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Changelog

Who this is for: readers of OCMD Explorer who want to know what has changed and when. Written for people who use the site rather than people who build it. Last updated: 2026-08-30

Read this first. The Ocean City guide is pre-launch. There are no version numbers here and none anywhere else, because nothing has been tagged as a release — tagging 1.0.0 before a thing is public would be a version number pretending to be a promise.

What follows is therefore grouped by the period the work landed, taken from the project's own history, and it starts on 2026-07-29, the first day of this edition. Once the guide is public this page switches to real versions and this note is the first thing to go.

Format follows Keep a Changelog: changes grouped under Added / Changed / Fixed / Removed.

Contents

Late August 2026

2026-08-22 to 2026-08-29

Added

  • Jellyfish Invasion — a ten-level arcade game built on the real Boardwalk: six actual blocks, spaced the way they are in life, and a battery you can run down.
  • Offline trip. The pinned plan — names, addresses, phone numbers and season hours — is now readable with no connection, at the top of the offline page. "Where were we going for dinner" is a more urgent question with no signal than "what still works".

Changed

  • The guide now shares its foundations with its sibling cities. The data schema, the news system, the weather client, the prose loader and several smaller pieces moved to shared libraries. Nothing a reader sees changed; the guide stopped maintaining eight private copies of code that other editions had already improved.
  • Wind and the detailed forecast returned to the weather reading. The beach surfaces print "NE 15 mph" again, and the "when will it rain" line reads the timing out of the full forecast text rather than guessing from a summary.

Fixed

  • Games that were registered and reachable but not listed anywhere are now listed. Being invisible is not the same as being absent, and the directory said so.

Mid-August 2026

2026-08-10 to 2026-08-15

Added

  • The News section — dated, sourced and entity-linked, across five beats: Open & Shut, Town Notebook, Season Marks, Fest Desk and From the Archive. Every item traces to a record and says where it came from.
  • Thread pages. The eight long stories — the storms, the fires, the building of the place — became readable pages rather than a data structure.
  • Person cards and history links now lead somewhere. The archive stopped being a set of dead ends.

Changed

  • The 1927–1933 archive hole was not a hole. The county papers had been online, free, the whole time. That period is now covered from primary sources.

Fixed

  • 1931 was wrong. All five of that year's original facts were wrong, unsupported, or measurably false, and were corrected against the county paper. The guide publishes corrections rather than applying them silently — this one is on the record.
  • 1941 now carries the war's arrival in the minute book on 11 December, from the primary source.

Early August 2026

2026-08-01 to 2026-08-07

Added

  • ADA beach access dataset. Which street entrances have a beach wheelchair, boarded walkways to the sand, or the seasonal roll-out mats — from the town's own chart, and footnoted where the town footnotes it.
  • Answers sections on the Beach, Boardwalk, Nightlife and Trivia pages: short written answers to narrow questions, rather than a list to filter.

Fixed

  • An unconfirmed-place leak: records the guide had not verified were reachable from a surface that implied they had been. They are not shown until they are checked.

Late July 2026

2026-07-29 to 2026-07-31

Added

  • Today in OC — the page that answers "what is worth doing in the next few hours", using the date, the season, sun times and the tide.
  • Live weather and tides. National Weather Service forecast and NOAA tide predictions, each failing independently so one outage cannot take the page down.
  • Six guide landing pages — fishing, mini golf, bikes and breakfast, shopping, and the off-island guides.
  • Nightlife mode — what is open late, by district.
  • Offline groundwork. The guide became installable and began caching what a reader had actually read.
  • Sitemap, robots and footer navigation, so every page the guide holds is reachable and discoverable rather than merely existing.

What is not here

This changelog covers what a reader would notice. It does not list build tooling, test gates, refactoring or internal documentation — of which there has been a great deal. If you want that, the repository's commit history is complete and public.