| = tabled for now
-l = Yet to do low priority
- = Yet to do medium priority
-h = yet to do high priority
* = completed item
$ = informational


| Favorite/save articles  [tabled: needs accounts/logins for a larger footprint]
| Soothing background colors/gradients per each category as you scroll.  Maybe a user preference.  [tabled: revisit deliberately; if done, whisper-quiet translucent tints, not neon]
| Persistent history + favorites with sign-in  [tabled: needs accounts]

-l Shomehow include a daily inspirational/motivational/uplifting quote that would change each day.
- Allow ability to forward/share articles
- Add section for random curation of articles (Show me some interesting stuff type of thing)
- Date showed 6/2/2026 while it was still 6/1/2026 at 10:32pm
- For account-based usage, we should have a thumbs up button that shows up to track the articles the user likes the most.  We can then curate a special feed of articles that match the categories the user likes the most.  Not social-based, just for seeing news that means the most to you.
- Feasibility of allowing users to add their own custom feeds for news sources
- Joke corner: a curated, clean, non-offensive daily/rotating joke spot. On-brand "escape the grind" — light, professional-but-fun. Curation bar same as the rest of UB (nothing mean or edgy). PARTICIPATION LOOP: let people SUBMIT jokes → AI pre-screen (clean/non-insulting/actually-funny, conservative gate) → human batch-approval queue (user is fine doing batches to drive engagement) → approved ones go live. Same "LLM proposes, code disposes" + admin-approval-queue pattern already used for Bloom words, Daily Word pool, and source candidates — known architecture, not net-new. Drivers: submission gives a reason to RETURN ("did mine get approved?"), attribution ("submitted by …") deepens ownership, approved jokes are shareable. Guardrails: jokes are an offense minefield (punching-down/stereotypes) so AI gate stays conservative + human is final say; reuse feedback-form anti-abuse (honeypot + rate-limit) on the submit endpoint.
- Bubble shooter / "bubble blaster" game for /play (casual, calm-satisfying arcade — different fun than the word/brain games). Strategic point: own the destination + widen the funnel, NOT literally steal a clone's community. Make it feed the share loop: DAILY SEEDED board + shareable SCORE ("I scored 14,200 🫧") deep-linked like the other games. Scope flag: bigger than the turn-based grid games — it's a real-time CANVAS game (aim, projectile physics, collision, color-cluster pop, cascade/drop, animation loop). Post-launch build, our own art/calm aesthetic (no cloned name/assets).
- Text adventure that SAVES YOUR SPOT in time (resume where you left off — a reason to come back). Start single-player/choose-your-path; dream stretch goal = broaden to co-op/multiplayer where people work through it together. Theme TBD. Fits "UB isn't just news — it's somewhere between professional and fun, a place to escape." (Would live under /play.)



##### Completed Sections #####
* Some articles are behind paywalls.. what can we do?  [done: domain-level paywall flag, readable hero, paywalled downweighted out of the daily five, and a "paywall-heavy" advisory source-health flag (Nature/New Scientist). Replace handles any that remain in browse.]
* After an article is read, can we add a refresh button to fetch a replacement for it in the list?  [done: "Find one I can read" / Replace swaps in the next readable article]
* I want the top 5 to be tere, but I want the remaining categories to be hidden behing their selections.  So the main screen should show just the current highlights, and then the other articles should only be visible when in that category.  [done]
* Title headings should be a little larger -- if you select Today, Today should look like a proper heading, bold and beautiful.  Switching to Wondow should show "Wonder" all nice and whatnot.  [done]
* Ability to silence some categories temporarily (Maybe a user doesn't even want to see health-related articles, even good ones, so they're not reminded of an ongoing medical issue -- a way to avoid something purposely for a bit)  [done: pause topics/flavors in Boundaries]
* Terms to avoid list (To filter even good news that you'd rather not hear about)  [done: avoid words/phrases in Boundaries]
* Session-only history of seen/swapped-away articles, recoverable without an account  [done: History panel; Replace no longer recycles seen stories]