TruthFoundry 1.9: yesterday's paper is still the paper

TruthFoundry writes a daily paper on a fact record and freezes every day permanently. Version 1.9 is about what happens to a day after it ends.

A back issue is still a newspaper

Buy a newspaper today, and tomorrow it is still a newspaper. It does not turn into a list of headlines. Until now, TruthFoundry's archive did exactly that: a frozen day came back as a column of links with the byline stripped off.

Now a past edition opens as the paper it was. The lead story runs at the top with its writer and its receipts, the biggest stories of that day sit in the rail beside it, and each section leads with its own cards. The artwork painted for that day is back on the page, including the pictures made for each section, with a caption naming the events in the frame.

You always know what day you are holding

The masthead is dated to the day the paper ran, not to today. A band across the top says it plainly: yesterday's paper, or a back issue from two weeks ago, and one press takes you back to today's front page.

The page itself ages. Yesterday's edition is a shade warmer than today's, last week's warmer still, and the photographs soften the way newsprint does in a drawer. In print mode the paper yellows outright. Nothing about the text gets harder to read; only the paper around it changes.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is edited

A busy day can carry over a thousand stories. Each section shows its front and offers the rest on a single press, so a day is never trimmed down to fit. Every edition still carries its content hash, and it is served exactly as it froze.

Start at truthfoundry.ai: read today's front page, then open yesterday's and see the day as it ran. Reading is free, no signup.