19. Articles

19. Articles

type: article is one long read: a blog post, a write-up, a case study.

---
type: article
title: One retry fixed nine in ten night-time declines
description: Order #4711 failed at 21:03 and was paid at 21:05.
author: Jonas Berg · Payments team
date: 5 November 2026
---

# One retry fixed nine in ten night-time declines

For a year we treated every night-time card decline as a fraud signal …

## The declines were timeouts

• The header holds the title, the lede (description:, one or two sentences; it is also the page's <meta name="description"> and the subtitle of its index tile), the byline (author, date, version) and the reading time, counted at 230 words a minute on the text outside code blocks.
• "On this page" (the ## / ### headings) appears on the right when the article has three or more ## sections, and above the text on narrow screens; with fewer sections there is none.
• The text column is narrower than a lab's (88% of --si-doc-measure) and slightly larger. Everything else is as in a lab (§18): callouts, code with copy, key/value tables, figures, includes, print, theme and dark mode.
• ## Step N: headings stay plain in an article.
• si build writes <name>.html with an ARTICLE badge on the index tile.

Example: si --export example --type article.