Changelog

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October 23, 2026 · Combined website and form refinements

• Combined the homepage, articles, Events calendar, listing pages, account access, pricing and submission demo on one domain, with Events at /events.
• Consolidated dependencies, assets and backend configuration into one application while retaining noindex and nofollow throughout.
• Packaged both applications with independent build configuration, portable assets, dependency lockfiles, and setup instructions.
• Added Vercel framework configuration and automatic deployment output selection for hosted builds.
• Disabled search indexing, link following, cached snippets, and image indexing for both preview applications.
• Simplified sign-in and account creation, placed Google sign-in first, matched account links, and added password-recovery views.
• Moved Event type into its own first form section, updated the eight-section progress menu, and simplified the field spacing.
• Removed main-button choice icons and refined event-card title wrapping, category typography, and status-badge placement.
• Preserved the complete recorded release history and editorial attribution. Live authentication and recovery still require backend configuration.

v0.0.17

October 22, 2026 · Events hero navigation and compact cards

• Made featured event headlines clickable, linking to the same page as Explore event with the homepage's smooth darkening hover.
• Aligned the event hero's progress indicator and dots to the right on desktop and mobile.
• Added a matching 1px divider after United Kingdom in the Location menu to separate regions from cities.
• Reduced empty space in event cards and set titles to 16px with a two-line limit.
• Placed venue and city on the first metadata line and the date range on the second, both at 14px.

v0.0.16

October 21, 2026 · Events galleries, entrance motion and pricing polish

• Added shared staggered entrances to sign-in, pricing, and event submission, with individual reveals for pricing cards and form sections.
• Added Google's official multicolor icon to the Continue with Google button.
• Simplified Presented by, aligned event content to the left margin, and made visitor information float beside the page.
• Added a large-image gallery with thumbnails on the left, an image counter on the right, frosted arrow controls, and a keyboard-accessible enlarged view with smooth crossfades.
• Matched event-card border shimmer to the Events blue.
• Unified all three pricing cards and their frosted glass buttons, with a stronger continuous border shimmer reserved for the Best Value card.

v0.0.15

October 20, 2026 · Blue Events branding and glass submission flow

• Unified Events browsing and detail pages with blue accents, floating frosted navigation, glass cards, and persistent light and dark themes.
• Added a featured-event carousel with progress indicators, unified filters, and a continuous card grid that lets adjacent months share a row.
• Added an image-derived frosted backdrop for Salt & Silver with a downward fade, and refined event-detail spacing.
• Restyled the submission form with glass fields, dropdowns, date pickers, and buttons; added floating progress navigation with a sliding highlight and section completion checks.
• Aligned submission and pricing content with the navigation margins, refined pricing-card hover effects, and added continuous border shimmer to the featured plan.
• Matched sign-in and account creation to the Events styling and added smooth transitions between the two modes.
• Added a local submission-form preview when the Events backend is absent. Authentication, uploads, and submission still require the backend; checkout remains unfinished.
• Restored four homepage hero cards, made hero headlines clickable with a smooth darkening hover, and refined popular-search scrolling and animated result highlights.

v0.0.14

October 18, 2026 · Search ticker and browsing refinements

• Added a continuous right-to-left search ticker with five Trending stories followed by five Most Discussed stories, labeled sample counts, green reading-now text, and eased hover pause/resume.
• Limited popular searches to four and matched the ticker divider to the navigation divider.
• Refined Spotlight accents: green editorial underlines, pastel-red history underline and active progress, and a neutral fifth dot until hover.
• Centered the guest signup divider and updated its caption to Curated for your curiosity.
• Matched the Marketplace link to the other section links, removed Visit TheCollector from the footer, and replaced the browser favicon with the TC monogram.
• Disabled internal vertical scrolling in article and history carousels while retaining horizontal navigation.

