# Fix 2

> The first real fix: a report through the form on unremarkable.me, a mirror with the fix, a "works for me", and the change live within ten minutes.

Part of [Works For Me](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/works-for-me/index.md), a Piece.

## The form

On 7 November 2026, every page on unremarkable.me got a link at its foot: "Fix something on this page". It opens a short form that already knows which page you were on. It asks what happened, what you expected and how you were reading the page. It doesn't ask who you are. Reports go into a small database.

Fix 1 was a test. Fix 2 was the first real one, and the owner of the site sent it.

## What you told us

At 19:26, from the home page, using a screen reader:

> I was listening and heard something like the title is the only modest thing.

What they expected:

> It not to talk nonsense.

Under "Anything more about your setup?" they wrote: "I'm kinda cute!" The database kept that too.

## What we understood

This wasn't a fault in the code. It was the words. The line under the heading read "We design and build websites. The name is the only modest thing about us." It explained its own joke, and read aloud it sounded like smug filler.

A change of words needs the owner's yes as well as the reporter's. This time they were the same person.

## What we did about it

The line became: "We design and build websites that sound as good as they look."

The change went on a branch of its own and was put online at a separate address, a copy of the site with the fix in it. The live site didn't change. No links changed. No test was added, because a sentence that sounds smug isn't a fault a test can catch.

## What we wanted you to test

At 19:29 the four-part email went out: what you told us, what we understood, what we did about it, and what we want you to test. The test was to open the copy, listen from the top, and hear the new line after the heading.

## Works for me

The reply came at 19:31:

> works for me

The fix was merged and put live at unremarkable.me. The report was marked fixed, confirmed by the owner and the reporter. From report to live took less than ten minutes.

## What it proves

So unremarkable.me has an immune system. A website that fixes itself.

Or a website that fixes itself on request.

When we let it.

Or at least, it could work.

All of those are true. The form, the database, the copy with the fix and the four-part email were real. The part that read the report, understood it and made the fix was Claude, in a conversation, playing the immune system by hand. Every step of the loop happened, in order, for a real report, and none of it needed inventing. The next job is to let it run without anyone having to start it.


## More about this

- This is one Object of [Works For Me](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/works-for-me/index.md), a Piece at Blind Ant.
- [The thread](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/works-for-me/the-thread/index.md): Five emails over one afternoon: a bug report from a VoiceOver user, a link to a copy of the site with the fix in, "works for me", one word from the owner, and a thank-you.
- [The design](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/works-for-me/the-design/index.md): How a self-healing website works: five steps from a reported bug to a live fix, two gates on the way, and why the person who found the bug tests the fix.
- [The fix that was held](https://blind-ant.com/pieces/works-for-me/the-fix-that-was-held/index.md): Someone reports a missing link, the loop builds it, the reporter says it works, and the second gate keeps it off the site.

## About the author

Blind Ant is written and run by Charlotte Joanne. [About Blind Ant](https://blind-ant.com/about/index.md) says more.
