Changelog

All notable changes to aichathub will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog 1.1, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning 2.0.

[Unreleased]

[1.2.0] — 2026-06-03 (candidate)

Added

• Magazine Home v2.1 — full home-page visual redesign consuming a new --mg-* token namespace (spec, roadmap).
  • 76 new --mg-* design tokens (color · typography · measure · spacing · radius · shadow · focus ring) appended to src/styles/tokens.css. Legacy --accent / --ink / --line retained; per Q8=A path, page-by-page migration deferred to Phase 1-6 PRs.
  • 3 new Astro components: HeroMoversAside (top-5 sparkline mini-table beside hero), DiscoverPills (4-chip mono-caps row deep-linking into /discover filters), ToolBannerStrip (warm-soft single-row chara-convert CTA above footer).
  • SiteNav redesigned: Instrument Serif brand + warm ring + bordered hairline nav links + single-button <details> language toggle with aria-expanded sync.
  • FeaturedCarousel re-skinned: 280px scroll-snap cards with cluster-hued 3px top band, 32×32 round serif icon, Pricing / NSFW meta footer.
  • HomeBody rewritten as 7-section IA (hero+aside / discover-pills row / intent (alt+divider-top) / platforms / movers / comparisons / tools / pillar empty-fold / tool-strip), all visuals scoped under .home-v21 so DataTable / CompareCard / FeaturedCarousel keep their legacy styles on detail / discover / compare pages.
  • Google Fonts preconnect + Instrument Serif / Geist / Geist Mono stylesheet added to Base.astro; mg-* font tokens carry an Iowan Old Style / Geist / JetBrains Mono fallback chain for environments where fonts.googleapis.com is blocked.
  • 33 new i18n keys (en + zh paired) for the magazine layout, including HTML-em variants (hero.titleHtml, homeLane.titleHtml, etc.) rendered via set:html. Italic em styling is suppressed in zh via html[lang="zh"] em { font-style: normal } since newspaper italic is unnatural for CJK.
  • Canonical mockup src/pages/preview/home-magazine.astro shipped for visual reference (/preview/home-magazine).

Hard constraints preserved (vs v2.1 DESIGN.md §9)

• src/lib/schema.ts jsonLd, <canonical> / <og:*> / hreflang in Base.astro, sitemap / robots / RSS emitters, data/*.json shape, PillarCards empty-fold, EntryChangelog SP-BC behavior, hero-dotted utility, build chain (build:main / build:nsfw), and tests/sp-bc-* — all untouched.

[1.1.0] — 2026-06-02

Added

• Platform-detail v1.1 SEO schema (src/lib/platform-schema.ts): 7 new optional top-level fields populated from the aichat-discover overlay — priceTiers, priceSourceUrl, parentCompany, keyFeatures, tldr, visitsHistory, visitsHistoryUnit — plus userVoice[].sentiment and updates[].sourceType enum extensions.
• Eight new platform-detail components: TldrCard, PriceTiers, VisitsTrend (800×120 wrap of Sparkline), CollapsibleSection, plus mutations on SocialProof (3-col sentiment with single-col degradation), Updates (colored sourceType badge), InfoDensityGrid (8→6 cells), RelatedPlatforms (per-card compare CTA).
• PlatformDetail hero now renders 3 status badges (NSFW / Pricing / Platforms) directly via the existing PlatformLogo primitive; ReadingProgress mounts on every detail route.
• discover-extras drift guard: strict discoverExtrasSchema exported from platform-schema.ts; unknown producer-side fields fail pnpm test before they silently land. Overlay mergeDiscoverExtras chains after mergeUserVoice inside getPlatformsForLocale.
• v1.1.2 content backfill across all 32 platforms — every platform now has ≥1500 word EN body (clearing the May 2026 Core Update red line), overviewLead summary, handbookSections with topic enum, and ≥3 curated FAQs.
  • Critical (PR #114): agnai 101w → 1999w, poe 216w → 1983w.
  • Borderline + audit closure (PR #115): spicychat 1147→1573w, candy-ai 1041→1511w, talkie-ai 1038→1527w (also fills missing "How it compares" section), pygmalion 813→1566w, dopple-ai 1461→1559w.

