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Wander Console 0.6.0 is now available. This is the sixth release of Wander, a small, decentralised, self-hosted web console that lets visitors to your website discover interesting websites and pages recommended by a community of independent website owners. To try it, go to susam.net/wander/. To learn how it works and how to set it up on your own website, see the project README. The main change in this release is the removal of support for the via referral query parameter, which was added to recommended URLs so that website owners could identify visits coming from a Wander Console in their access logs. The via query parameter was introduced in version 0.4.0 in response to community demand, but it turned out to be a misfeature. Some websites refuse to serve web pages when arbitrary query parameters are added to URLs. Although it was possible to turn this feature off via configuration, I would rather not keep a dubious feature that may prevent some pages from loading successfully. This…

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