Changelog
A running, dated record of what we've built and adjusted — written for anyone keeping an eye on the platform, not just the people building it.
65updates recordedLast updated Friday, October 9, 2026 at 4:30 PM ET
Friday, October 9, 2026
1 update- 4:30 PM ETPerformanceNewest
Pages open faster, and hold their shape while they load
Each page now checks who you are once instead of several times, and work you never see — like analytics — waits until the page is already up. Analytics code isn't downloaded at all unless you've said yes to it. Charts, the Voice Guide and the moving line backgrounds load only when they're needed. And the rest of the app now holds its shape while it loads, the way Today and Learn already did — the Field, check-ins, orientation, rooms, billing and your account settle into place instead of jumping.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
6 updates- 1:15 PM ETRefinement
Your first name, even after a title
If your name starts with a title like Dr. or Ms., Magnet now greets you by your first name instead of the title — on Today, in the app, and wherever a therapist is introduced to you, from their profile to the note on why they might be a fit.
- 12:45 PM ETRefinement
A way back to your dashboard
When you're signed in, the header, the footer and the end of the home page now offer your dashboard instead of Sign in — Today, or the therapist workspace for therapists — and signing in takes you straight there. Today, Learn, Shop and your mycelium also hold their shape while they load, so the page settles in place instead of jumping.
- 12:30 PM ETNew page
Therapists can sell courses and downloads
Verified therapists can now list their own courses and downloads from their workspace. The Magnet team reads every listing before anyone sees it, and it shows first as coming soon. Therapists are paid through Stripe: Magnet keeps 15% and takes care of payment and refunds, so a buyer never has to ask a therapist for their money back. Physical things stay Magnet's own.
- 11:15 AM ETNew page
Refunds you can give yourself
A new page, Refunds and returns, says plainly what happens if something you bought isn't right for you. Courses and downloads can be refunded within 30 days, for any reason, with a button on your Purchases page — no form, no questions. Things we ship can be sent back unused within 30 days of delivery, and if anything arrives damaged or wrong we put it right without asking for it back. After 30 days you can still write to us, and a person reads it.
- 11:10 AM ETNew page
Learn and Shop, open to look around
Two new spaces sit beside Care. Learn holds short courses you can stop and come back to — no grades, nothing to finish. Shop is a small shelf of things to have nearby, each one paired with a practice in the Field. Both are coming soon: you can look at everything now and read the first lesson of every course, and each one opens when it's ready.
- 9:35 AM ETNew page
Today, and your mycelium
Signing in now opens Today: what's here for you in Care, where you left off in Learn, and — only if it goes with something you kept — something from the Shop. Below it is the soil, and in it your mycelium: everything you've opened across Magnet, grown outward from the day you arrived and connected the way you actually moved through it. Time away shows as rest, never as a gap. You can scrub back through it, or read it as a plain list. It never uses check-ins or anything you wrote. A bar along the top (a dock at the bottom on phones) moves between the spaces, and steps aside while you're answering questions.
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
4 updates- 10:25 PM ETRefinement
The Field map is live
The map of the Field on the home page and at the top of the Field now shows the current library instead of a snapshot, and quietly picks up new practices without a reload. In the Field it starts at your own pace with today's practices already risen, and the ones you've saved stay lit.
- 10:24 PM ETNew page
Verified therapists can suggest practices
Verified therapists can now write a practice for the Field from their workspace. Every suggestion is read by the Magnet team before it appears, and it has to leave a clear way back to somewhere restful. The team can publish it or decline it with a note.
- 10:23 PM ETRefinement
Start, How it works and the blog, redrawn
Start now lets you answer the real first question on the page and shows how Magnet would begin for you. How it works draws your route through the three rings — including the way out from each one. The blog has a calmer layout, and a post without a picture gets its own line drawn from its title.
- 10:22 PM ETNew page
Meet Magnet
A new post on the blog: what Magnet is and isn't, how the three rings work, what you won't find here, who it's for, and where to start. The first post, which had stayed hidden since July, is visible again too.