v0.0.13

October 18, 2026 · Today in History and the logged-out homepage

• Added a fifth Today in History hero slide for October 18, 1685, with a Louis XIV panorama, matching thumbnail, pastel-red accents, and an Explore Today In History action.
• Added a separate logged-out homepage at /home-guest, preserving the existing homepage and replacing the three personalized rows with a green signup promotion: Your curiosity. Your collection.
• Guest save actions and signup/login controls open the existing join dialog; authentication remains a design prototype.
• Added a Logged-out homepage footer link for easy access.

v0.0.12

October 18, 2026 · Full-screen hero and compact card details

• Restored full-width featured images with panoramic desktop backgrounds, compact mobile artwork, and the original crossfade and slow zoom. Added a shadowless Van Gogh panorama and a soft dark vignette at the bottom.
• Opened up In the spotlight by removing the glass container and heading rule, replacing the green selection line with a thin gray line, and balancing top and bottom padding.
• Centered the hero timer and dots, reduced them to 5px high, and made their dark-mode backgrounds white while retaining the green progress fill.
• Replaced expanding article cards with a fixed caption area that smoothly fades between title/metadata and summary/actions. A persistent plain chevron stays in the text area, with no internal scrollbar.
• Renamed Continue Reading to From your reading list and removed its progress line.
• Changed the plus-hover wording to Add to reading list in the hero and cards, preserving the existing action behavior and green selected icons.
• Simplified the day/night control to a bare sun or moon icon matching search and profile.
• Preserved Home 2 as the v0.0.9 comparison and saved the split-hero design at checkpoint/pre-fullscreen-hero-2026-10-18.

v0.0.11

October 18, 2026 · Glass cards, shared controls, and Calendar Glass

• Rebuilt homepage article rows with restrained dark glass, edge-to-edge images, consistent thumbnail saturation, staggered reveals, and an elastic hover lift.
• Added inline card details that expand when hovering the revealed chevron, remain open during internal interactions, and close on departure or outside clicks. Viewport centering follows expansion without moving the card away from the pointer.
• Combined Read now, quick save, favorites, reading list, and share into one segmented glass control. Unsaved plus hover previews Save to favorites; saved stories show Saved in cards and the hero. Selected bookmark and reading-list icons stay recognizable and turn green.
• Moved Continue Reading progress below the author into a compact pill beside reading time and time remaining, and matched Explore more to the navigation underline effect.
• Unified pointer-following border reflections across the header, Spotlight, action controls, and navigation pills while retaining visible segment hover feedback.
• Redesigned Today in History with two Calendar Glass cards, large serif dates, pastel-red accents, text-only Explore this day actions, and neutral grouped navigation. Its heading matches the other sections.
• Updated Spotlight thumbnails to match the featured images and fixed intermittent sun and moon hover-animation replay. Home 2 remains available as the comparison checkpoint.

v0.0.10

October 17, 2026 · Split hero and compact navigation

• Redesigned the live homepage hero with a split editorial layout, borderless 4:3 photos, soft vignettes, and smoked glass; the text and photo stack on mobile.
• Refined each photo's subject framing, cropped the left figure out of the Virgil image, and added a shadowless Van Gogh image with subtle color tuning for both photos. Foreground photos remain still and crossfade between stories.
• Gave the hero background richer dark tones, softer frost, stronger Ken Burns motion, and deeper top and bottom vignettes.
• Balanced the hero's outer gutters while retaining a stable Spotlight position across stories.
• Made the indicator tracks theme-aware, using black in dark mode and light gray in light mode while preserving the green progress fill.
• Added a compact header on scroll with darker frost and a smooth upward elastic settle: 66px high on desktop and 62px on mobile, with separate entry and exit thresholds to prevent flicker.

v0.0.9

October 17, 2026 · Floating navigation and coordinated search

Checkpoint comparison: Home 2 — preserved v0.0.9 homepage, before the frosted hero redesign.

