v1.98.0 — Homecoming & City Cards

Your own city comes first, and a shared town now previews as its own city card. This release covers changelog versions 1.97.0 and 1.98.0: everything merged since v1.96.0.

🔗 Open the live demo →

Highlights

• 🏡 Homecoming. The first screen asks for a GitHub login. A public town's first visit plays a short arrival timelapse that ends on its city plaque (for example "CSS Boulevard of octocat"), then offers three paths: Explore, Understand and Contribute. Explore starts a three-house tour, and Wayfinding opens up as you visit.
• 🪪 City cards. 🔗 Copy link in a ?user= town now gives https://repolis-card.wingnut0310.workers.dev/u/<login>, whose link preview is that person's city card. The profile README portal embeds a card that is redrawn daily (/card/<login>.svg).
• 📖 Passport Journey. A new Journey tab lists the houses you opened, the paths you took and the traces you left during this visit. The ?user= Town Gazette now says when a town has grown.
• 🏛️ Source-backed Repository Atelier. The Atelier opens on the exact repository and its own description, with an explicit README reader. On the live site, answers come from that repository's complete public README or LICENSE and name the document they used.
• 🧭 A clearer first visit. Search is task-first. Speech bubbles and name labels are bounded, so they stay readable. Repo cards scroll and close reliably, and the town reports ready only after it has actually rendered.
• 🧹 Lighter storage, quieter refreshes. The public-town cache stays near 1 M characters instead of filling localStorage. The daily refresh rewrites only the resident files that changed.

Notes

• If your GitHub profile README already has the Repolis town portal, copy it again with Put this town on my GitHub profile to get the daily city card.
• The card Worker serves the canonical site only. Forks, custom domains and local clones keep their Pages links and banner. To run your own, see cloudflare-card/README.md.

What's Changed

• Fix Creator Hall public Star total by @hyeonsangjeon in #116
• feat: version resident dialogue budget caps by @hyeonsangjeon in #117
• chore: raise visitor dialogue cap to ten dollars by @hyeonsangjeon in #118
• BOLT: improve the first-visit path (#120, #121, #122) by @hyeonsangjeon in #123
• fix: preserve scoped Atelier failures and chat focus by @hyeonsangjeon in #126
• fix: distinguish unanswered Repository Atelier replies by @hyeonsangjeon in #127
• fix: ground Atelier answers in complete public documents by @hyeonsangjeon in #128
• fix: authenticate public Atelier document reads by @hyeonsangjeon in #129
• fix: synthesize Atelier answers directly from verified documents by @hyeonsangjeon in #130
• fix: serialize and bound Entra token requests by @hyeonsangjeon in #131
• fix: collect bounded streamed Atelier completions by @hyeonsangjeon in #132
• fix: make town names readable and panel controls reliable by @hyeonsangjeon in #133
• feat: make Repository Atelier source-backed by @hyeonsangjeon in #135
• feat: make first discovery clearer and source maps visible by @hyeonsangjeon in #141
• feat: guide patch — Gitber phrasing coverage, mobile finish, archive wording, HTTP/1.1 serve (v1.96) by @hyeonsangjeon in #142
• feat: homecoming — your city first, arrival timelapse, three paths, unlocking wayfinding (v1.97) by @hyeonsangjeon in #143
• feat: shared district rule and city card modules (v1.98, part 1) by @hyeonsangjeon in #145
• fix: date-free resident artifacts so the daily refresh stops rewriting every profile by @hyeonsangjeon in #144
• feat: passport journey tab and public-town Gazette finish (v1.98, 4b) by @hyeonsangjeon in #146
• fix: Star nudge fits phones and waits for open panels; Passport Escape returns focus by @hyeonsangjeon in #147
• fix: bound the public-town data cache so heavy explorers keep localStorage by @hyeonsangjeon in #148
• feat: city card Worker repolis-card — share previews and card images (v1.98, part 3) by @hyeonsangjeon in #149
• chore: wire the created CARD_KV namespace into repolis-card by @hyeonsangjeon in #150
• feat: city card links — public towns share /u/, README portal shows the daily card (v1.98, part 4d) by @hyeonsangjeon in #151
• docs: cut the 1.96.0–1.98.0 changelog for the v1.98.0 release by @hyeonsangjeon in #152

Full Changelog: v1.96.0...v1.98.0