Changelog

What has changed on this site, and when. A site that asks its readers to check its claims should be willing to say what it has altered since they last looked.

Newest first. Versions are 0.x.y — the middle number moves when something a reader would notice is added or taken away, the last one when a release only tidies up behind it.

  1. 0.9.0

    Interface and accessibility pass

    A pass over how the site reads and how it is moved around in, rather than over what it says. Several pieces of the article layout turned out to have been rendering with no styling at all.

    Fixed

    • Scripture quotations and quoted sources had no styling and were drawn with the browser's default indent, with the citation underneath in ordinary body text. They are now set off by a coloured rule with the reference below them in small type.
    • Source cards — the boxes linking on to the evidence behind a claim — rendered as a plain bulleted list with the title and the description run together on one line. They are now bordered rows.
    • The related-articles block at the foot of an article had its two type sizes swapped: the words "Related articles" were larger than any of the article titles under them, which were set in small faint capitals on a bulleted list.
    • The search button sat stranded in the middle of the header bar on phones. Two competing automatic margins were splitting the empty space between them instead of one pushing the buttons together.
    • Readers who ask their device to reduce motion still had every block of an article slide up the screen on arrival. Only the index pages had been honouring the setting.
    • The "skip to content" link pushed the whole page down by a line when it was tabbed to. It now sits over the header instead.

    Added

    • Links inside article text are underlined. Nearly every claim here carries a citation, and in the dark theme the link colour was too close to the text colour to tell them apart by colour alone.
    • A progress bar under the header shows how far through an article you are, and a button appears after two screens to take you back to the top. On a phone there was previously no way to tell either.
    • Section headings inside an article carry a link to themselves, so a particular section can be linked to rather than the whole page.
    • The header marks which section you are in, and each section has a colour of its own that appears on that marker, on quotations, on the contents list and on the progress bar.
    • Wide tables now show a shadow at whichever edge has more table past it, and can be scrolled with the keyboard. Sixty of the seventy articles carry a table, and on a phone they were simply cut off at the edge of the screen with nothing to say so.
    • Search results can be moved through with the arrow keys and opened with Enter, from either the header overlay or the home page.

    Changed

    • The header's buttons are large enough to hit with a thumb.
    • Headings no longer break with a single word on the last line, and paragraphs no longer end on one.
    • Figures in tables are set in even-width digits so columns of numbers line up.
    • Screen readers are told how many search results there are rather than having all of them read out again on every keystroke.
  2. 0.8.0

    Static site, search everywhere, and article navigation

    The site stopped running any code of its own when a page is asked for. Every page is now built in advance as a plain file and served from Netlify, which is what makes the rest of this list cheap.

    Added

    • Search from every page, not only the home page, through a button in the header or by pressing the / key.
    • Search reads article text, not just titles, and shows the sentence your words were found in.
    • Previous and next links along a topic at the foot of every article.
    • Every article says how long it is and when it was last revised.
    • A "start here" page making the case for testing claims.
    • Clicking an image opens it full screen with its caption and credit.
    • Links to a heading travel down the page rather than jumping, and the heading is briefly marked when you arrive.
    • A 404 page that leads back into the site instead of showing two words on a blank page.
    • Section and topic index pages, so every level of the site has one.

    Changed

    • The home page is a directory of topics rather than a list of every article.
    • Article images are cropped to a consistent shape so articles do not start at wildly different heights.
  3. 0.7.0

    The Bible and Science sections completed

    The two sections were finished: physics and cosmology were written from nothing, and the existing articles were revised throughout.

    Added

    • Physics and cosmology: the Big Bang, distant starlight, fine-tuning, and thermodynamics.
    • Further articles across human evolution, geology, and dating methods.

    Changed

    • Articles that had not been written yet are listed but not linked, so nothing on the site promises a page that is not there.
  4. 0.6.1

    Build cleanup

    Nothing a reader sees. The starter-template files the site had been built on top of were removed, along with build configuration that no longer described how the site is made.

    Fixed

    • A second stylesheet was still in the repository and was no longer the one the site used, so tests were checking a file no visitor ever received.
  5. 0.6.0

    Rebuilt as a plain evidence reference

    The site was rebuilt around one idea: it is a reference, and a reference should get out of the way of what it is referencing.

    Changed

    • One stylesheet, the system typeface, almost no colour, and no shadows or gradients anywhere.
    • Light and dark themes that follow the device and can be overridden by hand.
    • Scripture references in the text are linked to the passage automatically.

    Added

    • A sitemap, machine-readable article data, and a canonical address for every page, so search engines index one version of each.
  6. 0.5.0

    Articles moved into version control

    Article text moved out of the code and into ordinary markdown files, one per article. Editing an article now means editing one file, and every revision is recorded.

    Changed

    • Each article carries its own title, capture date, and revision date, which is where the dates shown on the site come from.
  7. 0.4.0

    Responsive article navigation

    The contents of an article became reachable on a narrow screen, where there is no room for a sidebar beside the text.

    Added

    • A menu that carries the article's contents when the sidebar will not fit.
    • The contents list marks the section you are currently reading.
  8. 0.3.0

    Long-form readability

    Work on the article page itself: the measure, the spacing between headings and the text under them, and how tables and quotations sit in the column.

    Added

    • A light and dark theme toggle.
    • Objections and questions collapse, so an article can carry them without the argument running through them.
  9. 0.2.0

    Simplified index layout

    The front page was cut back to a directory. Sections, topics, and articles became one structure rather than three lists maintained separately.

    Changed

    • Topic cards say how many articles are behind them.
    • Search moved into the page rather than sitting above it.
  10. 0.1.0

    First build

    The first version of the site: a home page listing the research, and the articles carried over from the previous site.

    Added

    • The Bible and Science sections, and the articles written for them so far.