Release notes

Added

• Unscanned, a new Degrees view: build a circle where you see it. Right after Bridge Chains, it rings your connections whose circles aren't scanned yet round you the way Bridge Chains rings your bridges: S nearest, strongest first, names, hover, zoom and drag, and the Filters tiers. Lists the scanner already read (hidden, or nobody new) are left out and counted. Click someone and their empty circle opens with a Build their circle button in the middle (what it costs on hover); one press starts the scan right there, and a refusal is a short line under it. From then on dots join the circle one after another on a clock kept to the scanner's speed: hollow "on its way" dots, never more than a page ahead of what it has read, and as it saves people they take those places in their tier colours. The words above it always say what was really found and saved. When it ends the hollow dots go, the circle settles into tier bands, and a link opens them in Bridge Chains. Everything is worked out from when the scan started and what it has read, so leaving the view, the tab or the page and coming back shows the same progress; Stop in the notch leaves the people saved so far. Until you have a scanned circle, Degrees opens on Unscanned; once you have one, it opens on Bridge Chains as before.

Changed

• The Scan page leads with scanning. The scanner comes first: what's mapped, what's running with Stop, Your connections (Check for new, Scan it all again), Their circles with the radar, In progress, and the log. Beside it, Setup is one box of green lights: a done step is one line with a tick, a step that needs you is red and open, and each has a chevron; "All set" once they're all green. Below: Scanner settings (budget, how much of each list, finishing stopped lists, retrying hidden ones), Extras as switches with a line each (Auto scan, Show the scanner's Chrome window, the daily messages sync), and LinkedIn usage last. Two columns on a wide window, one on a narrow one. Nothing was removed.
• LinkedIn usage moved from Settings to the Scan page (/setup#usage). The notch's budget and the budget box go there; /settings#usage forwards, and Settings keeps a line to it.
• Six Degrees is now Sixgree (sixgree.com). The menu bar, Dock, Finder, window, About box, installers, Start Menu and Desktop shortcuts, website and npm package (npx sixgree) all say Sixgree now. What stays the same for you: your network and settings (still in ~/.six-degrees, still SIX_DEGREES_HOME), your backups (.sixdegrees files open as before), the app's settings folder, the in-app updater (1.0.0 updates itself to Sixgree like any other version), the Windows install it updates in place, and the GitHub repository. six-degrees still works as a command name for the npm package.
• The Filters and Details buttons at the map's edges are lit glass, and they dock. Each is a frosted round puck with a lit rim and a glow in its colour (the look's accent for Filters, its gold for Details), porcelain on Daylight, a flat hairline on Analyst, and drawn in every other look's own style. Hovering lifts it, shows its name, and builds a little cluster of gold, purple and blue dots round it, clockwise, the way Check for new's ↻ does. Opening a panel streams the dots along its edge, lights the edge, and docks the button there, chevron turned, as the panel's close control; closing plays it back. So the panels' separate Close rows are gone, Esc still closes a panel from inside it, the buttons are 44 pt to tap on a phone, and with Reduce Motion the panel simply fades. Neither button shows a count. Paths' Filters button is the same one.
• A guided setup for someone new. With no network yet, the app opens on one card at a time instead of the old welcome screen: Welcome (scan, import a CSV, or try the sample), Get your Mac ready (Chrome and the scanner tick themselves; App Management, on macOS 13 and later, with Open System Settings, I've allowed it and Skip, saved as before; and the "I understand" about scanning risks as a checkbox right there), Connect your LinkedIn (opens the sign-in window and turns to Connected by itself), Set your pace (speed, searches a day with the same gold warning above 100, never a pop-up, and the Auto scan switch), and Map your people (the first scan's progress, with the optional "What field are you in?" asked while it reads), then Your galaxy is ready and the map. Someone who leaves halfway comes back to the step they were on; someone with a network never sees it. The Scan page and the setup share one source for the scanner's status and what each button does, so they can't disagree.
• No pop-ups when you scan: one click starts it, and Chrome stays out of your way. Check for new in the header used to raise up to three boxes before and after it started; now one click starts it, the cluster spins on the button and the notch shows it running, and what it does and costs is the button's tooltip. Anything that can't start (the scanner not set up, a cooldown, one scan at a time) says why in a short line under the button that fades by itself. The same goes for every other way to start a scan: a click on someone ready to scan in Bridge Chains, Scan their circle in an empty circle, the Degrees panel's Ready to scan, the people panel's Scan rows and the card's Insights all start it right there instead of sending you to the Scan page to confirm it (a scan that stopped partway carries on with Resume, never reads the list again from page 1). The Paths company scan no longer asks first (its EXPERIMENTAL badge says what it asked), raising the budget past the safe limits is a question in the budget box instead of a box over the page, and Auto scan says why when it can't start. The Scan page's own buttons now grey out the header and the notch at once instead of a few seconds later. The two one-time questions stay (the "I understand" before the first scan, and Auto's before its first request), and so does every question before deleting something.
• The scanner's Chrome works in the background. After you've signed in, its window stays out of sight (hidden, on a Mac) and doesn't keep the focus or cover the app; it comes forward only when LinkedIn needs you, to sign in again or finish a security check, and the notch says LinkedIn needs you in gold until you're through. Chrome no longer shows the yellow "unsupported command-line flag … Stability and security will suffer" bar, and the scanner's profile is set so Chrome never asks to restore pages after a stopped scan, to save a password, to translate, or to show LinkedIn's notifications. On a Mac, Chrome's own sandbox is on. Fine-tune → Show the scanner's Chrome window keeps it in front for anyone who wants to watch. It replaces Hide the Chrome window while scanning, which ran Chrome with no window at all: more detectable, and blind to LinkedIn's checks. Pacing, budgets, caps and cooldowns are exactly as they were.
• Insights is in your Profile, not a tab of its own. The level button at the top right opens your Profile, and ✦ Insights beside Profile in the notch shows its boards after a thin line: People, Kingmakers, Gatekeepers, Companies, Industries, Report, and Health, the network health that Profile → Insights showed before. Every number and the rule under them are the same. Old links to Insights land on the same board, and the level button no longer reloads the whole app on the way there.

Removed

• The Paper look. Eight looks are left, light or dark, and your own colours on top of any of them. A look saved or shared as Paper opens as Daylight, the other light one, with your own changes kept.

Fixed

• Every page has its notch, hanging from the tabs. Network Circle and Separation had none unless a scan put its status there, because the notch only showed for a page with two or more views. A page with one view shows it now, lit: Network Circle's notch holds the Galaxy's layouts, Rings, Clusters and Orbit (picking one does what the Physics panel's Layout row does), and Scan and Separation have their own. Settings, Profile and Import have the same header as every other page, with the tabs, notifications, Check for new and your level, and a notch of their own: Settings' sections, which follow you as you scroll. The notch changes with the page: in the built app, the Scan page showed the page before's tabs for a moment. On a page that scrolls, the notch follows the header up and waits at the top of the window; it used to stay over the page, then vanish off the top the moment anything on the page changed. And while a scan ran, its green edge grew a line across the top, where it hangs from the tabs; it doesn't now.

Added

• On a Mac, the Scan page offers App Management once, so macOS stops asking while you scan. When the scanner starts Google Chrome, Chrome's own updater may try to update Chrome, and macOS asks whether Six Degrees can manage apps. A new item under step 1 says what that is and opens System Settings → Privacy & Security → App Management with one button (the right pane for macOS 13 and 14 too); Done or Skip puts it away for good. It's optional and never holds the step up: scanning works either way, and Chrome updates itself the next time you open it. Now that the app is signed, allowing it once lasts across updates. The docs page's questions and the README say the same.

Changed

• The Mac app is signed by Blake Burford and notarized by Apple: no more Open Anyway. Download it, drag it to Applications and open it like any Mac app; macOS only asks once whether to open an app from the internet. Every program inside it (the app, the server, the scanner's Python and its parts) carries the signature, and Apple has checked the app and the disk image. Updating from inside the app works the same from an unsigned copy (0.8.0 and earlier) to a signed one, and from one signed version to the next. The website, the README, the release notes and the picture in the disk image's window say so now. From 1.0.0 on, a Mac release can't go out unsigned. The Windows app isn't signed yet: SmartScreen still asks the first time.

Added

• Insights: your network ranked by power. A new tab between Paths and Outlink. The Power Index ranks everyone within two steps of you, each person once, with shared ranks for ties and a line saying why a big tie shares its score; filter by degree, tier and rarity, search by name, company or who knows them, and from any row open their circle, scan it, or ask (their LinkedIn profile opens and the request is marked sent, as on their card). Beside it: Untapped (S and A in your 2nd degree with no request out), Kingmakers (the connections with the most S and A behind them), Gatekeepers (who your S and A reach hangs on), Hidden giants (S-tier with one way in), Company power, How sure (how much of the ranking rests on a guess), and Richest?, which says plainly that the app never sees money. Kingmakers, Gatekeepers, Companies, Industries and a scrolling Report are views of their own in the notch. Every number says where it came from; a CSV import gets the boards that need no circles, and says so for the rest. On your own network every 2nd-degree row offers Auto beside Ask.
• Auto: one press sends someone a connection request for you. Next to every Connect (a person's card, and Outlink's lists and next best moves) there's now an Auto button, the bright one. Press it and the scanner's Chrome opens their profile, presses Connect and sends the request without a note, then shows "Request sent" and marks it pending everywhere in the app. Connect still opens their profile for you to do it yourself. One press is one person: never a batch, never on a timer, and it waits while a scan runs. It asks once before the first one. When LinkedIn wants their email address first, Auto closes that and sends nothing ("Use Connect to add them yourself"); when LinkedIn offers a personal note (Premium), it sends without one. It only calls a request sent once their profile shows it pending, and says so plainly when it can't tell. It stops at 15 requests in any 24 hours and 80 in any 7 days (LinkedIn doesn't publish its limit; about 100 a week is commonly reported), opens their profile once like a scan does, holds during a pause after LinkedIn pushed back, and shows in Settings → LinkedIn usage as Connection requests (Auto).

Changed

• A scan that stopped partway says so, on the person's card and on the Scan page. Open someone whose circle scan didn't finish and a line by their name says which page it stopped after, with Resume right there; their scan box now reads Scan in progress, with Resume from page N as its main button, instead of Cluster active. The card's Insights offer Resume for them too, not a scan that reads the list again from page 1, and an empty circle in Bridge Chains whose scan stopped partway says so, with Resume from page N, instead of saying their list has been read. On the Scan page, everyone stopped partway is in a new In progress card right after step 4, with Resume for each person and Resume all, and each name opens their circle on the map. It used to be folded away under Fine-tune the scanner.
• The tabs sit on the header's line, and the notch hangs from them. On a computer the row of tabs rests on the line under the header, so a page's own buttons in the notch below join onto it. The header is the same height on every tab: the Pending count that added a row on Degrees and Separation is gone (sent requests are still under Outlink → Pending).
• Separation starts with its slider. The line counting people two steps away and the tier strip under it are gone; the search box stays at the top.
• The notch comes with the page. Switching tabs, it waits for the next page to appear instead of hanging over a blank screen while it loads.

