Changed

The text an argument was built from is now settled before you publish

Pasting in the text an argument came from is a choice you make once, while the argument is still a private draft. You can swap it or take it away as often as you like until you publish. After that first publish it stays put: someone reading your argument will always find the same text behind it, and behind every version that follows.

Two things that used to be possible have stopped. You can no longer replace or remove the text on an argument you have already published. And an argument you published without a text can no longer be given one — if you meant to add it, add it before you publish next time.

Everything else you do with that text carries on unchanged. You can still link any claim or step to the passage it came from, still say whether your argument represents the text faithfully or merely started from it, and still fill in who wrote the original.

You can correct the attribution on a text nobody has read yet

Saying who wrote the original used to be a one-shot answer: once you filled it in properly, it was fixed. Now you can rewrite it, or clear it out, for as long as the text is private. Once any argument of yours using that text is published, the attribution settles the same way the text does — you can still fill it in if you left it empty, but not change it afterwards.

The "any argument of yours" is deliberate. Paste the same text into two arguments and they share one copy, so publishing either one settles the attribution for both.

A step with no name is described rather than pointed at

When two of your answers point different ways, the card naming the step now describes it — a step, or a restriction — where an unnamed one used to read only as "This premise".

Fixed

• Blocking someone, or a moderator taking an argument down, now covers voting and responding too. Those arguments already stopped appearing for you in lists and on pages. The same now applies when you go to vote on one or respond to it, so the whole app treats them consistently rather than most of it.