v1.3: the Underground opens and the key turns

Spent the week with my head down, and a pile of it went live at once. Here is the whole list, plain.

The Underground is a real room now

The members community went from a locked door to an actual place. You get a dashboard when you sign in, not a settings screen. Post to the wall. Reply to anyone, then reply to the replies, nested as deep as the conversation runs, and collapse a thread when it gets long. Pin your own stuff to the top of your wall. Save posts you want to find later. Message other members straight across. No likes, no dislikes, no dopamine slot machine. A small room on purpose.

One key, every room

The All-Access pass is open. Forty-seven dollars a year, locked in for as long as you keep it. That rate holds through July 5, then the door price goes to ninety-seven. One pass opens the whole network: every book, every tool, every field guide, the records, the hi-fi radio feed, and everything I make after, for as long as I am alive to make it. If you bought the Everything Bundle or you already pay for the newsletter, you are in, comped for life, nothing to do but sign in.

The radio follows you

The player used to die every time you changed pages. Now it rides along. Put on the station and wander the whole site and it keeps playing, no restart, no gap.

Live notifications

When someone replies to you, tags you, or sends a message, you see it without refreshing the page. Flip on browser alerts if you want the desktop ping. Off by default. Your call.

Sign in once, stay in

You pick how long you stay logged in when you sign in: a day, a week, a month. Your machine, your rules.

The smaller bricks

• Accessibility pass: it works with screen readers now, bigger tap targets, real keyboard navigation, and it honors reduced-motion if your system asks for it.
• The arcade games actually play on a phone.
• Cleaned up the front page so it leads with the work; the shops moved into the Mall where they belong.
• Added Suno to the toolshed, the thing the radio is built on, if you want to make your own.

That is v1.3. More coming. The door is open.