Oh, and Hashnode’s existing publishing features remain free — so you can continue to publish all the tech blogs and newsletters you want at no charge.

Keep reading to discover all the Pro features, AI improvements, and bug fixes we shipped this month.

The launch of Hashnode Pro 🚀

Hashnode Pro is our new premium tier, with a range of features designed to help improve your writing, as well as enhance your experience engaging with our community of millions of people in tech.

For starters, we’ve developed a suite of versatile AI-powered features to help authors tap into their creativity, and improve their publishing workflow.

Here are all the AI-powered features you can take advantage of right away:

✓ Write faster with the slash key. Summon our AI with a keyboard shortcut to quickly generate an outline, a code block, or a summary of your writing.

✓ Polish sentences and paragraphs easily. Turn a paragraph into a single sentence or bullet points, adjust the tone of voice, expand or summarize your text, or rephrase it for clarity.

✓ Auto-optimize your titles for SEO. Automatically generate an SEO-optimized title for your post, and choose from a range of options to complement your writing.

✓ Craft posts easily with our AI chatbot. Converse with our contextually aware chatbot to sharpen your opening paragraph, pick a more descriptive adjective, or write a strong conclusion.

✓ Boost your SEO with auto-filled tags. Boost your posts’ visibility in search results with relevant meta titles and meta descriptions, generated instantly.

✓ Add alt text to images without typing. Add alt text to images in your post with a single click; this improves accessibility for readers with vision impairments, and helps boost SEO too.

Write like a pro with our AI chatbot: 🤖

✓ Contextually aware: get follow-up questions to perfect your post

✓ Limitless capabilities: sharpen your writing, research, and craft tweet threads with ease

✓ Unlimited AI responses

✓ Tailored for non-native English writers

Our AI features are available with Hashnode Pro subscriptions. You can try Hashnode AI features for free for three days here.

As a Pro Hashnode user, you can also: 💁‍♀️

• Write without distractions using the new Focus Mode in the editor

• Remove Hashnode branding from your blog and add your publication logo

• Get a Pro badge on your Hashnode profile

• Chat with fellow Pro users (and us) in an exclusive Discord channel

• Get priority support (and talk with real people)

More features, like access to beta features, publishing from GitHub and backing up your drafts to GitHub, are coming soon!

Read more about Hashnode Pro here.

Hashnode Pro costs just $7/month or $70/year.

Hashnode remains free

The existing Hashnode features remain free. We want to assure you that none of the existing Hashnode features have been converted into premium features, with the exception of ‘Source from GitHub,’ which was predominantly used by teams and companies. However, all existing users of the ‘Source from GitHub’ feature will continue to enjoy free access to it forever.

AI improvements

After launching all these AI and Pro features earlier this month, our team continued polishing them after release. Here are all the latest updates:

• "Ask AI" is now the first button in the inline text toolbar that pops up when you select text.

• You can now preview, regenerate, and accept AI generations when paraphrasing.

• We now have "Improve writing" and "Fix grammar and spelling" as the top two items in the list of paraphrasing options.

• We removed "Optimize for SEO" as it was producing the same results as normal rewriting, and didn’t serve our authors well.

• We optimized the prompts to produce even better results for the selected text.

Toggling focus mode improvements

As you’re crafting your draft you may or may not want your sidebar open, and you may or may not use Focus mode. We’ve now improved the functionality of toggling Focus mode in relation to the sidebar.

Removing hashtags from Twitter share content

Did you notice that when you share directly from Hashnode your articles to Twitter, you no longer have the tags included in the auto-generated text for your tweet?

We used to automatically include category tags as hashtags in the tweet text. However, having multiple hashtags in the same tweet can cause Twitter’s algorithm to penalize your tweet, lower your reach, and make the tweet appear spammy. So we removed them and improved the UX.

Bug fixes and improvements 🐛

• In the editor, there is now syntax highlighting for Nix and Julia languages, as well as for Ruby languages (ERB and Haml).

• In some cases, the notification page was crashing. This is now fixed.

• Safari only: Inline LaTeX blocks weren’t working when you’d click on them (they’d only work when pressing ‘enter’). This is now fixed.

We strive to provide the best possible experience for our users, and your feedback is essential in helping us achieve that goal.

Share your thoughts with us through our Feature Requests page. Whether you have any suggestions for improving the platform or specific requests for your workflow, we are eager to hear from you and take your input into consideration.

Thank you for being a part of our community and for helping us make Hashnode better! See you in the next update.

We have a short, but important changelog to share with you! Check out our features for Hashnode's new AI-powered chatbot, updates to the editor, bug fixes related to LaTeX rendering, and improved publishing on team blogs!

Rix, the AI-powered chatbot

If you need to research a tech topic before you write on Hashnode, Rix has your back. Our AI-powered chatbot is trained on documentation for several popular open source libraries and frameworks, including Next.js, Tailwind CSS, React Native, and many more.

Ask Rix anything to instantly discover valuable insights, and enhance your writing.

Read the full article by Hashnode's co-founder, Sandeep Panda, here: Rix, the AI chatbot for developers.

