Canclude

Changelog

A running log of new features, visible fixes, and polish on canclude.com.

2026-04-30

Better canclusion sharing

  • The share button now copies the canclusion share text on desktop and opens the native share sheet on mobile.

Sharper how-it-works copy

  • The /how-it-works page now explains the rubric with less spec-sheet stiffness and more cansultant voice.

Cantainment joins the rubric

  • The main crush-shape criterion now appears as Cantainment in the visible scoring experience, while the score logic stays exactly the same.

Clearer temporary scoring errors

  • When the AI scoring service is temporarily busy, Canclude now tells you scoring is unavailable instead of calling your photo inconclusive.
  • Temporary scoring outages no longer create public canclusion pages with no score.

Scoring calibration for tricky photos

  • Cantainment now treats visible compressed sidewall as normal crush evidence, not automatic catastrophe.
  • Seal scores now reserve a true zero for cases where the drinking opening is clearly fully open.
  • Flatness now respects the limit of a cantained crush: material that stays cantained will naturally leave some visible sidewall height.
  • Cantainment 9 now gets a 9.0 overall floor so elite circular form isn't dragged below top-tier by an open seal or imperfect flatness.
  • Near-cantained, very flat crushes also get a 9.0 floor so strong craft doesn't collapse under minor flaws.
  • Off-center or edge-framed can photos are judged by the visible crush evidence instead of being penalized as failed cantainment.
  • Dim, shadowy, or distant can photos should get more honest confidence instead of overconfident extreme sub-scores.

2026-04-29

Visuals across the site

  • The homepage now has a hero image — a sneaker about to crush a can at golden hour.
  • The leaderboard has a new banner image of a crushed-can podium.
  • The /how-it-works page picked up three editorial images: cansultants at a whiteboard, calipers measuring a crushed can, and a 3D scan of a crush in progress.

Honest social-proof label on the homepage

  • The score-of-the-day line on the homepage now tells you which window it's actually from — "Today's," "This week's," or just "Top canclusion" — instead of always saying "Today's" when the score might be older.

Mobile header and footer fit small screens

  • Cleaned up the header on phones — "How it works" moves out of the top bar (still in the footer) and the brand drops to the logomark on very narrow screens.
  • If you're signed in with a long email, the header no longer stretches to fit it.
  • Footer links now wrap onto a second row instead of overflowing on small screens.

Cantainment dominance in the score

  • Cantainment is now the holy grail of the score, not just its biggest input. A clean circular crush (cantainment 8 or above, on any real crush attempt) puts a floor under your overall: 8.0 at cantainment 8, ramping up to 9.5 at cantainment 10.
  • Lesser slips on seal, symmetry, flatness or aesthetic can no longer drag a high-cantainment crush below that floor. Nail the circle and the grace notes can't take it from you.
  • An uncrushed can — trivially circular but not actually crushed — won't ride the floor up; the floor only applies once the can has actually been worked.

2026-04-28

Cansultants reframed

  • The /how-it-works page no longer lists named cansultants. They're now described by their stance (the cantainment-and-flatness purist, the seal-and-symmetry absolutist, the aesthetic committee) — same brand layer, no fabricated bios.

Brand logomark

  • New canclude logomark — the can-lid pull tab — now appears in the browser tab favicon, next to the wordmark in the header, and as the default preview image when the site is shared on social.

Privacy policy updated

  • Corrected /privacy to name Google's Gemini API as the third party that receives canclusion photos for scoring (the policy still referenced Anthropic from earlier development).

Changelog page

  • Added this page so you can see what's new on canclude.com without reading commit messages.

Footer attribution

  • Added the Alek Darr logo and backlink in the footer.

Meet the cansultants

  • Added a brand layer to /how-it-works introducing the cansultants — the (fictional) panel behind the rubric.
  • Score now lands with a named tier verdict (e.g. Cancluded — 9.1) instead of a bare decimal.
  • Surfaced live social proof so you can see the community's recent canclusions.

New scoring model: Gemini 2.5 Pro

  • Switched the vision model powering every canclusion to Google Gemini 2.5 Pro.
  • Same rubric, same five criteria, same weights — but the model spreads the score range more honestly across calibration anchors.
  • Eval anchors recalibrated against the new baseline so drift checks stay meaningful.

Rubric refinements

  • Cantainment now dominates the score and clearly penalises splay (label color past the disc, asymmetric bulging, rim tearing).
  • Flatness reframed as compression-within-cantainment — it grades how flat the crush is, not how the camera was held.
  • Added a can-vs-shadow disambiguation and an explicit description of what an optimum top-down crush looks like, so long shadows on asphalt stop dragging the score down.

Privacy and terms finalised

  • Removed the draft disclaimers from /privacy and /terms — both are now the live policy.
  • Replaced the placeholder Untappd line with the project's own tagline.

2026-04-27

Leaderboard

  • Added /leaderboard — the top public canclusions across the community.

Sign in with your email

  • Added one-tap email OTP sign-in — no password, just a code.
  • Added /me so you can revisit every canclusion tied to your account.
  • Header now shows your sign-in state on every page.
  • OTP codes are accepted at any length your email provider sends (6–10 digits).

Shareable canclusions

  • Every canclusion gets a permanent /c/[id] URL with a custom social card — drop the link anywhere and the score, tier, and verdict unfurl with it.

Canclude is online

  • First scaffold of the site: submit a photo of a crushed can, get an AI-scored breakdown across cantainment, seal, symmetry, flatness, and aesthetic.
  • Added /how-it-works explaining the five criteria, weights, and verdict tiers.
  • Added /privacy and /terms.