The ledger: every public change in plain words, plus reading mode and what's new since your last visit

📜 The ledger

• The changelog tells the story of finished work. The ledger is the day-by-day record underneath it: each public change, sorted into kinds like fixes, look and feel, records and docs, or behind the scenes, and grouped by month, day and repository. Each row links to the change itself on GitHub.
• It reads public repositories only. Committee material, the WordPress source and the helpdesks’ own sources are private and are never read.
• People appear by first name and last initial, in keeping with PIR’s anonymity traditions. Automatic publishes, merges and bot chores are left out, and the page says how many.
• It gathers itself again every morning, so it’s never more than a day behind.

📖 Reading mode

• The book button in the header gives you the calmest page in one tap: Daybreak, nothing moving, more contrast, and no cursor effects. Tap it again to go back to exactly how you had it. It’s also in the Light & motion drawer and on the first-visit panel (“Just let me read”).

✦ What’s new since your last visit

• When you come back, a small count beside the search button shows how many entries, write-ups and ledger changes are new since you were last here. Open it to see them at the top of search; new links on the page get a small mark. First visits show nothing.