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
4 updates- 10:30 PM ETRefinement
Clearer glass at the top of the home page
The bar at the top of the home page, and the small one that appears as you scroll, are now made of glass: the door behind them softens and brightens through it, and a thin line of light catches their edges. If your device asks for less transparency, they stay solid. The pause button for the background video is a little smaller and sits beside the note at the bottom of the door instead of on its line. The list of recent updates is no longer on the home page; every update is still on this page.
- 1:45 PM ETRefinement
The home page settles in as you scroll
Further down the home page, headings, lines and cards now rise into place as you reach them, sharpening from a soft blur, and things that arrive together come in one after another. It happens once, and anything already on your screen stays where it is. Crisis help is never part of it: that card is simply there. If your device asks for less motion, things fade in briefly instead, and without JavaScript everything shows as it always has.
- 1:30 PM ETRefinement
A menu that keeps your place, and a bar that stays on top
On a phone, the home page's menu now fills the screen. It closes over the page like the door on the loading screen, and inside, the page is drawn as a path with a small light where you were reading, so you can see where you are and jump to any part of it. The door opens again on the part you picked. The rows give themselves more room on taller screens, never so much that the list comes apart. Immediate help now sits at the top of the home page on a phone without opening anything, and in the menu with the 988 line. The small bar that appears as you scroll can open the menu too, and it no longer slips behind the photos further down the page. If your device asks for less motion, the menu simply fades in and out.
- 1:00 PM ETNew page
A new home page
The home page is new. It opens on the same door, then walks through the three rings, the Field drawn as a field at dusk, a guided practice you can listen to without an account, who's in quiet company right now, a section for therapists, the fine print in large type and what we've shipped lately, before ending at a door again. The previous home page is still there to compare, at /classic, and the old preview address now brings you home. The background video is also about a third of the size it was, phones get a lighter version still, and it now waits until the page has finished loading, so the first thing you see arrives sooner. It looks the same.
Saturday, September 26, 2026
1 update- 2:30 AM ETFoundation
A one-tap question after a practice, and a way to tell us what you think
When you leave a practice in the Field, you may now see one short question at the bottom of the next screen: “Did that feel like it was for you?” You can answer Yes or Not really, or tap Not now, and nothing else is asked. It appears a few times a day at most, never about the same practice twice in a month, and never while you're answering questions. Your answer is kept with which practice it was and what your opening questions said at the time, so we can see whether the Field is pointing people to the right places; the team only ever sees totals. There's also a quiet “Share feedback” link at the bottom of every screen in the app. It asks whether Magnet feels like it was made for you, with room for a note. Notes aren't read in real time, and if one sounds like you might be in danger, you're shown how to reach 988 straight away. Both appear in your data export and on Your data.
Sunday, September 20, 2026
6 updates- 7:45 PM ETRefinement
A tidier footer, and the safety page laid out side by side
The safety page now shows what Magnet can and can't do side by side, so you can compare them at a glance instead of scrolling; the Regulation Room and data notes sit below in two matching columns. The footer is about half its old height and lines up with the header, so it no longer leaves a large empty gap. We removed a menu link (Therapist Profile) that didn't lead anywhere, made the theme switch and Begin Gently the same height, and simplified a few pages: the home headline now stands on its own, the contour lines behind “How the line settles” are gone, and the short version on the cookie and terms pages lines up with the rest of the page.
- 9:00 AM ETRefinement
Back works in every set of questions, and calmer motion
The Back button now moves between questions in the therapist-matching questions and the body check-in too, the same way it does in the opening questions, instead of leaving and losing what you'd chosen. (If you reload partway, those two start again; the opening questions still keep your place.) If your device is set to reduce motion, the drifting lines behind the Field and the counting-up numbers on the home page now stay still. There's a new Appearance setting on your account page, including a “Match my device” option the header switch couldn't offer. Clay-coloured text is a little darker in light mode so it's easier to read, and one line on the home page that promised you could skip anything now says what's true: stop or step away any time.
