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24 August 2026

We said there were no accounts. There had been for ten days

Accounts arrived on 14 August. They are optional, and they exist for one thing: so the countries you save and the trips you plan reach your other devices. The page that lists what we keep was rewritten the same day and said exactly that. Five other pages were not touched, and went on denying it in writing — the about page listed “No accounts” among the things we don’t do, this page answered “there is no account”, the quiz promised “nothing stored” beside a button that saves your shortlist, the home page said “no account” where it explains putting the site on your phone, and the tools page told Google “Free, no account.” None of that was true, and the honest sentence was already written one page away. All five now say no account needed, which is what we actually meant: the whole site works signed out, and nothing here asks you to make one. The build now refuses to publish a page that denies an account system while one is live, so this particular drift cannot happen again.

11 August 2026

You can now see who runs this and write to us

Until this week the site told you almost nothing about who was behind it. There was no address, no way to reach us, and the contact page admitted an email address had not been set up yet. That was honest but not much use, and the law is not really optional about it either. There is now an address and a working email at the bottom of every page, and the privacy notice says plainly who is responsible for your data and gives the registration number you can look us up by. If you write to us, it now arrives somewhere a person reads.

9 August 2026

We were overselling “no cookies”

This page used to say there was no cookie banner because there was nothing to ask you about. That was true about cookies and misleading about everything else. The rule that matters covers anything kept on your device, and we were keeping five things. One of them this site had never mentioned: every page you open is saved so the site still works when your signal does not. The button marked Clear everything swept the small things and left that one sitting there. Everything is now listed, the button clears the lot, and a second button stops the site storing anything at all and remembers that you said so. The page making the claim was the page that was wrong.

9 August 2026

Two things were invisible on every phone

The menu across the top of every page needed more room than a phone has. We measured it at nine screen widths, from the smallest phone to a small tablet, and at every one of them the Method link and the entire light and dark switch were pushed off the right of the screen. Not wrapped, not scrollable, simply gone. They now sit behind a menu button, which is where they should have been. Nobody had noticed because every check we had made of the phone layout had quietly been done at desktop size.

9 August 2026

The currency converter stopped phoning a stranger

Opening the tools page used to ask another company for the day’s exchange rates, which told them your IP address. That was the last thing this site did without asking you. The rates now arrive with the page: taken from the European Central Bank when the site is built, with the four currencies the ECB does not publish coming from HMRC’s monthly customs rates. Converting asks nothing of anyone, it works with no signal, and the page tells you how old the numbers are.

9 August 2026

The site remembers things now, and only on your device

Save a country, count your days against the ninety-in-any-hundred-and-eighty rule, tick a checklist, set your price bands: it is all still there next time. There is a page that gathers it in one place, and you can save the lot to a file and load it onto another phone. None of it reaches us. Everything kept is listed with a button to delete it, and if you would rather we kept nothing at all, one button says so and it sticks.

9 August 2026

We said green had stopped being called best. One sentence had not

The entry below, written a day earlier, said the green months were no longer labelled best. That was true everywhere except the one sentence that sums up a whole year, which still opened with “Best May to June”. It survived because changing it meant redrawing all 197 preview images, and the site refused to build when they did not match. The images have now been redrawn. The sentence leads with the cheaper months, because those are the point of this site, and the preview images carry a key so the colours mean something to someone meeting them for the first time.

8 August 2026

Green months stopped being called “best”

Since launch, the green months were labelled best weather, and the site led with them. The owner of this site read his own homepage and disagreed: those are the busy months, and the whole point here is the cheaper ones. He was right, and the label was the problem. Green is now called peak season: the weather everyone comes for, with the crowds and prices that come with it. The yellow cheap sweet spot is named as the recommendation, leads every list, and the homepage now explains all four colours before showing you anything. In months where almost nothing is in a price dip, the site says exactly that instead of padding the list quietly.

8 August 2026

“Cheap” meant two different things, and neither was what you expected

On the countries page a control called Cheap kept countries whose chosen month is a cheap-sweet-spot month, then listed them alphabetically. So pressing it under September showed $$$ Angola above $ Argentina, which reads as broken to anyone who expected the cheapest countries first. On the month pages, a different control called Cheaper ones only silently meant the $ and $$ price bands. Both are gone. You now pick any combination of the four $ bands directly, and the list order is chosen in the open: sweet-spot months first, peak months first, cheapest countries first, nearest first, or A to Z. The words months and countries in those labels are the distinction the old control blurred.

8 August 2026

The region dropdown was unreadable in dark mode

A reader using dark mode found the region picker’s dropdown illegible: dark text drawn by the browser onto a dark menu. The page had never told browsers it supported a dark theme, so every native control — dropdowns, date pickers, checkboxes — was drawn for a light one. Fixed for all of them at once, and the reader who found it owns the site, which is roughly how every entry on this list gets found.

7 August 2026

Three countries were in the wrong place

Every distance on this site is measured from a country’s capital. Three of those capitals were wrong, and had been for as long as the site has existed. Hong Kong’s sat in Minneapolis, 12,000km from Hong Kong. The Seychelles were in Brazil. Antigua & Barbuda were in Michigan. All three happened the same way: a tool matched “City of Victoria”, “Victoria” and “Saint John’s” to same-named towns elsewhere, and nobody looked. It meant Hong Kong was being offered as a medium-length flight from London, which it is not.

We have now checked all 197 against an independent geographic database. 192 of 196 agreed to within 25km; three were wrong and are fixed; one is a deliberate difference — that database calls Equatorial Guinea’s capital Ciudad de la Paz, and we use Malabo, because that is where the international airport is and you are more likely to land there. The site now refuses to build at all if any capital lands absurdly far from its own country.

7 August 2026

The trip planner ignored how far you said you’d fly

Asking for a long-haul trip from the UK returned Belgium, 320km away. The ranking penalised distance so heavily that the nearest country always won, which made the “how far will you fly” control decorative. It is now a filter and nothing else — if you say long haul, you get long haul.

7 August 2026

The quiz asked a question that could not change the answer

It asked how adventurous you were feeling, to include or exclude countries under an official travel warning. But every one of those countries was already excluded in every month, so the answer made no difference whatsoever. We removed the question. Countries under an official warning are never suggested, in any month.

6 August 2026

Emergency numbers were taken from one crowd-sourced list

We re-checked all of them against independent sources. 72 needed correcting — including a suicide-prevention line listed as an emergency number, and a private paid ambulance service listed as a national one. Four countries have no reliable number at all, and now say so instead of guessing.