Enhancing blog sharing with new Facebook share option and a cleaner design

Bloxay.com Update 1.29.1.0 - August 7 2023

What's new

• Enhancing blog sharing with new Facebook share options
  Blog sharing is better than ever with the new Facebook share option! Plus, enjoy a brand new design that looks even cleaner than before.

What's improved

• Various minor fixes and improvements relating to yesterdays release (1.29.0.0)

• Updated Home to include share options

New 'More' menu plus notifications widget on Home

Bloxay.com Update 1.29.0.0 - August 6 2023

Update: Due to an issue, we had to publish a quick fix. This issue has now been resolved, enjoy the update!

What's New

• Discover more of Bloxay.com with the 'More' menu
  Discover more of Bloxay.com quickly and easily with the 'More' menu. Quickly go to Home, the Bloxay Community site, the Bloxay Answers site, Bloxay Community Profiles, the Update Bloxay.com page, and the About menu. Also releasing with the 'More' menu is the 'About' menu, which allows you to find out about Bloxay, Bloxay.com, Bloxay.com Policies, and Credits. Below those options are also development information about Bloxay.com.

• See notifications for you via the notifications widget on Bloxay.com Home
  You can now instantly view new videos, blogs, events, and updates for you via the notifications widget on Bloxay.com Home. The notifications widget is an unmarked widget under the 'best video for you' element.

• Being clear about the difference between Bloxay.com Release Channel versions and the Bloxay.com hard version
  Earlier in July, we began starting up all Bloxay.com Release Channels, including the Bloxay.com Beta and Bloxay.com Alpha release channels. Now, we'd like to introduce Bloxay.com soft versions and the Bloxay.com hard version.

  • The Bloxay.com soft version is a unique set of 20 numbers and letters and is different depending on the release channel you're using. It gets updated every time there is a publish, no matter the size of the publish. It's mainly for developers so you can ignore it if you want. The Bloxay.com soft version is currently listed under the More > About menu.

  • The Bloxay.com hard version is a set of numbers, e.g. 1.2.3.4 that updates exclusively when the Bloxay.com Main Channel updates. It'll be updated for major bug fixes and new features. You can find the Bloxay.com hard version in the site footer or Update Bloxay.com.

What's Improved

• Fixed an issue with Home.

• Fixed an issue with Update Bloxay.com.

• Fixed an issue with some old and outdated pages. We continue moving these outdated pages off the Main release channel and to the Alpha release channel.

• Navigation bar changes.

Bloxay.com Update is now fully released

Bloxay.com Update 1.28.1.0 - July 29 2023

Update: Bloxay.com Update has been renamed to Update Bloxay.com for better transparency on what the name means.

What's New

• Bloxay.com Update is now fully released and you can update quickly and easily plus find out what's new. In the future, you'll also be able to switch your release channel to preview upcoming features.

What's Improved

• Fixed an issue with Home.

• Fixed an issue with the site footer.

• Removed the 1 Year Anniversary title. Thank you for 1 year of epic updates, many more to come!

Bloxay.com 1 Year Anniversary Update

Bloxay.com Update 1.28.0.0 - July 18 2023

It's been 1 year since Bloxay.com was created, and we're celebrating in style with a brand new exciting update! Check out the update on Bloxay.com here, or keep reading below to learn more about all the changes!

What's new!

• Introducing comments on Bloxay.com! 🗨️ View now!
  Comments are finally here for blog posts on Bloxay.com! Starting with five blog posts today and all future non-sensitive blog posts, you'll be able to voice your thoughts!

• Expanding Bloxay.com reactions! 🎭 View now!
  Along with Comments on blog posts, we're also releasing even more options to quickly react to a blog post to share feedback and your opinion! Starting today with five blog posts and all future non-sensitive blog posts!

• Enhanced homepage with better recommended content! 🏡 View now!
  The Bloxay.com homepage has been enhanced even more with a redesigned homepage! Find recommended videos, blogs, Shop Bloxay products, music content, and more quicker and easier than ever before! Even better, the homepage will grow and expand over time to be the best!

