Release Notes

Fixed profile Cards display showing large empty whitespace gaps on entries without a title or cover image. Cards now dynamically expand body text to fill available space — entries without an image show up to 8 lines, and entries without both title and image show up to 12 lines, instead of the previous fixed 4-line truncation.

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@eve

New "Redactions" feature lets users hide entries containing specific words from their feeds — like taking a black marker to content you don't want to see. How it works: Go to Settings → Redactions and add words (up to 100) Entries matching any word in their title, body text, or tags are completely hidden from your Feed, Explore, and other users' profile pages Matching is case-insensitive and substring-based (e.g., redacting "war" also hides "warfare") Your own entries are never redacted — you always see your own writing Remove a word anytime to see those entries again

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@eve1

Inks — Community Discovery Signal Introducing inks — a new way to signal "more people should read this." Click the ink drop icon on any entry to ink it. Unlike stamps (which express how something made you feel), inks are a discovery signal that helps surface great writing through human curation. What's new: Ink button on all feed cards, explore cards, and entry detail pages — one ink per reader per entry, toggle on/off Trending This Week — a new section at the top of Explore showing the most-inked entries from the last 7 days "Most Inked" sort on Explore — find community favorites alongside the default "Newest" view Ink notifications — authors get notified when someone inks their entry Ink counts visible everywhere — see how many readers endorsed each entry Authors see their own ink counts but can't ink their own entries Free for all users Inks complement stamps — stamps say "how this made me feel," inks say "more people should read this." Together they give readers two distinct ways to engage with writing.

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@eve1

You can now block users directly from their profile. Click the three-dot menu next to the Follow button and select "Block." Blocked users can't see your entries, send you messages, sign your guestbook, or interact with your content in any way — and you won't see theirs either. Blocking is mutual and immediate: their entries disappear from your feed and explore, their comments are hidden, and they can't stamp, tip, or follow you. They'll see a generic "This profile is not available" message with no indication that they've been blocked. Manage your block list anytime from Settings > Blocked, where you can review and unblock users with one click.

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@itzpress1

Inkwell now creates a notification when a Mastodon or fediverse user follows you. You will see a globe icon with their fediverse handle (e.g. @user@mastodon.social) in your notifications. Clicking it opens their profile on their home instance. Duplicate follow activities are deduplicated so you only get one notification per new follower.

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@eve

Reserved usernames are now blocked at registration. Over 30 names that could cause brand confusion (inkwell, admin, moderator, etc.) or conflict with system routes are case-insensitively blocked. Existing conflicting usernames have been reassigned. The Terms of Service (Section 2) has been updated to reflect this policy.

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@eve

Your bio just got a glow-up. The bio field on your profile now supports rich text formatting — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, headings, bullet and numbered lists, blockquotes, links, text colors, highlights, text alignment, and even embedded images. A full formatting toolbar appears in Settings → Profile and a compact version in the onboarding wizard. Existing plain text bios continue to work unchanged, and your formatted bio is fully visible to followers on the fediverse. Free for all users.

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@eve

Public API is live! Create API keys at Settings → API, and see the full documentation at /developers. Free users get read access; Plus users get read+write.

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@eve1

You can now edit your comments within 24 hours of posting — just click "Edit" to fix typos or update your thoughts. Edited comments show a subtle "(edited)" indicator so the conversation stays transparent. We also added @mention autocomplete. Type @ in any comment to search for and tag other writers. Mentions become clickable profile links, and mentioned users get notified so they never miss when someone's talking about them.

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@stanton

Search has been moved from the Library section to the Connections section in the sidebar, making it easier to find when you're looking for people and content.

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@stanton

Added "Books" as a new category, and made the category picker much more discoverable — there's now an inline dropdown right below the title in the editor, so you don't have to open the settings panel to categorize your entry. The settings panel category picker is still there too.

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@WoeHoss1

Newsletters/Email delivery has been added to Inkwell!

Postage and support links have been added to Inkwell!

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@stanton2

Root cause: URLs entered without a protocol prefix (e.g. example.com) were treated as relative paths by the browser, resolving to https://inkwell.social/example.com instead of https://example.com. Fixed by adding https:// normalization both on profile render and on save in Settings → Customize.

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@eve1

First round of improvements done.

Versioning is implemented!

We have a live product, but will still partner with others for Inkwell.

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@stanton1

We've updated our inbox to accept Article, Note, and Page types, and we also added federated posts to the Feed page (they were previously only on Explore).

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@eve1

Series and collections have been added.

Journal entries can now have a category (20 options like Personal, Poetry, Creative Writing, Travel, Tech, and more). Categories appear on feed cards and entry pages, and a new category filter bar on the Explore page lets you browse by topic. Each category also has its own browse page at /category/[slug].