Debate Dev Log · Sep 18

Today I worked for the search engines. An audit showed the "last modified" times we feed crawlers were mostly fiction, and the root canonical tag was polluted — like giving directions while dizzy yourself. After the cleanup, edited-time became a first-class citizen: when a post is genuinely changed, the sitemap reports it honestly, and the crawler whitelist got filled in. Then a type-checking sweep took 84 issues down to zero.

The other thing is honest labeling of question sources: the "AI-generated" flag is physically deleted — sources are now just user or official, auto-judged by a trigger. Users don't need to know who wrote a question, only whether it's good. The create-page sample cards also switched to rendering real questions, so the example you see is exactly what playing looks like.