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Full write-up with before/after screenshots and all the technical details on our blog:
ohdear.app/news-and-up...
On the uptime check pages, we've added easy copy-to-clipboard actions for mobile. Notice something is down & want to share it with a colleague across Slack? Get instant access to the reproducable curl command & the HTTP response headers. 🔥
The part we're most proud of: when you get an alert on your phone and tap through to Oh Dear, all the diagnostic info is right there. Clearly visible, no pinching or zooming.
Because let's be honest, that's when mobile actually matters most. When something is down and you need answers fast.
Touch targets matter more than people think. We scaled up all form controls: toggles at 44px height, checkboxes at 1.25rem, dropdown items with extra vertical padding.
Checking your site's config on your phone should not require surgical precision. 🩺
Tables were the tricky part. Monitoring tools are full of them.
Simple tables get horizontal scrolling with a gradient fade on the right edge, a visual hint that disappears once you scroll to the end. The monitor list got a completely separate card-based layout for mobile, no table at all.
Navigation was the first big decision. We replaced the horizontal navbar with a floating action button fixed to the bottom-right corner. Tap it, and you get a full-screen overlay menu.
Everything stays within thumb's reach. No stretching to the top of the screen.
We touched over 160 Blade templates. This wasn't a "add some media queries and call it a day" project.
For most pages, we built two completely separate layouts and show the right one based on screen size. The desktop version stays exactly as it was. No compromises on either side.
Oh Dear is now fully mobile-friendly. 🥳
Yes, it took us way too long. 😂 We've been a desktop-first monitoring tool since 2018. But when we finally decided to do it, we did it properly.
You can build on our foundations to offer some of the best-in-class monitoring to your customers. 🤝
No need to build from scratch, we can natively integrate into their existing notifications. Seamless for customers.
Prefer to offer password-less Oh Dear logins, so they configure notifications with us? Perfectly possible!
We are kickstarting our new Reseller Program with 2 very strong partners: @zone_ee and @PloiCloud 🔥
Both now offer uptime monitoring to thousands of their customers, fully integrated into the product.
New notification destination: ntfy 🔔
Open-source, self-hostable push notifications with iOS and Android apps. Oh Dear now sends all your monitoring alerts straight to ntfy.
Your server, your notifications, your rules.
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Did you know we've been publishing our changelog for over a year? Every week, it shows a list of improvements, bugfixes and new features.
This week, we tweaked the layout a bit so it's more clear what the highlights of each release were. 💪
Oh Dear now checks 11 DNS blocklists daily and alerts you the moment you're listed, with direct links to get removed.
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Your domain is on a blocklist. Your emails are landing in spam. Your site is unreachable for anyone using AdGuard, Cloudflare Family, or Quad9.
Most teams find out weeks later, from customer complaints.
We've improved performance change detection for sites with naturally spiky response times. 📈
If your site regularly spikes between fast and slow responses, we now recognize that as your normal pattern and only alert when the recent average actually breaks out of that range.
If you've seen occasional SSL errors or 30-second timeouts on cron ping callbacks, this could/should fix it. In our testing, the issue was Cloudflare's proxy layer adding intermittent 520/499 errors between its edge and our origin.
We moved ping.ohdear.app off Cloudflare's proxy and onto a direct AWS ALB connection with an ACM certificate.
Our PHP SDK now covers every Oh Dear API endpoint. v4.4.2 adds AI responses, DNS blocklists, port scanning, tag groups, recurring maintenance, notification destinations, and more. Drop-in upgrade, nothing breaks. github.com/ohdearapp/o...
We know our job is to alert you when things stop working, but we do hope we won't be sending too many alerts these holidays! 😇
From our entire team: we wish you an uneventful, calm and stable few weeks for your websites to get you through Christmas & New Years without too many notifications. 🔔
By popular request: our Broken Links checker can now go the extra mile and it will also validate:
- broken images 🌌
- broken CSS links 🔗
- broken open-graph images 📊
- broken javascript links 🪄
Every site you add to be monitored will get this full coverage 👏
New phone, who dis? 😁
