Patch notes
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The dashboard gets an instrument cluster
The dashboard now opens on a car-style gauge binnacle — an initial version, and every instrument keeps the promise its automotive twin makes. More will land here later.
New /dashboard A fuel gauge shows your runway — months you can cover where you live now, on a stated 0–12 month face. If your runway outruns the face, the needle pins and the printed figure keeps telling the truth.
New /dashboard A speedometer shows what your cash leaves each month — the dial runs from zero to your own income, so full is your number, not an invented one.
New /dashboard An odometer rolls your career XP — like a real one it only ever counts up — with your level lit on a 1–6 gear strip beneath it.
New /dashboard Hestia's flame rides each needle's pivot, gently flickering — carried, never extinguished, even sitting still.
New /dashboard The main gauge readouts wear their dial's colour and catch a passing light, left dial then right.
Improved /dashboard The speed dial's caption now says what it measures in plain terms: cash minus budgeted expenses.
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The Guild steps ahead of Training
Improved /guild The Guild tab now sits before Training in the Guild Hall: where you stand on your ladder comes before the exam that climbs it.
Measured injury deaths replace the modelled safety score
The old Safety Estimate was inferred from income and education, not measured — the last invented number on the map. It is gone, replaced by measured injury mortality, and six more measured county figures joined it: childcare cost and availability, broadband, food insecurity, and 3rd-grade reading and math scores.
Improved /explore The Safety Estimate — a modelled 0–100 score with verdict words like “Very safe” — has been retired. In its place the county panel shows Injury Deaths: deaths from accidents and violence per 100,000 people, measured by the CDC and averaged over five years. Counties without the measurement show a dash instead of a guess. It is mortality data, not a crime rate, and the panel says so.
New /explore Six new measured county figures: child care cost burden (share of income childcare takes for two children), child care centers per 1,000 children, broadband access, food insecurity, and 3rd-grade reading and math scores. All come from County Health Rankings with their underlying source named on the panel. None of them changes any county's fit score — they are for reading, not ranking.
Improved /explore The head-to-head compare chart's Safety spoke now ranks counties by measured injury deaths instead of the modelled estimate.
Fixed /explore The compare chart's Housing spoke ranked counties by raw home price, which pinned every big metro at the worst end no matter what people there earn. It now uses home price relative to income, the same affordability measure the fit score uses.
Fixed /explore The compare chart plotted a county with no reading for a measure — air quality is only monitored in about a third of counties — as if it had scored worst in the nation. A missing measure now leaves a gap in the shape, and the chart says so.
Improved /explore County photographs on desktop are twice the size — three per row instead of six postage stamps across the map card — and up to nine now show instead of six. The map card also ends at its content instead of stretching an empty box to match the stats column beside it.
The Treasury moves in next to your character
Improved /guild The Treasury tab now sits right after Character in the Guild Hall, instead of at the far end of the row among the panels that aren't built yet. Your ledger lives next to the sheet whose savings it explains.
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The listing drafter speaks eBay
The Market's drafter wrote Facebook Marketplace listings; now it writes eBay listings too, and you can type a draft by hand for either venue. Nothing is posted anywhere — the drafter still only writes text for you to review and paste.
New /guild A Facebook / eBay switch in the listing drafter. An eBay draft comes out in the order eBay's own form asks for it — title, category, condition, item specifics, description, price — with copy buttons for each part and a button that opens eBay's sell flow with your title already filled in.
New /guild A “Type it in” mode in the drafter: write the draft yourself — no photo, no scan spent — and get the same review card and copy buttons either way. The floor price you would quietly accept stays in the for-you box; on eBay it maps to Best Offer's private minimum, which buyers never see.
Your forged character stays forged
Fixed /find Find Your Fit no longer reopens the questionnaire for a player who already finished it. If your character is forged you get your rankings, with a Retrain button when you want to answer again — the quiz only auto-opens when there is no character yet.
Fixed A device that had never seen your character could silently erase your class and questionnaire answers from your account when it synced, while your XP survived. Syncing now never lets a device without a character overwrite one that exists.
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Hestia joins the home page
New / The section explaining the site's name now has a picture beside it: Hestia veiled, carrying the hearth flame in a bowl, standing before the Atlas sphere. On a phone it sits below the story instead of beside it.
