fixed

• When an image fails to upload, the editor explains why in plain words, never a status number.

Your writing assistant can help, and you stay the one who publishes.

New

• Your writing assistant can now leave a draft in your Posts for you to finish and publish.
• Settings › Assistant makes a key and gives you one block to paste into your writing assistant.

Security and reliability improvements.

Skryf's pages now say which place you're in: the front door, your blog, your writing screens or Admin.

Better

• skryf.art keeps you on skryf.art until you're home. You sign in there, not on someone else's blog, and a page that doesn't exist says so there.
• Reading your own post, you'll find Edit this post at its foot, and Your posts on every page of your blog. Readers see neither.
• Sign out lives in the bar across your writing screens and Admin, not at the foot of reading pages.
• The bar across your writing screens shows your blog's address beside its name, and the theme choice has moved to Settings › Account.
• Admin has its own bar, and each page is headed by its tab. Mail names the service plainly, and Sign-ups says exactly what's missing when email can't be sent.
• Your blog's pages no longer invite readers to sign in or request an invite; that lives on skryf.art.

Fixed

• Saving your About page changes only the About page.
• Admin says an invitation was revoked only when one was, and Posts offers Show all posts only when a filter is on.

Security and reliability improvements.

This release is about reading: posts and blogs that are easier to take in, with clearer names for writers.

New

• The editor has an optional one-line Summary under the title. It shows on your post, on your blog's front page and tag pages, and when the post is shared.
• A post opens with its summary, who wrote it, when, and how long it takes to read. It ends with its tags and links to the posts before and after it.
• Settings has an Export tab. It downloads every post as a plain Markdown file, with its history and redirects, in one zip.

Better

• Your blog's front page and tag pages list posts by year, each with its summary and reading time. A blog with nothing published yet says so.
• Settings, sign-in and a post's own pages use clearer names that match their headings. Your About page has its own tab, and Account shows which email you're signed in with.
• When you've been signed out in another tab, the editor says so, keeps your text, and saves it once you sign in again. Publish waits until your latest changes are saved.

Fixed

• Confirming your email accepts a code pasted with spaces, says when a code has expired, and pressing Back afterwards no longer shows the form again.
• Sharing a link to your blog on X, Facebook or LinkedIn now shows a card.

Security and reliability improvements.

Photos that look right, and a light or dark page for every reader.

New

• Every page ends with Theme: Auto · Light · Dark. Your choice holds for a year, on every blog here and on your own screens, and works without JavaScript.
• Adding an image asks for a short description for people who can't see it. It starts from the file's name, and Cancel adds nothing.
• An image gets a caption only when you write one: ![description](image "Caption"). Images in earlier posts lose their caption until you add one.

Better

• Photos load at the size the screen needs and keep their place while loading.
• An iPhone photo (HEIC) becomes a JPEG as you add it in Safari. Other browsers say how to add it.
• When an image can't be added, the editor says why in plain words: too large, not an image, or signed out.

Fixed

• A photo taken upright on a phone now stays upright, and an animated GIF keeps moving.
• In your feed, a link to another website stays a link to that website.

Security and reliability improvements.