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259 changes since Oct 17 ยท 9 today

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Just shipped

  • Today ยท Nov 4

    • Add the Show Playbook for spinning up new show companions, with a simulated legal review applied

    • Add an Offer to build tab on /ideas with a string-board form for apps, tools and integrations

    • Add the documentation strategy: research, readers, doc set and weekly Docs Day

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    • Send every sign-in button to /signin/ so email sign-in shows

    • Add episode trivia with points and trinkets won by playing, for signed-in fans

    • Add email sign-in links through Resend, hidden until RESEND_API_KEY is set

    • Add started and finished buttons to episode pages, an Up next card and the unlocked toast

  • Nov 3

    • Add free passenger accounts with pass numbers, and sync progress and spoiler mode to them

    • Balance headings and prettify paragraphs to stop orphaned words

    • A change for people who have finished the show

  • Nov 2

    • Fold pages away until they fill, and show a countdown teaser on direct landings

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    • A change you will see at a later episode

    • Filter episode titles, stills and character names by the viewer's progress

    • Give every outline-none control a visible focus ring, and test for bare ones

    • Hold fan comments and board theories for review, shown only from the episode an admin approves

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  • Nov 1

    • Keep reveal text out of the rest of the site's pages, fetching it as gates open

    • Add an Ideas and Changes page that fills its changelog from every merge to main

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    • Swap the Cancer Gets LOST explore tiles to pilot-safe pictures

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    • Add an Also there by your episode row of headshot links to character pages

    • Say More on October 28 instead of All 0 things when a day shows nothing yet

    • Retire the encyclopedia copy on the site share card and stamp the domain on saved PNGs

  • Oct 31

    • Add a Just finished Season N room, a When this aired strip on Previously on, and fan theories in the watch companion

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    • Add a spoiler-safe Lost costume guide for Halloween

    • Put the famous filming places in a drifting strip above the map, with then-and-now in the map card

    • Make Manifest and Fill the column the flagship games, with links from

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  • Oct 30

    • Grow Behind the Scenes with production stories, making-of videos, more photos and hub links

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    • Gate faction filters, badges, the footer sitemap and search by episod

    • Give the 36 pages that dropped their share image the site card, with a test

    • Add Windward Community College to the filming map, with the fallen tree

    • Add Where to Watch, Is Lost Worth It and Watch Order to the Watch menu

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    • Say "scenes" instead of "roles" and sharpen the filming-location photos

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    • Redesign the appearances page with a next-up hero, month groups and filters

    • Redesign the trinkets page with season shelves, filters and a detail dialog

  • Oct 29

    • Tidy the relationships page: graph first, controls in a side panel

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    • Share the Memory Wall's place stamps with the home page so main builds again

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    • Stamp the Memory Wall with specific places instead of On or Off Island

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    • Rebuild the home page for Just Starting and Partway

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    • Gate Senet behind the Senet board trinket

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    • Add an index of what each episode unlocks, with a coverage test and a private audit page

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    • Add mockups of four Lost puzzle games under /games

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  • Oct 28

    • Add a Memory Wall: who is on the Island, off it or moved on, at your episode

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    • Merge the LOSTIE card into My Lost so far

    • Add Kate's LOST 2017 memorabilia and a LOST 2017 event page

    • Show watch links as service pills on shows like Lost

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    • Add magazine zoom, catalog anchors, page crops and a rights notice

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    • A change you will see at a later episode

    • A change you will see at a later episode

    • Add TMDB posters and watch links to shows like Lost

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    • A change for people who have finished the show

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    • Address Kate's design review notes across the site

    • Make no progress mean episode 0 and add the boarding prompt

    • Link bookshelf books to Goodreads and add Season 4-6 books with sourced notes

    • Add island trinkets: find things on the Island by logging episodes

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    • Merge the station guide and places into one map at /map/

    • Name visible headshots in alt text and add LCP hints

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    • Credit Lost: Mosaic by its creator's post and link its trailer behind the gate

  • Oct 27

    • A change you will see at a later episode

    • Add the LOST Solved blog to the library and a characters-are-gods theory

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    • Add hub answer intros and watch-order and worth-it pages

    • Add the My Lost so far card, page and share image

    • Add the crew prediction league

    • Fold Kate's Fare Sheet answers into the Flight 815 spec

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    • Add live prediction votes and Called it marks

    • Add fan weeks: The internet that week on episodes and a Week by Week scrubber

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    • Add the first-timer theory board at /theories/board/

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    • Disclose Google Analytics on the privacy page ahead of turning it on

    • Fold Watch, Seasons and Timeline into one Watch hub

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    • Add a four-year r/lost deep dive as the first Reddit research brief

