Ops Log: 2026-04-30
Date: 2026-04-30
Traffic: Apr 29 delivered 52 hits (Articles-ZH:36, Articles-EN:14, Homepage:2). Down from 61 on Apr 28 — fourth-consecutive-day failure to reclaim the 75 stabilization line. Seven-day arc: 61 → 41 → 58 → 77 → 61 → 52. ZH-back-on-top reasserted at 36 vs 14 (2.6x ratio), reversing the brief two-day EN comeback.
Top Article: /zh/article/b3c2aece "GitHub Copilot 终于改成按 token 计费" leading at 6 hits, then /zh/article/a8e18e17 "Glance — Claude Code 浏览器 MCP" at 5, then /article/11c3de84 "Matt Pocock's Skills Repo" EN at 4. Same Matt Pocock article that anchored Apr 28's top three is still in the top three on Apr 29 — the only EN evergreen still pulling weight without a fresh hook.
Tasks: Super User [53 cases from 5,382 cc + 3,640 oc tweets, top 500 read in 3 parallel batches] | Loop [30 cases from 5 keyword searches + filtered noise from "self-improving" agent] | Ideas [14 ideas from 10 search keywords, Reddit returned no data on either query tested] | Jobs [pending — see daily_review for final count]
Suggestions: 0 open. 7 proposals still pending review (oldest from 2026-04-16 = 14 days unreviewed). 0 approved.
Reflection: SU/Loop output today is the highest in two weeks (53+30 vs the 17+16 of Apr 29) because cache freshness for Apr 28 was full — paging mode returned 5,382 cc and 3,640 oc rows, no need for any sparse-day fallback. The pending proposals (1738aad2 adjacent-day merge, e3afa0dd zero-result fallback) didn't fire today because the data was there, but they'd have rescued at least 4 of the last 6 days. Traffic dropped to 52 — recovery is now 4 days broken, the EN comeback was a 2-day blip. Most informative observation: the only EN article still in the top 3 (Matt Pocock Skills) is the same one from Apr 28's top 3 — meaning EN distribution is now driven entirely by 1-2 evergreens, with no fresh EN piece getting traction. Compare ZH: 3 different fresh ZH pieces in top 3, all from the last 5 days. The asymmetry is structural: ZH gets fresh discovery, EN gets evergreen replays.
Action: Published Super User 53 + Loop 30 + Ideas 14 + Jobs (TBD), all EN+ZH with pair_id linked. Pushed Pioneer Daily to Feishu (top 3 SU + top 3 Loop + Eco Products Radar). Did not submit new proposals — the 7 pending already cover the active failure modes (sparse-day, zero-result, adjacent-day merge, runwayml removal, popular-this-week, referrer attribution, editor-revisit). Adding more without admin throughput just dilutes the queue.
Plan: If Apr 30 traffic comes in below 50 the slide enters its fifth day and the ZH-only-discovery / EN-evergreen-only pattern is structural. Watch whether GitHub Copilot ZH article holds top spot tomorrow — if it does, that's a third new ZH evergreen in two weeks (after ml-intern and claude-context), and the case for the Popular This Week module (75ab3424, pending since Apr 19) is now a full month overdue. If it's still not approved by May 5, the prompt-level alternative is to inline a "this week's top 3 ZH articles" in the homepage HTML directly.
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Traffic: Apr 29 delivered 52 hits (Articles-ZH:36, Articles-EN:14, Homepage:2). Down from 61 on Apr 28 — fourth-consecutive-day failure to reclaim the 75 stabilization line. Seven-day arc: 61 → 41 → 58 → 77 → 61 → 52. ZH-back-on-top reasserted at 36 vs 14 (2.6x ratio), reversing the brief two-day EN comeback.
Top Article: /zh/article/b3c2aece "GitHub Copilot 终于改成按 token 计费" leading at 6 hits, then /zh/article/a8e18e17 "Glance — Claude Code 浏览器 MCP" at 5, then /article/11c3de84 "Matt Pocock's Skills Repo" EN at 4. Same Matt Pocock article that anchored Apr 28's top three is still in the top three on Apr 29 — the only EN evergreen still pulling weight without a fresh hook.
Tasks: Super User [53 cases from 5,382 cc + 3,640 oc tweets, top 500 read in 3 parallel batches] | Loop [30 cases from 5 keyword searches + filtered noise from "self-improving" agent] | Ideas [14 ideas from 10 search keywords, Reddit returned no data on either query tested] | Jobs [pending — see daily_review for final count]
Suggestions: 0 open. 7 proposals still pending review (oldest from 2026-04-16 = 14 days unreviewed). 0 approved.
Reflection: SU/Loop output today is the highest in two weeks (53+30 vs the 17+16 of Apr 29) because cache freshness for Apr 28 was full — paging mode returned 5,382 cc and 3,640 oc rows, no need for any sparse-day fallback. The pending proposals (1738aad2 adjacent-day merge, e3afa0dd zero-result fallback) didn't fire today because the data was there, but they'd have rescued at least 4 of the last 6 days. Traffic dropped to 52 — recovery is now 4 days broken, the EN comeback was a 2-day blip. Most informative observation: the only EN article still in the top 3 (Matt Pocock Skills) is the same one from Apr 28's top 3 — meaning EN distribution is now driven entirely by 1-2 evergreens, with no fresh EN piece getting traction. Compare ZH: 3 different fresh ZH pieces in top 3, all from the last 5 days. The asymmetry is structural: ZH gets fresh discovery, EN gets evergreen replays.
Action: Published Super User 53 + Loop 30 + Ideas 14 + Jobs (TBD), all EN+ZH with pair_id linked. Pushed Pioneer Daily to Feishu (top 3 SU + top 3 Loop + Eco Products Radar). Did not submit new proposals — the 7 pending already cover the active failure modes (sparse-day, zero-result, adjacent-day merge, runwayml removal, popular-this-week, referrer attribution, editor-revisit). Adding more without admin throughput just dilutes the queue.
Plan: If Apr 30 traffic comes in below 50 the slide enters its fifth day and the ZH-only-discovery / EN-evergreen-only pattern is structural. Watch whether GitHub Copilot ZH article holds top spot tomorrow — if it does, that's a third new ZH evergreen in two weeks (after ml-intern and claude-context), and the case for the Popular This Week module (75ab3424, pending since Apr 19) is now a full month overdue. If it's still not approved by May 5, the prompt-level alternative is to inline a "this week's top 3 ZH articles" in the homepage HTML directly.
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