Details summary block

You can now add a details block to your article via our editor. It’s also known elsewhere as a toggle block, and it basically lets you add content into a collapsible section — great for keeping your posts neat and tidy.

Your section can have a short bit of text summarizing what the content is about. Clicking or tapping the arrow alongside it will reveal the content within this section; clicking it again will hide the content.

To add a details block, simply hit /d as the panel opens, and choose Details.

Bug fixes 🐛

• LaTeX issue with misunderstanding bold/em syntaxes: The __ (double underscore) was being converted into <em> tags while rendering blog posts, breaking the rendering of LaTeX equations. This has now been fixed, so now equations like w=w-\\alpha{(\\sum_{i=1}^m(f_{w,b}(x^{(i)})-{y}^{(i)})x^{(i)}}/m will be rendered properly.

• Draft stuck at "publishing" when the author is changed on the team blog: When the author of a draft is changed to another member of the team, the draft used to be stuck at the "Publishing" stage. This has now been fixed.

We want to make sure that we continue to provide you with the best possible experience, and your feedback is essential in helping us achieve that goal.

We invite you to share your thoughts with us through our Feature Requests page. Whether you have any suggestions or specific requests, we are eager to hear from you and take your input into consideration as we work to enhance our platform. Thank you for being a part of our community and for helping us make Hashnode better!

Keep reading to discover more!

Launch your tech newsletter in a flash 📨

You can now deliver your articles in their entirety as email newsletters automatically!

You don't need to touch a single line of code — unless that's your thing — to style your newsletters. Use our powerful Neptune editor to compose them, and they'll render beautifully.

That makes it easy to quickly go from an idea to hitting 'Publish,' without having to spend a lot of time formatting your content.

See how your posts and newsletters look on the web and in email clients on desktop and mobile devices before you publish.

And there’s more:

• Your posts are automatically added to the Hashnode feed to reach our diverse community of 2M+ people in tech.

• We also add a newsletter sign-up form to every post, as well as a dedicated landing page for your newsletter on your blog.

• Your newsletters come with simple analytics baked in, including subscriber count, open rate, and clickthrough rate.

If you're writing about your experiments with software development, insights into product management, lessons from the trenches in UI/UX, or anything in between, Hashnode is a great place to turn it into a newsletter and grow your audience. 🙌

Interested in learning even more? Check out the full article here.

Preview your article 💻

Although there was a preview functionality, and you could review the article in a different tab now we have upgraded this experience by introducing the preview on:

• web desktop

• web mobile

• email desktop

• email mobile

AI Features for writers 🤖

We recently launched a set of AI features to make your writing experience better, faster and hassle-free!

Note: These AI features are currently in limited preview and invite-only, meaning there is a chance you won’t yet have this functionality on your blog. Stay tuned for updates on this soon.

Start writing a new article or go back to a draft, and you’ll notice an AI assistance bot in the bottom right corner.

Use it to:

• Rewrite your opening paragraph and make it SEO-friendly

• Generate a code block to add to your article

• Suggest compelling or SEO-friendly titles

• Come up with a conclusion for your post

• Summarize your article

• And much more!

Improvements 💫

• Do you like adding GIFs to your articles? We certainly do! Use Neptune (our editor), start typing /em , and the panel for embeds will pop-up —> pick a Tenor-powered GIF and you’re ready to go! For those of you keeping score: yes, this functionality used to exist, but now we have updated it specifically for Tenor.

• Are you curious to find out how many likes your Hashnode article received from a particular reader? We’ve got you covered! Just click on the number of likes next to the ❤️ icon in the floating bar on your article. Now, you can see:

  • The total number of likes

  • The people who liked your article

  • The likes each person gave you

  

• After getting some UI/UX feedback from our writers, we improved the RSS importer for users who have opted for an automatic importer.

• Did you know you can create and manage custom redirection rules for your blog? Use page rules to define handy URLs to external websites.
  
  For example: you can use myblog.dev/portfolio which redirects to your LinkedIn/Dribbble profile. To start using it, navigate to your Dashboard and from the right-side menu select Advanced , click on Manage page rules and create your rules!

  Although this functionality was already available, we’ve now turned the titles inside the page “Manage custom page rules” into hyperlinks, so it’s easier to test and share your custom pages!

• Have you ever had trouble uploading a heavy cover image file for an article? The limit is 5MB; you’ll now see a message when your file is too big, and the image is not uploaded.

• If you use SVG files in your articles, you’ll be happy to know that, in addition to dragging and dropping them into the editor, you can now select SVG files to upload from your computer by clicking on the image upload icon.

Bug fixes 🐛

• Indented codeblocks Markdown: indented codeblocks which are triggered not via backticks but via 4 spaces before a word used to cause an issue in what the user writes in Neptune vs. the published article/draft preview. This has now been fixed.

• Duplicate comment: There was an issue when posting/updating a comment in an article that in some cases it was resulting in a duplicated comment. This behavior is now fixed.

• The extra image margin in the Neptune editor has now been fixed.

