Change control
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69 changes, due out on Friday morning, and unusually quiet for a customer on purpose. Two thirds of them build the new address of every part page, which ships switched off and turns on on 25 September as a release of its own. What a customer gets on Friday: the part page is lighter on a phone, a brand opens to Google by itself once its parts qualify, and whether a part can be bought is read live instead of from a nightly copy.
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v2.5.0 Diagrams that work on a phone, and every part page changes address Went out Monday 7 September 2026
92 changes. Drafted for Friday 4 September and held until Monday 7 September, when it went out with all 44 checks after the release passing. The parts diagram on a phone became something you can buy from rather than fight with, and every part page moved to a new address with the part number at the front, each old address carrying to the new one in a single hop. The missing search setting the page opens with was set before the release went.
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188 changes, out on Friday morning — and the largest part of them takes effect only when someone sets a switch. The release carries the whole decision about which part pages Google is invited to read, and ships it switched off behind four settings that nobody has set, so what Google may read on Saturday is exactly what it may read today. What the page needs from you is which of those to turn on and when. Four things do take effect on Friday regardless: twelve dealership pages that only existed on the old website start working here, the parts diagrams and the part addresses both change address in one hop, photographs move onto our own address — and searching by an exact part number stops working on the test site, the first item on the page and still unresolved.
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The store has run on two databases since June; it now runs on one, and the old one has been deleted. Nothing a customer sees changes — same pages, same prices, same answers. Three changes over three evenings: which parts fit which machine, then orders and the parts catalogue, then checkout letting go of a database it had stopped using but was still depending on. That last one would have stopped the store taking orders for up to a day if it had been missed. A complete copy of the old database is kept and nothing expires it.
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v2.3.0 407,000 dead part pages, a checkout that could be underpaid, and a search that was failing on the live store Friday 21 August 2026
96 changes, out on Friday morning. Search on the live store had been failing — a search for a part number took about seventeen seconds and the page gave up before the answer arrived, so the customer saw an error. It now answers in just over a second, and that is the first thing on the page. Beyond it: 407,302 part pages that carry nothing stop being offered as real pages, construction parts reached by their plain part number stop dead-ending, Express Checkout re-checks the price before charging, and a New Mexico address is no longer refused as international. Eleven things have to be settled before any of it ships, and they are listed with what to do about each.
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v2.2.0 Pay links for staff, what In Stock really means, and servers that take themselves out when they go bad Friday 14 August 2026
53 changes. Staff can build a cart for a customer and send a link they pay online. A part shows in stock only when a depot actually has one on the shelf, and parts we only quote by phone stop showing a one-cent price. Four servers now step out of service and restart themselves instead of slowing checkout for hours. Written Thursday against the copy going out Friday — every measurement was taken before the release, and where one could not be taken the page says so.
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v2.1.0 Search opening the wrong maker's part, an empty catalog on phones, and what Google reads Friday 7 August 2026
A wrong-manufacturer redirect closes for 20 more vendor codes, the parts catalog now shows a product on a phone without scrolling, and every breadcrumb trail is rebuilt from one source. The two general diagram directories are retired. Separately, the part page's fitment list is now a real table for search engines, with the store looking unchanged — photographed before and after to show it.
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Clicking a part in search could open a part from a different manufacturer — a Kuhn disc opened a New Holland stud. The site now refuses to cross manufacturers at all. One make, Briggs and Stratton, is not covered yet.
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v2.0.2 Share a cart — link and quantities Friday 31 July 2026
Shared cart links stopped going stale, the link now appears if the dialog was closed while it was still being made, and adding several parts at once goes through one path. No page was written for this one at the time; it is listed so the numbering has no gap.
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A customer who went back to correct their shipping address could not: the site kept the address they were correcting away from. Found after the release, fixed the same morning.
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34 changes. A part with no price no longer says In Stock, page 2 of a search returns results, and three ways to reach "Page not found" on a part we sell are closed.