You can now add images to your Sanity posts 📷 Important caveat: For now, you need to save your post as a draft first to be able to access this feature.
Here is a picture of a couple of boars I took outside of my house yesterday. Plenty of boars here in Gdynia, I see them almost every day 🐗
You can now tag your posts! This will make it easier for your content to be discovered, both on Sanity and in search engines - a much-needed SEO boost. You can add up to 5 tags per post and the length limit is 35 characters.
You can now embed YouTube videos on Sanity. When you use a YouTube link, Sanity will embed the video into your post.
For example, here is a video from our recent trip to Bydgoszcz that my girlfriend made:
(Give us some likes ✨)
By the way, visit this link to learn more about formatting posts: https://www.sanity.media/markdown-cheat-sheet
You can now comment on other posts on Sanity. And you can comment on other people's comments. It's not perfect yet and I'll be making UX improvements here and there over the coming weeks but the essentials are there.
You can leave up to 5 comments a day, so make them count!
I updated the layout a bit to make it easier to find replies to your posts and comments. This is not backward-compatible yet, so you are only going to see the posts and replies created from now on. I'll run a database migration some time in the next few days so that older replies also appear there.
We've just finished comments and added some UI/UX improvements to the site, making posts easier to read and the website, I hope, prettier and more aesthetically pleasing. What should we focus on next?
I think notifications would be useful, so that you can see when someone comments or upvotes your posts. This would be limited to a single notification sent once a day that contains a summary of everything relevant that happened.
Anything else that you think Sanity is missing or could do better? Let me know in the comments 💬
Here are some photos I took of the Independence March in Warsaw a couple of years ago. I never got to publish them until now.
November 11th is Poland’s Independence Day and the Independence March attracts far right groups and conservatives from all around the country.
Why I started Sanity Media
If you have watched The Social Dilemma, read Stolen Focus or Hooked you probably already know that present-day social media is designed to be addictive. The more time you spend online, the more money social media companies make.
You may also be aware of how social media algorithms can inadvertently create echo chambers, where people are only exposed to views they already agree with. This leads to increased polarization and political extremism.
I’m trying to build a service that's more down to earth. A place where you can log in, read some news or stories that interest you, and then forget about it until the next day. No infinite scrolls, no constant streams of notifications, and no incentive to keep checking the site throughout the day. While it might be a hard task to remove echo chambers altogether, I hope can at least limit them.
How Sanity works
Here are the main features in a nutshell:
Still only get 0-5 clicks a day but things are heading in the right direction.
Any tips on how to coerce Googlebot to crawl more?
The lack of human-readable slugs on Sanity had bothered me for a while and I finally got around to fixing them last Sunday. The old, slugless URL structure probably wasn't doing me any favors in terms of SEO and user experience. I'm hoping the new format can give Sanity a much needed SEO boost. Plus, I can finally tell which post is which in Google Search Console and Vercel Analytics.
Before
After
https://www.sanity.media/p/64c375049f5d6b05859f10c6-delicious-post-workout-milkshake-recipe
Isn't this much clearer?
When writing the code I had the following goals in mind:
