Version history

Added a floating back-to-top button that appears after scrolling down on any page. Smooth-scrolls back to the top on click. Makes navigation on long listing pages faster.

Directory listing cards now show 'Added <date>' for resources older than 7 days, matching the resource detail page. Fresh listings continue to show the New badge. Helps visitors gauge how established a resource is directly from browse/search/category results.

FutureTools importer output now includes inspectedCount and a skippedSummary grouped by reason, making no-import daily runs faster to audit without reading every skipped candidate.

Fixed stale about-page link that pointed to /#submit (the old homepage anchor) to point to /submit instead — the dedicated submission page added in v0.7.112.

The /submit form page and /submit/thank-you confirmation page now carry noindex so search engines do not waste crawl budget on form and confirmation pages. /submit and /random are also removed from the sitemap — /random is a redirect page and /submit is a gated form, neither with crawlable unique content.

The shared directory page renderer now handles index pages that do not pass a listing array, preventing /categories and /tags from tripping over listing-result defaults. Category and tag index headers also now show simple count context so visitors can see the scale of the directory before choosing a path.

Discovery spider runs now emit per-source progress logs and scan vendor homepages with bounded concurrency instead of purely one-by-one. The multi-source pass no longer looks frozen after Database ready and completes faster while keeping outbound fetch pressure capped.

Public submissions, moderator edits, FutureTools imports, and discovery-spider promotions now all hard-reject duplicates before writing to listings. Duplicate detection is shared across those paths and blocks exact URL matches, same-path URL variants, and same-domain same-name submissions instead of merely warning moderators after the fact.

Added noindex meta tag to /mods and /adm routes so search engines do not index moderator or admin pages. Lightweight middleware sets res.locals.noIndex before routing to those routers.

OpenSearch plugin added. Visitors can now add ItsAiFriendly to their browser address-bar search via the standard OpenSearch protocol — supported natively by Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari.

Discovery-spider promotions now resolve ai-tools mirror pages to the actual vendor website URL before saving a listing. Promoted resources open the real tool site instead of landing on an aitools.inc intermediary page.

Discovery intake now explicitly prefers accessible pricing. Free and ad-supported resources get a promotion/auto-approval advantage, while premium listings need a stronger case and FutureTools premium imports now land in pending for manual review instead of auto-approving.

Discovery imports now rank description quality before approving a listing. Thin slogans are replaced with richer vendor-homepage copy when possible, and FutureTools imports skip entries whose copy stays too generic after enrichment.

Listing descriptions now scrub broken markdown-style link artifacts before rendering or spider ingestion. That removes leaked strings like `[![link]](https://...)` from cards/detail pages and prevents new curated-list imports from saving the same noise into live listing copy.

Discovery spider promotion updates no longer use collation-sensitive empty-string comparisons inside SQL CASE expressions. Duplicate/promotion note writes now avoid the `Illegal mix of collations` failure that was aborting some sources mid-run.

Taxonomy routing now separates real communities from promo/distribution tools more reliably. Broad words like social or network no longer force marketing, clipping, release, or discovery tools into creator-networks before the services buckets are considered.

Discovery spider scoring now has a dedicated band-growth priority layer. Short-form clipping, captions/subtitles, repurposing, promotion, release/distribution, playlists, music-video workflows, and fan/community growth signals get extra weight over generic creator or AI utility tools.

Discovery spider source coverage now includes more targeted artist-growth feeds. It adds AI promo/repurposing, AI video creation, and AI music workflow sources while restricting them to the sections most likely to produce useful creator-facing resources.

Discovery spider markdown parsing now applies the product-likeness gate after continuation-line descriptions are attached. This prevents rich bullet lists like the AI marketing source from being rejected before their real descriptions are available.

Discovery spider markdown parsing now supports indented continuation descriptions after linked bullets. This lets the new AI marketing seed source yield real candidates instead of missing entries whose descriptions live on the next line.