// App Updates

Celebrating 100 users and 500 posts on Crucial Tracks

THANK YOU. SERIOUSLY.

Celebrating 100 users and 500 posts on Crucial Tracks

THANK YOU. SERIOUSLY.

It took a little over 2 weeks to get us to 25 users and 100 posts. It’s been nearly 4 weeks since that milestone and we’ve just hit 100 users and 560 posts on the site. So cool!

New Stuff

As far as the app goes, it’s been a little over a month since the last update and a lot has happened! The changelog should always have the latest details, but here’s an overview of what’s been added since:

Community & Sharing

  • Community Tracks - a weekly curated playlist from the Crucial Tracks community
  • Add (optional) additional, custom text when you share to Mastodon and Bluesky.
  • Added community links to the dashboard: Public Tracks and Community Playlists
  • Added profile badges for the first 100 users and numbers of posts created (10/30/60)
  • Added an RSS feed to Public Tracks page
  • Added webring functionality to public profile pages

Prompts

  • Improved prompt scheduling and added a Last 10 Prompts view
  • Utilize past prompts when creating entries for days in the past - the prompts from the last two weeks are available. (Select older days on the calendar widget or select a past day on the Create Entry page, then click Use Daily Prompt button)

UI Improvements

  • Added **markdown toolbar **for entry content
  • Improved the selected song UI
  • Improved styling for some HTML elements

General

  • Added user time zone support
  • Added support for passing an Apple Music song via URL to start an entry with that song on Crucial Tracks. More info here. (Shortcuts!?!)
  • Add to Homescreen + Add to Dock - on Apple devices you can now add Crucial Tracks to your dock and/or homescreen.

State of the Community

For this section, I’d like to call out a few members each month, not only to highlight good stories and songs, but to say thanks for taking a chance on this site and their overall contributions to the community.

  • For this first feature, I have to pick Cliff Wade who not only posts great stories, but has helped me track down bugs and other issues. Very thankful for that!
  • Also of note, I’ve been enjoying melanie’s posts and stories… and Brandon’s music interests overlap with mine quite a bit so I’ve been enjoying those song selections.

All in all, I think the community is doing a fabulous job sharing stories and songs, and the breadth of genres is something I was not expecting. I think I’ve seen everything but opera so far! I know I’ve found a few new-to-me artists, so really loving that aspect as well.

Well, I’ve rambled long enough… so I will close this out with a final thanks and if you run into issues or have a feature request, do not hesitate to reach out.

–Jason