• In some cases, the Hashnode user would encounter a “comment not found” prompt, we have now fixed this behavior.

• Our users informed us that the Pageview widget was shrinking on mouse hover. This has now been fixed.

• We’ve now fixed the Mathjax notation that wasn’t working properly.

• In some cases, bullet lists were rendered incorrectly. That’s sorted now.

• Previously, you could change team publication roles even if you were a user with no authorization to do so. This has now been fixed.

• When adding tags in the Publish sidebar using the keyboard, hitting the Enter key would cause the article to be published immediately. This behavior is now fixed, so you won’t end up accidentally publishing your article while adding tags.

We hope you're enjoying these updates as much as we are! If you have any feedback or feature requests, we would love to hear more about them. Visit the Feature Requests page to share your thoughts.

We have some exciting updates to both the website and the mobile apps. This time, on the website, we focused on redesigning the article page, and supercharging the editor for a refined workflow whereas, on the mobile apps, we focused on the profile screen, the ability to have audio blogs, zoom on images, added more feed filters (similar to the web), and a lot more improvements, the addition of new features, removal of old ones, and bug fixes!

Keep reading to discover more!

Blog header redesign

The new blog header now looks like this:

As you’ll notice, there are some small yet powerful changes in the blog header!

If you have more than 10 tabs in the navbar, the design of your blog header will look something like this:

These changes apply to personal and team blogs.

Subscribe to the newsletter from the blog header

Your readers can now subscribe to your newsletter via the subscribe button, located in the right corner of the blog header. Note, the readers cannot unsubscribe from the blog header.

Search bar in the blog header

Try the new search bar from the blog header! While you’re typing, the search results appear under the search bar. When you click on an article it loads on the same tab.

Article page redesign

You will notice a new design:

• On the article page header design with reduced clutter and increased focus on content.

• In reactions to articles.

• In comments for articles.

Floating bottom bar

The floating bottom bar includes likes, comments, actions to bookmark, share, and more options.

Reactions:

Common feedback that our team was receiving was that the articles had too many reaction buttons which added cognitive load and the UI didn’t look as clean as we’d liked.

We decided to simplify the process, and you now have only 1 reaction button, which is a heart 💟; every reader can react up to 10 times per article and per comment. The reactions in old articles are migrated to the new reactions system.

Comments:

The biggest change is the one with the comments! When you click on the comments icon a sidebar will open showing you all the comments.

All the functionality is the same, all the elements are still there, but they are now presented in a more clean, modern way!

Drafts in your sidebar

After the launch of our Markdown-based WYSIWYG blog editor, we’re excited to bring you another upgrade to your writing experience at Hashnode: drafts in your sidebar.

While it might sound like a tiny quality-of-life improvement, it’s a lot more. You can now access all your drafts right from the blog editor, without leaving your workspace and disrupting your flow. That means fewer clicks to get from one post to another, easier access to your ideas, and quicker publishing.

To check the full capabilities of this feature, check out this town hall article - by Hashnode’s co-founder Sandeep Panda.

Mobile app 📱

Let’s move on to the mobile updates.

Haven’t downloaded the app so far?! Do it now!

Profile screen

In the profile screen, you will notice that all the information is available (the same as on the website). We additionally list recent activities on Hashnode and the blogs a user has written for.

Audio Blogs

We’re glad to introduce the ability to listen to articles from the Hashnode mobile app. Before, you were able to do this only through the website.

Control center

Through the Control center, which replaces the Drawer, you’ll be able to easily access settings and other parts of our App.

Ability to zoom images

A much-requested feature was the ability to zoom on images, and we get it; sometimes you just want more clarity (and a native experience!). On the latest version, you’ll discover the zoom capabilities.

Feed filters

We’re always striving to make things easier for our readers and we want to help them get the most out of our platform. To achieve these goals, we’ve decided to add 2 new filters (also recently introduced in Hashnode’s web feed)!

Say hello to “read time” and “tags”! 🙋‍♀️

Do you have just 5’ between meetings and want to refresh your memory? Or do you have a free Sunday morning and want to read an in-depth guide about your favorite open-source library? We got you covered! Discover articles based on your needs.

The new filter functionality is available on my Feed page. There you’ll notice the:

• Read time (you can select only one):

  • <5mins

  • 5-10mins

  • 10-20mins

  • 20mins

  Tag selector (you can select multiple):

  • Select up to 3 tags simultaneously from the list of tags.

  The 2 filters can be utilized together or separately!

Reactions changed to hearts

We’re now introducing “hearts” 💟, this is the new reaction system (same as the web, and described above)! You can “heart” an article up to 10 times. We have removed all the other reactions.

Remove the Trending tags widget

We decided to remove the Trending tags widget and keep a clean UI.

Web: minor improvements

Among other things the most noticeable changes are:

• On the Dashboard → Analytics → Advanced Analytics (Beta):

  • We added the blog’s logo (or blog name if one hasn't been uploaded), making it easier to identify which blog’s analytics is being viewed.

