What's new
Version notes for clearer knowledge pages, better entity discovery and smaller changes that make public records easier to read and follow.
Latest release
Atlas now provides an accessible public experience by default, with stronger contrast, keyboard and screen-reader support, reduced motion, larger touch targets, and optional reading preferences saved locally without cookies.
Previous versions
Atlas now enriches Spanish and US entities with conservatively matched Wikipedia and Wikidata references, adds a tracked Wikipedia link to verified entity pages, and rejects ambiguous or structurally malformed matches.
Atlas now preserves accented letters when extracting Spanish entity names and keeps each entity's dated discovery milestone visible in its public timeline.
Entity pages now include a concise current status built deterministically from recent public evidence, with no AI generation and the entity named explicitly for clarity.
Atlas now preserves quoted names in headlines and keeps the entity subject in descriptions, avoiding incomplete or awkward updates.
Atlas now remembers recent home selections and gradually reduces repeated exposure, giving other relevant entities room to appear without weakening quality gates or affecting Breaking and editorial pins.
Atlas introduces Journal, a bilingual editorial layer connected to entities, collections, tags, RSS, and discovery surfaces. Entity pages now also preserve their cumulative history across feed refreshes.
Atlas now preserves previously published entities and their history across feed refreshes, while maintenance cleanup continues to remove weak unpublished candidates and incorrect associations.
Signal coverage is now connected to Atlas-driven breaking on the Signal page, with stronger matching for real-world breaking candidates and cleaner ordering for entity-linked signals.
Atlas adds an internal, non-indexed Signal view with a ranked reading of live movements, supporting coverage and linked entities.
Atlas now uses Signal's grouped, multi-source events to discover entities and connect related coverage while keeping its publication quality checks.
Full `dist` publish is confirmed: every publish run rebuilds and deploys the entire static output, even when only signal/atlas files changed.
Signal Atlas entity persistence is now more stable so entities don't disappear after headline changes, with a compact timeline attached to each entity.
Lootura improves image extraction, validation, and recovery so sources with incomplete metadata do not leave broken cards.
Lootura adds a compact signal read by edition inside the app, reuses the same logic in the Chrome extension, and refines how headlines, images, and the Signal cover are shown.
Lootura adds a lab for seeing which signals from one edition are also being covered by media in other editions.
Lootura changes how headlines are grouped so it can better tell when several sources are covering the same story and when they only share a loose word.
Lootura organizes edition expansion, adds Japan as its own edition, and reduces Labs to the experiments that add the most value.
Lootura adds South Africa, Mexico, and Argentina as real editions, with their own feeds, Signal, Labs, and operational pipeline.
Lootura simplifies each card and keeps the original article as the main destination.
Lootura starts reading editorial activity through authors: who is publishing more recent items and when a byline adds a useful signal.
Lootura adds Labs as a functional experiment area, connects selected hints back into the feed, and improves startup in the installed app.
Lootura restores the navigable headline cover and moves Signal into its own section, with followed words on a separate screen.
The lead cover signal now lets you move through its related headlines to better read how the same movement is being reported.
Lootura adds a read for signals that stay alive after 24 hours, without mixing it into the main cover.
Lootura adds optional enrichment to improve signal titles and signal reading without runtime calls.
Lootura is centered on three live covers for what is happening, what is moving, and what is fading.
Lootura prepares an optional improvement so Radar can name important topics more clearly while staying under control: it can be tested without spending, capped by budget, and monitored from Operations.
Radar gains a PWA-only tab for the words you follow: it finds matching recent stories, keeps the latest first, and drops them after at most seven days.
Editions is no longer only a switcher: in the PWA it now chooses the base signal, controls which categories get in, and tracks words that should stand out.
Stories can now be shared directly from the feed. Lootura creates a preserved link so the story still opens even after the live feed changes.
Lootura now shares snapshot links: each story or Radar cluster carries the minimal data inside the URL, so the link still opens even after the live feed has changed.
My Lootura is now organized into tabs for saved stories, muted sources, and interest signals. The trash action now asks for confirmation before clearing saved stories.
The source pipeline is more careful when an RSS feed fails: it keeps useful cache, applies cooldowns by HTTP status, and shows in Quality whether a source has low output or is blocked with errors such as HTTP 403.
US Radar now adds related Reddit threads inside topics already detected by news sources, without counting as sources or changing editorial thresholds.
What's new now has a technical doorway into Stackroom: an internal section explaining how Lootura is built behind the scenes, from feeds and the pipeline to Radar, PWA, quality, and publishing.
Calm mode is now a quick menu setting, next to dark mode. It filters breaking noise, live coverage, and repetitive politics without switching editions.
Saved evolves into My Lootura: a local screen for saved stories, muted sources, and interest signals the user can remove at any time.
The PWA now has horizontal gestures: swipe left to teach Lootura you want more like that story, and swipe right to mute the source for 24 hours.
The PWA explains horizontal gestures with a lightweight local sheet. It appears once and does not take over a full feed card.
The PWA shows a return summary when the user comes back after a while: new stories, Radar changes, and strong alerts, with options to continue, show next time, or disable it.
Stories now show a subtle source health label just above the author, source, and time line. It uses feed health data to distinguish stable and intermittent sources.
Saved stories now use the same visual structure as About, Radar, and Updates. Saved items last 15 days and are cleaned up automatically to keep the list fresh.
Status now has a quality tab for reviewing Radar, weak sources, and noisy terms without leaving the internal screen. Data validation and checks were also added to the pipeline.
Lootura can now insert one global on-this-day card when the date deserves it. Selection combines editorial overrides with Wikipedia and skips the day when there is no strong enough historical signal.
Radar now highlights stories that pull in many sources within a short window. When a story truly accelerates, it appears as a special signal inside the editorial radar.
Lootura now follows the device theme and lets you change it from the menu. Radar, About, Updates, and Status were adjusted so contrast works better in dark mode.
Radar now separates markets more cleanly, requires stronger signal overlap, and avoids showing weak clusters. Less noise, clearer sense that multiple outlets are actually talking about the same story.
Lootura now watches the background noise and groups the signals that keep repeating. Fewer isolated headlines, clearer sense of what is actually going on.
The feed now pulls from more sources, mixes stories better, and adds small editorial capsules for each visit.
The first vertical feed prototype launched with full-screen stories, swipe navigation, and content loaded from a local JSON file.
The first public Entity Atlas pass began as a small index of source-backed entities, routes and local JSON records.