Birdor Update — Unified Badges, Prebuild Changelog Pipeline, and New 'What is Birdor' Page (2025-11-29)

Leeting Yan

This update brings UI improvements, infrastructure enhancements, and a major new documentation feature: the official “What is Birdor?” product overview page.

Unified Updated Badge

Type: tool
Scope: ui-badges
Importance: minor

Summary

Introduced the universal “● Updated” badge for use across Tools, Docs, and the Changelog.

Details

  • Supports ● Updated and ✨ New variants.
  • Integrated in the Tools grid, Docs notice bar, and Changelog entries.
  • Ensures consistent visual language for updates across the product.

MD → JSON Changelog Build Pipeline

Type: infra
Scope: build
Importance: minor

Summary

Converted the entire changelog loading system to a prebuild JSON format, enabling full Cloudflare compatibility.

Details

  • Added build:changelog script for generating static JSON bundles.
  • Edge runtime is now fully supported.
  • Eliminated all filesystem access during runtime, improving stability and deployment flexibility.

New: “What is Birdor” — Official Product Overview Page

Type: docs
Scope: feature
Importance: major

Summary

A comprehensive introduction to Birdor’s identity, purpose, values, and roadmap.
Organized into 8 structured sections using the unified Docs layout system.

Details

  • Added a complete “What is Birdor?” page under /feature.
  • Explains Birdor’s background, motivation, and engineering-first principles.
  • Covers the three-layer structure:
    • Tools
    • Documentation
    • Roadmap toward APIs & Workspaces
  • Introduces Birdor’s core values:
    • Calm UI
    • Clarity
    • Privacy by design
    • Engineering-first
  • Includes user profiles, long-term product vision, and roadmap (2025 → 2026+).
  • Fully integrated with DocsShell / DocsHeader / DocsSection / DocsCard components.
  • Includes navigation links to Tools, Docs, Changelog, and GitHub.
  • Ready for indexing by the DocsSearchGrid.