Four Fixes: Mobile Dashboard, Domains, Crawlers

Every SOSEI site is on a subscription, which means it keeps getting better without you doing anything. This update covers four changes we shipped recently: a mobile-friendly dashboard, a fix for domains with CAA records, more reliable publishing in the studio editor, and a visibility fix for your contact email.

None of these require you to do anything. They're already live on your site and your dashboard.

Managing your site from your phone

Your dashboard now works properly on phones. Navigation is clearer, menus stay open when you expect them to, buttons don't overlap each other, and lists are compact and tappable instead of cramped.

You can also switch between dark and light mode straight from your avatar menu, on desktop or mobile.

This matters because a dashboard you can only use comfortably at a desk isn't much use when you want to check something quickly or make a change while you're out. If you're thinking about how mobile usability applies to the public-facing side of your site too, we've written about that in Mobile-First Isn't Optional in 2026.

Connecting domains with a CAA record

Some domains have a CAA record in their DNS. A CAA record limits which certificate authorities are allowed to issue TLS certificates for that domain. It's a security feature, and plenty of registrars set one by default or at a client's request.

Previously, if your domain had a CAA record, connecting it to SOSEI could fail without a clear reason. That's fixed now: domains with a CAA record connect correctly.

If the record on your domain is set up so narrowly that it doesn't allow any authority we can use, the go-live panel now tells you that directly, so you're not left guessing why a connection isn't completing. For more on how domain connections and certificates work on SOSEI, see Custom Domains with Automatic TLS.

Publishing changes with browser translation on

If your browser was set to automatically translate the studio editor into your language, clicking "Publish changes" used to send you to an error page instead of publishing. This has been fixed. Publishing now works normally whether or not your browser is translating the interface.

This is a small thing, but it's exactly the kind of edge case that shouldn't stand between you and getting a change live on your site.

Making your contact email readable by search engines and AI

Your site's contact email was being hidden from Google and from AI assistants by a protection layer that sat in front of our hosting. The intent was reasonable, email obfuscation is a common anti-spam pattern, but the side effect was that crawlers and AI assistants couldn't read it either.

That's now fixed. Your contact email is readable by search engines and AI crawlers, so when someone asks an AI assistant how to reach your business, or a search engine wants to display your contact details, the information is actually there to find.

This sits alongside the other work we do to keep sites visible to the growing list of AI crawlers now indexing the web. If you want the full picture of which bots matter and why, read AI Crawlers in 2026: The 18 Bots to Welcome. And if you're newer to the difference between optimizing for search engines versus AI answer engines, SEO vs GEO vs AEO: Found, Grounded, Cited lays out the distinction.

Why this kind of update keeps happening

None of these four fixes are glamorous. A CAA record edge case, a translation-plugin conflict, an obfuscation layer that overcorrected. But they're the sort of thing that quietly breaks a site for a subset of visitors or owners, and that nobody notices until it affects them directly.

That's the actual argument for keeping a site on a subscription instead of treating a rebuild as a one-time project. Browsers change how they handle translation. Registrars change their DNS defaults. AI crawlers show up where there used to be none. A site that was built once and left alone accumulates these small breakages one at a time, invisibly, until something important, like your contact email, stops working the way you think it does.

We've written more about that underlying philosophy in Why a Subscription Beats a One-Time Rebuild.

If you want to see where your current site stands on any of this, including whether AI assistants can actually read your contact details, SOSEI offers a free audit as a starting point.