What we’ve shipped

Files you upload can be marked as your own or as someone else's, with the speaker's name and a kind. Until now everything imported was treated as your own conviction, so a commentary you uploaded could end up on your belief map as something you believe.

A belief moves out of "Others" on its own the moment you write anything about it yourself.

Knowledge has a third view, Activity: a plain, day-by-day account of what has been read and what it found. While an import is running it sits at the top and tells you how far along it is. If something needed another look, it says so there rather than nowhere.

The map's sense of how developed a belief is was counting notes you'd recorded from other people, so reading widely on a subject looked the same as having worked it out yourself.

Most people using Selah are studying rather than preaching, and the assumption pushed it to read personal notes as though they were teaching.

Repairing an orphaned note — one carrying a date with nobody attached — through an unrelated Kind edit cleared the stored date but left it sitting in the date field. Name an originator without closing the popover and the field came back holding that ghost; closing then quietly discarded what you could still see.

In the Kind chip, opening "From someone else" and setting a date without naming who it came from saved that date on its own. The note then showed a bare date with no context, and Selah had no speaker to attribute the teaching to. The date field now waits until you have named someone, and says so.

Everyone who joined before today gets one pass through what changed: that long documents are read to the end, and that a belief you hold under two names is one entry again. It says plainly that nothing you wrote was altered, and links straight to your map so you can check it yourself.

Testing against the largest affected map showed the previous safeguard was too blunt: built to stop two different ideas being fused into one entry, it was also refusing plainly identical names that happen to contain "and", like "Law and Prophets" beside "Law and the Prophets". The repair now settles simple naming differences on its own, first: plurals, small words like "the", and reversed orderings such as "Works and Faith" beside "Faith and Works". The safeguard itself now blocks only the genuinely dangerous shape, a single idea being folded into a two-idea entry. The repair also runs until it stops finding anything, picks the better-established name as the survivor every time, and a congregation at a city is no longer treated as the city itself.

When the repair runs more than once, a later round can fold away an entry that an earlier round had already folded others into, leaving those earlier pointers aimed at a dead entry. Everything a user sees was unaffected, but the trail used to undo a fold could dangle. Pointers now follow through to the surviving entry automatically.

Reviewing the repair's proposals surfaced merges that would have flattened real distinctions: the Second Death of Revelation 20 into death generally, salvation by faith into salvation, glory into the glory of God, and God's wisdom into wisdom. The underlying rule is now stated both ways round: a broad theme and a specific form of it are different entries no matter which one Selah met first.

A merge that turned out to be already done was being counted as a failure; it is now reported as skipped, so a failure count of zero means zero things actually went wrong.

Selah was creating single entries like "Light and Darkness" for what are plainly two separate things, which meant neither could be followed on its own. It now keeps them separate, while still recognising that some names genuinely contain "and" and belong together, such as "Faith and Works" or "Sodom and Gomorrah".

Tribulation, which believers endure now, was being combined with the Great Tribulation, which is one particular period. Those stay apart, along with the same shape elsewhere.

If a note mentioned both of the entries being combined, the repair stopped partway. It now folds the two records into one, keeping the stronger confidence, the earlier date, and any human judgment over an automatic one.