• Completely redesigned "About Me" page! 😁 View now!
  Learning more about Bloxay has never been easier! Find out about Bloxay's interests, hobbies, work, and more! View an in-depth timeline of events, see music and games that Bloxay loves, and so much more!

• New "Related posts" for blogs! ♻️ View now!
  Discover more of the content you love with "Related posts" under the new Comments section. Starting today with five blog posts and releasing with all future blog posts!

• Announcing new sharing features for blogs! ✨ View now!
  Share awesome blog posts everywhere! From today you can share blog posts to your favourite social media platforms, beginning with Twitter and releasing on other platforms in the coming weeks!

• Improving Videos pages with better sorts and displays! 🔴 View now!
  You can now watch the best YouTube videos out there better than ever with improved sorts, content displays, and so much more!

What's improved!

• Updated how blog post thumbnails/icons appear. They're now smaller, allowing you to read the title of the blog post when first opening the blog post page.

• Updated Social Icons Bar YouTube icon from prompting you to subscribe/unsubscribe on press to just a link to the @Bloxay YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/@Bloxay).

• Updated sort bar on Videos pages to remove "Old" videos sort and expand on important sorts. For now, you can still view old videos via the URL bar or Site Search.

• Updated the Credits page. This page is still incomplete but more of it is complete.

• The People Credits page is now fully complete and updated.

• Old Archived pages have been removed, and more archived pages will be removed in the future, transformed to another Site. Stay tuned for more information about this.

• Removed Components pages. These pages were viewed by few and Bloxay.com Developers now use a different test Site for storing Components.

• Updated Events page.

• Added blog post tags to bottom of /blog page for easier discovery of blog tags.

• Updated Blog Tag pages.

• Navigation bar changes.

• Temporary 1 Year Anniversary banner and advertisement (may be disabled when you visit, it's temporary!)

• Cloudflare improvements.

• Bug fixes.

• Minor changes and improvements with GS and GS Themes.

Improvement Update

Bloxay.com Update 27 - July 2 2023

• Added version counter for Bloxay.com. The current version is 1.27.0.0

• Added https://www.bloxay.com/update to allow Users to update Bloxay.com. It will be developed further and is an experimental feature.

• Updated The Bloxay Blog to Bloxay Blogs.

• Navigation bar changes.

• Updated buttons on Home to be mobile/tablet friendly.

• Updated the Videos page.

• Updated Shop Bloxay.

• Updated About Me to have a better design. More changes to this soon.

Bloxay.com Update page:

New accessibility features to make Bloxay.com for everyone!

Bloxay.com Update 26 - June 14 2023

Major releases

• Bloxay.com is for everyone, and it just became even more accessible! Today we released alt text for a number of assets to make Bloxay.com even more accessible for all.

Enhancing blog posts with blog tags and other minor changes

Bloxay.com Update 25 - May 22 2023

Major releases

• Blog post tags are back and better then ever before! Find blog post tags on the Blog Discover page (bloxay.com/blog) and individually on blog posts! See examples below, they are the red squares above the title of the post!

• See relevant blog tags below a post too! You can click on these to find similar blog posts. This will be enhanced in the future too, so stay tuned!

• Introducing a cleaner, redesigned site footer! We've updated the footer to now be multiple shades of black/grey. We think this change will better draw a dividing line from the page content and the site footer. There have also been other changes, such as updating Social Icons and links.

Other changes introduced in Update 25

• Blog posts have recieved some much needed changes.

  • Profile Icons have been removed from blog posts. Bloxay.com's initial purpose for posts were for Staff, friends, and Bloxay to announce important community information. As the purpose of Bloxay.com shifts, there will be significant changes to many components of Bloxay.com. Today, we're removing Profile Icons and links to Profiles on blog posts, since they aren't needed anymore. The Bloxay Blog is intended to be a personal blog, with additional guests rarely, and as such, this change has been made to make the universal design of The Bloxay Blog pages even cleaner. Stay tuned for even more announcements related to similar components in the coming days and weeks.

  • A new link to The Bloxay Blog discovery page has been added.

  • There have been minor changes to the placement of Reactions.

  • There has been some changes related to the publish date of some posts.

