You can now set a background image for your site via the Settings page.
Click the "Browse" button under the section "Site Background Image" to upload and set a background image. There is a small trash icon to clear the background image also.
Loforo has had "Unlisted" blogs (which prevent your site's posts from appearing in any public feeds like /everyone) but now we've added "Private" site support!
Goto the "Settings" page and set "Site Visibility" to "Private" to prevent anyone else from seeing your site (you can switch between public and private any time).
Private sites will only be visible to you, the site owner, when you are logged in to your account. Any posts that were previously published or any new posts you publish while your site is set to "private" will not be visible to anyone else.
If you block a user (the crossed out circle button near the follow button), they will no longer be able to comment on your posts.
As requested, the multi-site repost has now been moved to its own button -- there's an upward facing arrow near the repost button to select the site to repost to if you have more than 1 site/group in your account.
The large repost button now does a "quick-repost" to the site you're logged in to.
You can now delete comments you've posted as well as any comments posted on your sites. You'll see a trash-bin icon near the name of each comment -- click it to delete it. Made a typo? Regret saying something? Don't like a comment on your own site/group? Delete it!
Groups are a way for multiple users to post to a single site about a common interest and are now available as a beta release. You can create, join, and and repost to a group.
The person who creates the group will be able to manage it like a normal site via the dropdown menu in the top right. Anyone who joins (follows) a group can post to it via the normal repost/reblog button (you will be able to create original posts in the near future). We've created a cats group to kick things off since everyone loves cats.
Todo:
Update: You can now post directly to any site in your account and groups you follow from the create post page -- use the "Target site" dropdown to select the site or group to post to.
Loforo now supports multiple sites/blogs under 1 login! You no longer need to log in and out of your account to switch sites.
To create a new site under your existing account, go to the dropdown menu in the top right and click the "New Site" link. That's it! There's no step 2.
To switch between accounts, use the dropdown at the top of the menu in the top right.
If you already have multiple sites at Loforo, send us an email and we'll be happy to merge the sites into 1 account -- be sure to include the list of sites you want merged (the Loforo domain names) and the email login you want them added to.
There is currently a limit of 3 sites per account.
Coming soon: Groups(!)
We have a beta/prototype "Post to Loforo" bookmarklet. If you'd like to test it, drag-and-drop the link below into your browser's bookmark toolbar (see the bottom of this post to learn how to add it on iPhone/Android browsers like Chrome and Safari):
After you've added the bookmarklet to your toolbar, click it while on a page that has content you want to post to Loforo and we'll try to do the magic to get the right image/video/embed code added to the Create post form. Again, this is considered "beta" and offers limited functionality (for example, it will only pick 1 image/video from the page instead of letting you pick 1 or more images). It also has custom support for a number of sites like Youtube, giphy, gfycat, Thumbsnap, etc) -- for sites it doesn't recognize, it will fallback to posting a plain link to the page you're on.
We assume you're reading this page on your Android phone, with Google Chrome. The first thing you do is to make a bookmark. Then, go to the URL-field of your new bookmark, paste the javascript of our bookmarklet, and save it. Now you've made a bookmarklet.
Instructions:
Loforo will now fetch and mirror any external images (jpg, gif, webp, png) and videos (mp4 and webm) that are in posts to our server shortly after posting (so if that external service goes down or deletes the image/video, it'll always be available on Loforo).
We've also added full .webp support (both static and animated webp images) to the image uploader (via our other service, Thumbsnap).
All existing posts with external content are being processed from newest to oldest at around 2000 posts per hour and we expect to be done with the full backlog in a few days.
For those more technically inclined: this mirroring only works with img and video tags at the moment and not any iframe content so if you are linking posts from something like giphy, try to add the direct link to the gif/mp4/"gifv" and we'll be able to download it.
We've now rolled out RSS feeds for all blogs so RSS readers can see the latest updates to your site. Just type '/rss' at the end of your blog's URL to access the feed like this: https://blog.loforo.com/rss .
You can now view the posts you've liked at the /liked page. This page is visible only to you when logged in.
Each post now shows a list of everyone that liked or reposted that post below it. Here's an example.
Also, as mentioned in the "quick update" post, the public feeds and blogs now support keyboard controls similar to Gmail that let you quickly jump from post to post -- hit the letters "j" and "k" to jump to the next and previous post (the left and right arrow keys will do the same thing). Thanks to @ikari for providing the initial implementation of this.
There was a bug in the image uploader that is now fixed.
Tip of the day: You can use "j" and "k" keys (or the left and right arrow keys) to scroll through posts without using your mouse (desktop only).
The bell icon in the navigation bar will take you to the new notification page that lets you see the latest activity for your site. Notifications are shown for new followers and comments, likes, and reblogs on your posts. The bell will light up red when there are new notifications. Visiting the page will mark all your notifications as read.
You can now also add profile pictures or avatars for your site -- go to the Settings page to upload a profile pic to better represent you.
Update: Added an "Edit post" button near the bottom of each post on your own site that lets you quickly jump to the edit post screen for that post.
We have a few more things for you today:
Update #2: Snuck in Profile picture uploading on Settings page. Will make a formal announcement with next update. Also /random feed is now way faster
Update: 2 fixes:
We have a bunch of updates for you today:
We've rewritten the /everyone page to be a little smarter with the following changes:
A new Account settings page has also been added so you can now change your email address and password. A minor fix: the login form no longer clears your email if you get your password wrong.
All blogs now have a follower and following list (and a total post count). Here's a sample.
There's not much more to say, you all asked for it so it's here..
Update 2020/07/24: A handful of fixes and tweaks have been rolled out tonight:
Many have asked for a single-click repost / reblog so it's now here. Hit the "Repost" button to reblog a post to your own site. No more popups and its super fast!
We're also now correctly tracking the repost sources so we will be able to display that under each post without writing duplicate "Reposted from" messages (displaying the Reposted tag will be completed later today Done).
We've also implemented the top navigation bar across both the /everyone and the blog pages if you are logged in as well as added a "My site" link to get to your own site quickly.
Update: There is now a "Reposted from <site> via <site>" that links to the last reposted person as well as the original poster. The links in the repost message also link directly to the reposted post instead of just the site's main page. There is also a repost count displayed if a post has been reposted.
Building on the friend / follow feature from yesterday, we've now released a friends-only feed!
Follow some people then goto /friends to catch up with their content, simple as that.