Fixed

• A company called "Foods" or "Beverages" is in Retail, Consumer & Hospitality. The word list had "food" and "beverage" but not the plurals, so a company like Northwind Foods took its industry from its people's headlines instead (tech, on a test network). Scores are worked out again once after the update, since a company's industry can change its estimate and your sector.
• Scan dots are whole on Paths. The dots along the header's line while a scan runs were cut in half above Paths' left panel; they also stop short of the tabs now that the tabs sit on the line.
• The 3rd-degree dot in Degrees and Separation says why it can't be tapped. It said "No one at 3rd degree yet" even with people found by company scans; it now says those are drawn on Network Circle.
• The ring round a scanned connection's dot shows how much of their list was read. It showed 2 of 5 bars, "partly read", for everyone scanned, even when their whole list was in, and the card's Insights offered to finish lists that were finished. The app now takes in how far each list was read, which the scanner had been noting all along.

Added

• Download for Mac shows how to open it the first time. On sixgree.com, clicking Download for Mac now shows the three steps right under the button: drag it into Applications, close macOS's warning, and allow it once in System Settings → Privacy & Security. They used to be only on the Download page.
• Watch a circle fill in while it's scanned. While the scanner reads who your connections know, step 4 on the Scan page has a Watch it fill in link to that person's circle in Bridge Chains, which fills in as the scanner saves every 10 pages, during a whole round too, not only a scan of one person.
• An "I understand" before the first scan: the Scan page says once, plainly, that scanning runs your own LinkedIn account automatically, that LinkedIn may restrict accounts that do this (the safe limits of 50 searches a day and 250 a month stay on), and that nothing leaves your computer. Nothing opens LinkedIn until you click I understand, whichever button asks, and the CSV import is one click away instead. It's asked once and kept with your settings; anyone who has scanned before isn't asked. The welcome screen's Scan card says the risk too, and the README and website say Six Degrees is not affiliated with or endorsed by LinkedIn.
• Light looks, and every look its own all the way through (Settings → Appearance). Daylight and Paper are light, designed for it: ink words, white cards and panels, deeper dots that read on white. Pick any light background in the editor and the words and borders turn dark with it. Each look now changes more than its colours: its buttons (soft, flat, square, glass, neon or bold), its words (Obsidian's greys, a data terminal's for Analyst, brighter ones on Glass), its cards, pickers, tooltips and notch, the sliders, and how the map draws its dots (glass droplets, flat like Obsidian, or glowing). Both are yours to pick in the editor too.
• Analyst is an analysis tool's look: a bare white canvas and flat grey panels, plain outlined dots in colour-blind-safe colours with black labels, thin grey lines, flat blue for what's picked, no gradients, glows or shadows, and every number in even columns. Less on screen, more about the numbers.
• A look's dots and panels everywhere, not just on the map. Glass droplets, glowing dots, plain outlined dots or flat ones now follow a look into Degrees (bridges, clusters, the hover preview), Separation, Paths' bubbles, the Scan cluster, circle previews, the header's scan dots, legends, tier dots and avatars. Each look also has its own side panels, tab bar, notch and map tooltips: graphite with fine borders (Obsidian), neon edges (Synthwave), a cool rim (Space), hard outlines (High contrast), soft shadows (Daylight), ruled and warm (Paper), grey hairlines (Analyst), glass (Glass).
• Glass is Apple's Liquid Glass. Panels of dark glass that keep their words readable, with a lit rim and a bright top edge, and edges that bend what's behind them the way Apple's glass does. The tabs sit in one glass capsule; buttons are glass capsules that spring when pressed. With Reduce Transparency on, the panels go solid.
• Bridge Chains: hovering a bridge grows its circle. Their people shoot out of the bridge to their places, then anyone among them whose own circle is scanned sprouts it (3rd degree), then theirs (4th), in under half a second.
• ↻ Check for new forms a cluster. Hover it and a ring of dots builds round it clockwise, the way a connection's circle forms on the map; while it checks, the ring keeps building, round and round, in the look's colours, and the button stays lit. The same on the Scan page.
• Scan: the radar is a cluster that grows with every page. While a scan runs, the people each page finds gather round the Scan button as dots, ring by ring, each page's batch in the next of the theme's colours (the same as the header's dots), the newest glowing.
• Backups that look after themselves, photos and all. Six Degrees now backs up your whole network once a day while it's open (when it starts, and after a scan, if the last one is a day old), before a new version first opens it, and whenever you click Back up now in Settings → Your data. Each backup holds your connections, their profile photos, your settings and the scanner's progress, and is checked as it's made, the same way a restore would check it. Settings says "Last backup: <time>, verified", or plainly what's wrong if a backup ever fails its check. It keeps the last 7 daily backups, 3 from before new versions and 3 from before an import or a restore (each of those for at least 30 days); ones you make yourself stay until you delete them. The Social tab's messages and notes are never in a backup, so deleting them there deletes them everywhere.
• Restore any backup, from Settings. Each backup has Restore and Show in Finder. Restore checks it, then puts it back when Six Degrees restarts (Restart now in the Mac app), keeping what was there first so you can go back again. Undoing an import is now one click on the backup it kept, instead of moving files by hand.
• Your look and your saved Galaxy layouts travel with your network: they're kept with your settings, so a backup, a restore or a move to another computer brings them along.
• Settings → LinkedIn usage: how close your account is to the line, at a glance. A status pill (well within, above the default, risky, too close, or paused) and four bars: searches in the last 24 hours, marked at 50 (the default), 100 (risky) and 373 (where a real account was restricted), with when the next one frees and when you're all clear; searches this month, with when LinkedIn's month resets (midnight Pacific on the 1st) and the 250 to 350 people report for a free account shaded as a guide, not a fact; the last 7 days against Auto scan's 200; and profile views. Below them: your speed and searches in the last hour, about how many people you can still map, the last time LinkedIn pushed back (its time and reason, even after you lift the pause), Auto scan's own rules, and a plain warning with Back to 50 a day, 250 a month when it matters. Every number is counted from what Six Degrees wrote down on this computer, and says so. The notch's budget and the Scan page's budget box link to it.

Changed

• A LinkedIn CSV import is kept until you remove it. Close the window or restart the app and your imported network is still there; it used to be gone with the window. It's kept on this computer, in your data folder (csv-network.json), apart from any network you scan, and only what the map needs (names, positions, companies, profile links, when you connected; never email addresses). Click × beside Your CSV to remove it; it asks first, and your Connections.csv isn't touched. Save a copy of my network carries it to another computer and an import brings it back. If the kept file can't be read, the welcome screen says so instead of acting as if there were none. The welcome screen's CSV card says where it's kept. Once you've scanned your own connections, every page shows your scan instead; the CSV stays kept, and the import page says so with a button to remove it.
• Google Chrome is part of getting ready. Step 1 on the Scan page isn't done until Chrome is on your computer, and offers Install Google Chrome, then come back; it ticks by itself once Chrome is there. Open LinkedIn waits for it, nothing that opens LinkedIn starts without it (every button gets the same one-sentence reason), and the welcome screen's Scan card says it needs Chrome.
• Honest about how long scanning takes. The Scan page says your galaxy takes three steps and who they know fills in over days. Step 4 says the first circle shows up in about 5 minutes (longer at Medium or Slow) and why the rest takes days: every page is a LinkedIn search, and your budget caps a day's.
• Your field is asked after your connections are in, under "Your galaxy is ready", instead of before the first scan, and picking one rescores everyone straight away. Anyone with only their own connections mapped who never answered is asked once; skipping counts as an answer.
• Sign in to LinkedIn with Google or Apple? Step 2 now says what to do: set a LinkedIn password first (Forgot password on LinkedIn's sign-in page emails you a link to make one), since Google and Apple sign-in can't work in the scanner's window.
• A saved Galaxy picture or video credits sixgree.com in its corner, instead of the app's name, so anyone it's shared with knows where to get it.
• Bridge Chains: the inner ring holds the circles with the most going on: notifications about them (new ones count double), people in them ready to scan, and clusters formed from them since. A circle's tooltip says how many notifications are about it.
• Separation fits the whole map in the window, and keeps fitting: whatever the map shows, as the slider moves or you aim at someone else, it fits again and glides there, list and all. − Fit + at the right of its caption zooms in or out (as far as 15%) until the view changes.
• Bridge Chains' legends are just dots, no box: they fit whatever font a look uses.
• Bridge Chains: the badge at a bridge's top right counts their circle's news: new notifications about it (gold) and people in it ready to scan (green), as asked for on 10/2; it counted only the people ready before.
• Settings → Your data says Export backup file… and Restore from a file… instead of "Save a copy of my network" and "Choose a file… / Import". They do the same: one file to carry your network to another computer, and putting one back.

Fixed

• Auto scan rests two days after any check from LinkedIn, as the Scan page says. A pushback partway through reading someone's list used to rest it one day, like a scan you start yourself; only a check at the start of a run got the two days.
• "Signed in" means signed in. Step 2 used to tick as soon as the scanner's Chrome window had opened once, even if you closed it without signing in. Now it ticks once the scanner has seen you signed in. Anyone already signed in before this stays signed in.
• Degrees says the right thing before who they know is mapped. With no 2nd degree yet, it told everyone LinkedIn's CSV can't have circles, scanner users included. Now someone who scanned is pointed to step 4 on the Scan page; a CSV import gets the CSV reason, as before.
• Words on screen read plainly: no em dashes anywhere the app shows text (pages, notices, notifications, error messages), and a test keeps it that way. The Scan page's old "Checking for updates has moved" note is gone. Two messages written for developers now say what anyone can do: a copy missing its scanner says to download it again, and a page that can't reach the app says to quit and reopen it. The download size reads "about 210 MB" everywhere (the Mac downloads are 204 and 212 MB).
• The Social tab says truly where its messages and notes go: never into Six Degrees' own backups, and into an exported backup file only with its Social tab box ticked. It used to say they were never in a copy, which wasn't so when that box was ticked.
• Copies kept before an import no longer pile up forever: the newest 3 stay, and none goes before it's 30 days old.
• The budget says "the last 24 hours", because that's what it counts. The notch said "searches today" and the Scan page "searches left today" (and "profile views today"), but the budget has always counted a rolling 24 hours, not since midnight. They now say so.

Added

• Themes (Settings → Appearance). Seven looks: Standard, High contrast, Obsidian, Glass, Analyst, Space and Synthwave, each with a small preview of the map in its colours. Then make it yours: the background and a second colour, a backdrop behind everything (stars, a grid, a glow, a sunset horizon), the accent, each tier's dot and your own, the map's lines (in the colour of the person they lead to, or one colour), how see-through the side panels are, and the font. Everything changes as you go, on every page, and stays in this browser. Copy a theme code to share a look; pasting one only ever sets colours and choices.
• Clusters, the way Obsidian draws a graph (Network Circle → Filters → Layout → Clusters). Your network as one round disc: each connection with a scanned circle is a big hub with their circle around them, and everyone is sized by their lines. Someone in several circles is linked to each of them, so they sit between those hubs and tie them together. The forces have Obsidian's names, Center force, Repel force, Link force and Link distance, each saying what it does to your network. Names fade as you zoom out, all but the hubs'. Picking a layout fits everyone on screen, and so does ⤢ Fit.
• Orbit (Filters → Forces): sets the whole map turning round you, every circle with it, so nothing loses its shape. Still under Reduce Motion.
• Dots along the header's line while a scan runs: one for each page the scanner reads, collecting from the left, on every tab. A click opens the Scan page.