• Added a floating frosted-glass header with more internal spacing, glowing navigation underlines, and subtle pointer-following edge highlights.
• Replaced the search overlay with inline search that expands toward the TC monogram, synchronizing the moving search icon and staggered popular-search pills with navigation exits and returns.
• Added article search by title, topic, and author, subtle gray pill hovers, and a single light sweep across the popular searches after the opening motion settles.
• Moved Philosophy into More, removed its row icons and duplicate Events entry, aligned the dropdown with its trigger, and smoothed the item reveals.
• Aligned hero content with the TC monogram and centered each story between the floating header and Spotlight container.
• Added staggered sun-ray hover motion and a moon shooting star with gentle settling; made button border shimmer more visible and active only on hover.
• Matched the header frost to the original Spotlight material and softened both containers with separately blurred rims and restrained edge reflections.

v0.0.8

October 17, 2026 · Refined motion and frosted navigation

• Added a sequenced TC monogram animation, followed immediately by a broad, softly eased wordmark shimmer and subtle hover glow.
• Rebuilt the homepage More dropdown with frosted glass, icon-led rows, a shared elastic hover highlight, staggered item reveals, and smoother spring motion on opening and closing.
• Added directional button illumination and slow border reflections; refined the save button rotation and checkmark transition, and kept the theme-button hover illuminated during icon changes.
• Added composited light/dark theme fades while keeping the header dark and its icon animation responsive.
• Extended and reframed all four hero images to align their subjects with the content margin, darkened the top and edges, and corrected the bottom section boundary.
• Refined spotlight glass styling, subtle card dividers, charcoal timer dots and pills, action spacing, bold reading metadata, logo spacing, and full-width navigation underlines.
• Added regression coverage for logo replay, menu keyboard navigation and focus, theme transitions, and uninterrupted theme-button hover states.

v0.0.7

October 17, 2026 · Hero glass styling and slide timer

• Restyled the homepage spotlight as a borderless smoked-glass tray with 50% background opacity, subtle reflections, and a gold italic heading.
• Added a darker reflective active-card highlight that glides between cards while remaining clipped to their rounded shapes.
• Added a softly animated silver reflection on inactive-card hover and keyboard focus.
• Turned the elastic hero pill into a seven-second slide timer: it fades to gray in transit, then fills green on arrival; refined dot spacing, colors, and hover motion.
• Increased the desktop hero headline to 72px with responsive sizes for smaller screens.
• Preserved Clockwise Border Shimmer as a reusable style without applying it to the hero cards.

v0.0.6

October 17, 2026 · Calendar layout and hero motion

• Aligned calendar header, listings, and footer with the shared 1440px container; constrained event and auction details to 1180px.
• Made calendar filters collapsible on tablet screens.
• Added smooth hero image crossfades, subtle zoom, and softer text entrances.
• Enlarged hero indicators with equal spacing and directional elastic motion: leading-edge stretch, delayed fast release, and a spring bounce.
• Layered the green indicator above gray dots during transitions and preserved reduced-motion support.

v0.0.5

October 17, 2026 · Layout and mobile navigation

• Centered homepage content and header within a 1440px container, with aligned spotlight and footer content.
• Constrained article heroes to the existing 1180px reading layout.
• Added missing mobile navigation links, including full article navigation alongside article contents.
• Fixed homepage logo contrast in light mode over the hero and scrolled header.

v0.0.4

October 16, 2026 · Article navigation

• Article-page Events buttons now open the local Calendar & Events app.
• Calendar categories, Marketplace, podcasts, trending, and favorites link to local homepage sections.
• Corrected article category anchors and linked homepage event cards to the local calendar.
• Article login links open the local auth page; destinations without local equivalents remain external.

v0.0.3

October 16, 2026 · Release history access

• Added Changelog footer links to the homepage, article pages, and calendar.
• Each link opens its app's local release history.

v0.0.2

October 16, 2026 · Local navigation

• Homepage Events button and menu entries open the local calendar.
• Calendar logo returns to the local homepage.

v0.0.1

October 16, 2026 · Homepage & articles

• Initial website design imported with bundled images and design data.
• Local previews configured for desktop and mobile.
• Shared repository and versioning for homepage, articles, calendar, and events.
• Added this changelog page.