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A new feature arrived! It's at the bottom of this post.

With the Gallery template, you'll get a grid of photos at the bottom of your page or blog post. Just add as many image blocks as you like and it'll show them.

It's now possible to upload …

This is pretty huge. Webrings are the main way to find out about other sites on paperboat.website.

You can totally ignore this feature if you don't want to use it. If you do want to try it out, check out one of the webrings that I set up.

A webring is a collection of sites that you can visit. Start from the beginning or any other point and click your way through the ring from site to site.

If a site is in more than one webring, you can also hop onto another webring and continue your …

Hi!

Yesterday, I posted paperboat.website on Hacker News. I've been reading HN for years but never posted something. I got really nice feedback, good questions and some suggestions. It's really exciting that so many people decided to give paperboat.website a try. I'm always open for feature suggestions! I'm happy you're here.

One of them was the export feature I've been working on. The simpler part of it is now implemented and live. Go to a site's settings and you'll find the export button. It'll generate a zip file with all your pages, posts and files that belong …

I really enjoy building websites and I have multiple sites about my projects and other things I like. However, usually doesn't take long for me to abandon it. I think it's because the threshold of logging in and writing something becomes too big. Sometimes it's the theme that I don't like and other times images that I embed aren't formatted right.

If I just want to share a thought or upload an image, I don't want to dive into code just to fix the way a page looks. This is the reason I built the block editor the way …

Today it was time to clean up the navigation bar. paperboat.website is divided into panel view and site view. The panel is for logged in users. You can view your feed of blogs that you follow, edit your sites and your account. When I started building the project, each section had wildly different navigation bars.

The panel nav bar allowed you to access all site properties (settings, pages, posts and a button to view it in a new tab). This only showed up if you selected a page, though.

If you were on a site, you would get …

Today we reworked the navigation bar, added a page list to the panel overview and a dark mode toggle.

I kept inviting friends and received really valuable feedback. It's really fun and I can't wait for more people to join!

Today paperboat.website launched and URV created nice.paperboat.website.
We fixed a bug where follow and edit links did not work.