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Choose your hearth: three colour themes
The site now dresses in one of three dark themes, and you pick which. Ember — a warm hearth-glow — is the new default, so the whole site is warmer today even if you never touch the picker.
New A colour-theme picker lives in the top bar (the palette icon, next to Upgrade): Ember, warm hearth-glow; Cold Iron, steel blue-grey; Forest, deep canopy green. Your pick is remembered on this device and applies to every page.
Improved Ember replaces the old blue-grey as the site's default look. The greens, the XP amber, and the 1st/2nd/3rd rank colours are identical in every theme — a theme changes the room, never the meaning of a colour.
Improved The top bar's subtitle now reads "Between Hearths" — shortened to make room for the picker without crowding the row.
The way in is easier to see
A pass over the doors into the site: the steps that need an account now say so before you click, the sign-in and sign-up cards carry the button you actually came to press, and one line of copy that had quietly stopped being true has been corrected.
New The "How it works" steps that need an account — Find your fit, Meet your character, Level up — now carry an "Account needed" marker on the home page, so you find that out before you click rather than after.
Improved The sign-in and create-account cards, and the panel that asks you to sign in, have been repainted: a warmer frame and a single clearly-lit button for the thing that page is for. On the sign-in page that is Sign in; on the panel asking you to join, it is Create an account.
Fixed /account/sign-up The create-account card used to say "everything keeps working without an account". That stopped being true when your character, journey, ledger and dashboard moved behind sign-in, so it now says what is actually open — the map, to everyone — and what an account unlocks.
Fixed /explore County photograph captions no longer print raw archive cataloguing. Some captions arrived as "Collection : … Accession Number: … Title :" and were cut mid-record, leaving a dangling label; they now read as a sentence, and a caption that turns out to be nothing but catalogue metadata falls back to the picture's own name.
Improved The home page's figures are three tiles instead of four. The fourth counted counties with an income reading, which was the same number as the county count — a second copy of a figure already on screen.
A statement is one card now — and a scrub fix
Two fixes from the first real statement import. Forty lines made the Treasury a very long page, and two merchant descriptions kept digits they should never have kept.
Fixed /guild Phone numbers and long account-style digit runs in imported merchant descriptions are now masked, alongside card numbers. This also cleans up rows you already imported — they are re-checked the next time the page loads, so nothing needs re-importing. Short store numbers stay, because they are how you recognise the shop.
Improved /guild An imported statement is now a single entry in your spending record: its dates, its line count, its total, and one bar showing where the money went by category. "Show all 40 lines" opens every row, editable exactly as before. Forty lines no longer turn the page into a scrollbar.
Improved /guild The import draft groups rows by category, biggest group first, with a count and subtotal on each. Payments, refunds and possible duplicates fold behind one line that names how many there are and what they add up to.
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The Counting House opens in the Treasury
The Treasury's record has taken receipts one photo at a time. It now takes a whole card statement at once: upload the PDF or the CSV export, check the rows it reads, and enter them with categories already filled in.
New /guild The Counting House, a new Treasury card: import a credit-card statement as PDF or CSV and its transactions become draft rows — dated, priced and filed into your eight budget categories — that you check and correct before anything is saved. Up to 5 statements a month.
New /guild The draft opens with one bar showing where the statement's money went by category, top three marked 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Payments to the card, refunds and likely duplicates of rows you already recorded are set aside with the reason printed — one tap brings any of them back.
Improved /guild Rows in the spending record now say where they came from — scanned, typed, or from a statement. The statement itself is read and discarded: never stored, and card numbers are never transcribed.
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Atlas Vita is now Hestia's Atlas
When a Greek city founded a colony, the settlers carried fire from the mother city's hearth — Hestia's flame — and used it to light the first hearth of the new home. That is what this site is for, so it now carries her name. Your data, your character and your progress are untouched: this is the same app wearing a truer name.
Improved The site is renamed Hestia's Atlas, everywhere a name appears: the header, the browser tab, and every page that said Atlas Vita. Older patch notes below keep the old name, because they describe the site as it was on the day they shipped.
New / The home page now tells the story behind the name — the colonists' fire, Atlas holding the sphere, and why progress here glows amber.