Changed

• poe frontmatter corrected — parentCompany: "Quora", priceFrom: "$5/mo" (since 2025-03 restructure, was outdated $19.99), monthlyVisits: "8.6M/mo" (Similarweb April 2026, was outdated 75M).
• Stage 1 PR #111: Updates + SocialProof fold into the collapsible "Recent activity" section; HandbookSteps tokens; topic pills.
• janitor-ai content overhaul (PR #110) with InfoDensityGrid and differentiator tag system.

Fixed

• platform-schema.ts duplicate-key bug introduced by the PR #112 / PR #113 ordering collision — the 7 v1.1.1 enrichment fields were declared twice; TS astro check errored, Zod runtime silently overwrote. Single canonical declaration retained.
• anima-ai homepage URL + linky-ai Play Store link (PR #108).

[1.0.0] — 2026-06-02

Added

• SP-BC: site-level versioning + entry-level content changelog + group_docs bidirectional sync.
  • /releases + /zh/releases pages render CHANGELOG.md via marked.
  • scripts/extract-entry-changelog.mjs derives per-entry git history → data/entry-changelog.json (gitignored, sha-cached); EntryChangelog.astro renders ≤5 latest commits on every detail page.
  • src/lib/groupdocs-schema.ts baseGroupDocs (+ platformGroupDocs extension with INTERNAL-only tier/cluster).
  • scripts/sync-groupdocs.mjs pulls handbook/supplements/audienceReport/troubleshooting/featureGuides from ../group_docs/{platforms,tools}/INDEX.md + ai-chat-platforms.md → data/groupdocs-live.json (gitignored).
  • mergeGroupDocs overlay in src/lib/content.ts (same shape as mergeUserVoice); GroupDocsLinks.astro renders deep-reading cards on Platform + Tool detail.
  • scripts/emit-status.mjs writes ${GROUP_DOCS_PATH}/auto-generated/aichathub-status/{status.json,status.md,coverage-gaps.md} as last step of build:main (pure-Node, best-effort: missing path = warn + exit 0).
  • tests/sp-bc-tier-cluster-guard.test.ts ensures tier/cluster never serialized into dist/**/*.html (JSON-LD / data-attrs / meta tags). Editorial body text mentioning cluster names is allowed.
  • tests/sp-bc-cross-locale-draft.test.ts scans en/zh frontmatter for shared-slug draft mismatches across 4 collections.
• SP-D release gate: this release.

Changed

• build:main now runs sync:entry-changelog → sync:groupdocs → astro build → pagefind → emit:status (each step degrades gracefully if GROUP_DOCS_PATH is absent).

[0.1.0] — 2026-06-02

Added

• SP-A: collection + entry-level draft gate.
  • draft: boolean optional field added to 5 content collections (platforms, tools, guides, comparisons, highlights).
  • src/lib/content.ts exports showDrafts server-only flag (DEV or SHOW_DRAFTS=1) and draftCollections Set for whole-collection hiding in prod.
  • All getXxxForLocale getters + slug getters filter drafts in prod.
  • DraftBadge.astro renders only in dev/preview when entry.data.draft === true.
  • pnpm content:verify-no-draft scanner used by SP-D Gate 1.
• discover SSOT overlay (PR #98): mergeUserVoice reads data/uservoice-live.json → overlays user-quote content per platform per locale.
• v1.0 roadmap (PR #99): docs/specs/2026-06-01-aichathub-v1-roadmap-design.md defines the path to 1.0 via SP-A → SP-BC → SP-D.

[0.0.1] — 2026-05-28

Added

• 32 platform detail pages (English; 30 zh translated).
• 4 section index pages, Pagefind search, highlight strip, about page.
• Cloudflare Pages deploy automation.
• NSFW subdomain build scaffolding (SITE_TARGET=nsfw, currently inactive).