Changes to the site that a reader would notice, newest first.
- Record pages open on an overview, with the activities, sources and record details in tabs, Methodology has a page for the codebook, and About has this list of changes.
- Pages that stall while loading try again on their own, focus stays in view at high zoom and after filtering or paging, and links to a section scroll to it when opened.
- Records marked No documented activity now say that a search reached the institution and recorded nothing, and the About pages describe that state the same way.
- The homepage shows three figures: institutions checked, institutions with documented or possible GenAI use, and documented use cases.
- Explorer results start loading before you click, filters accept more than one value and show as tags beside the count, and every list opens sorted by Best match.
- The privacy notice says more about the spam check, what each form sends and what stays in your browser tab, and the accessibility statement was corrected.
- About has a new Accessibility page, and the privacy notice now says how long submissions are kept, how soon requests are answered and who is responsible for them.
- Pages load faster on phones: the code for the explorer, record, comparison and figures pages no longer comes with the first page you open.
- Country names read and sort the way most readers know them, with older spellings still searchable, and Hebrew and Arabic names display in reading order.
- Each page has its own title and description in search results and link previews.
- The homepage fits a phone screen at every width, the header has an Explore Data button, and the Research, Policy and About pages share one layout.
- In the explorer, a whole row opens its record and shows its number of findings, errors offer a retry, and the toolbar and comparison tray work better on phones.
- Focus follows page and section changes, form hints are read out with their fields, input borders are easier to see, and icons show in high-contrast mode.
- One photo on the Team page was replaced.
- Search suggestions load only once you start typing, so the explorer opens faster.
- The explorer’s search, filters, sorting and suggestions were reworked, and pressing Enter on a highlighted suggestion opens it.
- A record’s page title and description name the institution once it has loaded.
- The parameter list on the Data access — API page matches what the API does.
- On a record, each attribute links to the other institutions that share it.
- Placeholder values in the source data no longer appear on records as if they were data.
- The homepage figures arrive with the page instead of after it.
- Back to results stays on the site when you arrived at a record directly, and the comparison tray names what you have picked.
- The panel for flagging a finding has shorter wording.
- Each homepage figure links to the list of institutions it counts.
- The homepage’s screened count includes institutions whose check failed or did not finish.
- Countries on the homepage map are shaded, and the figures on the Visualizations page are easier to use.
- The Visualizations page adds country and regional summaries, with a way to compare places.
- The Visualizations page has three more figures, shown one at a time.
- The registry coverage codebook and the pipeline report carry the site’s header, navigation and footer.
- Research has a landing page like About’s, and the Visualizations page links back to it.
- Research has a new Visualizations page, with a shaded world map.
- The Research call page is filled out, and three pages describe the live data as it now stands.
- About opens with the mission and a list of its pages, the longer description moves to The observatory, and a Team bio opens when you click the person.
- Text carried over from the pilot site was rewritten across the site.
- The Team page has five new portraits and six new bios, and its list of research assistants is complete.
- About has a new Privacy page.
- The site search closes with the same motion it opens with.
- The explorer’s Clear button no longer sits indented when results run to several pages.
- The methodology pages explain a change in how some records are classified, and the site no longer says there is no API.
- Every core team member on the Team page links to a profile.
- Matt Swanson’s photo is on the Team page.
- Matt Swanson is Director of AI Policy, and the Contact page links to G3O on LinkedIn.
- Wording was tidied on several pages.
- Search engines can index the site.
- The site moved to the first wave of collected data, and the banner on every page saying collection was in progress was removed.
- The Funding page names the project’s sponsor.
- The banner on every page no longer calls unreviewed records observations.
- When filters match nothing, the explorer says so, rather than saying the search found nothing.
- Pages open on the site’s own background colour rather than a white flash.
- The site retries a request when the connection drops, before showing an error.
- Error messages were reworded for the live site.
- The Team page has photos and bios, with collaborators listed separately.
- The site went live with the full registry of institutions, before any of them had been checked.