Changed

• The same header on every tab. The tabs sit in the exact middle of the window, and Settings, notifications, ↻ Check for new and your level are on Paths, Outlink and Scan too. A notification picked on another tab opens on the map.
• Separation fits a laptop's window. The header is slimmer: the search sits in the title's row, the tier line stays without the sentence under it (it's the title's tooltip now), Only show sits beside the tiers, the pill saying where the slider is sits over its middle, and the long explanations moved into tooltips. The cards are packed a little closer, so the whole map, ten people and every way in, shows at once in the app's normal window wherever the slider is.
• The Scan page shows every step at once, down a line: Get ready, Sign in, Who you know, Who they know, each with its label, what it does and its one button, marked Done, Now or Next. The line turns green as each is done, so it's plain what's finished and what's left; no more tapping dots to see a step.
• ↻ Check for new, in words, in the map's header (it was a bare ↻): the same name as the Scan page's button, for checking your LinkedIn for new connections in one click.

Fixed

• Separation's tiers choose who's ranked, not who leads to them. Hiding a tier in Filters also hid your connections of that tier (the purple A-tier lines), so the people they lead to lost a way in. In Separation every connection now stays a way in, whatever its tier.
• The level in the round button at the top right matches the Profile page's: it left out C and D tiers and catalysts, so it read lower.

Added

• Rank titles your way (Settings → Scores → Titles). Set how much each kind of title counts, out of 10, or start from a preset: Founders first, Investors, or A role I'm looking for. Add the roles you're after ("account executive", "head of growth", "recruiter") with their own points, and everyone whose title has those words rises, whatever their level: for outbound to one role, or hiring for it. Saving rescores everyone and says how many people changed tier, and a card's score says "your ranking" where it moved a title. Nothing set scores exactly as before.

Changed

• The Scan page is a launch, not a manual. It opens with what the scanner is and what it never does (never posts or messages anyone, never sees your password, nothing leaves this Mac, stops when you say), then the four steps on a rail: Get ready, Sign in, Who you know, Who they know. The one you're on pulses, with one big button that does it and how long it takes; any other opens with a tap. While it runs, "Your scanner is working" and Stop sit right under the step. How many people this round and who first are beside the radar; the daily budget, how much of each list, the hidden window, retrying hidden lists and paused lists are in Fine-tune, closed until you want them. The log is one tap away, and opens by itself when a run stops badly. Scan has the same header as every page now.
• Paths reads like Network Circle. Its notch is now Map and Companies: companies count for more than industries, and an industry opens from a company's card (its industry is a link there). Whether the map's bubbles are companies or your connections (what was the People tab) is a switch at the top of the Filters panel. Filters use the same tiers × degrees grid as Network Circle. Colour is by sector or by Heat: for companies, how strong your people there are (the average power of the five strongest); for people, how strong their cluster is, person for person; size still says how many. And Physics: switch it to Live to drag bubbles (the ones joined to them follow) and change Spread, Pull to their group and Pull along lines. Still, as before, is the default. Old links to the People or Industries tab still land on the map.
• Heat: power as a thermal map. A new Colour by in Network Circle's Physics: every dot coloured from cold violet through red and orange to white hot by where their power score ranks among the people showing, with a soft glow behind the hotter ones that pools where powerful people cluster, like a thermal camera. Works with every layout, the replay and the filter grid.
• Separation all the way right counts every mutual, scanned or not. It aims at whoever you share the most mutual connections with, even when most of them are in circles you haven't scanned: an unscanned mutual is still a likely introduction, so it no longer holds someone back. The ones the app can draw are lines as before; the rest are grey dots, each with a faint line in, with "+37 more mutuals, in circles not scanned yet". The person glows less the less of it is scanned. The Next names are in the same order and say their mutual counts. Narrow the tiers (S only, say) first to aim at the strongest.
• The right panel follows the circle you're in. Open someone's circle in Bridge Chains and the panel is about them: how many people are in their circle, tier chips to see just one tier, a search inside it, the people you added from it (with Scan… for the ones ready), then everyone else in it, strongest first. Click anyone for their card.
• Orbit is a layout of the Galaxy now, in Physics next to Rings and Clusters, not a separate view: every tier held on its own orbit, S nearest you, and each connection's circle tucked in behind them. It's still the Galaxy, so you can drag dots and move every slider on it.
• Light up a branch on hover starts off. It dimmed and relit thousands of dots on every hover, which flickered; it's still in Physics if you want it, and moving from one dot to the next no longer flashes the whole Galaxy in between.
• Social is part of Outlink. Outlink has the same header as every page, and its views sit in the notch: Circles, To add, Pending, and Messages & follow-ups, which is the whole Social tab (your LinkedIn export, the live messages sync, the CRM with its inbox, follow-ups, pipeline, sent and received). Adding people and keeping track of them are now one place. The Social tab is gone from the header, and old links to it land on Messages & follow-ups.
• Notifications open. Click one and it takes over the right panel with the detail: who it is about, their tier and score, who you met them through, and, for an S or A, that they're a valuable person to know; with buttons to open their card, their circle in Bridge Chains, or them in Separation. A notification naming several people lists them all.
• New notifications: someone you met through a bridge added you back ("Ana added you back, through Yuki"); a circle scan found people at top companies (a company score of 8 or more), named in one notification; and a scan finished ("Scan done: Yuki's circle", "Check for new: done"). Accepted requests and high-value new connections now say who they are about, and older ones are matched by the name in their title.
• Paths has the same header as the map. The app's tabs stay at the top, with Paths lit, and Map, People, Industries and Companies sit in the notch under them, as the map page's views do; a tab for Network Circle, Degrees or Separation takes you straight to it. Paths' filters moved into a Filters panel on the left, like the map page's, with new ways to read the map: what a bubble's size means (your people there, the S and A among them, or the ones you already know; on People, cluster value, size or S tier) and which names show (the biggest, all, or none).
• All the way to easy, Separation aims at whoever the most of your connections lead to, with every one of those lines drawn, the strongest first among equals; the "Next" names are the runners-up by the same measure. It used to aim at the top of the list, which could be someone with many mutual connections by LinkedIn's count but only one the app could draw.
• The Scan page has a radar, and a speed: Slow, Medium or Fast. Mapping the 2nd degree starts from a round Scan button in the middle of a radar: its sweep turns while a scan runs, and the ring round it fills with today's searches against your budget. Beside it, three speeds. Fast is how the scanner has always run, and nothing is faster; Medium waits 45 seconds before each page of results and 3 minutes after every 10, Slow 90 seconds and 5 minutes, and both keep profiles further apart (90 and 120 seconds). Each says about how many searches an hour it makes and how long the rest of today's budget would take. The daily budget stays the cap at every speed: slower spreads it out, it doesn't shrink it. The speed is saved with the budget and the scanner says which it is using at the start of every run; the Scan page's time estimates follow it.
• Scores moved into Settings. Your field, how tiers are graded and every company's score are a Scores section in Settings (the gear), and the Scores tab is gone from the header. Old links to the Scores tab land in the same place in Settings.
• Profile has Insights. An Insights button beside Profile shows network health: how much of your 2nd degree you reach two or more ways, the effective reach of your connections, and the connections who reach the most people no one else does. It was at the top of the Scores tab.
• Paths → People. A new view beside the company map, drawn the same way but with your connections as the bubbles: each is sized by the value of the cluster behind them (S tier counts 3, A tier 2, everyone else 1; or by cluster size, or by S tier inside), coloured by their sector and grouped like the companies. A white centre is the share of their cluster you can only reach through them, a gold ring means S-tier people inside, and a line joins two connections whose clusters share people. Point at someone for their numbers and how their cluster compares to the rest you've scanned; click to open it in Bridge Chains. Shows the connections you've scanned, or all of them, with the ones not scanned yet as small grey dots.
• Separation's map draws connections as pills and people as cards on a computer (a phone keeps the dots). Each connection shows their initials, tier and what they are to the people on the map: the only door to someone, the best way in for some, or only another way in; the ones with a solid line are lit. Each person is a card with rank, role, score and how many ways in. With the slider all the way to easy, the one person becomes a large card with LinkedIn's mutual count and how many of those are drawn. Everything still glides as the slider moves.
• Separation's list is a ledger. A title bar says how many are shown and that the order follows the slider. The way in shows the connection's face with "only way in" or how many more ways there are under it, a new column shows how rare the way in is as a bar (full and cyan for one door, short and orange for the warmest), and the power score sits beside its bar.
• Separation is a tab of its own, beside Degrees in the header, instead of a view inside Degrees. It uses the same Filters grid as Degrees. Degrees keeps Bridge Chains, Pyramid and List.
• Separation has a slider. One slider reorders everyone as you drag it: the rarest ways in at one end (strong people only one of your connections knows), the easiest at the other (strong people you share the most mutual connections with), and each person's own score alone in the middle, as the list has always been. A line under it says in words what it is surfacing. It only reorders: scores, tiers and ranks stay as they are, and it claims no odds. Double-click the slider, or tap 50, to go back to the middle. It replaces the Power / Ways in switch. The tier chips and the rarity chips ("Only show") sit in the same card.
• Separation's map follows the slider, and glides. From the rare end to the middle it fans out to ten people, each with the one or two doors that lead to them. Towards the easy end it closes in on fewer people, and at the end on one: the person you're aiming at, with rings round them and every connection of yours who leads to them drawn in, the top-scored one solid. As the slider moves, people, connections and lines slide to their new places and newcomers fade in (still, with Reduce Motion on). Pick anyone in the list, or one of the "Next" names under the map, to aim at them instead. Beside each name it says how many mutual connections lead to them: "only way in", "3 ways in", or, where LinkedIn's own count is higher than the connections the app can draw, "37 mutuals · 6 mapped".
• Path, in Separation. A Path button beside the tier chips narrows everyone to one sector or one company. The picker opens under the button with the sectors (inferred, as in Paths), the biggest companies and a box to type in, and goes away once you've picked; the button then shows your pick with a × to clear it.
• Separation's heading no longer sits under the notch.
• One filter for tiers and degrees, the same in Network Circle and in Degrees. The Filters panel shows the five tiers as bigger rows, each with six dots, one for each degree. Tap a tier to hide or show it, as before. Tap a dot to show or hide that degree for that tier alone: S tier at 2nd degree without everyone else's, say. Tap a number at the top to switch a degree for every tier at once. A dot with nobody behind it is faint and can't be tapped, each row says how many people it is showing, and the last people on screen can't be switched off. Network Circle starts with your own connections; Degrees starts with everything. In Degrees the rows used to pick one bridge tier at a time; now 1st degree is your bridges and 2nd is the people in their circles, each by their own tier.
• The Galaxy's physics is the main thing in Network Circle's Filters panel. The sliders, layouts, colours, find and replay sit straight in the panel under the tiers, always on, with no switch to turn on first and no "experimental" box. With no slider moved the Galaxy is laid out as before; pointing at a dot now lights up its branch unless you turn that off.
• Pyramid and List left Network Circle. Its views are the Galaxy and Orbit. Pyramid and List stay in Degrees.
• An opened circle shows the chains that lead on from it. Anyone you added from that circle and then scanned keeps their dot in the circle, and the cluster their scan formed sits outside it, joined to that dot by a line, so you can see where each path came from. Inside a cluster, anyone you added and scanned in turn has their own dot marked and a line on to their cluster, for as far as your scans reach. Every dot in a cluster is joined to its middle by a faint line. Each cluster says whose circle it is, how many are in it and which degree that is. Point at one and the way back to the middle lights up; click and it opens with the whole trail. The people you added sit together on the side the chains lead off to, their names taking turns above and below so they don't overlap, and the view zooms to fit when it opens.
• Bridge Chains shows the bridges you connected with yourself. Someone you met through a bridge's circle is a link in that bridge's chain, not a bridge of their own: they're inside its circle.
• A bridge's ring now counts the people you added through it. The ring sits tight on the dot, with one bar for each person: orange once they've been scanned and have a cluster of their own, green while they're ready for a scan. A small green number at the top right says how many are ready, in place of the "ready" label. How much of a bridge's own list is scanned is in its tooltip.
• A crowded Bridge Chains is easier to read. When your bridges need more than one ring, the rings sit further apart, each with its own guide line, and the counts under each name wait until you point at the bridge.
• Orbit moved to Network Circle. It shows the size of every circle at once, which is a picture of the network, not a way to follow a chain. The corner switch in Degrees is gone.
• Views are in the notch, under the tabs. Galaxy, Orbit, Pyramid and List in Network Circle, and Bridge Chains, Separation, Pyramid and List in Degrees, switch from the notch that hangs under the top tabs, instead of a list at the top of the Filters panel. A scan's progress shows in the same notch, beside them. The Filters panel now only filters.