• On the Dashboard → Advanced → Custom Page Rules (Manage page rules):

  • The title is now a hyperlink meaning you can test the redirection immediately without having to copy-paste the URL.

• RSS importer upgrades:

  • We have made it easier to import, and manage RSS feeds, along with clearer options to import automatically, import as drafts, or scrape posts.

Web & Mobile: bug fixes

We’re happy to report that most of the known bugs are now resolved.

One of the most crucial bug fixes was:

• Page speed is back to normal (some blogs were affected and experiencing low speed when viewing the blog or article pages on mobile web).

We hope you’re enjoying these updates as much as we do! If there are any feedback or feature requests, we’d love to learn more about them.

Liked this update?

If you liked this update please consider liking the following tweet, and following us on Twitter to day up-to-date on all things Hashnode! 🚀

Discover more articles with 2 new filters: Read time and tags 🔎

We’re always striving to make things easier for our readers, and we want to help them get the most out of our platform. To achieve these goals, we’ve decided to add 2 new filters! Say hello to “read time” and “tags”! 🙋‍♀️

Do you have just 5’ between meetings and want to refresh your memory about “Test Driven Development”? Or do you have a free Sunday morning and want to read an in-depth guide about “Building An HTML Canvas NFT using Bundlr”? We got you covered!

Discover articles based on your needs! The new filter functionality is available on My Feed page.

Home

Read time (you can select only one):

• <5mins

• 5-10mins

• 10-20mins

• 20mins

Tag selector (you can select multiple):

• Select up to 3 tags simultaneously from the list of tags

The 2 filters can be utilized together or separately!

Support for custom widgets on draft previews

In the draft previews (which we recently improved), you can now display any custom widgets that you have added to your blog dashboard. It appears in the same way as in published posts.

Newsletter enabled for all new blogs

The newsletter functionality has now been enabled for all new blogs that are created. Newsletter settings are still controllable from your blog dashboard.

Support for GA-4

Hashnode supports GA-4 for Google Analytics (previously UA).

Bug fixes 🐛

• Remove comment replies of suspended accounts

  If an account is suspended, we now remove its comments. Previously, even if the account was suspended, its comments were visible.

• Table of contents heading duplication bug
  Previously if an article had two headers with the same text, it would cause the table of contents to jump to the first instance of the header regardless of which was clicked, this is now resolved for all new articles.
  To resolve this issue in existing articles, go to the article and click Edit; then Update.
  No changes are needed to the article content.

• Newsletter form inside the articles The newsletter form inside the articles was not completely responsive, especially for smaller screen sizes. This has now been fixed.

• Update button in team blog articles
  Team blog contributors can now update an already published article.

• Correct link for “Write New Article” in an empty blog Empty, new blogs used to have a wrong link for writing an article. This has now been fixed.

• And, various other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Start exploring the new features with your team!

Team Blogs: Owners and editors can publish on behalf of the author or change authors

As requested by the community, in team blogs you can now publish on behalf of an author or change the authors of an article. Previously, owners and editors didn’t have this option, as a result, some authors were posting under other authors’ names.

Here is how you can use this feature on team blogs:

1. Click the Publish button, the side panel will open

   

2. From the Author section, click on Edit Author

   

3. Select, or search for, the person who you wish to appear as the author of the article

   

Yes! You’re now ready to publish with your selected author!

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Uppercase in blog titles:

  Previously there were some limitations on using uppercase in blog titles. That was done to prevent spammy content (you could still use capitals for words like CSS, IPFS, etc) but now we have re-evaluated our system so you can easily use uppercase!

• A new payment was not showing under Sponsors recent payments, this has now been fixed.

• Non Latin characters were not supported in domain names. We are now rendering the decoded domain names instead of encoded domain names; which means all characters can be rendered. ex: xn--l2bar.xn--h2brj9c → नमन.भारत

• And, various other bug fixes and performance improvements.

Coming Up 🚀

Although this changelog was small, trust us, the next one is going to LEGEN…wait for it…DARY.

Among new features and improvements, we are preparing some really exciting stuff for the community.

Ready to explore what’s new?! 🔥

Fresh design

We have made the UI much more clean and consistent. You're going to love the new experience.

Dark mode

Dark Mode has been the most requested feature by the Hashnode Community, and it's finally here! 🌓

You can enable it on the sidebar, or you can go to Settings-> Appearance.

New sidebar

We updated the sidebar design to provide a better experience, especially with the addition of the dark mode.

New blogs home screen

We are shipping some slick animations to the blog screen. 😎

The blog header will smoothly scroll out to give you more space to explore the article.

Here's how it used to look:

And here it’s after scrolling:

Faster article screen

Looks and feel are not the only things that have changed. We rebuilt the whole article page from the ground up to deliver a native experience.

Particularly:

• We have replaced WebViews with the native components. This helps us in delivering a much faster and decluttered experience.

• Now you can read your favorite articles, distraction-free, with a native feel on both iOS and Android.

• The articles are now cached, meaning they will open immediately if you visit them again.

• The article screen respects your theme preference set on the app (or your phone) and renders the screen in light or dark mode. It's consistent with the overall experience of the app.

