A running record of significant changes to the site. Updated when something worth noting happens.
August 2026
14 August 2026 — Removed the Google AdSense script from every page. No ads were ever served through it, so it was loading on each page visit for nothing — pages should now load a little faster. The privacy policy has been corrected to match: it previously described advertising cookies and a consent banner that were never actually in use. It now states plainly that no third-party advertising is shown and no advertising cookies are set, and commits to updating the policy and asking for consent before that ever changes.
14 August 2026 — A small layout adjustment: the sidebar is now a little wider, and the page as a whole has a slightly wider maximum width to make room for it. The article column is exactly the width it was before, so reading is unaffected. On tablet-sized screens the sidebar now moves below the article a bit sooner than it used to, which gives the main text more room at those widths.
10 August 2026 — Four new guides, driven by what readers actually search for. Three answer the question in the direction the MBTI bridge didn't yet cover — you know your Socionics type and want the MBTI translation: IEI in MBTI, SEI in MBTI, and EII in MBTI, each explaining why the last letter of your code flips between the two systems and which MBTI result your type actually tests as. The fourth is a full relationship deep dive on the Beta dual pair: SLE and IEI — Duality in Practice, covering the Se/Ni exchange, the Aggressor–Victim romance dynamic, and where the pairing strains.
July 2026
30 July 2026 — The comparison and famous people sections have been consolidated so the site points more clearly at the material people actually read. The sixteen pages that compared a type with itself have been retired: pairing a type with itself is the Identity relation, which is covered properly on its own page, and those sixteen URLs now redirect there. Across both sections, pages that have drawn no readers from search over the past three months are no longer listed in search results. They remain on the site and every link to them still works, so nothing you have bookmarked will break. The comparison index now covers 120 pairings across 13 intertype relations.
22 July 2026 — The site has a proper email address at last: you can now reach me at hello@socionicsinsight.com, revealed on the contact page. The contact form works as before.
22 July 2026 — The floating Feedback tab that appeared in the corner of every page has been retired — it saw very little use. If you'd like to get in touch, share a correction, or leave a note for the guestbook, the contact page remains the best way to reach me.
22 July 2026 — Two of the site's most-visited pages have been substantially expanded. The Socionics test now explains what each dichotomy measures, how the scoring works, how to read a firm versus borderline result, and what a short test can and cannot tell you. The Famous People directory gains an analytical introduction to each quadra's public figures and a new section explaining how public figures are typed from the behavioural record. The FAQ answers that previously existed only behind the scenes on the test and the 16 type profiles are now visible on the pages themselves.
16 July 2026 — Every type profile now opens with a substantial original "The SLIDE System™ View" analysis — covering each type's cognitive signature, strengths, blind spots, behaviour under stress, and relational needs — written from the ground up for this site using the SLIDE System framing. The classical description drawn from Weisband's Working Materials is unchanged but now sits below the new analysis as "A Classical Perspective." The result is a fuller, more original picture of each of the 16 types.
7 July 2026 — The Socionics test is now linked from the desktop header navigation — previously it was only reachable from the mobile menu and footer, despite being the most-visited page on the site. Also fixed a pair of broken links to the SEE vs SEI comparison and restored the SVG favicon.
2 July 2026 — Repo-only files (README, CLAUDE.md, CHANGELOG.md) no longer build into live pages — they were accidentally being published as unstyled URLs. Netlify now also skips the build entirely when a commit only touches those files, saving build minutes on documentation-only changes.
2 July 2026 — The Socionics Insight Shop (type mugs, prints, stickers) has closed due to lack of sales. Removed all shop links and mug widgets site-wide: header and footer navigation, the type-page sidebar, the hub, the roadmap, the about page, and the type quiz result screen.
May 2026
15 May 2026 — Corrected several factual and consistency issues across the relation and function articles following two catches from a reader.
On the relation pages: the Conflict page was describing Infantile as "Alpha Rationalists and Delta Irrationals" and Aggressor as "Beta Irrationals and Gamma Rationals" (the correct categorisation is by S/N within quadra: Infantile is Alpha and Delta intuitives, Aggressor is Beta and Gamma sensors). The same paragraph also implied that conflict's romance style pairings produce the same dynamic as duality's, when in fact they are inverted — duality pairs Infantile with Careful and Aggressor with Victim, conflict and super-ego pair Infantile with Aggressor and Careful with Victim. The Semi-dual page claimed every semi-dual pair shares the same romance style combination as duals; in practice, only the four irrational pairs do — the four rational pairs (ESE–LSI, EIE–LII, LIE–EII, LSE–ESI) pair Careful with Aggressor or Victim with Infantile instead.
On the function articles: the "What Si does" section of the Introverted Sensing article only mentioned two of the four Ego-block types and was missing both SLI (position 1, leading) and LSE (position 2, creative); the "What Se does" section of the Extraverted Sensing article was missing LSI (position 2, creative). Both now name all four Ego-block types. The Extraverted Intuition article did not name any types in its "What Ne actually does" section, breaking the pattern set by the other seven function articles; an Ego-block paragraph covering ILE, IEE, LII and EII has been added.
14 May 2026 — Added the expert typing service to the highest-intent surfaces it was missing from: the type quiz result screen — with a stronger prompt when a result comes out tied or borderline — and the 16 type profile sidebars. The typing prompt on type, function and relation pages now sits above the previous/next navigation rather than below it. Quiz analytics flag borderline results so quiz-to-typing conversion can be tracked against result confidence. Typing call-to-action copy reworked site-wide to lead with price and turnaround.
11 May 2026 — Added IndexNow submission to the build. Every production deploy now pings Bing, Yandex, Seznam.cz and Naver with the full URL list so updates are picked up within hours rather than weeks. Google does not participate in the protocol.
11 May 2026 — Added topical cross-linking to type comparison pages and famous people profiles. Each comparison page now links out to all other compares involving either type and to other pairings sharing the same intertype relation. Each famous person profile now links to other notable figures of the same type. Stronger internal linking to help readers explore related material and improve organic discoverability.
April 2026
29 April 2026 — Corrected the direction of asymmetric relations in several places where the active and passive roles were the wrong way round: six type comparison pages had Supervision inverted (EIE/SEI, EII/ILE, EII/SEE, ESI/IEE, LIE/SLI, LSE/SEI); the Beta vs Gamma article on the Apple–Microsoft rivalry had Supervision inverted in its core thesis and has been rewritten with the correct direction (Beta supervises Gamma, not the other way round); and the compatibility checker was inverting the Benefaction direction in its result text.
26 April 2026 — Added a new Hub page — a single landing page linking out to every Socionics project I run, including Socion, Socionics World, the books, the Discord, the YouTube channel and the shop.
March 2026
23 March 2026 — The original Definitive Socionics Index (definitive-socionics.wikidot.com) was retired after nearly two decades. All material has been carried forward, revised, and expanded here. This site is now the sole home of that research.
21 March 2026 — YouTube channel created at @SocionicsInsight. Videos coming soon.
18 March 2026 — Type quiz updated to v2 — several bugs fixed, results now shareable via direct link. See the quiz changelog for detail.
16 March 2026 — Full site search added. Every page on the site is now searchable via the header search button.
15 March 2026 — Published individual pages for 15 famous people, each with a typing rationale and supporting video.
14 March 2026 — Published all 136 type comparison pages — every possible pairing of the 16 types, with perspectives from both sides and a compatibility verdict.
9 March 2026 — Site launched at socionicsinsight.com with 284 pages covering the 16 types, 8 functions, 16 intertype relations, small groups, Model A, a type quiz, and an initial set of articles.
Changes to the type quiz are also tracked in the quiz changelog.