Fixed

• The scanner's log, shown on the Scan page, says "scanning" throughout; a few lines still said the old word.
• The "Scanning…" dot in the right panel pulses again; the animation it named was never defined.
• Separation's map lines now meet every box. Each connection sits level with the people it leads to, so a connection with one person is on that person's row and the line between them runs straight; lines start and end exactly on the pill and the card, with a small dot where they plug in.
• "Hide the Chrome window while scanning" did nothing for scans started on the Scan page. Its own buttons (Scan, Check for new, Auto scan and the rest) sent their request without the setting, so Chrome opened anyway; only scans started from a person's card or Resume were hidden. Every scan start now goes through one place that adds it.
• "Only way in" could show beside someone with two ways in drawn. Rarity trusted the mutual count a scan saved even when the app had since found them through more of your connections than that. It now takes whichever is larger.

Added

• The Social tab is a personal CRM. Everyone you've been in touch with on LinkedIn is one contact, connection or not: a list on the left with views and a search box, the person on the right (stacked on a phone). The views:
  • Inbox: they wrote last, or there's something unread. Unread first.
  • Awaiting reply: you wrote last and nothing came back for 7 days or more (you can change the 7).
  • Follow-ups due: a follow-up date of today or before.
  • Pipeline: a board of the people you've given a stage.
  • Sent: connection requests you sent (from your export's Invitations.csv, with the date, and the note you wrote if Keep my messages is on), requests the app tracked (Mark sent), each accepted once they're a connection and pending until then, and messages awaiting a reply.
  • Received: requests to you from people who aren't connections yet.
  • All: everyone and every group conversation, newest first.

  Each person's panel shows their tier, company and how you're connected (and who can introduce you, for 2nd degree), their conversations (the messages themselves if you keep them), requests both ways, and your own stage (New, Contacted, Replied, Meeting, Won/Partner, Not now; it suggests one), tags, notes and next follow-up date. Those are yours, so they're always kept, in a file of their own per profile in the app's data folder, and never sent anywhere. Search covers names, companies, tags and notes, and what was said while the messages are kept; in All it finds anyone in your network, so you can add a note before you've written to them. Export CSV saves the table (name, company, profile, connection, stage, tags, last contact, who wrote last, next follow-up, notes) as a spreadsheet file. The list shows 100 at a time, so thousands of conversations stay quick.

• Every conversation in your export, not just your connections'. People who aren't connections are listed by the name the export gives them, marked Not a connection, with their profile link when it has one. Past (archived), current and ones only you wrote in are all there, from every folder; group conversations are listed and marked; Sponsored Messages and InMails are marked, and adverts are kept out of the Inbox. Unsent drafts are left out and said so.
• Read my whole history, beside Sync messages now: the live messages sync keeps scrolling your messages list until no new conversations load (at most 60 scrolls, about 1,000 conversations), at the same slow, fixed pace, with no random waits. The daily sync still reads just the top. The sync now also brings in people who aren't your connections (with their name) and group conversations (without any words), and each sync adds to what earlier ones found instead of replacing it.
• Delete my CRM notes, and Forget it asks, separately, whether to delete them too, so notes aren't lost by accident.

Changed

• "Save a copy of my network" carries the Social tab too. A new box, ticked by default, adds its findings, your CRM stages, tags, notes and follow-ups, and any messages you keep, so moving to a new computer brings everything. Importing the copy puts them in place and keeps this computer's beside the old network. Untick it to leave them behind.
• Waiting on you has become the CRM's Inbox, and Conversations is part of the CRM.
• The Social tab keeps the names of people who aren't your connections, from your export and the sync, since nothing else in the app says who they are. A connection's name still isn't copied: the app has it already.

Changed

• The scan status bar is now a notch. A small pill hangs from the bottom of the header, centred, on every page. It shows nothing while nothing runs, only a tiny dimmed Auto scan while the all-day mode waits, and while a scan runs, what it's doing with a thin progress line. Hover or click to open it: who, today's searches, the latest line, Details and Stop. Other long jobs show there too, starting with recording the Galaxy's replay.

Added

• Conversations, in the Social tab. Every conversation with one of your connections, from your export and the live messages sync: who it's with (name and tier), when it was last active, who wrote last, unread, how many messages, and Open on LinkedIn (the thread when the sync found its link, else their profile). Waiting on you comes first, then S and A tier, then the most recent. Group conversations are shown and marked, and aren't counted in warmth. A search box finds people by name.
• Keep my messages on this computer, a switch that's off unless you turn it on. When it's on, the messages themselves, what other people wrote to you included, are kept in the app's data folder (a file of their own beside the Social tab's), and a conversation opens as a thread, newest at the bottom, a page at a time so a thread of thousands opens as fast as a short one. The search box then finds what was said, too. They're never sent anywhere, and "Save a copy of my network" doesn't carry them (Settings says so). Switching it off asks first, then deletes them; Forget it deletes them with everything else.
• The live messages sync reads a little more of the list. Each conversation's link, whether it's a group, and its newest message: who wrote last, which now feeds warmth and Waiting on you where your export is missing or older, and its words, which go to the app only while Keep my messages is on. It still opens no conversation, and its saved samples still keep no words.

Changed

• Auto scan is slower and has its own ceilings. Sittings of 8 pages, then an hour's rest; searches only from 9:00 to 18:00; never more than 40 searches in 24 hours or 200 in 7 days, however high the daily budget is set (the account restricted on 28 September did 373 in a day with the budget at 500); and two days with no searches after any check from LinkedIn.
• The scan status bar sits under the buttons. On each page it now sits in its own row under the header, pushing the page down instead of covering it. On Network Circle it floats just under the header, measured, so a header that wraps to two rows no longer hides it.

Fixed

• The live messages sync keeps what it finds. It read your conversations but matched none of them: the pattern for a profile link never matched, and LinkedIn's messaging gives a member link your connections list doesn't have. It now matches each person to your connections by link, or by a name only one connection has (the name isn't kept), and scrolls the list's own panel so more than the first 20 conversations load.
• Messaging samples keep no words. The sync's saved samples of LinkedIn's data (for tuning the reader) now drop every piece of writing and every name before they're saved.

Changed

• A new icon. A 6 drawn in one gold line around you, a glowing core, ending in a degree ring, with your tier rings fading behind it. It's the app's icon, the favicon and the website's.
• The website is a proper site now, and the README matches. The home page tells one story, feature by feature, each with a real screenshot of the invented sample network: see your network, find your way in, know your network, watch it grow, and scan carefully, then privacy, a fair comparison with LinkedIn's own search, spreadsheets and CRMs, and SocNetV and Gephi, and a strip of true, checkable numbers. It has one download button, for your computer: the Mac download on a Mac, and on Linux and Windows a dimmed Coming soon button, never a link, with npx six-degrees offered on Linux. New pages: /download/ (every platform, install steps, checksums, requirements, troubleshooting), /docs/ (getting started, your data, privacy, questions), /releases/ (every version in this changelog), /blog/ with four posts on how it works, /roadmap/ and /about/, with Atom feeds for the blog and releases and every page in the sitemap. scripts/build-site.mjs builds it all from site/, and the website's deploy runs it, so the news and numbers never go stale (site/README.md says how to add a post or a page). The README has badges, a download table for all three platforms, features, latest news and why Six Degrees.

Fixed

• Paths opens about 9× faster on a large network (Map 19.8 s → 2.2 s, Industries 25.8 s → 1.7 s, at 1,500 connections and 25,000 people in their circles). Each headline and company name is now read once, not once per pass: Paths read everyone's headline five or more times, and each read tries the whole company list. The same fix makes Scores open in under a second (was 11 s), and setting a company's score rescores everyone in a third of a second (was 6 s). Scores themselves are unchanged.
• Opening a company's path to the top in Paths no longer hangs. Every row compared itself with everyone at the company each time the page drew: at a company of 1,900 people that took minutes. It now opens in a fifth of a second, and a row works out what adding them would do only when you open it.

Added

• Hide the Chrome window while scanning (Scan page). Scans run with no window popping up; the status bar and Stop work as before, and signing in always opens the window. The Scan page says the risks: a hidden Chrome is easier for LinkedIn to tell from a person, and a check LinkedIn asks for (a code, a puzzle, signing in again) can't be seen, so the scan stops instead of waiting. Off by default.

Changed

• The window's frame matches the app. The title bar, menus and dialogs are dark by default, even when your Mac is set to Light, so the frame no longer shows as a pale bar above the dark app.

Added

• Physics lab for the Galaxy (experimental, in Filters). Sliders for the forces that lay the Galaxy out, in the spirit of Obsidian's graph: Gravity (a pull in towards you), Rings (how hard each tier holds its ring; at 0 the Galaxy finds its own shape), Push, Pull (how hard each person pulls the people who came through them) and Distance, plus dot size, line thickness, names, and dots sized by power score or by how many hang off them. Clusters sets it up so each connection bunches their circle round them. Hovering a dot lights up its branch, everyone behind it and the chain back to you. Replay plays your network growing by the date you connected, with a time slider; each circle arrives with its connection. Everything moves the Galaxy in place, and Reset puts today's layout back. The replay needs "connected on" dates, so the sample network has nothing to replay.
• More in the physics lab. Colour by tier, degree, company (the eight most common) or warmth (from the Social tab), with a legend to match. Find lights up everyone whose name, company or role matches and dims the rest; Enter flies to the best one and opens their card. The replay has a length (5 s to 1 min), Loop, your job starts and posts from the Social tab marked on its timeline, and the job you were at in its date. Saved layouts keep slider settings under a name. Save a picture makes a PNG of the Galaxy at twice the size, and Record the replay saves it as a video.
• Names on or off for the Galaxy, in Filters.

Added

• Social (experimental): a tab for your relationships. It works from your own LinkedIn data:
  • Your export: the folder LinkedIn emails you from Settings → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data, read in the app window with no traffic to LinkedIn.
  • A live messages sync: reads your messages list once in your own Chrome, by hand or once a day in the daytime, using no search budget.

  It shows:

  • how many of your connections are warm, cool, dormant or never messaged;
  • who's waiting on a reply (S and A tier first), or has unread messages;
  • your career chapters, with the connections made in each and how many you're still in touch with;
  • whether posting works (new connections the week after a post against a usual week);
  • how many connection requests came to you and how many you sent.

