Product Updates

May tightened the public review notice, Pages navigation, image assets, reader prompts, and database/runtime stability.

• Added and refined the maintenance/editorial review banner.
• Trimmed Pages navigation without adding Updates to the shared footer.
• Improved policy-card image tracking, cache busting, and reader signup prompts.
• Expanded policy, publishing, reader-control, landing, compare, and game surfaces.
• Improved database runtime behavior for public traffic.

April moved authentication, press pages, media recovery, admin performance, analytics, and Elle/tasking forward together.

• Switched authentication work toward passphrase flows and safer login handling.
• Added press pages and repaired public press redirects.
• Improved story image preservation, media fallback behavior, and recovered-image rendering.
• Expanded admin audit visibility while repairing user admin performance.
• Shipped Elle tasking, gift cards, messages, story pages, homepage defaults, and paywall prompt polish.

March concentrated on the tagging stack, badge display safety, game systems, and local git hygiene.

• Expanded story badges and editorial operations tooling.
• Rebuilt survival/game mode surfaces and icon fallbacks.
• Improved badge quote containment across detail, day, and home overlays.
• Kept local editorial and operations notes out of tracked public code.

February was the largest frontend and platform cleanup month, covering signup, tokens, layout migration, moderation review, article surfaces, CSP, and image behavior.

• Refined signup, account, token, pricing, and billing console behavior.
• Added analytics/ads endpoints and improved consent, logging, and lazy loading.
• Migrated major UI areas toward Tailwind-first templates while stabilizing CSS load order.
• Expanded journal snapshots, day overlays, article frontpages, and year-based routes.
• Improved moderation review behavior, mature-image blur handling, CSP coverage, and media cache behavior.

January opened 2026 with Elle/game experiments, story/paywall tooling, translation workflow, uptime/bugs SEO, and image variant repair.

• Built early Elle/game surfaces and paywall API work.
• Expanded story tooling, settings, routes, and site assets.
• Updated translation and locale workflows across Pages and Stories.
• Improved AVIF/WebP image variants, journal snapshots, authentication hashers, and homepage media fallbacks.
• Repeatedly repaired carousel behavior and media URL handling.

December broadened the journal/product surface, overlays, translations, SEO, homepage design, image descriptions, and safer publication pipeline tooling.

• Added precomputed journal snapshot statistics and better journal/admin presentation.
• Improved overlays, footer behavior, SEO, sitemap, hreflang, canonical URLs, and language settings.
• Added paid email verification, public contact/privacy access fixes, and safer account/application flows.
• Expanded translation, image-description, entity, and public-body pipeline tooling.
• Refined homepage design, ads overlays, FAQ, motifs, profile, billing, jobs, and search motifs.

November focused on token fulfillment, AI checker/review services, analytics middleware, journal/admin usability, resume intake, and UTC time handling.

• Worked through paid-plan token delivery and billing-country capture.
• Improved AI checker UX and hid leaked censored content from user story detail.
• Added page-view tracking, IP/country logging, and AI welcome consent flow.
• Renamed and tuned the AI panel experience.
• Moved app time handling to UTC and improved journal/admin layout and job application PDF intake.

October hardened login, legal/contact forms, billing, video playback, SSRF safety, email reset, server startup, CSS, SEO, and mobile layout.

• Hardened settings, login, password/passphrase compatibility, and profile image storage handling.
• Fixed contact/legal form blockers and allowed anonymous complaint routing.
• Added video mapping/playback work and improved story-detail ads and pricing prompts.
• Improved Stripe customer data, billing webhooks, paid-plan handling, and email reset flow.
• Added safer network-fetch behavior, server/DB startup tooling, missing-image scans, CSS stability, SEO, and mobile responsiveness.

September carried major public-profile, analytics, ad, storage, media, image, and card-design work.

• Added soft-delete account behavior, settings/reporting improvements, and public UGC review surfaces.
• Improved analytics, time-spent tracking, token-spend review, engagement logging, and admin visibility.
• Expanded ad creation/display handling, mature-content toggles, video support, and post reporting.
• Worked through R2/media storage, private/public bucket behavior, image fallbacks, and local/production media split.
• Refined homepage/card visuals, contact-message saving, SVG design assets, and public media stability.

August added early AI tagging and image-description systems while hardening forms, uploads, billing, localization, ads, and moderation.

• Built early AI-assisted censor/tagging and save tooling.
• Added race-condition protection, rate limiting, security headers, sanitized forms, and stricter uploads.
• Added image description, moderation, hidden-image, and alt-text workflows.
• Expanded AI chat, token spending, input validation, and navigation directives.
• Added i18n/localization work, ad telemetry, paid moderation, paid visibility checks, and container files.

July pushed the app toward launch with SPA/editor repairs, profile work, geo/IP setup, journal structure, token billing, and per-view billing foundations.

• Stabilized SPA/module loading, editor behavior, profile cards, CSS, and public launch settings.
• Improved date/country handling, CSRF origins, ASGI setup, and deployment configuration.
• Added wallet/token display, journal aggregation, subscription models, and token-balance fields.
• Implemented token-based billing and updated homepage/search to use the token system.
• Adjusted per-view billing, daily stats, pricing tiers, and timezone handling.

June was the first intense launch month: editor experiments, censor tools, SPA conversion, 2FA attempts, AI panel, dark mode, profile design, and Inker integration.

• Prepared static files, requirements, launch routes, diary/adventure imports, and writing surfaces.
• Moved away from risky frontend approaches and built editor/censor workflows.
• Converted core behavior toward vanilla JS SPA patterns.
• Attempted and then paused 2FA after instability.
• Improved AI panel, favicon, dark mode, profile design, and Inker/Stories integration.

May added public intake basics and early product systems around privacy/legal forms, DMCA readiness, summaries, pricing, news, and AI panel work.

• Made privacy and legal notices easier to send.
• Prepared DMCA/request handling and weekly summary views.
• Worked on pricing, FX rates, dark mode, and news display.
• Started AI panel UX work and future-proofing cleanup.

April moved the site from early working state into story images, OpenAI API experiments, and moderation false-positive fixes.

• Added and repaired story picture display work.
• Reached a working website baseline.
• Started OpenAI API integration for studying database entries.
• Fixed a small false-positive moderation flag.

March contains a single checkpoint-style update in git history.

• Recorded one general project update.

January added static assets and early app surfaces for ads, marketplace work, and story launch preparation.

• Added static files.
• Worked on the ads app and marketplace.
• Prepared story launch work.

December restarted the website code and established the early user, auth, and form direction.

• Restarted the website codebase.
• Got login/logout and user-system basics working.
• Improved forms and clarified product direction.

September is the first recorded git month for the AngryPages webapp.

• Created the initial webapp repository.
• Recorded early checkpoint commits.