We've got a new look ! (and other exciting updates)
Hello again everyone ! Where do we even start... pckt is growing quickly and becoming a beautiful place to start and write a blog. Our look and feel is continuing to evolve into something that feels increasingly organized, polished, and enjoyable to use.
Just as our platform has become more polished, our branding has as well. We have a whole identity now ! Check out our new logo:
"A big thanks to @dad for taking our branding to the next level !"
We're really excited about our new look and think it really captures our intentions with pckt. Writing a blog should be an inviting and playful experience. One that encourages expressing your creativity. Blogging shouldn't be an intimidating and unapproachable task.
We hope pckt feels like home—a space where you’re free to express yourself and craft your own corner of the internet filled to the brim with your interests.
New Features:
We'd like to formally share some of the new features we've rolled out over the past few weeks.
- Starting with Bluesky embeds that are fully revamped and better than ever. Just paste a link to a Bluesky post of your choice and press "embed." (This will work for 3rd party Bluesky AppViews as well like Blacksky or similar.)
- Mention your favorite Bluesky posters in your blog posts. Just type an
@sign followed by the user's handle. Like this: @pckt.blog - New Look!
- Even more embeds ! You can embed all kinds of rich content on pckt.blog just by pasting the link, or highlighting an existing link. Think media players, YouTube videos, websites... Check it out, you can even embed that new Ice Spice song:
- Image size adjustments help you make your uploaded images just the right size so they look perfect in your blog post.
- It's easier than ever to share a quote from a blog post you enjoyed. Just highlight a selection of the post and press "Copy Link" or "Share." A preview image will be created highlighting the section you'd like to share, perfect for posting or sending to a friend.
"Screenshot of a shared quote from figonfilm.pckt.blog"
More New Features and Improvements:
In addition to these key features, we've made a number of enhancements to existing features improving performance and reliability.
We've also made some key visual changes to our dashboard to make the layout feel more cohesive and intuitive. Our "category" section has gotten a cleaned up design intended to make it less distracting. And we've added pagination for blogs that have many posts.
Additionally, we've added the "invite a friend" and "plan usage" sections onto our mobile layout, making this useful information even easier to access.
Plans for the Future:
We're building pckt to make blogging fun, easy, and accessible. Alongside these values, we strongly believe that owning your creative work is essential.
It is for this reason that we have been working to bring pckt.blog into the ATmosphere.
Behind the scenes, we've been developing AT Protocol integrations that will allow your blogs and published posts to live on your own Personal Data Server (PDS).
This integration will make it possible to link your Bluesky and other ATProto accounts to your existing pckt account—or even completely skip our registration process by signing in with an ATproto account directly if you prefer.
While we'd like to have this implemented sooner than later, we want to take all the time we need to explore the options available to us to ensure we are creating an experience that we're proud of.
We've also been in touch with the teams behind other ATproto-focused writing experience like @leaflet.pub and @Offprint along with projects like @wisp.place to explore ways we can encourage greater interoperability between our platforms, and those yet to come.
(More information soon™)
Anyways ! Thank you so much for being here. We really hope you're enjoying pckt so far.
Questions? Concerns? Bug reports? Feature Requests? Just want to say hello? Send us an email: [email protected]