• Some unused and old pages have been deleted.

• Unwrapped changes have been introduced in preperation for the 2023 event.

• Updated What's New!

Blog read time estimates on posts and Shop Bloxay announcements

Bloxay.com Update 24 - May 17 2023

Major releases

• In April, we announced plans to release blog read time estimates, a way to quickly and easily see how long it'll take for you to read a blog post. We released them on blog post previews, and today, we're ready to release them on actual blog post pages. You'll now see this feature on all current and future blog posts.

• Shop Bloxay has always had spectacular, high-quality products which we want to show you. Starting today we've released an announcement box where new product releases, sales, promotions, and more will be announced. Stay tuned for more Shop Bloxay features coming very soon!

Other changes

• Deleted the News page which was unused and scheduled for deletion.

• Updated What's New.

• Updated the fonts components page.

Bloxay.com Update 23 - May 14 2023

• Updated What's New page to reflect that update logs have been moved to Bloxay Answers. Instead, on the What's New page there will be summaries of updates and previews to new experiments.

• Updated Home with a new announcement banner and other various minor changes.

• Updated The Bloxay Blog discovery page.

• Updated new blog posts with changes to emoji reactions. This change will rollout to all legacy blog posts at a later date.

• Updated bloxay.com/components/fonts

22 - May 5 2023 Bloxay.com Update

• Updated footer content

• Shop Bloxay has returned

• Multiple improvements to Feedback Beta, including better analytics gathering and page path changes.

• Top navigation bar changes.

• Changed navigation visibility for April Fest 2023. The event has now ended.

• Multiple changes to the Blog Discovery page (/blog) including a new heading banner image and description as well as other minor changes and improvements.

• Updates to Shop Bloxay.

• Updated Events page.

• Updated What's New page (this page).

• Secret new pages.

• Changes and fixes.

21 - April 23 2023 Bloxay.com Update

• Theme improvements.

• Blog post naming and URL changes.

• Updated Home.

• Updated The Bloxay Blog post display list.

• Updated What's New with an insight into what's coming soon.

• Updated Profiles with various minor changes and improvements.

• Begun work on an updated Credits page.

• Removed the old Twitter page. As a reminder, I have now publicly left Twitter on my @Bloxay and @BloxayTwo accounts. You can continue chatting with me on my Discord and see my latest opinions on my Blog.

• Information Profile display changes.

20 - April 18 2023 Bloxay.com Update

• New Blog Post Feedback feature!

• New Profiles URL change to www.bloxay.com/p/YOUR_PROFILE_NAME_HERE

• Updated Home!

• Updated Videos!

• Updated new Blog posts!

• Updated Merch page!

• Updated About Me page!

• Updated all Profiles with new information!

• Updated all Information Profiles with new information!

• General improvements!

• General fixes!

• General updates!

19 - April 15 2023 Bloxay.com Update

• Updated favicon.

• Theme changes. Stay tuned for a huge site update coming soon!

• Updated Home with new banner, and general fixes and improvements.

• Updated Videos (Video Hub). New "Sort By" feature changes and new expand page feature. These features will continue to be changed in the future.

• Updated all posts to be formatted better.

• Updated all relevant pages to include a Socials Bar.

• Updated Archived Art page with some general improvements.

• Updated Events page to remove some inactive events.

• Updated some secret pages.

• Updated Watch Bloxay Live (Bloxay Media Player) to be disabled temporarily. Should be fixed soon.

• Updated What's New to include the newest additions to Bloxay.com and the status of the additions.

• Updated the Security Status page with changes and improvements. The current actual Security Status remains the same.

• Updated all Profiles with changes and improvements.

• Updated all Information Profiles with changes and improvements. Some are still uncomplete.

• Updated Beta page.

• Added new "back to safety" banner on Information Profiles.

• New @Cloudge Information Profile, marked as uncomplete.

• Removed old, unused pages.

18 - April 11 2023 Bloxay.com Update New font, The Bloxay Blog, and more!

• 💻 Announcing the new Title and Heading font for Bloxay.com: Paytone One will now be used for all Bloxay.com Titles and Headings. I'm aware that there are some minor display issues, but fixes for those will be coming in the next few days.

