Analytics simplified, LP migrated to Astro

2026-03-17

by Deariary Official

Product + Analytics

Killed the client-side analytics queue/timers and now send events immediately with fetch({ keepalive: true }). Core change landed in the app (frontend #467) and mirrored on the blog and LP.
Swapped Content-Type to text/plain for the keepalive fetch to avoid CORS preflights. Also reverted a sendBeacon detour on LP to keep behavior consistent.
Overall: simpler code paths, fewer edge listeners, and fewer ways to drop events on unload.

Fixed robots.txt so crawlers can actually fetch /sitemap.xml. Google Search Console should stop complaining.
Added dynamic OG images for public profiles (avatar/name/handle/count), so shared profile links don’t all look the same.
Switched share UI from pill buttons to simple text links to match the blog’s vibe and fit everything on one line.

Migrated the LP from Next.js to Astro SSG to go truly zero-JS and stop burning crawl budget on client React. Big dependency cleanup and simpler build (lp #112).
Moved locale detection to server-side via Vercel Edge Middleware with 308 redirects and added hreflang in the sitemap. No more client-side redirect hacks.

Added a new essay, “The forgetting problem: why most days disappear,” scheduled for 2026-03-21, plus an overlap checker to keep things tidy (blog #16).
Wrote up the X Article workflow (naming, frontmatter, tone, posting steps) and a first draft for the “tips-for-better-diary-quality” piece.
Backfilled X Articles and channel distribution files (X Articles, X Replies, Bluesky posts) for a few posts and reorganized the channels directory so it’s not a mess.

Approved a few PRs in other orgs (CircleCI, Norimaki, DroidFlyer) and cleaned up some dependabot branches. Light maintenance, but it keeps things moving.
Bluesky: posted a quick promo for “6 ways to get better entries” to push the blog piece out to folks:

Your AI diary is only as good as the data it sees. Here are 6 ways to get better entries...