What's new in Skryf

Admin is rebuilt around what you do there, and the way into Skryf has fewer dead ends.

New

• Admin opens on a list of every blog. Each blog has its own page, and suspending one first says exactly what will happen.
• Admin has Sign-ups, Front page and Mail screens in plain words. A new invitation is a full link to copy, and Mail says in one sentence whether email is working.
• Signing in takes you back to the page you were trying to open.

Better

• Skryf tells you when your email isn't confirmed yet. Publish links you to confirm it, the code page lets you sign out, and the front page points you there.
• Coming back to your blog says welcome back. Straight after you confirm your email, it says so, even if you already have drafts.
• Signed in, the front page's header says Your posts, and opening Sign in or Sign up takes you straight to them.
• An image from another website no longer loads on your blog, so readers are never tracked through it.

Fixed

• Once you've been signed out, your posts and settings ask you to sign in instead of saying there's nothing there.

Security and reliability improvements.

Your posts, your editor and your first minutes on Skryf, made calmer.

New

• Posts is one quiet list: each post is a single line with its title, whether it's a draft, and its date. Tabs for All, Drafts and Published, and one search box.
• A new blog greets you with its address and one button: Write your first post. The same step waits for you straight after you confirm your email.
• When you're signed in, you can sign out from the foot of any page, and skryf.art says Your blog instead of Sign in.

Better

• Blog pages read in a serif column with your blog's name, About and RSS at the top, and a footer that's yours, ending in Made with Skryf. On large screens the text is a little bigger.
• The editor's top line says whether the post is a draft or published, links to the live post once it's out, and shows when it last saved, like Saved 14:32.
• A post can't be published without a title, and a published post keeps its title if you clear the field.
• When sign-up can't go through, it says what's wrong at the top and beside the field, and keeps what you typed.

Fixed

• Editing a post straight after publishing it no longer says it was changed elsewhere.

Security and reliability improvements.

Every writing screen now shares one quiet header.

New

• Every writing screen has a calm top bar — your blog, Posts, Settings and View blog — with Sign out at the edge.
• Settings has its own sections: Blog, Account and Domain.
• Skryf has an icon: a small ‘s’ and a blinking cursor, in your browser tab and on your home screen.

Better

• The admin page has a way back.
• Every link to your list of posts says Posts.

The first numbered release: a quiet place to write, and to read.

New

• skryf.art has a proper front door: what Skryf is, and one button — Start writing.
• Creating a blog asks for your address first, and shows it as you'll get it: yourname.skryf.art.
• Posts are set in a calm serif for long reading; the writing tools stay in a clean monospace.

Better

• Every sign-in, sign-up and legal page has a way home.
• The address field says exactly what it accepts — letters, numbers and hyphens, up to 32 characters — and your browser now checks it as you type.
• The editor's preview looks exactly like the published post.

Fixed

• Signing in from skryf.art now takes you straight to your own blog in every browser.

Security and reliability improvements.