- 6:00 AM ETFoundation
Clearer privacy wording, and a separate choice for screen recordings
We rewrote the privacy policy and cookie notice to say plainly what runs on the site: which services process data for us (analytics, error monitoring, AI-written reflections, hosting, payments, email), what analytics does and doesn't send, and that we don't sell your information or use it for advertising. Analytics has a new wording, so if you'd allowed it before, we'll ask again, and if you said no, that stays no. Analytics choices now follow your account, so the few events we send from our servers, such as checkout, are only sent if you allowed analytics. Separately, and only if you allow analytics first, you can now allow masked screen recordings: the text on the page and anything you type are hidden, they only run on the home page, About, How it works, Pricing and the Field's main page, and never on the questions, check-ins or your account. The cookie card also no longer sits on top of the questions.
- 2:00 AM ETRefinement
You can say you're doing okay, and plainer words in the Field
Every answer to the first question used to describe some kind of difficulty, so someone who was doing fine had to pick one anyway. There is now a fifth answer: “Pretty steady — I'm just looking around.” It doesn't steer you anywhere, and the reflection you get back no longer assumes you're overwhelmed. We also rewrote seventeen lines across twelve Field practices that testers found abstract or talked-down-to: they now say what to do in plain words, with one short reason where there is one. “A place to land before anything else” is now “A short pause before anything else.”
- 1:00 AM ETFoundation
Screen recording and click capture are off at the source, too
Two days ago we turned off screen recording and automatic click capture in the site's code. They are now switched off in our analytics account as well, along with click heatmaps, so the setting no longer depends on the code alone. What analytics can still receive, and only if you allow it, is which pages were viewed and the short list of named steps described in the cookie notice. If we ever bring session replay back, it will be masked, kept off the questions and your account pages, and asked for separately.
- 12:30 AM ETRefinement
Your preview waits for you, and the Field opens where you'd look next
If you try the questions before signing up and then go to create an account, pressing Back now returns you to your reflection instead of starting the questions over. It is kept only for that browser tab, for up to an hour. On the Field, the group your first suggestion belongs to now starts open, so more of the same kind is already in view; the others are still one tap away.
Friday, September 18, 2026
5 updates- 10:00 PM ETRefinement
The questions now survive the Back button, a reload, and a second device
Our first testers found that going back during the opening questions lost everything. Each question now has its own place in your browser's history, so Back and Forward move between questions instead of leaving. If you're signed in, your unfinished answers are kept so you can pick up where you left off — on any device — and cleared once you finish or after 14 days. Signed out, they're kept on your device for an hour. A double-tapped final answer can no longer create two reflections.
- 9:30 PM ETRefinement
What you tell us about today now shapes the Field
The question “How much do you have for this, honestly, today?” promised to shape how gently things begin, and until now it didn't: only how quickly you tapped was counted, so someone who answered “barely any” quickly could be offered more, not less. Your own answer now carries the most weight, for a day. People who arrive differently now see different first suggestions (there used to be three possible sets; there are nine), and a free account is only ever pointed toward things it can open.
- 9:00 PM ETRefinement
A Field you can find your way around
The Field used to open as one long page of about thirty-six cards under a dozen clinical headings. It now opens with two or three things to start with, and everything else sits under five plain-language ways in — Settle, Notice, Find the words, Not alone, Come home — one tap away. Nothing was removed. A small ring mark at the top always says where you are, a short “How this works” appears on your first visits, finishing the questions now leads into the Field through one clear door, and card labels are in ordinary words at a readable size.
- 8:30 PM ETRefinement
A warmer dark mode, a theme switch you can find, and less motion if you ask
Magnet now follows your device's light or dark setting instead of always opening dark, and dark mode is a warm plum rather than near-black. If you never picked a theme, what you see may change; if you did, your choice stands. A labelled Light / Dark switch is now on every screen, including on phones, where there was none. If your device asks for reduced motion, reveals become a short fade and the home page video stays a still image; the video also has a pause button. Small grey text and focus outlines were raised to readable contrast throughout.