  Only dates, who wrote last and counts are kept, one file per profile in the data folder, and Forget it removes it. Message text is never kept. Email addresses are kept only if you tick the box. The live sync hasn't been tried on a live account yet.

• Auto scan. With the Scan page's experimental all-day box ticked, an Auto scan button sits beside Scan and starts the all-day Auto-Bridge with your Scan page choices. The status bar sits under the tabs, dimmed while it's ready, and lights up once it runs.
• Insights on a connection's card. A collapsible panel with their circle's size (Explore → opens it in Bridge Chains), how many only they reach, whose circle overlaps theirs most (Open →), the tier mix of their circle, where most of it works, how much is scanned (Scan → or Finish →), when you connected and how many requests you have out through them, and their rank by who only they reach. Show them → opens Separation filtered to the people only they reach, and S only → to the S-tier people in their circle. All from what the app already keeps. It replaces the Only through … box.
• Network health on the Scores tab. How much of your 2nd degree you reach two or more ways, the effective reach of your own network (Burt's effective size, from the ties between your connections that circle scans keep), and your five connections who reach the most people no one else does, each with Explore →. With fewer than five circles scanned it says it's an early estimate. Only your own numbers: never a percentile against other people.

Added

• Experimental Auto-Bridge (a switch on the Scan page). All-day pacing that stays openly slow: up to 10 pages in a sitting, then a 45-minute rest; searches only from 09:00 to 19:00 on this computer's clock; at the daily budget it waits for it to free up instead of stopping; and every page is saved as it's read. It also reads the data LinkedIn already sends for each page of results (no extra requests) beside the page text. That fills in headlines, photos and mutual counts the page text missed, and gives each list's real length for the scan bars. Each page logs how the two compare, and a few raw responses are kept in the data folder (wire-samples/) to tune it. People only LinkedIn's data shows are logged, not added. The timing is never randomised to look like a person. Not yet tried on a live account.
• A status bar while a scan runs, on every page. It shows what's running and for whom, how far it's got, today's LinkedIn searches against your daily budget (green, then amber past 60%, red past 90%), what the scanner is doing right now (for example the wait before the next profile), a link to the Scan page and Stop. Stop saves what was read, and Resume carries on from the same page. It sits just under the header's tabs, on every page, the Scan page too.

Changed

• Network Circle's tiers switch on and off. In the Filter panel, click a tier to hide it or show it again, so C and D can go while S, A and B stay. All shows everyone. Degrees still picks one bridge tier at a time.
• Orbit: the circles behind added people sit behind their bridge. They're centred on the bridge's slice, side by side, with a line back to whoever they came through, wherever that person sits. Before, each was centred on that person and could spill into the next bridge's space.

Added

• Orbit goes past 2nd degree. Someone you added through a circle, whose own circle is scanned, now sits in the fan of the circle they came from, green-ringed, and their people fan out behind them a band further out, fainter, with a faint line to each. Their added people's circles go further out again, to 6th degree. Before, they sat on the ring as one more bridge, and Orbit showed only 2nd degree.
• A ring round each connection's dot. Five thin bars show how much of their circle is scanned: all five once their list is read to the end, and part-way the pages read against LinkedIn's own count of the list, which scans now keep (no extra traffic). Lists read before scans kept a count show two. A small badge counts the people in their circle ready to scan, and a catalyst is the green outline on the dot. It's on the Galaxy and on Bridge Chains' bridges.

Changed

• The Galaxy in bands when more than your connections are drawn. With 2nd (or 3rd) degree on, your connections sit on a tighter inner ring, their circles in a band outside it, and past someone you added through a circle, their people further out again. Each band is sorted by tier, S nearest, and has a faint label. Lines follow the chain: from you to your connections, from each connection to their circle, and from someone you added to theirs. Your connections alone keep the roomier tier rings.

Removed

• The "N only here" line under each bridge in Bridge Chains. Their card still says who is reached only through them.

Added

• Which connections open the same doors. A card says whose circle overlaps theirs most, when it's real (15% or more, and at least 3 people): "Opens the same doors as Tom: 62% of the people either reaches, both do". Bridge Chains' Degrees box adds how much of your 2nd degree you reach two or more ways.
• Circle scans keep who among your connections knows whom. Your own connections turn up in other people's lists, and were set aside there and forgotten. Each is now kept as a tie between the two, in a new table, with no extra LinkedIn traffic, since the scan read them anyway. Nothing shows them yet: they're what clusters and communities will be built from. Deleting someone deletes their ties too.
• Who only one connection reaches. In Bridge Chains, each connection with a scanned circle shows how many of its people none of your other connections reach ("746 only here"), and their card says it in a line: those people are reached through them alone. It's their exclusive reach, counted across every circle you've scanned (lib/brokerage.js).
• Network Circle's Filter picks degrees. 1st, 2nd and 3rd chips choose who the Galaxy draws: your connections, anyone in a scanned circle, and anyone only a company scan found. Any mix works, and 2nd without 1st shows who's valuable outside your own connections. Each person counts once, at the nearest degree. Further out is drawn a little smaller and fainter, gathered near the connection whose circle they're in, and the tier counts follow what's drawn. It opens on your connections alone, as before.

Changed

• The Galaxy marks its tier bands. A faint dashed ring, labelled S to D, sits where each tier's dots settle, so the bands read at a glance, most of all with a filter on. Not on a phone, whose layout has no rings.
• Degrees opens on Bridge Chains, then Separation, then Orbit, in the menu too. Orbit used to come first.
• Orbit is in Degrees only. Network Circle's Orbit was slow on a big network and showed nothing the Galaxy doesn't; a Network Circle left on it opens the Galaxy.
• A new app icon: Orbits. Your tier rings round you, with one bridge reaching out through them. It's the Mac app's icon, the website's tab icon and its home-screen icon.
• The Scan page asks before a risky search budget. Picking more than 100 searches a day, or no monthly cap, now asks first, because a real account was restricted after 373 searches in 24 hours, run back to back (it had opened only 7 profiles that day). While the budget stays that high, a note under it says so, with a button back to 50 a day and 250 a month. Lowering a budget, or anything up to 100 a day, is never asked about.

Fixed

• A card's circle map never draws a degree as a solid line. A big circle, or the people behind someone you added packed into their slice, used to run together into one line or band. When a slice holds more than fit, its dots now take a few rows, neighbours alternating between them, each still behind whoever they hang off, and the dots are sized for the most crowded slice.
• Bridge Chains: a hover preview no longer draws over the bridges. With many bridges the overview grows extra rings, and a bridge's circle, previewed on hover, landed on top of them. It now starts beyond the outermost ring of bridges.
• Stop during a re-map's wait keeps the circle. Re-mapping someone deleted their circle first and then waited out the minute between profile views, so a Stop in that minute left it deleted and unread. It now waits first and deletes only once the read can start.
• A profile-view cap typed into scan-limits.json by hand stays within the choices. It counts as the largest offered choice under it (10, 25, 50 or 100), in the scanner and on the Scan page alike; before, 1,000 was honoured and the picker showed a different number.
• The Filter menu highlights the view that's showing. After View Bridge → from the Galaxy, Orbit showed but no view was highlighted.
• No Scan Full Company on the sample or a CSV import. Paths offered it there, and it searched LinkedIn for a network that isn't saved. A line says scanning needs your own network.

Added

• A cap on profile views. A circle scan opens the person's profile once, and profile views are what LinkedIn restricted an account for. They now have a cap of their own: 50 in any 24 hours by default. The Scan page offers 10, 25, 50 or 100, and there is no "no limit".
  • A minute apart: at least 60 seconds pass between any two profile opens. It's timed from the last one written down, so scans started back to back can't open profiles back to back. The log counts down while it waits, and Stop ends the wait.
  • Checked before the profile opens: at the cap, a scan opens nothing and records nothing about that person. Auto-Bridge stops, as it does at the search budget, and the next run starts with the same person.
  • On the Scan page: "3 of 50 profile views today", with a bar and the picker.
  • Re-mapping someone checks it before deleting their circle. A damaged record counts the day's views as used. An import brings the other computer's setting only when this one has none, like the search budget.
• The Scan page asks what field you're in, before your first scan. One optional step, with the same picks as Scores → Your sector: tech, government and defense, dental, and the rest. Companies in your field count for more, so your first scores already use it. Skip for now carries on without one. Both stay at the bottom of the window while you look through the list. It's asked once, and never if you already have a network or picked a sector. Change it anytime on the Scores tab.
• Bridge Chains opens any circle, as far as your scans reach. Click someone in a bridge's circle and their own circle opens in place: the people found in it once you connected and scanned it (3rd degree, counted along the chain), and on from there. A trail at the top, and Esc, go back. An empty circle says why and what gets it: connect, then scan their circle. While one is being scanned, it fills in as the scan saves. Someone ready for a scan goes to the Scan page with them picked instead, since their circle is empty until then.
• A soft glow on people ready for a scan. In Bridge Chains, someone you added through a circle whose own circle isn't scanned yet has a soft breathing halo, and their bridge says how many are "ready". A hidden list is greyed with a lock instead. The halo stays still with Reduce Motion on. The old rainbow glow is gone: it looked for them inside the circle they came from, which accepting takes them out of, so it never showed.
• Ready to scan (N), in the Degrees panel. It replaces Auto-Bridge Next, which started a scan in one click, by name, with no cost shown, and offered hidden lists again and again. The list is everyone you added through a circle whose circle can be scanned, strongest first, with the circle you found them in and what a scan costs. Hidden lists stay in view, greyed with a lock.
• Scan one circle, on the Scan page. A ready person, from the list or Bridge Chains, opens the Scan page with them picked: the cost (a profile view, then a search a page, up to 100), what's left of the day's budget, how deep to read, and a button. Nothing starts until it's pressed.
• A release checks the website's version lines. Before building anything, the release workflow runs scripts/check-site-version.mjs: the site's softwareVersion and llms.txt must name the version, and its dateModified and sitemap lastmod can't be older than the release's date in the changelog. A stale site stops the release with a line for each thing to change. A pre-release skips it. Anyone can run it before tagging.