• ⭐ Announcing The Bloxay Blog: I'm going to start posting regularly on my new updated blog named The Bloxay Blog! I'm thinking of doing it weekly, but we'll see.

• 🐦 Socials Update: I've now publicly left Twitter, and as such, I'm removing Twitter references slowly from across Bloxay.com. This involves the socials bar at the top of some key pages, and to fill the gap, I'm putting a link to my Blog. The Twitter page has also been archived.

• 🟢 Security Status Update: I've fixed some issues with the Security Status page.

• Updated footer content.

• New Beta tag for Beta features.

• New videos will now have a "New" tag to show that the content is recent/recently updated.

• Home changes.

  • Better display of buttons to the Videos page.

  • Upcoming/Upcoming Content section removed. I've removed this since it was difficult to update and I am transparent enough with my schedule.

• The Bloxay Media Player/Watch Bloxay Live is currently unavailable. I am working on a fix, and that should be releasing sooooon-ish.

• Updated Discover Website Profiles.

• Updated the Not Available error page. More error pages with unique descriptions will be released soon.

• Other minor changes.

• Various minor fixes.

17 - April 9 2023 Bloxay.com Update New epic update!

• 📚 Read time indicators: View an estimated read time next to all Blog posts. This feature will slowly be rolled out more and more.

• 🔴 Watch Bloxay Live: You can now watch Bloxay live whenever I go live, plus see when the next livestream is scheduled.

• Home changes and improvements.

• Spelling and grammar improvements.

• Minor updates to wording.

• Contact page changes.

• Other minor changes and improvements.

16 - April 3 2023 Bloxay.com Update April Fools event removed

• Limited time April Fools Home joke removed.

• Temporary navigational bar changes reverted.

• New April Fest event! Go check it out!

• My birthday is on April 18th ;)

15 - April 1 2023 Bloxay.com Update April Fools 2023!

• Limited time April Fools Home joke.

• Temporary navigational bar changes.

• New April Fest event! Go check it out!

• My birthday is on April 18 ;)

14 - March 29 2023 Bloxay.com Update Generalised blog posts, navigation changes, and more!

• - Updated the footer with minor improvements.

• - Major navigation bar changes: The navigation bar has been simplified to display only webpages on Bloxay.com and no social medias. To locate social medias, check the Home page.

• - The navigation bar now displays a Blog link to a page which displays all blogs.

• - Shop Bloxay is now simply Bloxay Merch.

• - Videos page changes.

• - Removed BLOXAY_COM_POST component.

• - Removed Topic Tags over Bloxay.com - all posts are now just under the Blog.

• - Updated Home for Blog changes and more.

• - Updated the Videos page to resolve a number of minor issues.

• - Updated the Merch page (previously the Shop page/Shop Bloxay) to resolve a number of minor issues.

• - Updated the Events page to resolve a number of minor issues.

• - Minor internal changes.

• - Updated Discover Profiles.

• - Fully deleted the old Explore page.

13 - March 26 2023 Bloxay.com Update Generalised blog posts, navigation changes, and more!

• Navigation bar changes.

• Theme changes.

• Navigation item changes.

• Video Hub changes and improvements (including adding missing videos and fixing display header on tabs).

• Link changes.

• Profile version v1.5.0.1 with text display changes and minor fixes.

12 - March 24 2023 Bloxay.com Update Bloxay Experiments launched, friend Profiles, and so much more!

• Bloxay Experiments (experiments.bloxay.com): Back in late 2022, Bloxay Experiments was announced as a program to allow people to test out new and exciting Bloxay.com features and find issues. Today we're launching the website! Check it out here.

• Profile Icons on Posts: In the previous update Profile Icons were announced. I'm happy to say that they're now rolling out across all Posts. You'll continue to see Profile Icons roll out across Bloxay.com in the coming weeks.

• Friend Profiles: Another addition to Profiles, Friend Profiles display Profiles you've friended easily.

• New Profiles: Added @Trajanm8, @Twinqle, @Lissi, @Mehlika, and @Swoony.