- 8:00 PM ETFoundation
Tighter analytics, and a corrected privacy line
For people who allow analytics: automatic click capture and screen recording are now explicitly off, and page addresses are shortened before they leave your browser, so they never include which Field page you opened, an invite code, or a password-reset link. In their place is a short list of named steps (for example “a question was answered”, never the answer). The cookie notice describes them. We also removed a line on one demo that claimed “100% private, client-side encryption”, which was not accurate; it now says what is true of that demo — it stays in your browser.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
1 update- 12:30 AM ETNew page
A voice guide, for hearing something back or getting somewhere
A new page, /voice-guide, opens a real spoken conversation — not a chatbot, and not open-ended. It does exactly two things: read back your orientation reflection or a Field node's reflection in the app's own voice, or take you to the Field, orientation, or your matches. Nothing else. If anything you say suggests you're in danger, the conversation ends immediately and you're taken straight to immediate help — that check runs independently of the voice itself, every time, with no exceptions. Free accounts get three conversations a month; a supporter plan opens unlimited ones, the same way it already does for the Regulation Room.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
2 updates- 10:44 PM ETNew page
The Field, grown into a threaded network
The Field's nodes are no longer a flat list — each one now carries a region, a depth, whether it's a secure base, and clinician-authored paths onward, and a node page ends with those threads instead of a dead end. Following one is reordered by your own worn paths and today's pace, not fixed. The Field itself now groups everything by region rather than one long scroll. Seeded with 25 more nodes from the founder's own library, and the body check-in gained a fifth question — where a feeling sits, if anywhere — which now shapes which regions the Field opens first.
- 10:00 PM ETNew page
A therapist profile, now with a voice
Therapist profiles were text and a photo; every other directory looks the same way. A therapist can now write a sentence or two and publish it as a short spoken intro in the app's own unhurried voice, shown right on their public profile — a way to sense how a first conversation might actually feel before requesting an introduction. Entirely optional, published only with an explicit, separately recorded consent, and removable at any time from the practice profile page.
Friday, September 4, 2026
1 update- 3:09 AM ETRefinement
A repeated card on the way back in, fixed
Coming back after a gap could show the same grounding exercise twice — once as the softest next door, once as what helped you last time — if they happened to be the same one. The softest door now skips anything already shown above it.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
3 updates- 4:00 PM ETNew page
The Field, now paced by how you actually are
Everything the platform already knew — which nodes you stayed with, saved, or left quickly, how long you paused on each orientation answer — now quietly shapes the order and size of what the Field offers first: shorter and grounding-first on a low day, a little deeper when there seems to be room. Nothing is shown as a score, nothing is hidden, and with no signal at all the Field looks exactly as it did. Two new ways to tell it more, both optional: a four-question body check-in (sleep, food, what your body feels like, how much you have) with its own plain-language consent, and an experimental camera read that estimates calm / steady / activated entirely in the browser — no video ever leaves the device. Each node ends with one optional tap — "how's your body now?" — which is how the Field learns what settles you specifically.
- 3:30 PM ETNew page
A voice, for the days reading is too much
Two things can now be listened to instead of read. Your own reflections — the one after orientation and the quiet line at the end of a node — can be spoken aloud once you turn it on under Privacy & data; the words are sent to a voice provider to be spoken and nothing is stored. And the Field has its first two audio nodes: "Just be here", a few minutes of a slow voice keeping company, and "Something to follow", a breath paced at a settling rhythm the voice cues and never commands. The Regulation Room points to the second one while you wait for a session.
- 3:00 PM ETNew page
Quiet company, an elevated way back, and a check-in after an introduction
A room with no facilitator, no video, and no talking: only the true fact of whether someone else is also here right now, open at any hour. Coming back after a gap now lands on a fuller page — what helped last time kept close, a way to say how your body is today, and the softest single door. A few days after a therapist says yes to an introduction, one gentle question appears — did it feel like it fit? — kept only for you and never sent to them. Orienting again now reads as being remembered rather than reassessed: the reflection lightly acknowledges the return instead of starting from nothing. A physical Shower installation can hand off into the product at /shower.