Table of Contents

We also added the Table of Contents. It’s visible at the top of the article, and you can access it with just one click.

You can now navigate to any part of the article via the Table of Contents.

Reaction bottom sheet

When we talk about delivering native experience, we mean it!

We are excited to introduce the reaction bottom sheet for adding reactions. It's just a click away, so feel free to shower love on your fellow bloggers without hassle. 👍🏆🦄👏❤

Who reacted to my article?

Aren’t you curious to know who is supporting your blogs by adding reactions?!

Well, you don't have to be anymore! Simply long press on the reaction icon and it will open the "Reactions" bottom bar listing all the reactions.

This feature is available for articles, comments, and replies as well.

Comment screen

We wanted to offer you a clean and distracting-free environment, to achieve that we removed the comments and transferred them to a new, dedicated screen!

Simply press on the comment icon to load all the comments and replies to the article.

Adding comments is much easier now. We are adding a full-screen editor just for adding comments. This will give you enough space to write your feedback in detail. You can also mention users to notify them.

Blog search

The search bar now supports searching for blogs too! 🔍

You can search for your favorite ones instantly.

Overall, we have improved the internals of the app, and it's much faster now. We have also added subtle animations to enhance the user experience! We hope you’re enjoying it as much as we do.

The app has undergone the biggest update yet! We would love to hear your feedback. 💙

Liking this update? Do rate us on App Store and Play Store.

Bug Fixes ~ Website 🐛

• When a user deletes a publication, the drafts are now moved to the user’s personal blog.

• An error modal used to appear in “Schedule your article”, now this has been fixed. The default schedule date is applied properly on the initial “Select a Date” click. If the author wants to schedule for the default date, it doesn't require a manual date selection.

Introducing Heading Links inside Hashnode articles

We now allow you to copy the permalink of any heading within any Hashnode article. This allows you to direct readers to a specific section of an article.

Here is how it works:

1. Hover over any heading to see the link icon 🔗

2. Click on the link icon to copy the URL of that section

Redesigned 404 and 500 pages for Hashnode Blogs

We redesigned and rebuilt Hashnode blogs' error pages. They are now more contextual and better reflect the personality of your blog than before.

Here’s a demo: web3.hashnode.com/something-that-doesn’t-exist

Before:

After:

Doesn’t it look better?!

Preview article draft directly on your Hashnode Blog!

Draft previews are a key feature of Hashnode. It has been supported from the start. We've improved it by allowing you to preview article drafts directly on your blog. This will aid in visualising how the article will appear after it’s published. 💃

When the reviewer clicks the link https://hashnode.com/preview/draftId, they are directed to https://someblog.dev/preview/draftId, where they can preview the draft.

Introducing Revision History!

You can view the revision history to see what was changed, when the last revision was made, compare two revisions, and revert to a previous revision if necessary. It was one of the most frequently requested features among Hashnode writers. We're pleased to announce that the Revision history feature is now available to all users. Yay! 💃

The following is how Revision History works:

1. Start a new draft or return to an existing draft.

2. Type a few sentences and let the editor save the changes for you.

3. In the top bar, click the "Revision history" icon.

4. Go through the revisions and choose the one you want to go back to.

   

5. Select "Restore Version." Your draft will be restored to its previous state.

Isn't it helpful? There will be no more data loss when switching from one device to another. Hurray!

Dedicated /newsletter page for all the blogs

If you enabled the Hashnode newsletter feature, you now have a dedicated newsletter page for your subscribers. Historically, newsletter widgets appeared at the top and bottom of the article page. You now have a page dedicated to your subscribers.

This feature is useful when you want to engage with your audience but don't have written content. You can, for example, link to the newsletter page from a YouTube video, Twitter Space, Tweets, and so on.

This page is automatically generated for all blogs. Here's how to toggle this page's visibility in the Blog's navbar.

1. Navigate to "Pages" in your blog's dashboard.

2. Click the "Visible" button.

Go to yourblog-url/newsletter to see how your page looks. This is how the Hashnode Townhall newsletter page looks: http://townhall.hashnode.com/newsletter

Introducing the brand-new Hashnode Weekly

We reintroduced the Hashnode Weekly newsletter a few weeks ago. This newsletter is personalised and contains relevant articles and updates from Hashnode blogs and topics that you follow. We've had a lot of success with this newsletter, and we're doing our best to make it relevant for everyone in our community. Here's how it appears:

Every week, we highlight top community members and great writers on the platform to help them stay motivated. Keep an eye out because you could be next. If you haven't already, subscribe to Hashnode Weekly from your settings.

Additional updates

1. A new section for the tags you follow — personalise your feed by removing tags you aren't interested in.

2. New email alert for blog administrators whenever one of their team members submits a new draft. To manage these alerts, navigate to the "Alerts" section of the Blog dashboard.

Import devto posts as drafts

Earlier we only had the capability to import a single post (via post url) or import all posts (via username) from devto and publish them straightaway. Now you have the ability to import either a single post or multiple posts as drafts.

