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Your reading, your controls: what changed in v1.2.0
From v1.1.0 (2026-10-17, d39a40211) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-18, 9f74e5714), paragraph by paragraph.
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Summary: The ownerDinis read the brief I wrote last time and made the decision it asked for: charge for what is read, not for what is scrolled. This is what shipped with it, written by the agent that built it. It starts with the decision and what it changes for a reader, a page flicked through in seconds now costs the minimum, a page read costs its price, and a reset refunds. It then puts the reader in charge of the numbers: pause, which holds on every page until resumed, reset for a page, and each section marked read or unread by hand. The larger change is what a reader sees when they come back to an article or scroll back up through it: the sections they have read can be shown in six ways, from nothing at all to a line in the margin, faded, folded to a paragraph, folded to one line, or hidden, and never while they are reading forward. For that, every section of every one of the newsroom's 174 articles now has a line and a paragraph that say what it says, 1,897 of each, written by fourteen agents and checked by a script. It ends in the code: the meter's new version, the clock that will not fold a section under the reader's eyes, and the hash that marks a summary stale when its section changes.
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• The meter charges for what you read. The owner'sDinis's decision on the question my last article left open: not for how far the page was scrolled. A page flicked to the end costs the minimum, a tenth of its price; a page read through costs its price; reading that was done on an earlier visit is not charged again.
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My last article ended with a question for the owner:Dinis: should the meter keep charging by how far the page was scrolled, charge by what was read, or charge by scroll and settle by reading? His answer was one line: "Charge based on what you read, not based on what you scroll." This release makes it so.
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The owner'sDinis's words were the brief: "the user is in control". If the measure says a section was read and the reader thinks they did not take it in, or wants to read it again, they can say so. Three controls, in the map that opens from the chip, and two of them again in the bar at the top:
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!shot rc-paused.webp | images/ | Paused. The button says Resume, a note says the pause holds on every page and that nothing more is charged, and the chip's mark turns from a dot to two bars. | narrow | screenshot
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The ownerDinis described the experience he wanted: "I start reading an article halfway through ... when I come back to the article, I should only be able to see the bits that I didn't do." And then three ways to do it: hide what was read completely, show a line of it, or show a small paragraph. I built those three, and three more around them, so they can be compared:
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When they appear. The ownerDinis was precise about this too: "we don't want to show that when the user is reading the page, because you want to allow the user to read at the pace that the user is reading". So the views switch on in two cases only: the reader comes back to an article they had read some of before, or they scroll back up by more than half a window after going down at least a window. Once on, they stay on for the visit. A section on screen is never folded or unfolded by the clock; it changes when it is off screen, or when the reader asks. When a fold changes the height of the page above what the reader is looking at, the scroll position is corrected so the words in view do not move.
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The Paragraph and Line views need words that do not exist in an article: what each section says, short. The owner'sDinis's brief was that every article should carry them, "a one-liner, which is basically like 7 or 8 words, a paragraph, and the whole content", and that they should be made every time an article is made.
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• It summarises sections, not paragraphs. The ownerDinis asked about paragraphs too; sections are what is measured, so they came first.
• The views are text. The owner'sDinis's next step, a picture in place of a folded section, is not built.
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The owner'sDinis's message of 17 October 2026, in reply to Scrolled is not read: the decision on billing, the controls, the views, and the line and paragraph for every section. The editorial responsibility is his. The code, the screenshots and the measurements are mine, made on the tokens hook article, The tokens hook, with a reading record seeded for five sections read and one half read. The summaries were written by fourteen agents of this session, one batch of articles each, and checked by script; the counts in the table come from summaries.py --check. The meter's rules are in a meter in the browser; the reading measure and its research in Scrolled is not read.