• Profile version v1.5.0 released.

• Theme changes and improvements.

• Home updates.

• Video Hub updates.

• Schedule updates.

• Events updates.

• About Me updates.

11 - March 13 2023 Bloxay.com Update New community website, heaps of Profile changes, and so much more!

• Bloxay Experiments (experiments.bloxay.com): Back in late 2022, Bloxay Experiments was announced as a program to allow people to test out new and exciting Bloxay.com features and find issues. Today we're launching the website! Check it out here.

• Profile Icons on Posts: In the previous update Profile Icons were announced. I'm happy to say that they're now rolling out across all Posts. You'll continue to see Profile Icons roll out across Bloxay.com in the coming weeks.

• Friend Profiles: Another addition to Profiles, Friend Profiles display Profiles you've friended easily.

• New Profiles: Added @Trajanm8, @Twinqle, @Lissi, @Mehlika, and @Swoony.

• Profile version v1.5.0 released.

• Theme changes and improvements.

• Home updates.

• Video Hub updates.

• Schedule updates.

• Events updates.

• About Me updates.

10 - February 25 2023 Bloxay.com Update Improvement update

• Navigation changes

• Minor changes

• Minor fixes

9 - February 23 2023 Bloxay.com Update Epic general changes (About Me updates, Profile changes, more)

• New Contact Me page: I've created a new Contact page!

• Profile version v1.3.3 and Info Profile version v1.1.3: General bug fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for a major feature releasing with these sooooooooon. 👀

• Updated About Me page: Added a cool wave design.

• Updated Home: General fixes, changes, and improvements.

• Updated Video Hub

• Updated Video Hub sorts

• Updated YouTube page

• Updated Events page

• New Topic Tags (for future use)

• New community forms (for future use)

• New DevBoard Alpha: More information on this soon.

• Updated footer content

• Navigation changes

• New Developer menu

8 - February 17 2023 Bloxay.com Update Improvement update

• Home changes

• Video Hub changes

• Minor changes

• Fixes

7 - February 16 2023 Bloxay.com Update Video Hub sorts, Home improvements, more changes

• Video Hub sorts

• Video Hub changes

• Navigation changes

• Topic Tag changes

• Changelog/What's New changes

• Embed changes

• Home changes

• Bug fixes

6 - February 13 2023 Bloxay.com Update Improvement update

• Home changes

• Video Hub changes

• Navigation changes

• Topic Tag changes

• Changelog/What's New changes

• Embed changes

5 - February 12 2023 Bloxay.com Update URL changes, new topic tags, and so much more!

• Introducing Topic Tags: Topic Tags are replacing Tags for Posts and they are here to stay! Explore heaps of unique Topic Tags to help you discover new and exciting topics. This change required me to start over with the URL system for Tags, but it is well worth it!

• The Content Hub is now the Video Hub: I've renamed the Content Hub to the Video Hub to make the purpose of it more clear.

• Back-end changes with Navigation: Navigation has received a lot of changes, it'll be a lot easier to switch to a Not Available page if something breaks.

• Twitter link: https://twitter.bloxay.com now redirects to my Twitter page.

• Security status change: Security status changes are now brighter.

• Beta changes: The "Goals" trial has now concluded and unfortunately it has been stopped permanently and will no longer be developed.

• About changes: "About" has been updated to "About Me", and is more personalised to me.

• Deleted old support pages: Since https://support.bloxay.com was announced, there was no use for a couple of support pages still left on the main site. They have now been removed.

• More back-end changes: A lot of this update was focused on back-end things involving Cloudflare and how posts work/how they are created. This should be so much better for creating posts now!

• Temporary banner: A temporary banner has appeared on the Homepage advertising a post that I created.

• Updated site footer: The site footer has been updated to have new links and pages as well as long-overdue fixes.

• News tab temporarily disabled: The News tab has been temporarily disabled as I change a couple of things with it.

• New maintenance screen: A maintenance screen now blocks User access during downtime. This should allow for easier downtime to occur.

• Temporary pop up: A pop up can now appear without the site needing to be updated.

