The devlog gets its own pages, and the site learns to count without looking

The devlog moved out of the forum.

Until today, every entry lived as a closed thread in the forum. That worked for reading, but the threads were loaded by the browser after the page had arrived, from an address search engines are asked to skip. To a search engine, the devlog was an empty page with a loading message.

Every entry now has a page of its own, with a proper title, a date and a link to the next one. There is an overview, and an RSS feed for anyone who still uses one. Old links to the forum threads, and to the blog from before that, land on the right entry. The forum keeps General and Feedback, which is where conversation belongs anyway.

Dutch, before the page even arrives.

The site has always come in two languages, but the Dutch was applied in the browser: the server sent English, and a script swapped the text afterwards. Search engines mostly saw the English. The Dutch pages are now translated on the server, with their own description and address, while English stays the default for anyone who hasn't chosen.

Play here first.

The big buttons now start the game on this site, where a score goes straight to the leaderboard. itch.io is still one link away. The homepage also shows today's daily challenge: how many people have played it, and the top three so far.

Counting, without looking.

For the first time the site counts its visitors, in the most boring way available: a total per page per day, the language, and the name of the site someone came from, if any. No cookies, no addresses, nothing that connects one visit to another. A browser that asks not to be tracked isn't counted at all. The privacy page says the same, at greater length.

And some housekeeping.

The light theme no longer flashes dark for a moment on every page, stylesheets and scripts are now cached for a year, and a handful of security headers joined the server configuration. None of it is visible, which is how you know it went well.

A website that finally measures its own reach, and chose to know as little as possible about it. Somewhere, a steering committee is confused.