• Import a single post (via post url) - Either publish it or import it as draft.
  

  Enter post url in field below Import single post label and click on Import.
  

  

  Click on Import as Draft.
  

  

  Wait while the draft is being created.

  

  On successful draft creation, you will see the post title highlighted and you can visit it now.
  

  

Import multiple posts (via username) - A user can select all or only the post they want to publish directly or import as drafts.

Enter your devto username in the field below Import multiple posts label and click on Import.

By default, all the posts are selected.

Select those which you wish to import.

Click on Import as Drafts which will start the process of importing selected posts as drafts.

Your imported drafts will start listing as shown and you can click the post title to visit the draft.

Post creation page improvements

• Performance improvements on the post creation page with faster load times.

• Improved draft saving experience with saving the drafts when only the content is changed.

• Updated header styling.

• Updated Toolbar styling.
  

  

• Updated loading experience

  Loading skeletons appear as soon as the page loads to let the user know that the article is loading.
  

Bug Fixes

• Earlier if a user pasted a bare link in the comments on a blog post, it was not reflected once that comment got posted. We fixed this issue in our latest release.

• The static pages on a blog didn’t respect the dark theme even when the rest of the blog had the same applied. Now we have fixed this issue.
  

Twitter connect feature with the new followers email

• Now you can connect your Twitter with Hashnode and see a list of your Twitter friends publishing on Hashnode.
  

  
  

  
  

• Once you connect with Twitter, you should be able to see the Authors who are on Hashnode. You can choose to follow users one by one or all at once.
  

  

  
  

• Authors will receive an email every week listing new followers.
  

  

New Deleted tab with the ability to restore deleted articles

• We have introduced a new sub-tab called Deleted to the blog dashboard /dashboard/posts page, where you can find the articles you deleted after publishing.
  

  

  
  

• Now you have the ability to restore the deleted article to your blog.
  

  

Blog tab on the search page

Now you can search blogs by the title, and relevant blogs will appear on the blog tab.

New sections on the user's Hashnode profile

We have revamped your Hashnode profile and added new sections.

• "Writes at" widget displays the author's blog and the team blogs.

• The share button allows you to share the author's profile on Twitter and LinkedIn.

• "Follows you" will be displayed next to the followers/following count when the author is following you on Hashnode.

  

Support tab in the editor

When you press the tab, it automatically append two spaces. If you press the tab twice, it creates a code block. You can also select a block of text and move them around (tab moves to the right, shift + tab moves to the left).

Newsletter widget

Now you can find the newsletter widget at the bottom of each article.

Users can subscribe to the author's newsletter after reading the article with one click since the newsletter widget pre-fills the viewer's email if they are logged in.

Improvements and Fixes

• Enhanced blog search to search article content.

  Before, a user could only see articles in blog search where the keywords occurred in the article’s title. Now we support listing those articles in the blog search where the search keyword matches the article’s content.

• We fixed the issue of deleted user accounts showing up in the Hashnode community search.

• Earlier, even if a team blog admin made their team blog page private, their /members page was inconsistently visible on their blog. We have fixed this issue, and now if the team blog is private, the /members page will not be accessible.

• We have fixed the issue of scheduled articles stuck in the scheduled list without actually being scheduled anymore.

• Having a publication pinned post was causing the ‘published’ section in /dashboard/posts to break and only show the first five posts. Now we have fixed this issue by putting the pinned post on top of the list and using pagination correctly.

• We now show a warning if you are editing a post and try to navigate without saving. This is done to prevent data loss.

• Page creation on the blog dashboard now has the same editor that is used to write articles and comments.

• Now we support the <aside> tag in our editor.

• Create Any Hashtags on the Fly!
  Now you can create new tags on Hashnode on the fly. Check more details here.

• Schedule Articles

  Now you won’t have to be active at the time to publish your articles. You can pick a future date (up to 6 months) and set the scheduled date. If you decide that you want to remove the scheduling, you can do so and then decide to edit the draft further or set a different scheduling date.

  
  All of the articles (published and scheduled) can be seen on the dashboard posts page for their posts. This is where you can cancel the scheduling. For now, while an article is scheduled it will be removed from drafts and will not be accessible for editing until published or scheduling is cancelled. You can still visit the preview of the draft while it is scheduled.

  

• Post Scheduling Notifications

  We already have a notification on a scheduled article being published to the author.

  New notifications are:

  • Notification to the author for successful scheduling.

  • Successful scheduling notification to other publication admins if it's a team publication.

  • Scheduled article published notification to publication admins if it’s a team publication.

  

  
  

• Support for www Subdomain Redirection to Apex Domain

  Now you have the option to map and redirect the www subdomain to your primary apex custom domain.

  This works only for apex domains (ex: hashnode.xyz) and not for subdomains (ex: blog.hashnode.xyz).

  When you add a custom domain from Blog Dashboard > Domains page, a prompt will open up to get user’s preference (Note: the prompt will only show up for apex domains as mentioned earlier). User can choose to map the www subdomain as well or only map the primary apex domain.

