Downlink v0.4.0: a page that explains, a gate that leads, a directory that holds

This release does not change what Downlink does. It changes what you understand when you land on it.

A page that explains the machine

Downlink now has a "How it works" page, linked from the footer. It tells the gate and its four switches, the comment you have to write by hand because SoundCloud forbids posting one through its API, the signed cookie that opens the file, and what the two counters actually count. One diagram per mechanism, drawn in the site's own colours.

The download page leads

The only filled button was the disabled one: a fan landed on a page whose most visible element was the one thing they could not click. That is flipped. "Continue with SoundCloud" now carries the platform glyph and the visual weight, and the download button stays quiet until every step is done, then lights up. On a wide screen the artwork and the steps sit side by side instead of stacking in a 448 pixel column.

The directory reads as a grid again

The last row of the directory painted a wide grey band where cells were missing, titles were cut off, and every tile showed "0 dl". The grid is drawn in hairlines now: titles run to two full lines, the counter only shows when there is something to count, and hovering an artwork no longer darkens it.

Two fonts, and buttons a thumb can hit

Anton carries the headings, Inter everything else, both served by the site itself. The column widens, the wordmark drops its accent square, and every button, header link and menu entry is at least 44 pixels tall: the size of a thumb, not of a cursor.

The legal pages say where the files live

The legal notice and the privacy policy still announced that uploaded files were hosted at Convex. The audio has since moved to self-hosted storage, on the same server as the site. Both pages say so now, in both languages.