diff --git a/app/helper/email/newsletters/2024-1-spring.txt b/app/helper/email/newsletters/2024-1-spring.txt index 6a1ac35ded7..d47759c58de 100644 --- a/app/helper/email/newsletters/2024-1-spring.txt +++ b/app/helper/email/newsletters/2024-1-spring.txt @@ -1,7 +1,33 @@ +Spring newsletter +*You received this email because you subscribed to [Blot’s newsletter](https://blot.im/news). You can [unsubscribe](https://blot.im/news/cancel) if you like. Please reply directly to this email if you have any thoughts or questions.* -Bugs fixed: -- Fixed Heap analytics integration after their breaking change +**New features** +- Added [example folders](https://blot.im/examples/folders) to the documentation. These are complete sites, combining a template with posts and pages. My favorite is [Sergey](https://blot.im/examples/folders/sergey), a photography site which presents color photographs of the Russian empire from the early twentieth century. +- You can now specify [metadata](https://blot.im/how/posts/metadata) in [Google Docs](https://blot.im/how/posts/google-docs) and [org files](https://blot.im/how/posts/org). -We are considering switching to blot.site as our primary domain -- announce in spring newsletter, aim to switch in summer +**Changes** +- The thumbnail generator will no longer prioritize video embeds over embedded images within the same post. +- *Slug* metadata is no longer an alias of *Link*, instead it is used as part of [your link format](https://blot.im/how/configure/link-format). +- You can now include pages in your site's search index using [*Search* metadata](https://blot.im/how/posts/metadata#search). +- We updated Blot’s dependencies to patch known security vulnerabilities and made changes to the dashboard and documentation, per tradition. + +**Bugs fixed** +- Fixed [Heap analytics](https://blot.im/how/configure/analytics) integration +- Images whose filename contains punctuation can now become thumbnails +- The setting to use titlecase for your titles now works properly for titles which start with an emoji. The titlecase setting also now affects titles derived from filenames. + +**Questions** +- [Is there a way to embed one text file within another one?](https://blot.im/questions/2256) +- [Email subscriptions?](https://blot.im/questions/1353) +- [What have you made with Blot?](https://blot.im/questions/1635) + +**Mistakes** +- There were no major incidents this season. + +**Plans for this season** +- We are considering switching the domain we use for the documentation and dashboard from *blot.im* to *blot.site*. I prefer the way *blot.site* looks and there is a security benefit to using a different domain for user-generated content. This would not affect your existing Blot subdomains. I would appreciate your thoughts – there's a part of me that believes I should simply patiently save for to purchase *blot.com*. + +If you have any thoughts or questions about any of this, please don’t hesitate to reply directly to this email. + +Sincerely, David \ No newline at end of file