Recent Changes

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November 1, 2026

Disney merch, all in one place

• New merch pages show what drops next, with dates, places and prices.
• Pages for pins, popcorn buckets, Loungefly, plush, ears, apparel and holiday goods.
• Movie tie-in pages, starting with Avengers: Doomsday and Hexed.
• The Friday newsletter now lists the week's merch drops.

October 31, 2026

Less off-topic TV

• ABC and ESPN shows no longer appear just because they stream on Disney+.
• Fewer stories land in the wrong group.

October 26, 2026

A construction tracker

• New page follows every Disney construction project, from the first permit to opening day.
• Each project shows its phase, its opening date and who gave it.
• Each project's timeline lists crane filings, permits, milestones and our stories in date order.
• The page updates itself every day.
• Find it under Ride Closings on the homepage.

October 15, 2026

A new front page

• The front page has a new design.

October 14, 2026

Bug fixes

• Bug fixes around topics and keywords.

Star Wars and Marvel get their own sections

• Star Wars has its own section and page now.
• So does Marvel.
• Pixar, the Princesses, Frozen, Toy Story and the rest stay under Other Franchises.

Faster to the news on phones

• Every story now says when it broke.
• On phones, the search box folds away and the first headline sits much closer to the top.
• Phones show six stories per section, with the full list behind "More".
• Section tags like "Magic Kingdom" are links now.
• Two sources running the same headline show as one story.
• Fixed empty entries on the Recent Headlines page.

October 13, 2026

The home page, by category

• Stories are now grouped under Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, Merchandise, Disney+, Marvel & Star Wars, and parks around the world.
• Each category has its own page with the whole week. Use the bar under the logo.
• On a quiet day a category shows stories from earlier in the week, marked as such.

A quieter newsletter signup

• The "are you human" check is gone from the signup box. It now gets a short page of its own, and most readers pass through it without doing anything.

September 19, 2026

A page for what's new

• This page. Every change a reader might notice gets a short note here.
• Find it in the footer next to Privacy Policy.

Automated traffic turned away

• Scripts that reload the home page hundreds of times an hour now get blocked.

Headlines you've read turn gray

• Come back to the list and you can see where you left off.

September 18, 2026

Better story grouping

• Unrelated articles were being added to older story groups. Fixed.
• Refurbishment closures, new collections, and Star Wars Celebration news were being skipped. Fixed.

August 17, 2026

Story grouping outage fixed

• Story grouping was down from August 8 to 17 after a software upgrade. Fixed and caught up.

August 8, 2026

Unsubscribe link works

• The unsubscribe link in our emails did not work. Fixed.

Archive pages were missing a day

• Monthly archive pages left off their last day. Fixed.

July 11, 2026

Search works again

• Search returned nothing on this site. Fixed.

July 6, 2026

Search by date

• Search can be limited to today, this week, this month, or this year.

Share previews

• Links shared on social media now show a preview image and headline.

July 5, 2026

Story pages get a summary

• Each story page opens with a short "At a Glance" summary.
• It is written by AI and labeled as such.

Monthly archives

• Browse past stories by month from the archive pages.

Story links are permanent

• A story's web address no longer changes when its headline is edited.
• Old addresses redirect to the new one.

Accessibility fixes

• Better contrast, keyboard navigation, and screen-reader labels across the site.

July 3, 2026

Email newsletter

• Sign up for a weekly email of the week's headlines.
• The signup box is under the masthead and in the sidebar.
• Emails are built to read on a phone.

Paywalled articles sort normally

• Articles from paid sources are marked with $ and now sort with the rest.

April 27, 2026

Fewer junk links

• Affiliate tracking links no longer show up as articles.

April 5, 2026

Bigger stories rank higher

• Stories and articles on the home page are now ordered by importance, not just time.

No more empty columns

• On quiet days the columns fill with recent stories and topic headlines instead of sitting empty.

April 4, 2026

Back button returns you to your place

• Tap Back after reading a story and the list opens where you left it.

Error page fixed

• The site showed an error on some quiet days. Fixed.

March 29, 2026

Paid sources are marked

• Articles from sources that need a subscription show a $ sign.
• A checkbox in the sidebar hides them.

Cleaner story groups

• A story group needs at least three recent articles to appear on the home page.
• Podcast episodes no longer get mixed into story groups.

March 25, 2026

New newspaper layout

• The home page is laid out like a newspaper front page, with a lead story and columns.
• Dark mode gets its own header.

March 24, 2026

Sponsored posts removed

• Sponsored posts from source sites are no longer shown.

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