• Other minor changes

• Fixes

4 - February 8 2023 Bloxay.com Update A major update to Home, Posts, and more!

• Home updated: Home has been updated today with so many new epic features, and an overall nice redesign! You'll have to check it out at bloxay.com/home to see all the changes. ;)

• Post display update: Posts are now displayed without a description, and with a thumbnail! The Dev Tag for this is Post-w-thumbnail.

• Theme change: The website theme has been updated to display stuff better! Enjoy!

• Content Hub redirect: There is now a Content Hub redirect, https://content-hub.bloxay.com/ which should make it easier to disable things.

• Other minor changes

• Fixes

3 - February 6 2023 Bloxay.com Update The Content Hub gets an exciting rehaul!

• The content hub, reborn: I've majorly improved the Content Hub after I just didn't like the feel of it. You can maybe expect more changes, but I like this for now. Don't worry - tweet visibility and more will be releasing soon, just stay tuned. For now, it looks a bit similar to my YouTube channel page, but more customised to how I like it. Let me know your thoughts!

• Home improvements: I've once again made some simple yet elegant changes to the Home page which will make it look even better. Again, later in this year I plan to majorly update the Home page, but for now, it looks good enough. ;)

• Theme changes: I've made some cool changes to the website overall theme! This should be better.

• Page upgrades: I've improved and upgraded a lot of the pages to fit in with all the rest. Enjoy!

• Discord removal: I've removed the Discord pages and now just have a redirect to the Discord invite link. You can find the rules on Bloxay Policies, and you can find the Staff Team still on this site under "About" which should make things cleaner.

• Other minor changes.

• Fixes.

2 - January 26 2023 Bloxay.com Update New websites, major theme improvements, and general changes

• Introducing policies.bloxay.com: As the list of Bloxay Policies grows, I've felt the need to introduce a special home where people can quickly and easily find them. With Bloxay Policies (policies.bloxay.com), you can find the website legal pages, the community Discord rules, plus new YouTube rules and an article about doxxing. Go check it out, it's very cool!

• Introducing support.bloxay.com: The second website launching today is Bloxay Support (support.bloxay.com), where you can find help for heaps of issues you may have, plus frequently asked questions! This website will be constantly updated with more and more pages, so be sure to check it out when you can!

• Home changes and improvements: The Home page has been updated to version v3.3.4.0 (also, if you're ever wondering what the Home version is, just look at the very bottom of the page), and with that comes an updated Search section. I've been meaning to update this section for a very long time, so now that there are new websites I've finally done it. Hopefully this is an improvement you enjoy!

• YouTube page changes: I've changed and improved many things on the YouTube page, so be sure to check it out! I've also archived the art section, but it'll be returning soon!

• Info profile changes: Info profiles now are more destinct and seperate to the normal profiles.

• Theme changes: I've updated the theme of the website to fix some incorrectly coloured sections.

• Minor changes and improvements

• Bug fixes

1 - January 19 2023 Bloxay.com Update New Content Hub in Public Beta, Home changes, fixes, and more

• Introducing the Bloxay.com Content Hub: The new Content Hub has arrived... in Public Beta! Check out one easy and simple place to find all Bloxay content - including videos, live streams, tweets, and soon much more (but that's not yet ready). At the top of the page, find one top video and one top tweet from the current week. At the moment it displays old videos, but when videos start up again later this week, they'll appear there. Scroll down further to discover and explore all recent Bloxay videos. Take a look below:

• Improvements to Home: More changes and improvements have happened to the Home page. Firstly, the Media Bar at the top of the page has had it background changed to golden. Not sure if this works well, so I might revert it later. Below though is a change to the Top Video section. It'll now display an Upcoming module with upcoming videos, live streams, and community events. This'll change every week or so.

• Theme Improvements: The website Theme has also been improved, you probably won't notice much but page titles are now a brighter green, and there are other minor changes. Let me know on Discord if you find any issues with this (Bloxay#0001).

• URL Changes: Some URLs have been changed which should look cleaner. You can expect to see more major URL changes coming soon, as this site expands its total page numbers.

• Page Fixes

• Other Minor Changes