Thursday, August 27, 2026
1 update- 10:30 PM ETNew page
The Regulation Room, given a door and a soft way out
Holding a place in a session now gives you a room of your own: a page that shows the door about fifteen minutes before the start, names where the session is in its shape (arriving, guided practice, soft close), keeps "not therapy" and the crisis lines pinned the whole time, and has a Leave button that is always one tap away. Leaving — or the session ending — lands you on a single quiet line and the Field’s re-entry node rather than an abrupt cut back to a schedule. Sessions default to the pilot’s thirty minutes and are capped at thirty places; the Field now has a calm door to the room; and staff can record a factual incident note against a session that has run, which lands in the safety queue for a second person to read. Sessions are not recorded, and never were.
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
1 update- 3:56 PM ETNew page
One-click invite links for reduced access
Staff could already issue honor-based access codes, but a beta tester had to type one into the billing page by hand. Every code now has a shareable invite link that opens a single accept button — a real button press, not a link that quietly redeems itself the moment an email scanner previews it, so a capped invite can't be used up before the person it was meant for ever sees it. Signed-out visitors go through sign-in and land back on the invite, and the sign-in/sign-up cross-links now carry that return trip instead of dropping it.
Monday, August 17, 2026
1 update- 7:55 PM ETRefinement
The homepage "Begin gently" button, actually beginning
The main homepage call to action opened an email draft instead of starting the guided flow like every other "Begin gently" button in the app; it now goes to /start. Changelog and Table of Contents were also removed from the footer’s account links at the client’s request.
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
2 updates- 4:40 PM ETFoundation
Sign-in and therapist onboarding, audited and hardened
A full pass over sign-in, two-step verification, and the therapist application flow. Found and fixed: a link on the email-confirmation page that could be crafted to send someone off-site instead of back into the app; the security page reporting two-step verification as on before it was ever actually confirmed; and a therapist who chose "I'm a therapist" before confirming their email could end up with an application that silently never got submitted. Signing in now also takes a verified therapist straight to their practice space, not the general Field.
- 12:08 AM ETRefinement
The onboarding save confirmation, actually showing up
The toast added for saving a therapist profile never appeared on the onboarding page specifically — saving there jumps straight to the practice dashboard, and that redirect was firing before the confirmation ever had a chance to show. Fixed so the toast displays first, then the redirect follows.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
4 updates- 11:52 PM ETRefinement
Therapist onboarding, given real form feedback
The boundaries and profile forms in therapist onboarding saved — or failed — silently, with only a small line of text at the bottom easy to miss, and choosing licensure states meant a native multi-select with "hold Cmd/Ctrl" instructions. Both forms now confirm success or failure with a proper toast, and licensure states use a searchable, chip-based picker instead.
- 11:13 PM ETRefinement
A therapist application, no longer stranded at /account
Signing up as a therapist and then confirming email could land someone on the general account page with no way back into their application and no signal that it wasn't the practice dashboard. Fixed the whole chain: the account page now recognizes a therapist and points them at the right next step, a resent verification email correctly carries them back into onboarding, and the practice dashboard no longer claims an application is "under review" when one was never actually started.
- 9:15 PM ETRefinement
A way to sign out from the account-deletion screen
Every page redirects here while an account is scheduled for deletion, but the page itself had no way to sign out — so there was no way to leave that account and sign up fresh with a different one. Fixed, alongside a last pass on the purple page-label styling (Resonance, Privacy, Cookies, Terms, Changelog, Therapists, Funnel Lab) and an overdue update to the internal route map, which was still marking pages like About, Resources, Pricing, and Contact as unbuilt long after they'd shipped.
