WeDispatch 1.3.0: the blog splits in two
Editorial articles on one side, release notes on the other. Why the mix stopped making sense, and how we pulled them apart without breaking a single link.
Until now our blog mixed two things that have no business sharing a page. On one side, editorial pieces — accessibility, regional press, what synthetic voices are actually worth today. On the other, release notes: what we changed last Tuesday and why. Same page, same list, sorted by date.
Different readers, different rhythms. Someone discovering WeDispatch wants to understand the subject; someone already using it wants to know what moved since they last logged in. Serving both from one stream keeps both waiting.
Two entrances
The blog now has two sections. Articles keeps its usual address and holds nothing but the editorial writing. What's new is a separate index holding nothing but release notes — this one included. A toggle at the top of each page switches between them.
On a post's own page, the context follows. A release note links back to What's new and suggests other notes; an article links back to the blog and suggests other articles. You no longer leave a release note and land in a feature on digital accessibility.
What doesn't change
Post addresses. A release note published last week keeps exactly the link you may have shared or bookmarked. We could have moved the notes to a new address and set up redirects; we preferred to break nothing at all. Only the indexes split — the posts stay where they are.
Classification happens at the source: every release note declares itself as one in its header. Notes published before that field existed are recognised by their filename, so they sorted themselves.
The details that matter
Both indexes are in the sitemap, in the footer links and in the language switcher — the section exists in French and in English, with the same split. The breadcrumb trail that search engines read now points at the right section. Nothing spectacular, but it is the difference between a section that exists and one that merely looks like it does.
What's next
This note opens its own section, which is a pleasant way to start. On our side, next up are two product decisions we want to take the time to get right — we'll come back to them here, in What's new, once they're made.
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