Aletheia

What's new.

A running record of what's changed in Aletheia, newest first. Mostly small things, a few of them load-bearing.

v0.3 — Easier with a keyboard or screen reader

  • Magic-link sign-in now returns you to the page you were headed for, matching the other sign-in options.
  • If you use a screen reader, the step-by-step flows announce errors as they happen, and your keyboard focus lands where you'd expect as you move from step to step.
  • Every button and link shows a clear focus outline when you tab to it, and the cursor becomes a pointer over anything you can click.
  • Fixed a few tap targets that were too small on a phone, and a header email address that used to wander off the edge on narrow screens.

v0.2 — More ways in, fewer dead ends

  • Sign in with a password, a link sent to your email, or a six-digit code, all from the same screen. Use whichever one you'll actually remember.
  • The account and sign-in emails now look and read like the rest of Aletheia. The old ones had the charm of a shipping receipt.
  • You can report a bug or send an idea right from the footer.
  • Sign-in links survive the scanners some inboxes run before you ever click, and following one takes you back to wherever you were headed.
  • If you're already signed in, opening Aletheia goes straight to your portraits. It used to stop at the login screen first, which helped no one.
  • The collection builder holds onto your edits when you step back to change a question, so revisiting an earlier step no longer undoes your work.
  • People answering your questions get the thank-you only once their words are safely saved, and the page they open shows up right away, even before the rest of it finishes loading.
  • A couple of rough edges are gone: a delete that fails now tells you so rather than leaving a blank page, and deadline dates show the right day wherever you are in the world.

v0.1 — First public release

  • Put together a set of questions and send them to the people who know you best. Think of it as homework you get to assign your friends.
  • Their answers get woven into one portrait of how you actually come across, and everyone who answers gets a small reflection of their own back the moment they finish.
  • Before you start, you can browse the question banks and read the case for doing any of this at all, on the Questions and Why pages.
  • You sign in with a password and can reset it the day you forget it. Shared links show a real preview instead of a naked URL, and the Privacy and Terms pages sit in the footer.