September 2024 Changelog
September finished the dark theme. Before this it covered maybe half the app, so a night session kept getting interrupted by a white login window or a table with black text on a black row. Every screen is now covered, including the ones you only open once, like the changelog and the webhook tester.
Alongside that, the white screen crashes in Article Creator and AI Writer got fixed, the post uploader stopped hitting 403 errors when checking for duplicate titles, and the spinner was rewritten so a large spintax file no longer runs the app out of memory.
Read this if you
- Work in dark theme.
- Hit a white screen in Article Creator or AI Writer.
- Upload posts to WordPress and got forbidden errors.
- Work with large spintax files.
- Add JSON-LD to your articles.
Dark theme covers the whole app
- The login window, app settings, all the modals, the template editor, the article preview, bulk import, the changelog and the webhook tester follow the theme now. No more one white window in the middle of a dark session.
- Table rows have enough contrast to read, and rows you cannot click stopped lighting up as if you could.
- Text you select in a box stays readable instead of vanishing into the highlight.
- Every box with syntax highlighting uses a monospace font, so patterns line up.
- The top navigation takes less width, and the AI chat button stopped sitting on top of the menu.
The white screens are gone
- Article Creator and AI Writer no longer go blank mid session.
- Fixed: the crash when opening the settings menu, the crash from a default proxy value, and a video scraper crash.
- Tasks stopped hanging partway through scraping content.
- Proxies load properly again.
- Crash reporting is on, so the crashes that are left get reported instead of just losing your session.
Post uploader stopped getting refused
- Checking whether a title already exists no longer asks WordPress for post status, which is what was returning forbidden errors on locked down sites.
- An article with a relative image tag uploads instead of crashing the uploader.
- Tick a box to show only the posts with no title, so you can fix them in one pass.
- Selected blogs get a visible check mark, so you can see where a post is going.
- Long rows get a show more button rather than swallowing the table.
- Turn off XML-RPC posting per task, for sites that have it disabled.
Large spintax stopped running out of memory
- The spinner was rewritten and handles much larger spintax text without falling over.
- Previewing an article with several spin operations keeps the interface clickable.
- Links are inserted after spins are resolved, so a big url or keyword list stops mangling the result.
- Writing files without spintax stopped stripping slashes out of your content.
- The write spintax setting is now called keep spintax, which is what it does.
JSON-LD stays out of your post excerpt
- Schema goes at the end of the article, so it stops appearing in the WordPress post summary.
- The JSON-LD editors load, and stopped inserting blank blocks.
Small things
- The user macro list has a new editor. Deleting a macro no longer leaves a hole in the box, and the list scrolls without hiding the add button.
- The RSS scraper is now the XML scraper, because it reads sitemap.xml as well as feeds.
- Google Maps retries a place name error up to your proxy retry limit, and logs the Google url it choked on.
- Two new API calls: list your AI services, and list your prompt templates.
- AI Writer has progress bars, and inserting a section makes its heading an h2.
- Quora returns results again.
- Groq stopped waiting a long time after a short retry request.
- Duplicating a task keeps your table sort.
- Opening a file that is not there gives you a readable message.
Related SCM guides and product history
Full developer changelog
The summary above is written for users. The original 86-item developer changelog is preserved below for exact release detail.
