Changelog

What's new

The features and improvements we've shipped, newest first.

  1. Add moments from the apps you carry

    Every journal now speaks Micropub, the open web standard for publishing to your own site. Approve an app once and it can add moments from wherever you are, photographs and field note included.

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    A Micropub app's connection request beside Peter's journal: the approval card lists exactly what the app may do, with Approve and a way back
  2. A website in every export

    Every export now includes a static copy of your journal in its own theme. Open index.html to read it offline, or follow the included README to put a prepared copy on any web host.

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    An exported journal open in a browser from a plain folder, beside the folder's contents: index.html, moment pages, theme.css, the photos and a README
  3. A handbook for the whole of Moments

    Moments now has a complete Handbook: one calm place to learn how every part of a photo journal works, from the first photographs to themes, privacy, the open web, and ownership.

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    The Moments Handbook home with its introduction, first three guides, and chapter index
  4. Moments Plus

    Moments is leaving its early Founding Supporter chapter with a lasting plan for what comes next: Starter stays a real free journal, while Moments Plus gives paid features a clear home.

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    The Starter and Moments Plus pricing cards with monthly and yearly choices and the included free month
  5. Your journal, down to the last line of CSS

    Custom CSS can now take a journal beyond the Appearance controls. Change a typeface, reshape a moment, or write a complete theme while the live preview responds beside you.

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    The Custom CSS editor beside a live preview of Peter's journal using a hand-written green and warm-paper style
  6. Nine new rooms for your photographs

    Moments Plus now includes nine themes that reshape the whole journal, not only its colors. Each gives the header, moments, and photographs a different way to inhabit the page.

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    The nine Moments Plus theme choices beside Peter's journal rendered in the Safelight theme
  7. A password at the door

    Moments can now be shared behind a password. Give someone the link and the password, and the photos stay closed to everyone else, with no account or sign-up needed.

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    The Moments visibility controls with Password selected, including a password field and optional hint
  8. Embed a living collection

    Collections can now be embedded, the same way moments can. Place a curated set of photos or whole moments on your blog, about page, travel post, or personal site, and it will keep itself up to date.

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    Collection embed controls beside a live preview of a Family holidays collection with a Balaton moment
  9. When the wider web links back to your moment

    Your moments can now receive webmentions: when another site writes about one and links to it, that mention finds its way back and appears under the moment.

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    The Moments Webmentions dashboard showing a reply from Anna and a mention from Mira for a moment titled Balaton
  10. A limited Lifetime Founder package

    Some people have asked for a one-time way to support Moments early. So I have added a limited Lifetime Founder package.

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    The Lifetime Founder pricing card with its one-time price, included storage, feature list, and sign-in button
  11. Put your moments on any site

    You can now place a moment, or a feed of your recent moments, on any site that accepts HTML: your blog, a portfolio, a personal page. It carries its own quiet look, set by you, so it feels at home wherever you paste it.

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    A Balaton moment embedded inside a neutral personal article, with three photographs and a link back to the moment
  12. Moments joins the open web

    Your journal can now be followed from Mastodon and other Fediverse apps. Moments you choose to share beyond your journal can reach open-web followers and, when enabled, receive quiet replies.

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    The Moments Open Web setup panel explaining the journal address, conversations without metrics, and sharing controls
  13. Collect whole moments

    A collection could already gather individual photos from across your moments. Now it can gather whole moments too, so a collection can read like a small journal of its own.

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    The Choose moments dialog with six real moment cards and three selected for a collection
  14. A caption for every photo

    A moment has always had one field note for the whole set. Now each photo can carry its own short caption, and that caption describes the photo for screen readers and search at the same time.

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    The Moments caption and alt text editor beside a large Lake Balaton photograph
  15. Founding Supporter

    Founding Supporter was the first paid way to help keep Moments independent, with more room, custom domain support, and private analytics.

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    The Usage and support screen for an existing Founding Supporter, showing the legacy plan, journal usage, and optional supporter mark
  16. Add moments to your pages

    Pages can now pull in your moments. Drop any moment into a page and it shows up as a tappable card with a photo preview, so a page can become a curated home for the work you want people to see first.

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    The Moments page editor showing a Places I return to page with an embedded Balaton moment card
  17. Your journal, at your own address

    Journals can now live on a domain you own. Point yourname.com at Moments and your photos get an address that belongs to you, for as long as you want it.

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    The Moments custom-domain setup showing a pending photos.example.com domain with TXT and CNAME DNS records
  18. Give your journal its own pages

    Every journal can now have pages alongside its moments. An about page, a gear list, a way for people to reach you. They live in your navigation and match your journal's style.

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    The Moments page editor with an About this journal page, formatted headings, paragraphs, and the editor toolbar