Two reports: → sometimes "loops back", and the walk gets stuck on near-identical
images. Cause: forwardTarget picked a uniformly-random neighbour from the 24
NEAREST, so it (a) often landed on an image already in the trail — which snaps
the cursor back into history and makes → bounce between visited nodes — and (b)
only ever offered near-duplicates.
forwardTarget now: excludes already-visited neighbours (→ opens something new,
no snap-back), and skips the closest third of the (similarity-sorted) pool so the
jump favours the more-varied remainder instead of lookalikes. Neighbour pool
widened 24→40 for more variety to browse + jump into. The post-← browser-forward
walk through visited crumbs is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ttrj5P7upUTueSfoJcxEqa
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