Changed

• A big circle spreads out. A bridge's circle used to sit on one ring, so a few hundred people were almost a solid line. It now fills rings from the inside out, as many as it needs, with the highest tiers nearest the middle; drag to move, scroll or +/− to zoom. Lots of bridges spread the same way, and so does the preview on hover.
• The map picks up a finished scan by itself. No refresh needed.
• One rule for "ready". Bridge Chains, the Degrees panel, Outlink's new doors and the profile page's mapping bar now agree on who can be scanned next, and all leave hidden lists out.
• Photos stay on your Mac. The app shows a profile photo only from the copy saved on your computer, so looking at your network never contacts LinkedIn. It used to load a photo from LinkedIn until a scan had saved it, and a rescan could put LinkedIn's link back in place of a saved photo. Every page now also tells the browser to load pictures from the app alone, and the scanner fetches photos from LinkedIn's image servers only.
• Photos an older version kept as links are saved once. Until then those people show initials. The next scan saves them at its end, or Save photos on the Scan page does it now, without opening a browser. A link more than a few weeks old has expired: that person's photo comes back when they're next scanned. Offline, or with LinkedIn's image server busy, nothing is forgotten, and Save photos stops and says why.
• Government and military titles are read. A senator, a governor, a mayor and a cabinet secretary score like a C-suite; their deputies, state legislators, commissioners, ambassadors and judges like a VP; a city councilmember or a sheriff like a director. Officers by rank: a 3–4 star general or admiral 10, a 1–2 star 9, a colonel 7.5, a lieutenant colonel 6.5, a major 5, and a commander by their unit. "(Ret.)" and "Retired" make a role former. They count only where a title is written, and only where their own organization is a government's or a service's: a staffer in an Office of the Secretary, a veteran's civilian job, a city manager at Uber, a Rotary district governor, a team captain or a Kentucky colonel isn't one. A title that doesn't say whose it is ("Mayor", "Police Chief", "Ambassador") needs its government named, or stays "Title unclear": a missed official is a neutral 4, a realtor read as a mayor would be an A. Until now all of them were "Title unclear" (a U.S. senator scored 2.9, C).
• One name: Six Degrees. The header, the welcome screen, the loading and launch pages, the side panel and the Terminal installer said "6 Degrees". They now say Six Degrees, as the window title and the app in Applications already did.
• Contributor docs and .gitignore. CONTRIBUTING says npm releases go out through trusted publishing, with no token to set, and that npm run build:desktop builds the app releases ship (build:app is the old launcher). .gitignore keeps a LinkedIn export, a database, a saved copy of a network and the scanner's signed-in browser profile out of a commit, wherever they sit in the tree. A local build keeps them out of the app too, and its list of uncommitted files inside the app now names ignored ones as well.
• 0.4.0-beta.1, promoted: this is now the Mac app and npm package everyone gets. It adds:
  • Their circle, on every card, with rarity beside the tier and LinkedIn's own mutual count.
  • One scan at a time, and Resume beside Rescan.
  • Tiers on your own network's curve, with unknown companies at a neutral 5.
  • 631 public organizations the built-in list leaves off, and scoring 6.
  • Scores, a tab of its own.

  The details are under 0.4.0-beta.1 below.

• The download page says what's new in 0.4.0.
• Degrees' corner toggle says Orbit, which is what it shows. It said "Galaxy", but the Galaxy is a Network Circle view, so Degrees fell back to Orbit. It switches between Orbit and Bridge Chains, and it's on whenever Orbit is showing.

Removed

• About 630 lines of Galaxy code that never ran: a Degrees drawing from before Orbit and Bridge Chains. Nothing could open it. The Galaxy draws Network Circle only.

Fixed

• A one-person scan notes a hidden list. A card's Scan or Rescan that found someone's list hidden said so and noted nothing, so they stayed "not scanned yet" and were offered again forever. Only a batch noted it. Now every read from page 1 does.
• A scan reads the list of the person you picked. A card's Scan and Rescan went by name, so with two connections of the same name the scanner could read the other one's list. Every Scan button now goes by that person's profile, as Resume already did.
• A company's name after "at" is no longer read as a title. "Server at President Hotel" scored as a C-suite (7.3, A), and so did an IT specialist in an "Office of the Chief Information Officer". "Executive Assistant to the General Manager" scored as a VP.
• ↻ asks before it scans. The round button in the header started Check for new the moment it was clicked. It now says what it will do (open Chrome on your connections list and read it until it reaches people already saved) and what it costs (no search budget, but it is LinkedIn traffic from your account), and waits for OK.
• No Scan buttons on the sample or a CSV import. Every card there offered a scan of that person's circle, and Degrees offered Auto-Bridge Next, but both networks live only in the window, so the scan could only fail ("Bridge '…' not found in database"). In their place a line says scanning needs your own network.
• A CSV import's dates are the day LinkedIn says. Anywhere east of London, each "Connected On" date landed a day early (28 Sep 2026 became 27 Sep). The import now reads it as the calendar date it is, the way a scan already did, and a date it can't read is left blank rather than guessed.
• Opening a panel no longer rebuilds the Galaxy. Opening or closing the side panel or the Filter panel used to draw the Galaxy again from scratch: the layout started over, the selection ring vanished, and a big network stalled the page. Now the view slides over at the same zoom, so what was in the middle stays in the middle.
• The selection ring stays on the person you picked. It is tied to their dot, and it comes back after a tier filter that still shows them. It used to follow the first dot it found near its old spot, which could be someone else, even You. Back to list clears it.
• The selection ring pulses gently, as it was always meant to. Its animation had only ever been written in code that never ran. With Reduce Motion on, it holds still.
• Hovering a dot eases it up to 1.5 times its size, instead of jumping. With Reduce Motion on, it still changes at once.
• The Galaxy draws faster on a big network. Colouring its lines searched every person for every line: about 1.4 s at 30,000 people, on every draw. It now takes under a millisecond.
• The main screen no longer stalls when nothing is selected on a big network. The side panel's Power Rankings counted every tier again for each person in the list, even with the panel closed. At 30,000 people that took about 20 s each time the screen redrew, opening the Filter panel included.
• On a laptop, the Galaxy keeps its usual layout with a panel open. Its fixed phone layout used to switch on whenever the graph was under 768 pixels wide, which a tier filter picked with a panel open could do. It now follows the window, as the page does.

Changed

• 0.3.0-beta.1, promoted: this is now the Mac app and npm package everyone gets. It adds:
  • Settings, with Updates there too. The Mac app now updates itself: Install and restart, with no Terminal.
  • Your sector, a directory of 49 sectors suggested from your own network. Everyone starts from the same neutral company scores.
  • Your data: see where your network lives, save a copy, and move it to another computer.
  • The scanner's Python inside the Mac app, so scanning needs nothing installed.
  • Two security fixes.

  The details are under 0.3.0-beta.1 below.

• The download page says the scanner's Python comes with the Mac app, offers Set up the scanner for npx, and gives the new size (about 195–210 MB).
• Updating from 0.2.1 or older: use the Terminal line or the download page one last time. From 0.3.0 on, it's Install and restart in Settings.

Added

• Tutorial videos on the download website: installing on a Mac, running it on Linux, and how scanning works. They're short and silent, with the steps as captions.
• npx six-degrees on Linux. The npm package is published (0.2.0 was the first). The README, the website and the installer's message now point Linux users to it, with how to update it and where it keeps your data.

Fixed

• Check for updates says what it found. An up-to-date copy showed only a faint line, so the button seemed to do nothing. The answer is now a clear status ("You're up to date: 0.2.1 is the newest version", with the time). The Mac app's Check for Updates… menu item opens the Updates panel and runs the check, instead of just opening the top of the Scan page.
• The profile page no longer starts scans. Its "Set Up Account — Full Scan" and "Auto-Bridge All Connections" cards are gone. The second mapped every connection in one go, with none of the batch size, budget or warnings of the Scan page, where scanning lives.
• The window title is Six Degrees (it was "6 Degrees of Separation — LinkedIn Network Research"), and the page description no longer claims to be a research project.
• The import page's "close the tab" note is true in the Mac app too.
• Big LinkedIn exports import. An export over about 9,000 connections was refused ("too large to hold in this browser tab"). The tab now keeps only what the export says about each person and scores it again on load, so exports up to LinkedIn's 30,000 maximum fit. Checked in a browser: 10,000 connections import and draw in about 4 seconds, 30,000 in about 25. It still never touches the database.
• npx six-degrees downloads about 22 MB instead of about 235 MB. The package already carries its built server; Next, React and d3 are now build-time only.
• On Windows, npm now refuses the package with a clear "not supported" message instead of installing it and crashing at start.
• On Linux without a desktop, npx six-degrees prints the address to open instead of a crash when there's no browser to launch.
• The Scan page checks for Google Chrome on Linux too (where Playwright looks for it).
• Updating an npx copy says to stop it first, and keeps --data-dir if it was started with one, so the new version finds your network.

Changed

• The app says scanner and scan everywhere you read it (the Scan page, the side panel, the profile page, the import page); the code names are unchanged.
• Releases publish to npm through npm's trusted publishing: GitHub vouches for the release workflow, so no npm token is stored anywhere. Each release builds the package on Linux, installs it, checks it serves the app, and publishes that exact file.
• The README: macOS 15's second button is Open Anyway; the LinkedIn warning's link no longer shows a file name; the release notes link the changelog.
• SECURITY.md lists all six gated routes (it said four).

Changed

• Six Degrees is now a Mac app (Electron) for everyone: the 0.2.0-beta.1 app, promoted. It has its own window, Dock icon and menu, and the same server, data and scanner inside as 0.1.11. Needs macOS 13.5 or later.
• The README starts with the Mac app: two download buttons (Apple Silicon, Intel), the exact first-open steps, and the Terminal install as the alternative. Each release now carries Six-Degrees-Mac-Apple-Silicon.dmg and Six-Degrees-Mac-Intel.dmg, whose names never change, so the buttons always fetch the newest version.
• The sample network is scored with the app's real model; it was still using the retired formula. It's regenerated, and so are the screenshots, from the new app.

Fixed

• The README, installer and release notes no longer point Windows and Linux users at npx six-degrees, which was never published and so failed. Linux gets real from-source steps; Windows is honestly "not yet".
• The installer refuses a Mac older than macOS 13.5 with a plain message. Every version bundles Node 24, which needs 13.5; on an older Mac the app used to install fine and then fail with a generic alert. Both apps now declare the true minimum, so macOS says so too.
• The README's scoring section, view names (Degrees, not Bridges), feature list, privacy list (PyPI, update checks) and data-folder layout match the app again. The LinkedIn risk warning comes before the first scan, with both incidents.
• Paths → Map: an industry label near the bottom no longer lands on the legend.

Security

• Next.js 16.2.9 → 16.3.6. It fixes two critical remote-code-execution advisories (GHSA-2xp9-vwfh-vxw4 in image optimization, GHSA-p293-qw3h-jr36 on Windows), a middleware bypass under Turbopack (GHSA-6gpp-xcg3-4w24; this app's cross-site guard is middleware), and several denial-of-service, request-forgery and cache issues. Listening only on this computer doesn't make these safe: any website you visit can make your browser send requests to 127.0.0.1, and the cross-site guard blocks writes, not reads. npm audit now reports 0.

Added

• A copy of your data before every new version touches it. The first time a new version opens your database, it copies it into ~/.six-degrees/backups/ first (the newest five are kept; copies you made yourself are left alone). If the copy fails, for instance on a full disk, it tries again at the next start.
• Tags like v0.2.0-beta.1 publish as pre-releases. The one-line install and the Updates panel never pick them up, so a beta only reaches someone who asks for it.

Fixed

• The installer's documented options go after the pipe (curl … | SIX_DEGREES_VERSION=… bash). Before it, they reach curl, not the installer.

Changed

• Power scores rebuilt from an audit against your own network. One model now scores everyone (lib/scoring.js), where there were three that disagreed:
  • Seniority × company, not seniority + company. power = title × company weight + bonus. A title is worth more at a bigger company, so a VP at Google (9.0) outranks a founder of an unknown startup (6.7), and an intern at Google (2.0) no longer scores like a director.
  • Titles are read properly. The current role counts, former roles at 70%, and a person scores as their strongest role. Fixed: "Vice President" read as President (73 people), "Product Owner" as an owner, "International" as intern, club and fraternity chairs as chairmen, and "CFO" missed entirely. Current students are capped.
  • Companies are found and named consistently. Meta, Snap, Amazon/AWS and UCF variants merge; plain "Meta" was missed before. Headline phrases like "at scale" are no longer companies. About 130 well-known companies are scored, up from about 80.
  • Bonuses need whole words and real signals. "psYChology", "comMITted" and "adVENTURE" no longer earn +2. Self-reported claims from someone at an unknown company count half.
  • The circle boost is capped at +1 and recomputed each time. It used to add up to +3 and only ever go up, and 23 of 33 S-tier 1st-degree people were S only because of it.
  • The recency bonus is gone: connecting recently doesn't make someone more powerful.
  • Checked against mapped circles: a person's title now tracks how senior their own circle is (correlation 0.30, up from 0.10).
• Everyone is rescored after every import, and once automatically on the first load after updating.

