Yarny version 1.1 is now live in the Apple App Store! After what seemed like an eternity, the new version of the Yarny app has been approved by Apple and is now available for our premium subscribers.
This version should fix an issue a number of our users were having which would cause the app to repeatedly fail with a "you must be logged in to do that" message. We've also introduced a number of new features and improvements to improve your writing on the go.
A new premium feature added this week is email forwarding. You can now send emails to your Yarny email account and the email will become a new story snippet on the title you most recently accessed. To get started, select Account Settings from the drop down menu that appears when you click your email address in the upper right corner.
We continue to enhance Yarny with more free and premium features. Today, we released public sharing, duplicating snippets, groups and titles, and more.
Beginning at midnight tonight, and for a period of 24-hours, when you visit Yarny.me and GetYarny.com you will see a black screen. This is what our site and app could look like under legislation currently making its way through the US Congress. Hearings are scheduled for January 18, prompting a wide protest movement by individuals and companies devoted to making the web a free, open, and creative environment. Blue Burro, maker of Yarny, and The Yarny Team, are such.
We are all for protecting original works. In fact, much of what we do here at Blue Burro is work to protect your writing in Yarny from technical loss, theft and malicious attacks. We don’t believe though, that the US Congress, in its attempts to stop digital piracy with these proposed laws granting the government broad censorship powers of internet sites, will achieve its stated objective. Rather, we believe it creates a slippery slope that could lead to a dark, censored internet.
Please pause when you see the black screen, before clicking through, to consider what broad US Government censorship powers could mean for your use of Yarny and the internet in general.
We have included links on the black-out screen for you to learn more about this legislation. Regardless of where you are, please be part of the many who will light up the phones and deluge the in-boxes of members of Congress regarding SOPA/PIPA. Please use your wonderful literary talents to fully express your feelings.
Thank you.
Love,
The Yarny Team
