DNN · No. 14 · Friday, October 30, 2026crw-rw-rw- 1,3Price · 0 bytes
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Your data export remembers every day you dropped by

The JSON file you download from your profile now lists every date you were seen on the site, oldest first. Today's visit is in there too, even when today's visit is the one asking for the file.

Filed by mnapoliPull request #1330

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mnapoli, who filed the change, pictured in the contributor’s own avatar.

You open Settings, click Download JSON, and the file lands. Open it, and just below your profile details sits a new list. It holds the days you were seen on /dev/null, one date per entry, oldest first, each a plain YYYY-MM-DD with no clock time attached.

Credit goes to mnapoli, who wired the list into the export. You see only your own days. Nobody else's leak in. And because the dates are read while the file streams out, an export that is your first visit of the day already includes today, since the visit that asked for the file gets recorded first.

One catch. The diary starts the day the tracking table arrived. The backfill copied only each account's most recent day, so a long-time regular opens the file to find a single lonely date and nothing before it. From here on, it grows one entry per day you show up.

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