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Social Media for Aliens

Section · Changelog

What shipped, and when.

Every meaningful change to the archive is logged here, dated. For what's planned next, see the roadmap. For corrections to specific records, see the errata log.

  1. Launch and rapid build

    • Site went live at socialmediaforaliens.com on the day the Pentagon released PURSUE.
    • 30 graded case files seeded across NASA, CENTCOM, INDOPACOM, EUCOM, FBI, STATE, and DOD.
    • Per-file media embeds: DVIDS videos, Pentagon photos via Scientific American CDN, NASA images, Internet Archive audio.
    • 'In the margins' feature added, transcribed redactions, stamps, and handwritten notes per file. Populated for Apollo 17, Roswell 1947, FBI 62-HQ-83894, and Tehran 1976.
    • Prevailing-explanation block added to resolved cases.
    • Cite-the-primary-source widget shipped (Chicago / MLA / APA / BibTeX / permalink), citations center the originating government agency, not this archive.
    • Schema.org JSON-LD on every file page.
    • Browse filters: source command, status, decade, media type, with shareable URL state.
    • /start-here onboarding path with 17-term glossary.
    • /digest with five backfilled entries (2017 NYT, 2023 Grusch, 2023 Schumer, 2024 AARO, 2026 PURSUE).
    • /about, /standards, /errata pages with full editorial principles and methodology.
    • /data page with JSON dataset, CSV export, RSS feeds (site-wide + per-source-command), iCal feed, oEmbed.
    • /random, /tags, /tags/[tag], /timeline, /stats, /roadmap, /changelog pages.
    • Custom 404 page with site search and recent files.
    • Per-file dynamic OG images for social sharing.
    • Sitemap, robots.txt, dataset endpoints, oEmbed endpoint.
    • Print stylesheet, clean reading layout when printed.
    • Keyboard shortcuts (`/` for search, `?` for help, `g+r` random, `g+f` files, etc).
    • Skip-to-content link and visible focus rings throughout.
    • Vercel Analytics + Speed Insights live.
    • Editorial design: cream paper background, Source Serif body, navy institutional header, single oxidized-red accent.
    • /api/bot/announce scaffold for Mastodon and Bluesky webhooks (activates when accounts and webhooks are configured).
    • Hover-card link previews on internal file links.
    • Search-match highlighting in browse results.
    • Homepage corpus search.
    • Related-cases section auto-generated on every file page.
    • Read-time estimate in the file-page metadata strip.