Improved The line under the logo reads "The Map Between Hearths" instead of "Living Map".
New /forums The forums now open with the house stance, right above the composer: this is a hearth talk. The wider internet has plenty of places for pile-ons and dunks — this is not one of them.
New /about A new section tells the story behind the name: the goddess every Greek home honored first and knows least today, why an unnamed goal and a forgotten goddess are the same shape, and the Statue of Liberty lines that read like her.
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The nav gets lighter, and the journey moves up
Seven tabs was a lot to hand someone on their first visit. Patch Notes has stepped down to a link at the bottom of every page, and the remaining six read left to right in the order you actually use them.
Improved Patch Notes left the top navigation for the footer, next to About and Plans. Nothing was removed — this page is now reachable from the bottom of every page on the site.
Improved Journey now comes before Guild Hall in the navigation: work the plan, then visit the hall where what you earned is kept.
Improved On a narrow phone the tabs are wider and the header is a little shorter, because six tabs share the row where seven used to.
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Patch notes fold up, and Chapter I gains a number that was earned
This page was on its way to becoming one long scroll. It is now grouped by the day work shipped, with only the newest day open — and every folded day still says exactly how much is inside it, so nothing is hidden except the wording.
Improved /patch-notes Updates are grouped by the day they shipped. The newest day is open; older days fold into a single row showing the date and a count of each kind, so you can see what a day contained before deciding to open it.
New /about Chapter I now carries the clearest evidence for the idea this whole site rests on: a League of Legends Diamond climb in 2015, 656 ranked games. Nobody hands you that and you cannot buy it — which is the same standard every number in this app is held to.
The listing drafter now matches Facebook's form, field for field
If you sell something to fund the move, the slowest part is writing the listing. Point the drafter at a photo and it comes back with the five things Facebook actually asks for, in the order Facebook asks for them — so transferring it is going down one list while you go down the other.
Improved /guild The draft now lays out Title, Price, Category, Condition and Description in exactly that order, numbered 1 to 5, because that is the order the real Create-listing form asks for them. Category and Condition used to be the other way round.
New /guild Your floor price, and the reasoning behind the asking price, are now fenced off in a block marked "For you — do not post". They have no copy button, on purpose: the floor is the lowest you would take, and publishing it hands that to the buyer.
New /guild Copy buttons on Price and Category as well as Title and Description. The price copies as a bare number because Facebook's price field rejects a dollar sign.
Improved /guild The photo drafter is now called Auto Draft Listing and sits at the top of your Inventory instead of buried under the manual form. It was genuinely hard to find.
Fixed Condition now reads "Used - Like New" with a plain hyphen, which is how Facebook spells it. We had been using a dash that matched nothing in their dropdown.
What you actually spent, and a door on the pages that hold your money
Two halves of the same idea. The Treasury can now hold what you really spent, line by line, so the budget above it stops being a guess — and every page that holds your own figures now asks you to sign in first, so none of it is ever left sitting in a browser you walked away from.
New /guild A spending record under the Treasury's ledger. Add what you actually spent, line by line, each with a category — and re-file any line into a different category whenever you want.
New /guild Each category shows what your receipts actually say next to what you estimated — with the number of receipts and the days they cover printed beside it, because a fortnight and a full month are different claims. The figure is offered in a box you can edit before you save it: it is your estimate, not ours.
New /guild We stay quiet rather than guess. A category needs at least 14 days and 3 receipts before we will suggest a monthly figure at all — but you can always enter your own, whatever the coverage.
New Find Your Fit, the Guild Hall, Your journey and the Dashboard now require an account. Explore, the forums, the patch notes and the about page stay open to everyone — the difference is whether the page holds anything you told us.
Improved Signing out now clears your data from that browser. It reaches your account first, so signing back in brings everything with you. This reverses the old promise that signing out left your data on the device — that was fine when there were no accounts, and wrong on a shared computer once there were.
Fixed Data left in a browser can no longer end up in someone else's account. Your profile is now marked with whose it is, and a mismatch is discarded rather than merged in when the next person signs in.
The Guild Hall becomes a guild hall — and the dashboard is real
A guild hall has always had four things under one roof: a market, a training floor, a jobs board, and a treasury that keeps your ledger. Now this one does too. The Market left the top of the screen and moved inside, Contracts is called what it actually is, and the Treasury stopped being a promise. The tab the Market vacated went to the dashboard — which, as of today, exists.
