• Oct 27, 2026

  Reading Rooms. Read a book or watch a film with everyone else, at your own pace. Each room is broken into parts that stay closed until you open them, so nothing ahead of you is spoiled. Write a page about the part you're on, or a few words in the margin. No account? You can still ask for a room to be opened. See it →

• Oct 26, 2026

  Suggest a word. Signed in? You can now propose a word for a future month, from your account page. Everyone's first suggestion is considered before anyone's second. See it →

• Oct 26, 2026

  Sign in with a code, on any device. The sign-in email now has a code as well as a link. Asked for it on your laptop but opened the email on your phone? Type the code into the page you started on and you're in. See it →

• Sep 3, 2026

  A new word now points at the month before. In the first days of a month there is nothing published yet. The page no longer stops at “be the first” — it links you to what people made for last month's word. See it →

• Sep 3, 2026

  Comments follow the paper you are looking at. Paging quickly through papers could leave the previous paper's discussion on screen. Each paper now keeps its own thread, however fast you move.

Above is what changed for you. This site is an open source project — the full changelog records everything else too, and you can browse the code on GitHub.