Added

• Paths → Scores: every company in your network with its score, where the score comes from (known list, estimated from how many of your people work there, or yours) and a control to set your own. Setting one rescores everyone. The company panel on the map has the same control.
• Why this score: the person panel explains the number, e.g. "VP / Partner / GM (9) · Snap (9/10) · +0.7 strong circle".

Added

• Paths is a company and industry analyzer, in the spirit of LinkedIn's InMaps (2011–2014), the network map LinkedIn used to give people and then retired.
  • Map: every company is a bubble, coloured by industry and sized by your people there, with the share you already know as a white centre and a gold ring when an S-tier person is inside. A line joins two companies when one of your connections at the first knows people at the second.
  • Industries: a card per industry with who you know, who you can reach, director-level people, the top companies and the best way in.
  • Filters: degree, level (director+, C-suite), tier, industry, and search.
  • Analyzer panel: click a company or an industry for the breakdown by level, the ways in (people who work there first, then connections who know the most people there), the most powerful people, and connected companies. "Path to the top" still opens the level-by-level view.
  • Industry is inferred from company names and headlines and says so; unclear stays unclear.
• Outlink is a game: Circles. Each mapped connection's circle offers its best people five at a time. Mark an invite sent and the ring fills; clear a stage and the next five appear. Next best moves picks the three people most worth an invite, nudged toward circles you've started. Level and points come only from invites sent and people who joined your network. People you added whose circle isn't mapped yet show as new doors, the next degree to map. The list and Pending are still there.
• Orbit in Degrees. The Network Circle's Orbit, for your mapped circles: each person you've mapped on one ring, with everyone they know fanned out behind them, the most powerful closest, and more room for bigger circles.

Added

• A search budget. Every people search and profile view is written down (~/.six-degrees/linkedin-activity.json), and scans stop at a daily budget (the last 24 hours, 50 by default) and a monthly one (LinkedIn's month, which starts at midnight Pacific on the 1st; 250 by default), both set on the Scan page. A read that reaches either saves what it read and stops, never marking a list finished, and carries on from the same page next time. The budget belongs to the LinkedIn account, not to a profile in the app, and a damaged record counts as the day used up. It applies to company scans too.
• A cooldown lock. When LinkedIn pushes back, nothing that searches runs for a day (until LinkedIn's month turns, for its monthly limit; six hours after two unclear reads in a row). The Scan page shows it in red with the time it lifts, the scan buttons wait, and Lift it early is there for when search works normally again.
• A Paused list with Resume. The Scan page lists everyone whose list was only partly read, with the page each one carries on from, newest connections first. Resume carries on with one person (found by their profile URL, so two people with the same name can't be mixed up) and Resume all with every paused list and nobody new, always to the end of the list. The list and the scanner's queue follow the same rules (lib/paused.js, tested against the scanner).

• Scan my whole network and Check for new also wait out a cooldown. They aren't searches, so they don't count against the budget, but they still open LinkedIn with automation.

Fixed

• Re-mapping someone deleted their circle before checking anything; it now checks the cooldown and the budget first.
• Windows: the scanner uses no Unix-only file lock or date format, and installs tzdata so it knows when LinkedIn's month starts.

A stopgap after 0.1.6 read 27 pages of results in about three and a half minutes and LinkedIn blocked the account's search, plus the Separation view. Budgets and an easy resume come next. TRAPS §35.

Added

• Separation, a new Degrees view and the one the Degrees tab now opens on. Everyone you can reach in two steps is ranked on one list, one row per person, however many of your connections know them. Each row shows every way in. A small map above the list draws You → each connection → the top ten, with every route. Search also matches who knows someone, so typing a connection's name shows their circle.
• The Sidebar's Path to this person box lists every route to a 2nd-degree person, not just the one on the row you clicked. A route whose connection can't be found is still shown, as unnamed. It used to make the box disappear.

Changed

• Slower reading. 20 seconds before each page of results and another minute after every 10. A whole list now takes about 55 minutes, not 10.
• The pause after someone who came back with nothing is the full two minutes. It was 15 seconds, so the scan went faster exactly when LinkedIn was pushing back.
• The Bridges tab is now called Degrees. The Filters panel's tier chips there read "Filter by bridge tier", so they aren't confused with a person's own tier.

Fixed

• A scan stops at the first sign of LinkedIn pushing back instead of carrying on to the next person. That covers a page of results that won't open, a search that won't open for someone whose connections are visible, LinkedIn's own warnings ("unusual activity from your account", profile viewing restricted, the account restricted, the monthly search limit coming up or reached), and a security check or sign-in wall appearing while you were signed in. What the page showed is kept in ~/.six-degrees/pushback/ so the wording can be recognised, and the message says what to do for that case.
• Someone is only marked hidden when LinkedIn clearly showed their profile (their name in the page heading or title, as a whole word) with no connections link, or said the profile is unavailable. A profile that didn't render is "unclear": nothing is recorded, two unclear people in a row stop the batch, and someone unclear twice moves to the back of the queue so they can't hold it up. A block used to mark everyone after it as hidden, for good. LinkedIn's own "No results found" is taken as a real answer.
• A security check no longer counts as signed in. The session cookie survives one, so a scan used to carry on past it. It now stops, and Open LinkedIn on the Scan page (shown even when signed in now) opens a window to finish it by hand. Signing in from scratch still waits through LinkedIn's own two-factor steps.
• Closing the browser window during a read stops it, and never marks the list finished.
• Carrying on into a blank page no longer marks a list finished. Only LinkedIn's "No results found" does. A search it is limiting can come back blank, and a wrong "finished" dropped the rest of that list for good.
• The Scan page's note on how long a whole list takes read "15 minutesa person".
• A full scan could cut a mapped circle loose. If one of your connections had also been saved inside someone else's circle (before 0.1.5 kept your own connections out), a full scan "promoted" that copy and deleted their real row. Everyone in their own circle was then left pointing at a row that no longer existed, and they vanished from every Degrees view. The same step gave long-standing connections a "you met them through…" they never had. Their own row is now kept, with no origin added. TRAPS §36.

Changed

• 2nd-degree scans read each person's whole list. Every read used to stop at page 10 (about 100 people) unless you changed a setting, and nothing in the log said so, so a list of 50 pages looked finished at 10. The default is now every page. It keeps clicking Next until the list ends, and looks for another page three times, scrolling down and waiting longer each time, before deciding a list is over. LinkedIn's own search stops at page 100 (about 1,000 people). The log always states the page limit, and says so when it stops at one with more to read.
• The log no longer calls the search of someone's connections a "3rd+ filter". It never was one: it covers everyone they know, and the app drops your own connections when it saves.

Added

• Carrying on where a read stopped. How far each person's list has been read is noted in ~/.six-degrees/bridge-progress.json. With Also finish people already mapped (on by default; --deeper from a terminal), a scan picks up everyone read only partly, including everyone mapped before this version at 10 pages, from the next page. Their profile isn't opened again once the id their connections are searched by is known.
• Long reads save as they go, every 10 pages. Stopping a scan, a crash, or LinkedIn's monthly search limit for free accounts now costs at most the last few pages, and the next run carries on from the same page.
• LinkedIn's monthly search limit is recognised. The scan saves what it read, stops the batch, and says why, instead of reading empty pages.

Fixed

• A click on Next that didn't move to the next page used to end that person's read as if their list had ended. It is now retried three times, and if the page still won't move, the person is left for the next run to finish.
• Release builds could still fail at the eject: "Resource busy" sometimes arrives after the volume has already unmounted, when only ejecting the disk device failed, and the retry kept aiming at a mount point that no longer existed. It now finishes on the device and stops as soon as nothing is left attached. Build process only.

Fixed

• A 2nd-degree scan could read someone's connections and save none of them: "UNIQUE constraint failed", then "Done! 0 new". A person's results can name the same profile twice — the same result on two pages, or the same mutual connection under many results — and the database refused the whole batch. The scanner and the app now each keep every profile once.
• Your own connections were saved into other people's circles. They arrive as the "mutual connections" links under each result; they are not people you have not met, and they inflated every circle. They are now left out (and counted in the log).
• A failed save printed one line and carried on to the next person, spending LinkedIn views on people who could not be saved either. It now stops the batch and says why.
• After a push the log said "N processed", counting everything sent. It now says how many were new, and how many were already on file or already your connections.
• Company scans saved their rows without your profile, so nothing they found could appear. (Company scans are still experimental.)

• LinkedIn's "Connected on" date is captured again. The 1st-degree reader rewritten on 2026-09-09 stopped saving it, so the app had no idea when you connected with anyone — and the scoring bonus for connections made in the last 30 days never applied. It is read from each person's card again, and a full scan fills it in for everyone already saved.
• A full scan's summary said "814 new" and then "Sent 814 → 0 new". It no longer claims a count it cannot know; the app's line says what was new.

Added

• Start with your newest connections. The 2nd-degree step now works through the people you connected with most recently, by LinkedIn's "Connected on" date and across every tier; "highest tier first", with the tier choice, is still there.
• The progress bar says "Saving to your network and fetching photos" once reading is done, instead of sitting at 99% looking stuck.
• The Scan page remembers the order and depth you last chose.
• How deep to read each person: 10 pages (the default, about 100 people), 25, 50 or 100, LinkedIn's limit. Deeper reads take longer and use your account's search allowance.

Fixed

• 2nd-degree scans failed on the first page of every person with "Page.evaluate: SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token", then moved on to the next — so no connections were ever read and no pagination happened. The JavaScript that reads each results page sat in a plain Python string, which turns the \n in split('\n') into a real line break before the browser sees it. It is now a raw string, and a new test parses every snippet the scanner injects on every pull request. Broken since 2026-09-09.
• That same page reader, run against a mock results page for the first time, saved LinkedIn's screen-reader line ("View … profile") as everyone's headline. It now takes the first real line after the name.
• After a scan, "N of them were 2nd-degree contacts you have now connected with" read as N people added. It now says what happened: N were already in a bridge's circle and have been merged into your connections, keeping who introduced you.

Fixed

• Scanning failed in the Mac app on Apple Silicon with an ImportError from Pillow ("incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')"). The app's launcher is a script, so macOS could not tell which chips it supports and ran it under Rosetta; the Python it started came up Intel and could not load the Apple Silicon packages. The app now declares its chip (LSArchitecturePriority), so it runs natively — and it no longer needs Rosetta installed just to open.
• The Scan page's "installed" check imported only package names, which succeed even when the compiled parts are for the wrong chip. It now loads Pillow's image module and Playwright's sync API, so a mismatch shows as "not installed" before a scan.
• The one-line installer picks the Apple Silicon build even from a Terminal running under Rosetta, which reports x86_64 on an Apple Silicon Mac.

