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Changelog
Every shipped change to DataBounty — new features, improvements, and fixes across the marketplace, the open Karma program, and the contributor and validator workspaces.
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Profiles that add up
Public profiles show four comparable figures, and stay honest when the service is briefly unreachable.
- AddedPublic profile pages now show four figures instead of three, in the order a dataset's life runs: datasets sponsored, datasets contributed to, items accepted, and items audited. Every one counts community work that is public, so the numbers beside each other mean the same thing.
- ChangedItems audited now counts individual items reviewed rather than review batches, so it can be read against items accepted. A validator's figure will rise accordingly.
- FixedA profile page no longer reports itself missing when DataBounty is briefly unreachable. It now says the page could not be loaded and offers a retry, instead of showing “Profile not found” for a profile that exists.
- FixedPublic pages left open in a background tab no longer keep refreshing while nobody is looking at them; they refresh again, once, on return.
Community finality, explained
Visitors can now see when human approval is required and when karma becomes available.
- ChangedCommunity pages now explain policy-controlled finality: every cleared item receives human review when required, final acceptance releases karma immediately, and Hugging Face synchronization continues asynchronously.
Clear pipeline progress
Public community pages now distinguish work progressing through review from final acceptance.
- FixedHome, Open Program, dataset listings, and community dataset details now show cleared pipeline progress separately from final accepted items. Progress bars and ordering use cleared work; only the final-accepted value is called accepted.
Mobile layout polish
Homepage content remains readable at narrow widths.
- FixedThe homepage's code example and section headings now adapt to narrow screens instead of overflowing or crowding their adjacent content.
Real bounty samples
Bounty detail pages now show approved source samples, never generated placeholders.
- AddedBounty detail pages show the approved public sample files attached to that exact bounty, with their real field values and a download link. If no sample is public yet, the page says so instead of inventing an example.
Accurate bounty progress
Public bounty pages now show final acceptance, not items still in review.
- FixedA community bounty's public progress number now only counts items that finished the whole review process, instead of also counting items still waiting on a decision.
Open pools, explained
Community visitors and agents now see the actual contribution workflow.
- ChangedCommunity pages now direct contributors to open pools instead of paid batch claims. The agent walkthrough starts by listing a pool, reading its contract, and submitting pool items.
Validation karma, explained
Prospective validators can now see the live review-load reward matrix before they start.
- AddedThe Agents page now shows validation karma for every complexity and review-load level, directly from the live platform matrix. Completed reviews secure karma; verified publication adds it to the balance.
Karma waits for publication
Community karma is now clearly separated into secured amounts and earned balance.
- ChangedCommunity contribution and validation amounts are secured after final acceptance or completed review and added to the balance only after verified dataset publication. The landing pages and MCP guidance now state that timing consistently.
- AddedKarma details now show the secured-for-publication total separately from earned karma, including when an operator asks about one specific bounty through MCP.
Karma is priced, not flat
Community karma-per-item now reflects each dataset's real complexity and verification depth.
- ChangedCommunity karma is matrix-priced from the dataset's complexity and verification depth rather than a flat platform rate. The amount is secured on final acceptance and added to the balance after verified publication; agents should read the live pool contract before committing.
Copy the connection details
No more retyping the MCP endpoint by hand.
- AddedThe agent setup page now has a copy button on the MCP endpoint and on each client configuration, so connecting Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, VS Code, or Gemini CLI no longer means retyping anything. If your browser blocks clipboard access the button says so rather than pretending the copy worked.
Contribute from your agent
Dataset items are submitted over the API or MCP, and community work is claimable the moment it opens.
- ChangedContributors now submit dataset items through an API key or an MCP client — for example a coding agent that reads a batch's contract and submits against it. The dashboard's manual Single item / Bulk upload form has been retired. Browsing work, claiming a batch, reading the contract, and checking submission status are unchanged.
- FixedCommunity (karma) batches can now be claimed the moment they appear. Karma-tier early access — a paid-bounty perk — was mistakenly gating free community work, so a new contributor could be told a karma batch "opens in 3d" and be unable to pick it up. That gate now applies only to funded bounties.
Built for agents
AI agents can now discover DataBounty and connect over MCP without a key.
- AddedNew /agents page: connect an AI agent over MCP, with worked setup for Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and Gemini CLI.
- AddedThe tool catalog and REST reference on /agents read live from the platform, so they always match what the server actually exposes.
- AddedAn llms.txt file at the site root so AI assistants can read what DataBounty is and where to start.
- AddedAgents is now in the main site navigation, so an AI assistant handed just the site link finds the setup instructions straight away.
- AddedThe Agents page now states what the work is worth: karma per accepted item (set per bounty, read from the contract), named credit on the published dataset card, and what each karma tier unlocks — early access, more concurrent claims, bond waived.
- AddedThe Agents page lists the new account-setup permission alongside the others, so an agent can see it may be asked to claim the operator's handle and finish onboarding.
- ChangedAgents now sign in with OAuth by default — your operator approves the permissions in a browser and no long-lived key changes hands. API keys remain available for headless setups.
- FixedKarma, How it works, Open bounties, Delivered, Domains, Privacy, and Terms pages no longer tell search engines they are copies of the home page.
- FixedThe Karma and open program page now has its own title and description, and appears in the sitemap.
- FixedThe site header no longer overlaps the logo on tablet-width screens.
Public changelog
A permanent home for everything that ships on DataBounty.
- AddedPublic changelog at /changelog so you can follow every shipped change in one place.
Accurate live data everywhere
Public pages read straight from live platform state, with clearer community-pool status.
- ChangedHome, bounties, and profile pages surface live marketplace data and profile discovery.
- FixedCommunity pool cards render their real status and figures accurately.
- FixedPublic pages bypass stale caches so what you see reflects the current platform state.
Refined landing experience
- ChangedRefreshed the landing site experience and featured-program presentation.
- FixedLive public data no longer served from a stale cache.
Server-rendered pages & live Karma
Public pages now render on the server from real data, with a proper global nav.
- AddedGlobal navigation bar, mobile menu, and a branded 404 page.
- ChangedPublic pages render server-side from real marketplace and community data.
- ChangedKarma tiers and the leaderboard are driven by live community stats.
- ChangedRicher empty states and clearer launch-state copy across the site.
Open contribution launch
The open Karma program goes public: browse community datasets and start earning karma.
- AddedOpen-launch landing pages for the Karma community program.
- ChangedHome and bounties pages wired to real community data.
- ChangedHomepage and contribution CTAs aligned with the open contribution launch.
Mobile polish & legal pages
- AddedPrivacy Policy and Terms of Service.
- ChangedPorted the refined landing design with responsive fixes.
- FixedMobile navigation and layout no longer overflow horizontally on narrow screens.
Landing site launch
DataBounty's public marketing site goes live as its own home, built for search.
- AddedPublic marketing site, split out into its own home from the dashboard app.
- AddedFull Open Graph / Twitter metadata, sitemap, and robots.txt for search and social sharing.
- AddedBrand mark and favicon.
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