Folio III · Issue XXXIX · Entry VII
System · Chronicle

The Cartarch Chronicle.

A journal of releases — what we shipped, what we refined, what we resolved, and a short note from the Archivist on each.

Folio III · Issue XXVIII · Entry IV
v3.28.4 · 24 May 2026 · published

Chronicle of Changes.

Added2 entries

  • The sign-in, register, forgot-password, and reset-password pages have an editorial brand pane on the left — Cartarch crest, wordmark, tagline, and a short note on what Cartarch is for — alongside the form on the right. The previous auth pages were a small centred form on an empty page; now arriving at one of those screens feels like opening a magazine cover.
  • On phones the brand pane condenses to just the crest and wordmark at the top and the form takes the whole screen — built responsive from day one so we won't have to redo it for the mobile pass.

Refined1 entry

  • All four auth pages now share a single layout so any future change to the brand pane lands in one place. The form behaviour — validation, password strength, the forgot/reset link contract, CSRF — is identical to before; only the surrounding layout changed.
Notes from the Archivist

First page of the cluster's real redesign work. We picked Auth as the entry point because it's the bounded one: four small pages, one shared layout, no schema in sight. The Dashboard is the bigger build — it's next, with nine editorial panels to translate. Auth is the practice run for that mechanism.