Fixed

• Hovering a dot in the Galaxy made it rebuild itself hundreds of times a second — the rings collapsed and re-formed for as long as the mouse stayed on a dot. The hover tooltips sat invisibly at the bottom of the page, making it 18px taller than the window; on a Mac that shows scrollbars (a mouse, an external display) that meant a scrollbar, and moving the tooltip on hover removed it again. Each flip of the scrollbar resized the graph, and each resize rebuilt it. Tooltips now float above the page, and a resize waits to settle before it rebuilds anything.
• Clicking a dot, or anything else that re-rendered the page, also reset the Galaxy's layout: the page handed it a new, empty list and a new click handler every time. Both are now stable, so the scene only rebuilds when what it shows actually changes.
• A release build could fail at the very end with "Resource busy": right after Finder lays out the disk image's window, Finder or Spotlight can still hold the volume. The build now retries the eject, and says when it had to. Nothing changes in the app.

Fixed

• The .dmg window opened as a plain list in 0.1.0, with no picture and no Open Anyway step. A code comment had slipped inside the AppleScript that lays the window out, which made it a syntax error, and the build only warned. The script is now compiled before it runs, and a release build fails rather than publish a plain window.

Added

• The release workflow can be dry-run: gh workflow run release.yml --ref <branch> -f dry_run=true builds both .dmg files on GitHub's Macs and publishes nothing.

The first release: a Mac app on GitHub Releases, installed with one line. npm publishing is wired up and waits only for a token.

Added

• One-line install on a Mac: curl -fsSL …/install.sh | bash fetches the newest release for your chip, verifies its SHA-256, puts the app in Applications and opens it — with no Gatekeeper prompt, because curl does not mark the file as downloaded. Running it again updates. SIX_DEGREES_DMG installs a local .dmg for testing.
• A release workflow: pushing a v* tag builds the app on Apple Silicon and Intel, publishes both .dmgs and a SHA256SUMS on a GitHub Release, and publishes to npm when an NPM_TOKEN secret exists.
• A welcome screen for a first run: Scan my LinkedIn (recommended), Import my LinkedIn CSV, or Explore a sample network.
• The Scan page ticks off the scan step once you have connections, offers See your network →, and when a run stops early it shows the reason in a box rather than only "Stopped (exit 1)" at the bottom of the log.
• A progress bar while scanning: "350 of 817 connections · 43%" for a full walk, "Person 3 of 10" for a 2nd-degree batch. Check for new gets words instead of a bar, since it stops as soon as it meets people already saved.
• The Mac app and the npm package get a working Updates panel. Check for updates asks GitHub for the newest release's version number — on a click, never by itself — and shows the exact line to run, with a Copy button.
• The .dmg window says what to do: drag the app across, then the one-time Open Anyway step for an unsigned app. It replaces the READ ME text file the image used to carry, and the Applications drop target now shows its folder icon.

Changed

• No more name prompt. The app works out which profile is yours — the one that owns your network — and creates one on a fresh install. The prompt minted a new, empty profile for every name that did not match exactly, and with more than one profile the network disappeared from view and the scanner refused to run.
• The README leads with installing, not cloning; running from source moved to CONTRIBUTING.md, with the commands chained so a failed clone cannot fall through to an older copy.
• The Scan page counts by degree — "814 connections, plus 2,734 people in their circles" — instead of one total that read as connections and was not.
• Start 6 Degrees.command is gone. It started the development server; install the app instead.
• Company scans are marked experimental. They ship without ever having been run against live LinkedIn; the Paths page labels the button and asks once before the first scan.

Fixed

• A scan that failed printed only "Stopped (exit 1)". Its reason was on stderr, which the Scan page filtered to lines mentioning "error"; failures now always show their last lines, and the red box shows the whole reason rather than its final line.
• Updating a Mac app that was running left its old server behind, still serving the old version, with the new copy opening on the next port. Next renames its process, so the installer never found it by path; it now finds it by folder, and the app's launcher stops its server whenever the launcher stops.
• The build copied the repository's .git folder and build logs into the app. Inside the Mac app, the .git made the installed copy look like a checkout, so its Updates panel would have offered git pull against the app itself.
• The Scan page's status was cached for four seconds, the live log included, so a running scan looked stalled between updates.

Added

• npm run update — discards the regenerated lockfile, pulls, installs, and tells you to restart. Plain git pull refuses whenever npm has rewritten package-lock.json, which is most of the time on a second machine, and it says so in one line that is easy to miss.
• A downloadable macOS app. npm run build:app produces Six Degrees.app and a ~70 MB .dmg with a Node runtime inside, so importing a CSV needs nothing else installed — no Node, no clone, no terminal. macOS asks for one approval on first launch because the app is not signed with a paid developer certificate.
• Clicking a bridge on the Revolver dial now opens that person, instead of only spinning them to the top. The dial also says when it is showing part of something — "12 of 14 bridges", "showing 24 of 59" — and shift with the arrow keys pages through the rest.
• The profile page shows how much of your network has actually been mapped: a bar for the connections whose circle you have opened, how many keep their connections private, and how many are left — with the remainder given in batches rather than as one long run.
• An Updates section on the Scan page. Press Check for updates to see what has changed since your copy, then install it — no terminal, no git pull to remember. Nothing is ever checked automatically and nothing about you is sent; it runs the same two git commands you would type. If you have your own edits, it refuses and tells you which files rather than throwing them away.
• LinkedIn Connections.csv import, parsed entirely in the browser and never persisted.
• A synthetic sample network (150 invented 1st-degree, 598 2nd-degree, 14 bridges) that seeds deterministically, so every view can be explored before importing anything real.
• An empty state offering the three ways in, replacing a blank first run.
• npx six-degrees — a single-command launcher on port 6363 with its own data directory.
• Reference scoring model (scripts/score_new_connections.sql), transcribed to lib/rpc.js.

Added

• A Scan page that runs the scanner for you. It checks what is missing, installs it, opens LinkedIn so you can sign in, and runs the scan — with the live log on screen. No second terminal, no server to start, nothing to copy and paste.
• Scanning a company or auto-bridging can now be run from the command line too (--company "Acme", --auto-bridge); they used to exist only behind the old server.

Added

• The Scan page now covers 2nd-degree mapping as its own step, in batches of 10, 25 or 50 people, with a Stop button. Stopping closes the browser cleanly and keeps everything found so far.
• --max-bridges caps how many people one run will visit.

Added

• Choose which tiers the 2nd-degree scan works through. It always resumes where it left off — anyone still without a mapped circle, highest tier first, including people you have connected with since the last run — so there is nothing to remember and nothing to reset.

Fixed

• The packaged Mac app could ship without part of Next's server runtime, leaving every page working and every API call failing. The rule that keeps build artefacts out of the bundle was matching Next's own dist folder too.
• Leaving the Bridges view no longer throws. A resize callback could run once after the view had gone and read something that was no longer there.
• Scan, Profile, Import and Outlink scroll again. A rule that exists so the map can fill the window was applied to the whole app, so on every other page anything below the fold was rendered but unreachable.
• npm run dev now says when another copy is already serving on one of its ports, instead of silently starting on a different one while your browser shows the old.
• Resuming a scan no longer re-scans people you had already done. Past 2,000 second-degree records the check for "who is already mapped" was silently returning a partial answer, so finished bridges looked unfinished.

Changed

• Orbit now draws the shape of your network rather than every person at once. The people whose circle you have opened are large and named, their circle gathers tightly around them, and everyone else is a small dot until you hover or select them. On a 750-person network that is a third fewer things on screen and no photographs to load for anyone but the hubs — so it is quicker, and there is something to look at.

Changed

• The 2nd-degree scan now defaults to 10 people at a time instead of 25, and says why: during development a real account was temporarily restricted after about 19 in one sitting. Shipping a default above the only number we have measured is a default that can hurt whoever trusts it.

Fixed

• A photo is only ever saved for one person now. If the same picture comes back for somebody else — which is what happens with LinkedIn's placeholder silhouette, and with anyone the scanner mismatched — it is skipped and they show their initials instead.
• Second-degree people no longer end up wearing someone else's profile photo. The bridge scanner matched people by the text of their link, and everyone LinkedIn shows as "LinkedIn Member" shares that text — so they all inherited the first one's picture and profile. npm run audit:avatars reports any already saved that way, and --fix clears them back to initials without re-scanning anything.
• Connecting with someone you met through a bridge now registers. They used to stay a 2nd-degree contact forever — the import saw they were already on file and skipped them — so the outreach you actually completed never showed up in your network.
• Their card now says who introduced them, and keeps saying it after they become a direct connection.
• The Revolver dial shows every bridge it can fit rather than a fixed twelve — around forty on a normal window — shrinking them as the ring fills and naming only the selected one once names would overlap. It still pages when there are genuinely too many, and says so. It held the twelve with the largest circles and said nothing about the others, so lower tiers looked as though they did not exist — while the filter beside it was counting them.
• Stopping a run no longer leaves a browser window open behind it. The scanner is started in its own process group and asked to stop rather than killed, so it closes the browser and reports what it managed to do.
• Auto-bridge no longer stalls on people whose connections are hidden. It notes them, moves on, and does not try them again — they used to reappear at the top of the list on every run, so the same few profiles were retried forever and the feature looked stuck. --retry-private gives them another go; --clear-skips forgets all of them.
• The wait after a hidden profile is now seconds rather than two minutes. The long pause is for runs that actually walked LinkedIn; a hidden profile was a single page view.
• A hidden or unavailable profile is recognised in seconds instead of costing the full page-load budget twice over.
• Auto-bridge prints a countdown while it waits, so a pause cannot be mistaken for a hang.
• The scanner now collects your whole connections list. It was reading only the first ten people: the list sits in its own scroll container, so the page-down it performed never scrolled anything and no further connections ever loaded.
• Everyone is collected, not just people with a profile photo. Names now come from the profile link rather than being guessed by comparing the start of a name against the URL.
• Signing in waits for you instead of against you. There is no countdown; close the browser window to cancel. It also detects the sign-in wherever you finish it, including in a second window.
• --login signs in and exits, so a first run is not a sign-in and a scan at once.
• A scan that cannot read the page now says so and stops, instead of reporting that you have no connections.
• Every scan button in the app works again. The buttons on the map, the profile page and the paths page all quietly pointed at a separate server on port 5555 that no longer exists, and told you to double-click a file that no longer exists either. They all run through the app now.
• Filtering connections by scanned company was silently ignored and returned everything, because that field was missing from the query allowlist.
• The scanner's packages install into their own environment, so an install can no longer succeed against one Python while the scanner runs on a different one that lacks them.
• Scanned people are attached to your profile, so a finished scan can no longer leave the app showing an empty network.

Changed

• The data layer is now local SQLite via Node's built-in node:sqlite. The hosted Postgres dependency is gone: no account, no keys, no service. Runtime dependencies are next, react, react-dom and d3.
• All database reads go through the server; no browser-side database access remains.
• Avatars and the scanner's Chrome profile live in ~/.six-degrees, never the package directory.

Security

• Destructive API routes are open on loopback, require ADMIN_TOKEN as a bearer from any other host, and fail closed when exposed with no token set. The gate keys off the server's own bind address rather than the Host header, which a caller can forge.
• Cross-site writes are refused on every API route, so a page on another site cannot drive this app through your browser.
• Values from the database are escaped before rendering; graph tooltips no longer build markup from stored strings.
• CI fails the build if a credential, an exported CSV, real avatars, or a non-synthetic network snapshot is ever committed.