What's new in v2.9.0 — Cleaner sign-ups

We spend most of our time making TinyX do more. This release is about doing less of one thing: keeping accounts that were never going to be real.

Two small changes, both quiet.

Throwaway emails don't get in

There's a whole cottage industry of "temporary inbox" domains — type one in, grab a code, never think about it again. Handy for dodging a newsletter. Not so handy for an account you actually intend to use.

Starting now, sign-ups from those disposable domains get politely turned away at the door. If you're using the email you genuinely check — the one where our verification message lands — nothing about signing up feels any different. This was only ever a problem for addresses designed to be forgotten. NOTE: Mozilla & Proton domains are excluded from this rule.

Verify, or we'll tidy up after you

When you join TinyX, we send a one-click verification email. Plenty of people mean to click it and then... life happens. That's completely fine — but a pile of accounts that were never confirmed isn't doing anyone any favors.

So now there's a gentle rhythm to it. If an account sits unverified for about a day, we send a friendly reminder — with a fresh link, in case the first one aged out. If it's still unverified a little while later, we quietly remove it, and send a note saying so, with a standing invitation to come back whenever you like.

Already verified? You'll never see any of this. It's housekeeping, not a threat.

That's the whole release: smaller, cleaner, and a little harder for bots to wander through. Now back to building the fun stuff.