what changed

newest first. if something here reads oddly or broke the way you work, say hello and it gets looked at.

21 october 2026, part ii

• the writing box got a little firmer. it has a proper edge now, and the line under it says you can drop a file in or pick one, beside a count of how much is in the box against how much it can hold. the name box shows the address the page will have, and the two dates wait behind one line until you want them.
• a picture bigger than a page can be renamed and retitled again. it used to be refused for a size it never changed.
• a page that was read once now says so in the editor, instead of taking new words it would never show.
• the words of a page read once, thrown away or gone with its account leave the search as well, not only the page.
• looking at your own draft through its private link no longer counts as a read.

21 october 2026

• you can drop files in now. drag a file onto the writing box and its text goes in, with its name in the name field if that was empty, or press "pick one" if dragging is awkward, as it is on a phone. pictures still go in through a picture.
• and a whole folder at once. "a few at once" on your desk takes up to 50 files or a folder, shows what will go where before anything is sent, and puts them all up together or not at all, so a small site goes up in one go. a name you already have is never overwritten: you are told which one, and nothing changes. publishing has the limits.

15 october 2026, part ii

• the search on your desk now looks inside. it used to find things only by name and title; now any word you wrote in a page finds it too, and the last word you type matches as you go. pictures are found by name only. publishing has the details.
• you can see how often a page is read. your desk shows the count beside each thing, and a page's own screen draws the last 30 days, one bar a day. it is only a number: nothing about who read it is kept, and no cookie is set.
• the manual and the screens no longer use the long dash anywhere.
• a page taken out of the manual now leaves the site too, instead of lingering at its old address.

15 october 2026

• the bimbanet is no more. the members' intranet has been switched off for good, because there was not enough time to look after it the way it deserved, and a place nobody tends goes stale. so "sign in with bimbooo" went with it. nothing of yours was lost: the bimbanet only ever borrowed your name from here. thank you to everybody who dropped in, built a corner, signed the guestbook or clocked in at MuradCorp. it was a lovely little mess while it lasted.

24 september 2026

• signing in now sends you back to wherever you were going, instead of always to your desk.

23 september 2026

• you can leave, and take everything with you. at the bottom of your corner there is a way to delete your account: every page, picture and draft, and any name of your own pointed here. it asks for your password and your name typed out, and then it is done: no waiting period, no undo. your name is retired so nobody can start writing at your old address. your account says what that means and what the backups keep for a week.
• a photo no longer says where you took it. the notes a phone writes into a picture, the time, the model, very often the exact spot, are taken out when it arrives. which way up it goes is kept, so nothing turns sideways. there is a box on the form if you want every byte left as it was. the QAF has the details, including why this was never done before and how it is done now.
• a drawing you write as .svg no longer runs script when somebody opens it on its own. inside an <img> nothing changes, and script still has .html.
• somebody else can no longer keep you out of your own account. a stranger typing wrong passwords at your name used to run your sign-in allowance down for everybody, you included. now only failures count, and a browser you have signed in from before is let in regardless. changing your password makes every browser forget you, which is what you want if you are changing it in a hurry.
• restarting the service no longer forgets who was being held back, and this place now takes a copy of itself every day without being asked.