- 6:20 PM ETRefinement
A note from Joseph, restyled, and a Field link that quietly 404'd
Redesigned About's closing note as a single letter rather than a bio card — a small photo letterhead, a hand-set opening line, a signature that draws itself in. Also fixed a navbar link to a Field grounding exercise that pointed at a slug that was never the real one, and a courier-dot animation on Contact that briefly flashed in the wrong spot on load.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
1 update- 8:59 PM ETRefinement
AI reflections toggle, put back on its track
The switch on the privacy page had drifted off its own background, dot hanging outside the pill instead of sliding within it. Fixed the positioning so it sits correctly in both states.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
1 update- 10:20 AM ETNew page
Billing and the Field, opened
A new billing page lets people check out a supporter or therapist plan, redeem a code, or make a one-time contribution. Alongside it, the Field launched — a browsable set of grounding exercises with a detail view, a re-entry screen, and a saved list.
Monday, July 20, 2026
5 updates- 5:20 PM ETNew page
Therapist applications, reviewed by a real person
Staff can now confirm or decline therapist applications from the admin dashboard, with a private note attached to each decision. Applicants see a calm waiting screen until it's settled — no dashboard access before that.
- 3:10 PM ETFoundation
Client and therapist, as an actual choice
Every account now carries a persona — client or therapist — decided once during onboarding and used to route people to the right space from then on.
- 2:05 PM ETNew page
Onboarding, added
One quiet step after creating an account: confirm your name, and say whether you're looking for support or offering it.
- 12:54 PM ETRefinement
Already signed in? Skip the form
Login and sign-up now check for an active session first — signed-in visitors are sent straight to their account instead of seeing the form again.
- 12:30 PM ETRefinement
Sign-in and sign-up, fully wired
Replaced the placeholder forms with real authentication — password sign-in, a one-time email link option, and a proper password reset flow, start to finish.
Thursday, July 16, 2026
2 updates- 10:12 PM ETNew page
Seven trust & orientation pages, published
How It Works, Start, Therapists, Resonance, Immediate Help, Safety & Boundaries, and Terms of Service are all live now — filling in pages that nearly every other page on the site was already quietly linking to.
- 9:40 PM ETRefinement
Sign-in and sign-up, moved to flat URLs
Sign-in and account creation now live at /login and /signup instead of nested under /auth, matching the calmer, simpler paths used everywhere else on the site.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
9 updates- 1:51 PM ETNew page
About page, published
The story behind Magnet — why it exists, what it is and isn't, and a note from the licensed clinician who built it.
- 1:04 PM ETNew page
Changelog and Cookie Preferences, added
A running log of what's changed, plus a preference center for managing cookie consent — both linked from the table of contents and footer.
- 12:43 PM ETNew page
Forgot password, added
A calm way back in when you're locked out — no dead ends, no scolding copy, just the next step.
- 11:45 AM ETRefinement
Privacy Policy, easier to scan
Reorganized the full notice with a short version up top and a clearer path through every section.
- 11:35 AM ETPerformance
Pages settle in faster
Tuned how background animations start up so pages feel lighter, especially on slower connections.
- 11:26 AM ETNew page
Privacy Policy, published
The full notice on what we collect, how we use it, and what we never do — in plain language.
- 10:59 AM ETRefinement
Pause Room, refined
Adjusted spacing and layout so the page reads calmer and clearer at first glance.
- 10:55 AM ETRefinement
Landing pages, tidied up
Cleared leftover content from Compass and Find Your Footing, and reworked the Pause Room layout for a cleaner first look.
- 8:25 AM ETRefinement
Header, rebuilt
Refreshed the site header and theme toggle for a cleaner, more consistent feel across every page.
Monday, July 6, 2026
2 updates- 11:46 PM ETNew page
Therapist dashboard, added
Introduced the practice dashboard for therapists, including a resonance dial, alongside small refinements across the home page.
- 11:01 PM ETNew page
Sign in and sign up, added
Built the sign-in and account-creation pages, so returning and new users each have a proper front door.
Saturday, July 4, 2026
2 updates- 8:23 PM ETRefinement
Spacing, evened out
Adjusted padding and layout across the home page's sections for a more consistent rhythm.
- 8:07 PM ETNew page
Home page, brought to life
Added the hero video and imagery, plus new sections — the compass, key facts, and product overview — to the home page.
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