Unpublished articles no longer leak into your sitemap

Drafts, scheduled posts, and private articles were being included in the public sitemap. Search crawlers would try to fetch them, get redirected or blocked, and quietly downgrade your sitemap's perceived freshness — exactly the opposite of what a sitemap is for.

The sitemap generator now only emits public, published articles. Drafts and scheduled pieces stay invisible until you actually ship them. The day they go live, they show up in the sitemap automatically.

This also fixes a privacy edge case: scheduled articles whose URLs you hadn't shared yet were technically discoverable through the sitemap before they should have been. Not anymore. The publish date controls visibility, including for crawlers.

The people best positioned to notice this change are search engines, not readers. But the cumulative effect on your indexing health is real and starts compounding immediately.