What's New in OnCue.

Readers can react to individual updates, and Bluesky threads carry your event hashtag.

• Reader reactions. Turn on Reactions for an event and every update gets a thumbs-up button readers can tap without signing in. Tapping again takes it back. Counts refresh on their own while the page is open, so a busy update visibly gathers response during the event. Off by default, per event.
• An official hashtag for Bluesky. Set one in Event Setup and every update shared to Bluesky ends with it, so the whole thread is findable under a single tag. An update that already uses the tag doesn't get a second one, and an update too long to fit posts whole without it — the text is never shortened to make room.

Brand each liveblog to your site, turn any link into a card, and do more with Bluesky.

• Per-event colors and width. A new Appearance tab recolors each liveblog — accent, card background, borders, and muted text — with a color picker and a gentle readability check, and sets a contained or full-width layout. The font always follows your site theme.
• Links become preview cards. Paste a link in the console, or share one from Slack or Telegram, and it renders as a card with the headline, description, image, and source — no separate step.
• More from Bluesky. Give each liveblog its own Bluesky card image, push any published update to your Bluesky thread after the fact, and see who sent it. Each update posts once. Search now signs in with your connected account, which Bluesky recently began requiring.
• Reader fixes. The avatar, the "Powered by" mark, and a stray top line now hold up on themes that restyle images and links, and the "Readers over time" chart no longer crowds its dates on short ranges.

Per-event Stats now works out of the box — no Google account required.

• Built-in analytics, on by default. OnCue now measures each event on your own server: reader numbers, unique readers, shares, interactions, sources, devices, and countries, with a live "reading right now" count. No Google Cloud, no service-account key, nothing to set up.
• Private by design. Collection is cookieless and stores no personal data — visitor counts use a daily-rotating fingerprint, and IP addresses are used only to derive an approximate country, never saved. Everything stays in your own database.
• Google Analytics is now optional. Prefer GA4's richer attribution? Point Stats at your own property under Connections — the same screen, your choice of source.

The first public release of the OnCue beta. What's in the box:

• Events, the OnCue block, the live console, and the real-time reader — plus inline polls, per-entry share cards and embeds, More Coverage, moderation, and encrypted credentials.
• Post from Slack, Telegram, SMS, and Messenger; share to Slack, Signal, Teams, and Google Chat; thread chosen updates onto Bluesky.
• AI Key Highlights — grounded, cited, and editable — with four provider options: Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible server you host yourself.
• Curation from the composer: search public Bluesky posts and YouTube videos and embed picks without leaving the editor.
• Sponsor slots, reader analytics through your own GA4 tag with a per-event Stats screen, and a full-stream embed for Ghost, static sites, and everything else beyond WordPress.
• Ships under GPLv2 or later, with the license file included in the zip.