Changelog - AI JSON Tools

2026-07-14

Fixed broken tool pages: uuid-generator, html-encoder, css-minifier — UI now matches titles and JSON-LD
Aligned author E-E-A-T: /authors/li-xiaoyao/ shows Li Xiaoyao consistently in JSON-LD and visible copy
Completed blog hub drift fix — 6 missing sitemap articles added to /blog/ index with cover SVGs
Added CI Check 13 (tool UI consistency) and Check 14 (blog hub ↔ sitemap symmetry)
Updated privacy and cookie policies (Last Updated: July 2026)

Extended verify-deployment.mjs with blog cover verification in CI
Fixed 404.html — added noindex and removed AdSense
Improved thin tool pages (pydantic, zod, schema-generator batch) and related-tools coverage

Published 10 non-JSON depth articles: DevOps deployment, API auth, GitHub Actions CI, Docker local preview, PostgreSQL JSONB indexing, client-side 50MB processing, privacy/compliance, tree viewer benchmarks, and vanilla JS formatter build guide
Updated blog index featured section and homepage Guides with new editorial articles
Updated sitemap-blog.xml with all new article URLs

Replaced Guides section cards with latest DevOps, privacy, and build-from-scratch articles
Added "View all guides" link to /blog/

Removed 72 low-quality blog posts (C-class) and 42 auto-generated news articles (/news/* → 410)
Retained 28 high-quality developer guides with unique author boxes
Merged 3 duplicate tool groups: json-diff → json-compare, json-tree-viewer → json-viewer, base64-encoder → base64
Tool count reduced from 38 to 35 canonical pages

Added /authors/li-xiaoyao/ author page with GitHub profile
Added /editorial-policy/ page documenting content creation and review process
Enhanced About page with site statistics and maintenance commitment
Added Author Box with "Updated: 2026-06-05" timestamp to all 28 blog posts

Added Giscus comment system to all blog posts (GitHub Discussions)
Added Related Articles section to all 28 blog posts (3 related articles per post)
Added pre-filled demo content to json-escape and json-validator tool pages
Restructured homepage with Latest Guides and Popular Guides sections
Navigation restructured: Tools | Guides | About | Changelog | Contact
Blog list page cleaned up (removed SEO filler text)

5 core tools received full content blocks: use cases, I/O examples, error tables, FAQ, related articles
30 tools received slim content blocks: use cases, I/O examples, FAQ
tools/index.html rewritten with unique 80-120 word descriptions per tool
Removed generic "Access the X tool" template descriptions

Fixed sitemap consistency: removed base64-encoder from sitemap-tools.xml
Added /authors/ and /editorial-policy/ to sitemap-pages.xml
Verified zero dead links across all 28 blog Related Articles sections
Fixed residual old links for 3 merged tool groups across 7 files
_redirects cleaned: removed conflicting /news/json-* wildcard rule