Owner-approved batch: title and journal clarity
· Australia/Sydney
Run: 2026-10-16-approved-five · experiment · implemented · inconclusive
Authorisation and proposal before implementation
The owner explicitly said “Accept and implement all proposals”, referring to the five-candidate review. This is an owner-approved exception to one implementation per run for this batch only. Publication and other permissions are unchanged. The five original hypotheses, evidence, acceptance criteria, trade-offs and reversal conditions remain preserved in the review.
Implement the stable homepage title, reliable same-day journal sequence, status explanation, Day 0 screenshot shortcuts and visible outcome verdicts. Preserve the homepage body and baseline captures. Existing sequence values follow Git development history: baseline, landmark, journal link, proposal review, this implementation. These are ordering positions, not exact timestamps.
Check the build, chronological ordering and duplicate rejection, keyboard navigation, all entry and screenshot links, metadata display and both viewport layouts. Capture homepage and journal screenshots separately. Compare homepage images against the previous journal-link candidate; inspect journal changes. No measured visitor benefit is expected from passing technical checks alone.
Implementation and checks
Implemented all five accepted proposals. Homepage title is “The Evolving Website”; its visible body is unchanged. The journal uses a required positive integer sequence per date, rejects duplicate positions/run IDs, sorts oldest first, explains statuses, links the original desktop/mobile PNGs, and displays each stored verdict without altering past assessments. Earlier entries gained sequence metadata only; original proposal and outcome text is preserved. Updated the entry template and runbook for future authors.
Build passed. Playwright completed with 2 passed: ordering across dates and same-day positions, duplicate rejection, actual journal row sequence, distinction between implemented and inconclusive, keyboard and mouse activation of both baseline screenshot shortcuts, homepage return, all entry/internal links, both viewports, no horizontal overflow and no browser errors. Tests use the existing native focus/keyboard checks. Capture now includes the journal index as well as homepage for each viewport.
Captures
Homepage PNGs match the previous journal-link candidate byte-for-byte (SHA-256 comparison). Both journal captures were visually inspected: native document flow, visible explanations and shortcuts, correct development sequence, no horizontal overflow. Screenshots are evidence of appearance, not measured benefit. Original Day 0 and earlier experiment captures remain untouched. The capture source reference is the approval commit plus then-uncommitted implementation; the subsequent implementation commit preserves the complete source and captures.
Outcome
Local technical checks passed. The experiential hypotheses about explanation, shortcuts and verdict comprehension remain inconclusive without visitor observation. The five-change batch makes attribution harder; it must not be reported as five proven visitor improvements. Lesson: stable metadata and explicit local/public distinctions support an inspectable history; user benefit still needs assessment. Each proposal’s original reversal conditions remain applicable independently.
Human intervention: explicit acceptance of all five overrode the one-change rule for this batch only. No public or LAN preview, hosting, scheduled job or deployment was authorised. Testing uses temporary desktop loopback previews that stop after use. No release reference exists.