22 september 2026

• a note on custom domains, since the shape of it changed while it was being set up: prove the name, point it at us, then wait a few minutes for the certificate. if you look before it is ready your browser complains, which is alarming and passes. domains has the order written out.
• there is a switch for hearing from us, in your corner. until now this place only ever wrote to you about your own account, and a note about what changed here is a different kind of letter, so it comes with a way out of it. it is on to begin with. turning it off does not go quiet about your account: being let in, being put on hold, getting back to your password: those reach you either way, because they are not news, they are yours. your account says which is which.
• you can point a domain you already own at this place, and your site answers there too. add a line to that domain's dns, press check, and it goes live on its own, and nobody approves it. your bimb.ooo address keeps working exactly as before, so nothing anybody already has breaks. three names at once, and there is a page about it in domains.
• one note on feeds, because it is the sort of thing that goes wrong quietly: the id on each item stays on your bimb.ooo address for good, even when the feed is read from your own name. a reader uses that to know what it has already seen, so if it moved, everybody following you would be handed your whole feed again as new.
• you can put a picture up. png, jpeg, gif and webp, two megabytes each, from the picture link in the bar. it goes on your shelf with a name and an address like everything else, and you point at it from your own pages the ordinary way. the QAF used to explain at length why this was never going to happen; that answer has been rewritten rather than quietly removed, because the worry it described is exactly what the limits are for.
• what a file is gets decided from the bytes when it arrives, not from what it was called, and the name it is kept under follows from that. so the two can never disagree later.
• a picture keeps whatever your camera wrote into it, which often includes where you were standing. nothing here removes that, on purpose, and publishing says why.
• you can write something today and put it up on friday. the editor has two dates under the name now: one that holds a thing back until a day you choose, one that takes it down on a day you choose. a thing waiting its turn is saved and safe and simply not served. you read it in the meantime through the same short link a draft gets. the second box is the older half: taking things down on a date has worked here since the beginning, and there was no way to ask for it without writing to the database yourself.
• there is a square now, at bimb.ooo/square. it shows who keeps a corner here and what has been going up lately. everything on it was already public at an address anybody could reach; what the page adds is a way to find it, which until now there was not.
• you are on it to start with. if you would rather not be, there is a switch in your corner, and turning it off hides the shelf rather than the things on it: your pages stay exactly where they are.
• the editor keeps a copy of what you are typing, in your own browser. close the tab by accident, or come back to a form that went stale, and it offers the writing back rather than restoring it behind your back. it never leaves your machine, and it goes away when the thing is saved.
• a keeper can make another keeper, from the front desk, and take the keys back the same way. before this the only way was a command on the host, which meant one person losing their account locked everybody out of their own door. the last pair of keys cannot be handed in: somebody has to be holding them.
• the square leaves out drafts, unlisted links, read-once notes, anything with a date on it, and your homepage and 404, which are reachable by your name already.

19 september 2026

• the little icons beside each heading are rounder and solid now, which suits the rest of the place better than the thin ones did.
• this page. what changed and when, so you do not have to take anybody's word for it.
• an about and a QAF: who keeps this place, and the questions that were coming anyway, including whether you can upload an image (the answer there has since changed) and who exactly is responsible for what you publish (you).
• every page of the manual now has a way back to bimb.ooo. it did not before, which was a silly thing to discover from the outside.
• every site has a feed. yours is at /feed.xml, listing the public things you put up, newest first, so people can follow you in a reader instead of remembering to come back. drafts, unlisted links and read-once notes stay out. if you would rather write your own, publish one at that name and yours wins.
• forgotten passwords have a way back. say so at the sign-in form and a link lands in your inbox. it works once, it runs out in half an hour, and following it signs out everything else that was signed in on your account.
• your desk searches. it used to be one long list of everything you had ever put up. now it finds by name or title, thirty at a time.
• you can take it all with you. there is a download on your settings page: a zip of your files at the paths they answer on, and an index beside them with what a plain file cannot carry, like what was public and what had a date on it.

18 september 2026

• sign in with your name or your address. the field asked for either and only accepted one of them, which was nobody's fault but ours.
• a small sticker in the footer, for anyone who wants to help pay for the server.
• the service quietly lost a syntax highlighter it had stopped using when the file name started deciding the type. nothing looks different and the whole thing is about a fifth smaller.

17 september 2026

• a postbox by the door. say hello reaches the person who keeps this place. there is a question to answer instead of a puzzle to prove you are human.
• an account on hold now says why, at the sign-in form and in an email, rather than going quiet and leaving you to guess.
• one step back. every entry keeps the copy from before your last edit, so pasting over something good is an undo instead of a disaster.
• the type got bigger and the muted grey got darker, which is most of what makes a page readable in bad light or on a tired screen.
• a page you have already read comes back as "nothing has changed" instead of being sent to you twice.

16 september 2026

• the manual you are reading.
• read once means read once. a note set to burn is gone the moment it is opened, for everybody, the person who wrote it included.
• the link you get after publishing copies itself when you click it, instead of carrying you off the page you were working on.
• the pages sit on a warm cream now rather than something a shade off white.
• an email arrives when the door is opened for you.

14 september 2026

• the first lines of this.

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