Receipts, Please: What Changed on LucidPlexus This Month

For a while, the Community composer had dropdowns for attaching things to a post. Things, as anyone who has spent five minutes online knows, can mean absolutely anything.

So we took them away.

Which left us with a slightly awkward question for a learning site: if there’s nothing to attach, what do you show?

So what replaced the dropdowns?

Your work. Literally. Every cell in a guided-project workbench now has a small clipboard icon in its top-right corner. Click it and that cell becomes a card: the code, a small table (up to 8 by 8) or the chart it produced.

Your clipboard holds five snaps. When you write a post, those snaps are the only images on offer, and the ones you pick ride along as a carousel people can swipe through. No upload button. No stock photo of a laptop next to a succulent.

The only pictures in a post are pictures of work.

Here’s the detail we care about most: what happens on snap number six? Silently binning the oldest one would be efficient and slightly rude. Instead, a pop-up tells you the clipboard is full and that snapping will replace your oldest snap. Delete one first if you’d rather keep it. Your clipboard, your call.

Fair worry: what if your work is ugly? Good. A clumsy query with a real result says more about you than a beautiful screenshot of nothing. Cards are honest about what they are, and that’s the whole point.

Meet Luci (the face arrived before the brain)

Our assistant has a name, Luci, and as of this month a face: a small, friendly mascot in the workspace that says hello. You may notice Luci is better at waving than at answering. That’s because the AI side is still being wired up, carefully, one connection at a time.

So, for now: Luci can say hello. Luci cannot do your homework. We consider both of these features.

The small things you’ll notice by not noticing them

Some changes only get noticed when they’re missing. These ones should quietly stop annoying you:

• One logo, everywhere. The same LP icon and LucidPlexus wordmark now sit on every page, in every email, in your browser tab and on the app icon. Before, we had at least four versions, which is three more than a logo needs.
• Your photo opens your account. In the Library, clicking your avatar used to log you out. That was, technically, a very fast way to leave. It now takes you to your account, everywhere.
• Home means Explore. In Learn, the Home link now takes you to the Explore hub instead of somewhere unexpected.

Learn got a floor plan

Learn used to be five reading rooms with blurry labels. Now it’s four, and each one has a single job. The AI page has been retired; news about AI tools for data work now lives in Trends, next to the rest of the tools.

Magazine, the room you’re in now, is the house paper: the people building things here, PlexQuest dispatches, milestones, reports and what’s changed. Trends covers the tools. Blog teaches one subject properly per post. Career is about getting, and growing, the job.

What we can’t predict

We’ve built a feed where the only thing you can show is work. What we don’t know yet is which work people will choose to show.

Their best cell, or their most honest one?