New /dashboard The dashboard is live: five readings on one screen — how many months your savings cover here and in the county you are aiming at, what comes in against what goes out, the schooling and certifications behind you, the next part in front of you, and what you have sold. It reads only. Nothing on it can be edited, and nothing on it earns XP.
New /guild The Treasury is your ledger. Report what comes in and what goes out and it keeps the running record, including what that leaves you each month. Saving it earns nothing — reporting a number you already knew is not an achievement.
Improved /guild The Market is now a Guild Hall tab, sitting second between Character and Training instead of at the top of every page. Nothing about your listings changed — same ledger, same milestones, same XP. Old marketplace links still work.
Improved /guild Contracts is now the Jobs Board, which is the real thing it mirrors. Still empty — it is waiting on real job postings, and it will cite whoever posted them.
Fixed /guild The Guild Hall's tab squares shrank slightly on phones so all eight fit on one row. At the old size the eighth would have wrapped to a second line on a 360px screen.
Saying the actual plan out loud: a dashboard for your life
The About page used to argue what this app is not — not a checklist. It now says what it is being built into: one screen holding the readings that decide whether you get where you are going. Nothing on that list is finished, and the page says so in as many words.
Improved /about A new section naming the five readings the dashboard is being built to show — runway here versus there, expenses against income, degrees and certifications earned, your next step in a certification, and what you have actually sold.
New /about A fifth promise: your runway will get shorter when rent rises or income drops, and the app will say so plainly. It will never treat that as a failure — nothing earned is taken away, nothing expires, and there is no streak to break.
An About page, and a header that stops breaking on laptops
Atlas Vita is built by one person, and until now the site never said so. There is an About page telling that story — and building it turned up a header bug that had been shipping on every route.
New /about An About page: how a solo developer making a cross-country move ended up building a relocation app shaped like an RPG, and the four design rules it holds itself to.
New An About link beside the Atlas Vita wordmark, at the top of every page.
Fixed The header used to leave the Sign in button stranded alone on a second row at browser widths between 1024 and 1103 pixels — a common half-screen or small-laptop size. The navigation now collapses onto one line at 1280px, where it measurably fits, instead of at 1024px, where it never did.
Guide buttons move to the top of every page
The button that walks you to the next step used to sit at the bottom of the page, under everything else. It now sits in the page header, and the trail runs the whole way through the site instead of stopping halfway.
Improved /explore The next-step button moved from the bottom of the page into the header, where it is visible without scrolling.
New The Guild Hall and Journey now point you onward too — the trail runs Explore → Find Your Fit → Guild Hall → Journey → Market end to end.
Fixed /explore The metric picker no longer pushes the page sideways on a phone; the name and the picker stack instead of fighting for one line.
Fixed The required County Health Rankings credit now wraps instead of overflowing the page on a narrow screen.
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The Guild Hall, and a navigation bar people can actually read
The site navigation was tested on people who had never seen it — including the owner's grandparents, who could not find it or say what any icon meant. Icons alone were not a smaller navigation, they were an unusable one, so every destination now carries its name at every screen size.
Improved Every navigation tab now shows its name at all times. On phones the tabs take a row of their own and are taller, meeting the accessibility target size they previously missed.
New /journey Your Runway and the Life Diary — how long your savings last, and a record of what you have done.
Improved /guild The Guild Hall moved its rail to the right and gained the tab system that holds the character sheet, training and ladders.
Fixed Monospaced figures are scoped to the numbers themselves rather than whole sentences, so prose no longer renders in a typewriter face.
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A fresh account starts empty, and stays empty
A brand-new visitor was being shown a class, a ladder and XP they had never earned. Nothing is minted now until you actually do something — an empty profile renders as empty.
Fixed No class, no ladder and no XP appear until you have earned them. A fresh visit is genuinely blank rather than pre-filled with placeholder progress.
Fixed /account Account fields are length-capped, and the ascendancy shine no longer drifts diagonally across its badge.
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Hestia's Atlas is in active development and these notes are written by hand as work lands. If something shipped and is missing here, that is a gap in the notes rather than a change that did not happen.