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The station can now delete media files that nothing points at any more. Settings > Housekeeping >
Delete media files nothing points at, which is off until you turn it on.Records, cover art and the audio of everything the station has said are kept in folders named after
what the bytes hash to, with a row in the database pointing at each one. When a row goes without its
file going — a crash between writing the bytes and writing the row, or something deleted through the
API — the file is left behind, and nothing can ever reach it again, because everything that reads
one of these files starts from a row holding the name to ask for. Storage on the settings page has
counted those files for a while and deleted none of them. This is the half that deletes them.Nothing that still has a row is touched, however old it is, and a file two rows share — the same
ident at three slots in an hour is one recording — is kept as long as either row wants it. The
voice previews are never swept at all: they are named after the question they answer rather than by
any row, so every one of them looks unclaimed and none of them is.A file is left alone until it has sat unclaimed for a day, which you can change and cannot set
below an hour. That wait is the whole safety of it: a file being written right now has no row yet
either, for the moment between the two, and at that instant it looks exactly like one whose row has
gone. A day is far longer than anything the station does, since writing a break takes seconds.The sweep runs nightly at 05:17 and puts one line in the activity feed when it removes anything,
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Presenters can now tell a story across several breaks, and keep a running joke going.
A story on a character's shelf can be an ordinary one-off, a story in PARTS that goes out a piece at
a time and gets somewhere, or a running BIT with no end that the presenter keeps coming back to and
building on. A story in parts only moves to its next piece once the last one has actually aired, and
a presenter leaves a wait between returning to the same thing — you set how long on the Settings
page, under the persona group.Every time a character carries one of its own stories into a break is now written down, along with
what it actually said. That record is what a running joke is built on, and it is also the thing the
new Memory panel shows: what this character has told, newest first, with a way to roll back to any
moment. Rolling back undoes what the station worked out on its own — the tellings, and anything the
nightly passes wrote — and never touches a story, a note or a part you typed yourself. There is a
preview before anything happens, and "clear all of it" for a fresh start.With a way back in place, a character can also be left to develop unsupervised: the new
"Whether they develop on their own" setting on each persona decides whether the nightly passes hold
their ideas for you to approve, as they always have, or keep what they write. Every character ships
holding them for you.The nightly pass also learns two new tricks where it is switched on. It can suggest the next part of
a story you have already started, and it can notice a running thing you have been doing on air
without having written it down — it only offers one when it can quote the line it spotted it in. And
it summarises where each running joke has got to, so the presenter is reminded what the thing has
become rather than handed its own last sentences to repeat.One older rough edge goes with this: a note distilled from a break you thumbed down is no longer
used. A character can no longer be taught to repeat something you said you disliked.