chore(release): 2.16.1 — shorten home <title> to 'HCI & AI Research at UW'#1364
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Follow-up to the 2.16.0 SEO on-page fixes. The home <title> shipped as "HCI & AI Research at the University of Washington | Makeability Lab" (~66 chars), which Google truncates. Shorten the descriptive prefix to "at UW" so the full title stays well under the ~60-char display limit while keeping the high-recall "HCI & AI" keywords. "University of Washington" still appears in the page's JSON-LD and body copy, so the UW association holds. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Cuts 2.16.1, a follow-up to the on-page SEO fixes that shipped in 2.16.0.
The home
<title>shipped in 2.16.0 as:Google truncates titles around ~60 characters, so the lab name (our brand) risked being cut off in search results. This shortens the descriptive prefix to "at UW":
Why this wording
| Makeability Labalways shows.OrganizationJSON-LD (parentOrganization) and in the About body copy.Changes
website/templates/website/index.html— title block prefix →HCI & AI Research at UW.website/tests/test_page_metadata.py—test_home_title_is_not_duplicatedupdated to assert the new title.makeabilitylab/settings.py— bumpML_WEBSITE_VERSIONto2.16.1+ description.Before / after (home
<title>)HCI & AI Research at the University of Washington | Makeability LabHCI & AI Research at UW | Makeability LabThis is a
<title>-only content change (no visible page layout change), so no UI screenshots apply.Testing
python manage.py test website.tests.test_page_metadata --settings=makeabilitylab.settings_test— passes.Deploy
Merging to
masterauto-deploys to test. Tag2.16.1to ship to prod.🤖 Generated with Claude Code