    • Make the site readable to search without spoiling it, and add a where-to-watch page

    • Replace the companion's end-of-episode question with community polls

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    • Add an easter egg list and a head-injury tally to the stats page

    • Add 10 more fan club timeline entries: Lost Experience fan moments, r/lost, fan podcasts

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    • Let Sawyer, Locke and Michael into the Season 1 quiz from the pilot

    • Give each mystery card its own header frame

    • Add /watch/together/: a spoiler-safe guide to watching Lost with someone new

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    • Add Shows Like Lost: 14 spoiler-free picks for what to watch next

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    • Add Since Lost: where the main cast is now

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    • Record how the community_artifacts column grants were applied

  • Oct 26

    • Stop leaking the moderator's email and submitter contacts from the collection

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    • Take Fan Club Kit #3 offline until it is ready

    • Add character episode lists and a story-order rewatch guide

    • Add Was it ever explained?: a /mysteries hub with small-question verdicts

    • Add Fly Oceanic 815: a seatback flight map from Sydney that loses the plane

    • Add printable DHARMA supply drop labels: a label maker page and a Kit #3 piece

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Add the watch companion: a spoiler-safe second screen for every episode

    • Add Previously on Lost recaps for Season 6

    • Add Previously on Lost recaps for Season 5

    • Add Previously on Lost recaps for Season 4

    • Add Previously on Lost recaps for Season 3

    • Add Frame by Frame, a redrawn island map and place pages

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    • Put the airport and the flight on Day 1, and drop empty timeline columns

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    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Add Previously on Lost recaps for Season 2

    • Hide content the viewer hasn't unlocked instead of teasing it

    • Add Flickr pool set photos: three then-and-now sliders and a Behind the Scenes gallery

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    • Call the gift guide's sets pairings, not ready-made boxes

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    • Clear Kate's site-chrome review notes: spoiler-safe relationships list, nav icons, no breadcrumbs, clearer spoiler badges

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    • Link the fandom history's Kit #3 entry to the Kit #3 page

    • Add Previously on Lost recaps for Season 1 and an Up next card on My board

    • Head the gift guide with a Flight 815 ticket on a beach, and a four-choice picker

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    • Fix the UX audit quick wins: Episodes tab follows progress, player waits for play, phone overflow, nav-matching titles, skip link

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    • Add the Flight 815 accounts, cabins and plane spec

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    • Show magazine covers and add a page-flip reader for issue scans

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    • Turn the home page into a page per status, with a one-tap episode log and a lit blast door

    • Add sealed predictions: guess at an episode, open it at the answer

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    • Redesign Community, recategorize its videos and feature fan collections

    • Add Fan Club Kit #3: a printable kit whose pieces arrive as you watch

    • Add rewatch crews with a safe to say view for whoever is ahead

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    • Turn the Radio Tower into a night shift log, with DHARMA station pages and sealed passport stamps

    • Rebuild Senet with a tomb-painted board, history timeline and smarter opponents

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    • Add progress-gated stills, faces and cover art to Beyond, Library, Showrunners, Cutting Room and Theories

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    • Redesign characters, add cast fun facts, fit Name Them All on one screen

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    • Redesign themes, reorder theme pages and add a game to each theme

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    • Keep spoiler text out of the page while the smoke is closed (K8-house

    • Add the Lost Addicts Blog theories and name notes

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    • Make the Transceiver page a full-size Walkman with episode stills on every tape

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    • Grow the relationships graph with the story and redesign the versus pages

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    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Add the Lost Addicts Blog's off-show media: Comic-Con panels, podcast specials, the Encyclopedia and Take2

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Expand the gift guide with pictures, budgets, gift boxes and nine more gifts

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    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Gate collection items by progress and show fans' items on episode pages

    • Add a spoiler-safe Lost gift guide sorted by how far the fan has watched

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    • Add a shared page shell and compact the longest phone pages

    • Add Lost on other shows to Beyond: Fringe's Oceanic ticket, Simpsons send-ups and more

    • Add a travel packet to boarding passes: luggage tags, arrival cards and a DHARMA stations passport

    • Redesign the home page: bold hero, one-tap onboarding, blast door rewatch and image cards

    • Credit the Notebook's blacklight photo in a Sources card on the blast door page

    • Add printable boarding passes that board a fresh rewatch

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    • A change you will see at a later episode

    • Show season and episode instead of overall episode numbers

    • Add Notebook group D: names, forgetting, black and white, damaged bodies themes

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    • Let signed-in fans plan an Oสปahu trip, mark places visited and add a photo from their visit

    • Add Island Stats, a spoiler-gated body count and calendar (K8-houseke

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    • Put the filming map first, with clearer pins and a place card that opens in place

