Dear reader,

It's been a while since I wrote to you but in some ways it feels like yesterday. The other day I realized Special Fish has been around for 6 years. In many ways it has stayed the same. It's really beautiful how many people have joined and supported it over the years.

This year, I'm most excited about improving what's already here. It's not about building new features so much as tending to the existing ones. Gardening is probably the right metaphor.

I'd like to focus on the setting of using Special Fish: this could look like events, workshops, a "new here" page. I think there's a lot of off-ramps to irl experiences.

I'd be curious to hear how you see Special Fish.

Sunday Writing Room (this sunday)

I wanted to invite you to the Special Fish online writing room this Sunday, February 2nd. Visit the writing room between 11 AM and 12 PM (in your timezone). You can write however you wish—on your profile, on your website, on paper. Optionally, at the end of the hour, you can share something from your writing on your profile.

More info at: https://special.fish/writing-room

I hope this will be the first of many events. If you'd like to organize a writing-related event in the writing room, email writing@special.fish.

Over the past month, I've been making small updates to Special Fish...

Writing Room: An events space to write lightly together
Mentions: Fixed mentions and added a clear mentions button
Download: Export your log as a .txt file
HTML Comments: You can now write directly in the source of your profile. Wrap anything in <!-- an html comment --> to try it out. Thank you to @polina for this idea.
Timestamps have a new styling on logs
Small gardening updates to the homepage
Changes to Special fish will be logged @change

Looking out the window,
Elliott

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