October 1, 2024
- fix: user ai list visual glitch, deleting macro would cause gap in text area to appear
- style: AI user macro list, allow it to scroll without hiding add macro button
September 28, 2024
- feat: New article creator user macro UI
- fix: Duplicate task correctly applies table sort
- other: tooltip for insert html
- style: darkly table rebalanced row colors for more contrast
September 27, 2024
- style: removed rollover color highlight on darkly table rows that are not selectable
- style: textarea border color update
- fix: Post uploader crash trying to upload relative image tags
September 25, 2024
- other: Added placeholders for webhooks and help link to tutorial
- style: insert qna textarea width fix
- style: fix width of textareas
September 24, 2024
- fix: darkly dynamic scraper preview text wrong text color
September 23, 2024
- fix: Write files no spintax removing slashes
September 21, 2024
- style: Monospace font used in all textareas with syntax highlighting
- feat: Improved content filter window for article creator
- style: default table select and hover colors added
September 20, 2024
- other: RSS scraper renamed to XML scraper as it supports rss/sitemaps
- fix: nicer error messages if trying to open non existing files
- style: post uploader, show more button if row content is bigger than 3 rows
September 19, 2024
- feat: Google maps, 'place name error' allow retries up to max set in proxes retry settings
- style: darkly update, codebox, article preview, json ld contrast fix
- fix: article creator, longform custom user macro incorrect new line in macro
- fix: new spinner rewrite algo, can handle larger spintax texts without memory errors
- style: darkly better contrast textarea selection
September 17, 2024
- fix: Article creator, resolve spins before inserting links with large url/keyword lists.
- fix: Post uploader, json poster can check for titles without getting 403 errors
- style: Post uploader, show a visible check mark next to selected blogs
September 15, 2024
- fix: darkly table highlights
- fix: tasks stuck and not progressing when trying to scrape content
September 14, 2024
- fix: Proxies not loading properly
- fix: Crash isArray when clicking settings menu
- feat: Post uploader, checkbox to show only posts with no title
- style: fix darkly tables with black text
- style: ai writer, new progress bars
September 13, 2024
- feat: rss tool now supports sitemap.xml
- other: write spintax label, renamed to keep spintax for clarity
- feat: RSS scraper can read sitemap xmls
- fix: default app settings, proxy default value causing istringempty crash
September 12, 2024
- fix: ai writer, allow keyword import box to close even if empty
- style: ai writer preview box menu new darkly
- fix: Preview article multiple spin operations making ui un clickable
- style: article preview, 2nd menu updated style
- fix: article creator ai image generation error
- fix: article creator whoops err
- feat: Add 2 new api calls, 1. get list of ai services, 2. get list of ai prompt templates
September 11, 2024
- style: Input windows now correctly use dark theme, ie test webhooks
- style: api settings, default role is text area
September 10, 2024
- fix: template editor ui not reset on page change
- fix: White screen errors, article creator + ai writer. Video scraper crash.
- fix: article creator json ld inserts blank
- fix: article creator, insert json lds at end of page to avoid it showing up in wp post summary
- style: article preview menu have dark theme applied
- fix: post uploader wont check post status when trying to find if existing post title is unique or not. Solves problem with status forbidden errors.
- fix: ai writer, inserting section automatically makes header h2
- fix: flash not working
- style: article creator image insert, grouped settings more logically
- fix: quora scraper not returning results
September 9, 2024
- fix: remember position of new chat button on launch
September 7, 2024
- feat: Enable crashpad error reporting
- style: article creator, insert links dropdown darkly
September 6, 2024
- style: article creator, custom insert, dropdown uses darkly
- style: new update app button
- style: template editor uses darkly
- style: Allow darkly on login window
- style: article creator bulk import supports dark theme
September 5, 2024
- style: image scraper form align text box
- style: app modals use darker bg
- style: changelog supports darkly
- style: about me supports darkly
- style: Darkly applies correctly to app settings page
- fix: groqai long wait times on small ms retry request
- style: AI chat button won't get in way of menu
- style: Dark theme style fixes for ai writer
- style: Dark theme style fixes
- fix: Add new scm product ids to auto update list
- other: report google url when place name error happens
September 4, 2024
- style: dark theme fixes
- style: sidemenu less left padding
- style: tweaked breadcrumbs and side nav bar
- style: top nav restyled to take less horizontal space
- feat: Task settings, post uploader can disable xml rpc posting
- fix: post uploader, fix loading error if unable to load article body
- fix: article creator json ld editors not loading
September 3, 2024
- style: new API login settings page using bookmark anchor navigation
September 1, 2024
- style: Shorten some ui labels
See all monthly updates in the SCM changelog archive. New users can also try SCM from the trial signup page.