Salaam everyone,
A quiet but big update — Gold Ark v2 is live at hoomanlibrary.com.
This is the biggest rebuild we’ve done. New shell, new data backbone, and a long list of features that were sitting in the workshop for months.
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What’s new in v2
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A stable shell
Top bar, filters, and bottom controls are now locked. Switching between views no longer flickers, jumps, or breaks. Every view loads only when you click it — no more 8 MB on boot.
Cloudflare data layer
All data now served from Cloudflare R2 with edge caching. Sub-second loads on most connections. GitHub Pages stays as a fallback for safety.
DIVE mode in START
Open any verse and dive deep — transliteration, multiple translations, and 28 tafsir editions across 6 languages, all in one panel.
🕮 EXPLAIN — full tafsir library
A new top-level tab. Browse 21 tafsir works by 23 mufassirs. Filter by language, tradition, author, surah, or verse. Deep links into START.
MONASTIC — 34,172 hadith
Six canonical books plus eleven others, all paired in Arabic, Urdu, and English. Cross-reference chips connect every hadith to figures, verses, places, events, and scholarly commentaries.
Cross-reference chips everywhere
Hadith → verse · verse → tafsir · tafsir → figure · figure → events · events → places. Click any chip to jump.
Sign in + community
Firebase Auth (Google or email). Free tester accounts can save, share, and submit feedback. Contributors can suggest corrections directly from any figure profile.
Discourse forum
Right here at goldark.discourse.group — feedback, bug reports, discussions, data corrections.
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What’s inside Gold Ark today
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| Historical figures | 1,966 |
| Historical events | 2,211 |
| Books in the library | 1,099 |
| Free reads | 456 |
| Teacher–student links | 2,391 |
| Followable life journeys | 151 |
| Concepts mapped | 519 |
| Hadith corpus | 34,172 |
| Tafsir editions | 28 |
| Tafsir works | 21 |
| Languages (tafsir) | 6 |
| Views | 14 |
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The 14 views
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TIMELINE — every figure across 14 centuries
SILSILA — chains of teacher to student
FOLLOW — animated life journeys on the map
STUDY — slides, summaries, curated videos
BOOKS — the library, with free reads marked
ERAS — visual map of historical periods
EVENTS — enriched events with sources and Quran links
THINK — concept map across centuries
MAP — where figures lived and worked
TALK — AI conversations with historical figures
ONE — deep profile of any figure
MONASTIC — hadith with guided search and drill filters
🕮 EXPLAIN — tafsir library
START — Quran reader with DIVE scholastic mode
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Free, ad-free, no tracking
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Always was. Always will be.
If you find Gold Ark useful, the kindest thing you can do is share it with someone curious — a student, a teacher, a friend, anyone who wants to walk through Islamic intellectual history without paywalls or ads.
Browse · explore · share — hoomanlibrary.com
Bug reports and feature requests welcome in this forum.
-– The Hooman Experiment