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Let's talk about subscriptions
Hey everyone, I hope all of you in the US had a lovely holiday, and those of you outside of the US had a wonderful weekend. Mochi and I were visiting family in the midwestern US, and I had the di...
Server maintenance
Hey everyone, Currently dealing with some emergency server issues, so the site will briefly be going down for a few minutes this evening at 5:30 PST Hoping this is a temporary thing. Wish me luc...
Who is Prosebox? Your survey results
Hey everyone, I wanted to share some of the results that came out of the survey I posted a few weeks ago. There were 512 responses, which is REALLY impressive!! Thanks so much to those of you tha...
A big welcome to the DE community
Hey everyone, As you may have noticed, we have several new people that have joined over the past day or so with “DE_” in their name. These are members of a seventeen year old (!) diary community ...
Spam attack!
Hey everyone, If you’ve been on the front page in the past hour, you’ve probably noticed the crazy number of Korean spam posts. I’ve cleaned them out for now, but I’m confident they’ll be back. ...
Entry search is live!
Hey everyone, I’m pleased to announce that entry search is now available to all PB users! You can find it waiting for you here and under the “My Prosebox” dropdown. You’ll notice that there are t...
Autosave, Ads, Alliteration
Hey everyone, How is it March already? Where did those other months go? What even is 2019? I wanted to bring you all in the loop on what’s been going on the past few months. Things have been both...
A more mobile-friendly Prosebox
Hey everyone, Whoa, two site updates in a week! PB’s on fire! If you’re writing a new entry or creating a new book, you might notice that the design of the privacy settings has changed a bit: I ...
New entry backup is live!
Hey everyone, I’m super excited to announce the launch of another new feature: New entry backup. In my last update I called this feature “Auto-saving drafts” but as I worked on the design, it en...
Onwards and upwards
Hey everyone, How is it already December?! These last few months have really flown by. NoJoMo was great! Well done to all of you that kept with it (and a solid tip of the hat to those that made ...
NoJoMo 2018
Hey everyone, Happy NoJoMo! It looks like it’s been a few years since the official journal has been active, so I thought it would be fun to use a site update for the prompts. Hopefully that will...
A bugfix, an improvement, and an announcement
Hey everyone, Let’s go down the list! (Edit: Have a feature request? Great. Check out my site update here where I talk about my plans for Prosebox for the next few years) The bugfix: I’m happy to...
The server is extremely fixed now
So, funny story. I’m traveling at the moment (hello from Denver!) and my email checking has been intentionally rare. Trying to get off the grid for a few days. But let’s be honest: PB I can’t qu...
Downtime tonight and a call for testers
Hey everyone, We’ll be taking the site down tonite at 8PM central for about an hour to fix the issues you’ve all been experiencing with comments. We have a fix in place on our staging server and ...
You can now edit comments!
Surprise!! MD really came through this week and now we have our first new feature! Happy Friday everyone. Have a great weekend. Update (edit, ha): We’re working through a few known issues at the ...
A roadmap for the future of Prosebox
Hey everyone, I’ve been wanting to write this entry for a few months now, but between the server issues and starting an intense new job, it’s been hard to find the time. But! I need a break, so t...
The sloths have been appeased
Hey everyone, As I’m sure you’ve noticed, PB is feeling sooooo much better today. The site was down for about an hour as we grabbed a snapshot to be safe and then upgraded. Here’s how performance...
The server is filled with sloths
Hey again everyone, Oh my god the site has been so slow lately! IT. IS. SO. FRUSTRATING!!!! WE WERE CELEBRATING AND THEN THINGS STARTED GETTING BAD AGAIN AND AAAAAAAAAAA Ok, enough yelling. Whew...
If at first you don't succeed..
Hey everyone, You’ve probably noticed the site going up and down and being pretty slow over the past few weeks. I feel your pain, and I really appreciate you being patient. We’re trying! The push...
A bit of scheduled downtime
Hey everyone, More improvements are on the way! The developer will be working on the server this Wednesday at 10PM CST and the site will be in maintenance (mochi) mode. With luck things will go s...
LET'S CELEBRATE
Hey everyone, happy Friday! I have exciting news to share: (drumroll please..) THE SERVER IS FIXED AND STABLE!! WE (YOU) DID IT!! After a week of testing the fixes on our shiny new staging ser...
I want your surveys
Hey everyone, The server work is coming along nicely, and I’m hoping I’ll have some great news to share early next week. In the meantime, I have a fun project I’d like the community’s help with:...
Progress!
Hey everyone, happy Friday! I hope Summer has been treating all of you well. IT’S HOT OMG. Wanted to give you all an update on how things are going behind the scenes. We’ve been busy! Appreciate...
Pardon our dust
Hey everyone, happy Friday! Wanted to post a quick heads up that there may be some brief downtime on the site over the next week or so in the wee hours of the morning. We’re deep into site optimi...
Let's talk about how awesome that fundraiser was
Hey everyone, It’s been a really exciting few weeks! I was totally blown away by the response to the fundraiser, and I’m happy to share a few fun statistics. So without further ado, the amount ra...
