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🎨 Introducing: pre-built themes! First up: “Quiet Thoughts”, a minimal theme made for blogging. Activate your new theme on the Style Settings view. More coming soon!

📚 Get into a DIY state of mind with our new Theme Documentation, available at peep.pub/themes

#️⃣ Peep now autosuggests when you start typing a hashtag to help you connect with folks talking about the same stuff.

🔃 All photos uploaded to Peep should now have the correct orientation (curse you, EXIF!)

The config.json for a Peep theme, specifically calling out the “supportSecondaryFont” attribute.

The most fun part of building my own theming system is deciding I want themes to support two fonts and then just doing it 👉 @peep.pub

👀 You can now control whether you want to show all of your posts and replies on your profile, or just your posts – check the style view to toggle!

Fixed! I also improved the signup form a tad since I was already in there. Please do feel free to get at me with any other bugs or requests!

Thanks for the heads up – I’ll take a look and let you know when it’s fixed.

✏️ The advanced authoring view is available! Upgraded users can create longform posts with inline styling, links, and images.

The theme editor view on Peep, showing a handlebars-enabled template on the left and the live site on the right.

🎨 Upgraded users can create their own Peep themes using the new HTML + CSS editor. A theme creation resource is coming soon too! 🆒

An in-progress screenshot of Peep’s new template editor.

🆕 New templating system is coming together. Expect this to drop soon.

🫧 Surfacing from silent running to talk about some upcoming changes: Peep is becoming a more fully-fledged blogging platform! We’ll soon be launching fully customizable themes and a more robust authoring UI for upgraded users.

#️⃣ Posts with hashtags automatically get linked up via the @octothorpes.bsky.social protocol! Pretty cool.

🔴‼️ New! Visual notifications when someone’s replied to you.

✂️ You can now copy and paste an image into the posting widget.

🍗 Small quality of life feature: all Peep profiles now have a built-in RSS feed. Just add ‘/rss’ to your profile URL and you’re RSSin’ with the best of them.

💪 Want to unlock a bunch of goodies and support Peep? Just check the account panel in the Peep sidebar. Monthly and yearly subscriptions on tap!

🔁 Want to see all your replies in one spot? Check peep.zone/replies.

🎛️ You can now choose whether a post can receive replies or not.

👩‍💻 You slinging some code? Enclose it in `<script>cool backticks</script>` (Markdown style) to write a code snippet.

☝️ We added more communicationability, a word that’s real and not made up: you can now reply to posts! Coming shortly: control over whether replies are allowed on a post-by-post basis.

🔗 Want to throw a link in your header blurb? Go for it, it’ll now be linked up automatically.