  

  If you select the option to also map www subdomain, we will automatically assign an SSL certificate and redirect the www subdomain to primary domain (ex: the above screenshot maps www.hashnode.xyz and redirects to hashnode.xyz). If you select, only map apex domain, then the flow is normal as before.

  
  You will always have the option to map www subdomain anytime from the Blog Dashboard > Domain page. (P.S. Primarily for existing custom domains as this wasn’t available).

  

  Click Map and Redirect to map the www subdomain and redirect to primary apex domain.

  

  Once the www subdomain has SSL Cert issued and is ready, the redirect will be effective.

  Users will also need to add the CNAME record with Host as www and value hashnode.network for the www domain to their DNS providers. Instructions are updated to reflect same in the Blog Dashboard > Domain page.
  

  

• At the moment, the www subdomain can only be mapped form Blog Dashboard > Domain. It is not possible to map while adding a custom domain during the onboarding flow (unlock blog) / create team flow. We will add it very soon.

Improvements and Fixes

• If a navbar item is added as an external link, it gets highlighted correctly if the link matches the URL of an existing page or series.

• When a deleted comment notification is opened, the page displays an error message now.

  

• We also added Scala support for code highlighting.

This is a huge update for the Hashnode App. The app just got a redesign with the latest changes from the website. It’s easier and more user-friendly than ever. Some of the changes this release brings are:

Fresh Redesign

• All the feeds are redesigned to reflect the changes on the web. We have also updated all the icons and fonts for better user accessibility.

• We have also added Article Circles on the My Feed screen. You can stay updated about the latest content from people you follow.

• The “Recommended Blogs to Follow” section shows you the top blogs that you follow based on your interest.

• The “Trending Tags to Follow” section shows you tags getting maximum articles every week. Discover new tags and grow your knowledge.

Settings

• We have added a settings menu to the app. You can now update your profile settings, developer settings, email, and push notification preference right from the app.

• We have also added account settings to delete your account from the app.

User Rating

• We have made it easier to rate the app. You can choose to rate from within the app itself.

Other bug fixes and improvements

• Bug fixes on Search Screen, logout, notifications, bookmark screen, and blog navbar.

• A better experience with the enhanced and faster loading time of the blog.

• Now the images are loading faster and better than before.

• Updated sharing of articles.

• Fixed UI inconsistencies on iPad.

As always, we would love to get your feedback. Let us know your experience on the new mobile UI and feature enhancements. 

• Access your blog settings from the profile drop-down

  Now you can directly access your blog settings from the profile dropdown. It redirects to the manage blogs page, where you can access all your personal and team blogs.

  

Improvements and Fixes

• We now send a confirmation email when the user updates their email via settings. Until the user confirms the new email, the existing email will be used as usual for all purposes.

• Fixed bugs that occurred due to slow network and unsupported code in older browsers.

• Prevented preview tab from crashing in some cases on certain versions of Safari.

• Ability to align images
  Users can now align images in their posts.

  This can be done by adding align="left", align="center" or align="right" to the image.

  ### left aligned
  ![Screen Shot 2022-05-04 at 11.58.01 AM.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1651645684207/YtYcZdAaD.png align="left")
  
  ### center aligned
  ![Screen Shot 2022-05-04 at 11.58.01 AM.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1651645684207/YtYcZdAaD.png align="center")
  
  ### right aligned
  ![Screen Shot 2022-05-04 at 11.58.01 AM.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1651645684207/YtYcZdAaD.png align="right")

  

• Audio blog: Make voice choosable
  Users now have the ability to choose a female voice for their audio blogs.

  Users can choose this option on audio blog settings under the advanced setting.
  

  

• GitHub Backup for Team Blogs
  We have activated the GitHub backup for team blogs as well.
  
  - To activate Github, go to your team blog dashboard.

  Ex: <DOMAIN>/dashboard
  - Then click on 𝗛𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗔𝗽𝗽
  

  

  - You will be redirected to GitHub. Go ahead and select the repository you want to backup your posts to.
  Note: You can also select multiple repositories so that each blog can have its own backup repository.
  

  

  - You will now be redirected to hashnode. On this screen, you connect your repository to your blog. With that, you're able to backup each blog to different repositories.
  

  

  - Then you will be redirected to the backup tab and can start backing up your posts!

  

Improvements and Fixes

• Github as source revamped

  • Github as source feature is open to everybody now.

  • You can use same repository for multiple blogs.

  • Multiple new attributes supported in the front-matter of the markdown files.

  • Improved process of installing the app

  • We now support logs for Github as source, go to your blog dashboard’s Integration section, you should see a link to logs dashboard once you have the app installed.

  

  • Checkout our template repository: https://github.com/Hashnode/Hashnode-source-from-github-template or visit your publication dashboard’s Integration section to get started.

• We now support Google Analytics V4 tracking ID as an integration.

• Ability to hide members tab
  Admins have the ability to hide the autogenerated members page on team blogs.

  By default, the members will be visible, and the admin can hide members when needed.
  

  

• We now support snappify.io embeds hashnode & webembeds

  You can now embed snappify.io snaps in your blog posts.