    • Redesign season and episode pages: themed headers, dark pickers, centric names

    • Add LOST Notebook findings: verified trivia, Beyond tie-in sites and fan theories

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    • Crop character and cast headshots to the face, and use sharper source photos

    • Let Kate's design notes accept either of her Google accounts

    • Add styled sign-in and sign-out pages

    • Redraw the station badges as the DHARMA station logos

    • Add What the blast door got right, a spoiler-gated scorecard of the door's guesses

    • Add a cheeky Lost 404 page with ways back into the site

    • Blast door: measured Via Domus layer, more station badges, blurred locks and an unlock audit

    • Add First Scenes, a Name Them All quiz that describes each regular's first moment on screen

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    • Add Who Sits Where?, a Lost character logic puzzle

  • Oct 25

    • Blast door: add Reading the door, a guided tour, and Dates on the door

    • Add Name Them All, a timed spoiler-safe Lost character quiz

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    • Blast door: credits, versions, abbreviations and a split equations mark

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    • Gate or rewrite character trivia, quotes and intros that spoil later episodes

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    • Grant anon read on community_artifacts so the collection shows community items

    • Add a score theme and a Beyond the Episodes transmedia page

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    • Blast door: tidy the bottom corners, add the Via Domus layer

    • Keep character intros to what a viewer knows at first appearance

    • Deepen the Sun and Jin deep dive with backstory and magazine sources

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    • Move off-topic sources out of the transmedia library pillar

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    • Tag DarkUFO deleted-scene posts with the episodes they were cut from

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    • Fix duo key-moment episode numbers

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    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Add the Cutting Room: deleted scenes per season, linked to episodes

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    • Add The Monster theme with a progress-gated sightings timeline

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    • Add "Season 6, Argued Live", an essay on how the final season was received week by week

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    • Add a Showrunners page on Lindelof and Cuse's podcasts, panels and interviews

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    • Add cast and crew pages for everyone the site names

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    • Add a Sun and Jin relationship deep dive

    • Personal saves, slice 1: bookmark and notes on blast door cards, My board

    • Add The Monster theme with a progress-gated sightings timeline

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    • Add a Sayid deep dive, and gate every deep dive behind the essay gate

    • Add fan videos to episode pages and redesign Community

    • Add the Transceiver Radio: a Walkman that plays the songs and score from Lost

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    • Catalog DarkUFO and link it from episode, character and library pages

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    • Regroup the nav into five sections, with a phone tab bar and a sitemap footer

    • Add /characters and /themes hub pages, and point breadcrumbs at them

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    • Lost podcasts: unlock season groups from watched-through progress; full Jay and Jack archive

    • Timeline: untagged backstory rows have no episode, not S1E9

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    • Badge the podcast pages and gate full-size portraits by progress

    • Blast door: redraw the real door, explore it on the map

    • Station badges and character headshots next to every mention

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    • Pick timeline day photos from the day's own episode, without repeats

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    • Lost podcasts: 817 episodes from nine shows, with covers and links

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    • Archive the Road to 2028 mockup for Jo behind admin sign-in

    • Add page comments: Google sign-in to post, spoiler blur, reports and moderation

    • Restyle the LOST home button after the show's title card

    • Add a Cancer Gets LOST page, and correct the community card

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    • Make /swan a full-screen view of the nav countdown

    • Progress memory: "I've watched through S2E10" unlocks spoilers site-wide

    • Make design-note markers visible on the filming map

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    • Filming community: retry a failed post read instead of keeping it empty

    • Filming locations: visitor write-ups, comments and owner claims

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  • Oct 24

    • Kate's private design notes on every page: pin, highlight, resolve

    • Cite the box-set Black Rock journal on the outrigger shooters

    • Oahu filming-locations map: 43 spots, spoiler-gated by episode

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Theories board: 18 fan theories, what the show confirmed and what it debunked

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  • Oct 23

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • On this day in Lost: a daily card on home and a page per calendar day

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    • Radio tower: tune a shortwave dial through static to seven Island broadcasts

    • Add Senet: playable ancient board game with island rules

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    • Finish the research library: format filter, search, further reading, link check

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  • Oct 21

    • Add favicon, apple-touch-icon and web manifest

    • Pin Node 24 with engines and .nvmrc

    • Timeline: day by day, everything on and off the Island, spoiler-free up to your episode

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  • Oct 20

    • A change for people who have finished the show

    • Fix versus 404s, the blocked concert embeds, and add About, Privacy and Terms

    • Add the Official Magazine index and research library

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  • Oct 17

    • Pin the Vercel framework preset to Next.js

Ideas

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