Magazine layout

We understand that one-size-fits-all solutions don't always work for everyone, which is why we're constantly working to innovate and iterate on our current offerings.

To that end, we have created a new layout option for all Hashnode-powered blogs: the magazine layout.

With the new magazine layout, your latest (or pinned) post gets extra special treatment on the front page of your blog, imbuing the section above the fold with asymmetrical flair.

Below the fold, you'll find a concise, compact grid that looks especially good when applied to blogs with sizable archives.

You can read more about it here.

Introducing the Table of Contents

This has been asked a lot by our writers hence we decided to release it. Once you click on the checkbox in the publishing menu of your blog post a table of contents will automatically be generated and placed at the top of your blog based on the heading tag used in your article.

You can find the "Generate table of contents?" in the settings and you can enable it for old posts too!

Here is how it's going to look!

We are back with a new changelog for this week, and we have shipped a bunch of things that have been on our list. Brace yourselves, our developers are on a streak and you are going to start seeing more updates rolling out soon, and keep watching this space to see what we have shipped.

Enhancements

Notification to the requester for RFAs

A lot of you asked notifying the requester when someone attaches an article in response to the RFA. Now just sit back and relax once you have submitted your RFAs. We will let you know when there is an article against your RFA.

If you are wondering what RFA means? You definitely must give it a shot - https://hashnode.com/rfa. This is one of our most loved features 💗

Import to Drafts - Medium Importer

We just unleashed a powerful medium importer that helps your migration from medium to Hashnode. It's so smooth that you may end up calling your developer friends who are still on medium and will do a BIG favor for them 🍻

We will bring a similar buttery experience to other importers, soon! 🙌

Bugs

Moderators were unable to remove a post from the tags

Our tag moderators were unable to remove posts that were not relevant for the tag. We have fixed it now, and we are brewing more around making moderators more prominent in Hashnode. Watch out for this space for more updates ✨

Fix publish date bg for dark mode

The publish date wasn't visible in the dark mode, and we have fixed the bug.

Duplicate posts in the feed

We noticed sometimes there is duplicate posts on the feed, and we took a stab at this sneaky bug because it was so tricky that our dev had to cast a magic spell to reproduce and fix it. Yay! One more bug smashed 🐞

Number of posts missing on sponsor page

Fixed the number of posts missing on the sponsor page bug

uniqueReactions property in GraphQL API

We can now find out the unique reactions for posts using the uniqueReactions property

Unicode char support while importing blog from Medium

We had some issues on importing posts from Medium, because of unicode char support. This has been resolved now.

Along with all of these, we also fixed few other minor bugs that have been smashed by our awesome development team!💪

Here are some of the minor improvements yet amazing delights the dev team has already shipped. The team has been keeping the heads down to work on a monstrous upgrade to the blogs, which are in progress and some of you have already witnessed. Keep watching it, while we announce it BIG in the community soon.

Side bar

We have added more in the sidebar, which now has

• Request for Article pages.
• About Hashnode.
• Career pages with updated job openings.
• Official blog (Townhall).

Minor Improvement and Bug fixes

• Cover page will be automatically generated if there is no cover page uploaded.
• Support center tag with text and images.
• Optimized search results - We are now showing the articles first in the response to searches made by the user
• Alignment fix for the profile card in followers
• Onboarding fixes.
• Revamped the importer page.