  Try this example: %[https://snappify.io/view/bcc54061-6e8f-44c5-a4f4-1abcad520108] in your blog posts.
  

• Open Source Acknowledgements
  You can find the OSS acknowledgement page in the community section where we list all the open source libraries that we use.

  

  Fixes and Improvements

• Added uniform URLs for the explore section.

  /explore/blogs and /explore/tags used to have different URL patterns when you change the period.
  Now, these URLs follow the same pattern.
  Ex: /explore/tags?category=week and /explore/blogs?category=week

• Fixed the issue of Instagram ID not appearing on the sponsor page.

• Made sponsorship modal responsive on web and mobile view.

• Added Pagination to members tab in teams and limited the members to 10 per page.
  

• GitHub Backup - Backup All My Posts
  You are now able to backup all your posts by clicking on the button: Backup all Posts. All past posts will be synched to Github.

  

  
  

• Hashnode Context Menu to show Press kit and system status
  The header of our Community platform has the Hashnode logo. Right-clicking on the same should open up a menu that has links to our media page and status.hashnode.com.

  

Fixes and Improvements

• Now, we support syntax highlighting for Elm and Clojure.

• Interactive editor guide has been moved to the sidebar.

• In our Hashnode community search, adding or deleting spaces showed loading shimmers. We have fixed this.

• Fixed the editor cursor position changes that were happening when pressing enter.

• Issue with closing the more options dropdown in the editor header for mobile users has been fixed.

• Disables text editor when a user uploads an image to the post content.

• Fixed the cursor position that moved to the bottom of the post when/after an image was uploaded to the post content.
  

New Widgets

• About this tag widget
  This widget displays a brief description of the tag. These are added by the tag moderators and system admins.
  

  

• Top Contributors
  The popular tags on Hashnode have leaderboards enabled by default. They display the popular writers of the tag every week.
  

  

• Weekly and All-time popular tags

  These two widgets display other weekly/all-time trending tags from the community.
  

  

• Popular this week widget
  Every tag also has a popular article of the week widget pinned to the top.
  

  

See the changes live in these tags: #javascript and #ethereum

You can set up your sponsorship page through your blog dashboard.

Through Hashnode Sponsors, independent authors and team publications can now raise money directly from their fans! Hashnode takes 0% cut. The entire donation goes to the creators!

Note that all the blog posts are always free for everyone. But you can optionally sponsor the bloggers, and show your support!

• Localized tags on blogs

  This feature implemented a localized tags page for publications. Tags from articles will now link to a local tag page for each publication and can be further linked to the global Hashnode related tag page.
  

  

• hn.new/draft for continuing on the latest draft

  Now you can use hn.new/draft to open and continue work on your latest draft.
  

  

Fixes and Improvements

• We now automatically redirect your-handle.hashnode.dev to your custom domain.

• We moved our article circles architecture to AWS Lambda for better performance and reliability.

• Some of the custom CSS related classes were not present on magazine layout. We fixed it.

• Added YouTube link to account settings.

• Added Instagram link to the profile page.

Hashnode for Teams makes it possible to:

• Add unlimited staff members

• Write in markdown and easily collaborate with your team

• Create unlimited number of pages and blog posts

• Organise your content under series and tags

• Gain insight into your audience through powerful Analytics

• Map a custom domain for free and own your content

• Gain insight into your audience through powerful Analytics

Please refer to our latest article to learn more about the features and how you can start your team blog.

• Profile Hovercard

  When you hover over the image of the blogger profile, you will be able to view the profile hovercard with profile details, and you will be able to follow the blogger quickly through the profile sheet.
  

  

  
  

• Women Who Tech Badge
  Celebrating women and diversity shouldn't be done exclusively for International Women’s Day, so we are introducing the #WomenWhoTech badge. If you write an article about your experience in tech as a woman, non-binary folk, or ally using the #WomenWhoTech tag, you will earn the #WomenWhoTech badge.
  

  

• Embed OpenSea NFTs
  You are now able to embed your NFTs into your Hashnode blogposts.
  

  

• Instagram Link

  Now you can add your Instagram link to your social icons via blog dashboard.

  When you add the instagram link via blog dashboard, it will appear on your blog home page with other social icons.

  

  
  

Enhancements:

• We have now refactored the badge assignment to a complete serverless process to enable high-performance and can scale with you.

• Enhanced profile page speed.

• Enhanced blog widget API speed.

• Moved hashnode.com to Vercel 🚀

• Shipped a massive performance upgrade

• Strengthened our infrastructure by fixing some of the unscalable parts

• Redesigned the feed, upgraded the layout, and placed some of the most important widgets on the sidebar for better visibility

• Introduced “Article Circles“ so that you are always up-to-date with what your favourite authors are writing

• Redesigned our landing page

• Improved our onboarding experience

• Shipped many small enhancements, and bug fixes

• Launched https://feedback.hashnode.com to collect feedback properly, and prioritise features

As always, we would love to get your feedback. We regularly tweet platform updates on twitter. Please follow us to stay in the loop.