The first new feature in decades: Games. An array of 22 daily games to challenge logic, numbers, words, and other bits from the site. What good is daily games without leaderboards and tracking your progress. For the first time in decades, registration to the site is back. Registration keeps your stats and progress across any device. There are no subscriptions. As part of singing up, you can control the order of the games, and you can hide any you are not particularly fond of. Your account remembers your News category selections and weather location.

Games have their own category, but also show up on the homepage as a reminder of what you're missing. The registration system was built from scratch with One-Time Password and Passkey options.

Other changes? Improved refresh when the page is stale, multi-sourced allergy information, better news article merging, dust warnings to the weather page, and other changes for consistency and formatting.

Just when I thought I had redone everything, I forgot site search. Each new component had it's own search, designed to be fast and efficient. Meanwhile, the top search function relied on Google's indexing (and ads). I knew it could be better. AI to the rescue…

Trying to find an acceptable solution is no longer a battle of available products. This weekend I was struggling to find an application that made weather easy to view. Easy, like, not so great vision... want to read it at a glance, no struggle, no glasses, high contrast. Every app failed. Spend some money, then they have options. Back in the day (2025), we'd suffer and adapt, that was not the outcome…