About Building Pika Out Loud

Changelog of Pika, Pika is a blogging software, made by Good Enough.

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RSS Feed Improvements Part Duex

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Your Pika blog comes with an RSS feed that allows others to subscribe to your blog via a feed reader. We try to keep these feeds working well for all...

Verify Your Website on Mastodon

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Over the months since Pika launched we’ve had a number of requests to allow Pika site verification on Mastodon. We’re happy to say it has arrived!  [Xnapper-2024-05-14-14.58.47.png] The rel="me" link that...

Bring Your Own Analytics

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Since Pika launch day we have had requests from customers who want to add analytics (tinylytics, Google Analytics, Plausible, etc) to their Pika blogs. We struggled a bit with wanting...

Guestbooks for Everyone

1970-01-01 08:00:00

My friend Sara runs her own website with Jekyll, a static-site generator. She’s not a programmer, but she was technically savvy enough to get Jekyll running during a weekend when...

Exporting Your Pika Blog

1970-01-01 08:00:00

One big challenge bloggers have in trying a new blogging service is rightfully, “What happens if I no longer want to use the service?” This is in part why many of...

Join WeblogPoMo 2024!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

A thing is going on in the blogosphere, and that’s Weblog Posting Month. Sorry we’re a day late in letting you know, but as they say: The best time to...

Canonical URLs

1970-01-01 08:00:00

As we’re building Pika, we’re always learning new things about publishing on the web. Having a service like Pika run your blog means you can depend on our team to...

A Sitemap for Search

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Many of you are blogging to make connections. And while the capability of search engines these days has been hamstrung by their own encouragement of the web to become an...

Pika's First 60 Days

1970-01-01 08:00:00

We’re excited to say that the first 60 days of Pika have surpassed our expectations! Now to be clear, we kept our expectations rather measured. Our hope was to find...

Changing Your Publish Date

1970-01-01 08:00:00

You can now change your published date for any new post or draft at the time of publishing. Makes sense, right? [Xnapper-2024-03-19-13.08.39.png]Up until today, to change the published date of...

RSS Feed Improvements

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Barry here. So after some time hacking with HTML parsing I finally got all of my old blog posts imported to Pika. Unfortunately, that also led to sending an RSS bomb to...

Your Pika robots.txt File

1970-01-01 08:00:00

We want to do whatever we can to make sure that your blogs do not get ingested by AI training bots. You can read more about our intentions in our prior...

Pika Blogs Do Not Train AI Tools

1970-01-01 08:00:00

You may have heard recently that Tumblr and WordPress appear to be striking deals to sell customer data to the likes of OpenAI and Midjourney. While the companies have since...

Launch Day!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

The day has arrived! Pika is launched! If you’re reading this you are likely already familiar with Pika. If you’ve stopped writing, please pop back in and give it a...

Avatars and social preview images

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Continuing on with our visual design improvements train, you can now upload an avatar for your blog! You don’t need one, but we’ll use this avatar for your blog’s favicon, and...

Themes are back, and better than ever!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

We want Pika users to feel like Pika is their home on the web. A place where they could have an original voice, even if just to scream into the...

You’re Gonna Love What We’re Silently Building

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Have we told you that we’re grinding on Pika through the end of the month? If not, sorry. We’re grinding on Pika through the end of the month! This week...

We’re removing our Theme option, for now

1970-01-01 08:00:00

And (very soon!) replacing it with some simple theme customization options. As we’ve written before, our goal is to provide you with a very pretty blog while not tempting you...

Drafts (Alpha) Are a Go!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Drafts are a big feature for those of us on the team who are blogging with Pika. In the past we’ve all either distrusted our blogging tools too much to...

Drafting Into the Holiday

1970-01-01 08:00:00

We wrapped the week on Pika with a shift in focus on the editor side. Arun has decided that we should get more invested in our editor. To this point we...

Titleless posts have been...

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Titleless posts have been making the rounds in the blogosphere of late. Amit Gawande: “Every time I see a blogging platform make title a mandatory field, I cringe. Everything other...

Pika Pages!

1970-01-01 08:00:00

It’s out in your account right now: Pika Pages! With Pika Pages you can: • Create any number of custom Pages for your Pika site • Customize your home page...

Pika Gliding Along

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Imagine one of those cute pika animals gliding? I don’t have access to Dall-E credits, so you’ll just have to imagine. Barry here with an update. A little progress on...

Launching Pika in Alpha

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Today we’re putting a few light polishes on the current version of Pika in order to allow some folks to sign up as alpha members. It’s still alpha software, so...

Bit By Bit We Progress

1970-01-01 08:00:00

Today a number of things were improved with Pika. • James fixed the RSS feeds • James got our bug reporting working, which was helpful in fixing the RSS feeds...