2023 Year Review

Here is a highlight of the changes, releases and content created during the last year.

Ghostboard in 2023

Uptime monitor 🚦

Ghostboard monitors your blog uptime/downtime and speed (currently from Europe)

Learn more:

Announcing Uptime monitor with downtime alerts
Learn more about our Uptime report in order to monitor your Ghost blog uptime & downtime and get alerts via email when your blog is down

Downtime alerts πŸ“©

Included as an option in the Uptime report, you can get downtime email alerts when your blog is down. Anyway, the downtime is tracked and shown in the dashboard.

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) πŸ”‘

Instead of logging in with your email address and a password, you can optionally enable the 2FA to get an email with a unique link when you log in. This enhances security protecting from shared passwords or leaks, for example.

Learn more:

Introducing 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) πŸ”‘
Learn more about a new security option available in all plans with no cost: 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in Ghostboard

All-Time Report πŸ“Š

New report to see the bigger picture and growth during the years

Other updates ✨

  • The Clicks and Authors reports were improved and more time periods were added
  • Internal database migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL
  • Bug fixing

turbo-geoip-country 🎁

4 releases of the open-source library for getting the country for a given IP:

GitHub - ghostboard/turbo-geoip-country: An updated, performance-focused fork of node-geoip with only country data
An updated, performance-focused fork of node-geoip with only country data - GitHub - ghostboard/turbo-geoip-country: An updated, performance-focused fork of node-geoip with only country data

Published content ✍️

  • 3 ways to filter IPs in Ghostboard
3 ways to filter IPs in Ghostboard
When you use Ghostboard to get exclusive analytics of your Ghost blog, you may wonder how to filter your own IP, what if it is a dynamic IP or maybe your team members’ IP. No worries, Ghostboard is ready for it. Keep reading to see how to do it

A lot more coming in 2024, Happy New Year πŸ₯‚