diff --git a/src/ui/settings.rs b/src/ui/settings.rs
index dfa96e2..89056e7 100644
--- a/src/ui/settings.rs
+++ b/src/ui/settings.rs
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     let socks5_hidden = if proxy.mode == "socks5" { "" } else { " style=\"display:none\"" };
     let network_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">Network / Proxy <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">restart required</span></div>
+  <div class="card-title">Proxy <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">needs restart</span></div>
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/network">
     <div class="radio-group">{proxy_radios}</div>
     <div id="socks5-url"{socks5_hidden} style="margin-top:.75rem">
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
 
     let relays_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">Relays <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">restart required</span></div>
+  <div class="card-title">Relays <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">needs restart</span></div>
   <div class="relay-list" style="margin-bottom:.75rem">{relay_rows}</div>
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/relays/add">
     <div class="form-row">
@@ -122,17 +122,17 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     let depth2 = if c.follow_depth == 2 { " selected" } else { "" };
     let curation_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">Curation &amp; Trust</div>
+  <div class="card-title">Trust</div>
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/curation">
     <div class="setting-row">
-      <label class="setting-label">Operator pubkey
-        <span class="setting-hint">Your Nostr pubkey (npub or hex) — root of the follow graph</span>
+      <label class="setting-label">Your Nostr pubkey
+        <span class="setting-hint">npub or 64-char hex. Used to build your trust list from who you follow.</span>
       </label>
       <input type="text" name="operator_pubkey" value="{op_pk}" placeholder="npub1… or 64-char hex" style="width:420px" class="mono-in">
     </div>
     <div class="setting-row">
       <label class="setting-label">Follow depth
-        <span class="setting-hint">How many hops to include in the Web of Trust graph</span>
+        <span class="setting-hint">1 = just people you follow. 2 = people your follows follow too.</span>
       </label>
       <select name="follow_depth">
         <option value="1"{depth1}>1 — direct follows only</option>
@@ -140,17 +140,17 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
       </select>
     </div>
     <div class="setting-row">
-      <label class="setting-label">WoT only
-        <span class="setting-hint">Drop events from pubkeys outside your follow graph</span>
+      <label class="setting-label">Trusted only
+        <span class="setting-hint">Ignore posts from anyone not in your follow network</span>
       </label>
       <label class="toggle-label">
         <input type="checkbox" name="wot_only" value="true"{wot_checked}>
-        Only index publishers in my follow graph
+        Only index posts from people I follow
       </label>
     </div>
     <div class="setting-row">
-      <label class="setting-label">Auto-block threshold
-        <span class="setting-hint">Block a publisher automatically after this many reports</span>
+      <label class="setting-label">Auto-block after reports
+        <span class="setting-hint">Auto-block a publisher once they hit this many reports</span>
       </label>
       <input type="number" name="auto_block_threshold" value="{abt}" min="1" max="100" style="width:80px">
     </div>
@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     // ── Ingest ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     let ingest_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">Ingest <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">restart required</span></div>
+  <div class="card-title">History <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">needs restart</span></div>
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/ingest">
     <div class="setting-row">
-      <label class="setting-label">Backfill days
-        <span class="setting-hint">How far back to request history from a relay that has never been seen before</span>
+      <label class="setting-label">Days of history to fetch
+        <span class="setting-hint">How far back to go when connecting to a relay for the first time</span>
       </label>
       <input type="number" name="backfill_days" value="{bd}" min="1" max="3650" style="width:100px">
     </div>
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/tmdb">
     <div class="setting-row">
       <label class="setting-label">Enabled
-        <span class="setting-hint">Look up movie/TV metadata from TMDB when a torrent has no TMDB ID tag</span>
+        <span class="setting-hint">Automatically look up movie and TV info for better matching in Sonarr and Radarr</span>
       </label>
       <label class="toggle-label">
         <input type="checkbox" name="enabled" value="true"{tmdb_checked}>
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     </div>
     <div class="setting-row">
       <label class="setting-label">API key
-        <span class="setting-hint">TMDB v3 read access token — <a href="https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api" target="_blank">get one here</a></span>
+        <span class="setting-hint">Free to get at <a href="https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api" target="_blank">themoviedb.org</a></span>
       </label>
       <input type="text" name="api_key" value="{api_key}" placeholder="eyJ…" style="width:420px" class="mono-in">
     </div>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     let deluge_labels = d.labels.join(", ");
     let deluge_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">Deluge <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">restart required</span></div>
+  <div class="card-title">Deluge <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">needs restart</span></div>
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/deluge">
     <div class="setting-row">
       <label class="setting-label">Enabled</label>
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     </div>
     <div class="setting-row">
       <label class="setting-label">Web UI URL
-        <span class="setting-hint">Enable the Web UI plugin in Deluge, then log in once in a browser to set a password. Default port is 8112.</span>
+        <span class="setting-hint">The Deluge web UI address. You need to log into it in a browser at least once to set a password. Default port is 8112.</span>
       </label>
       <input type="text" name="url" value="{d_url}" placeholder="http://127.0.0.1:8112" style="width:280px">
     </div>
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
     let qb_cats = qb.categories.join(", ");
     let qbittorrent_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">qBittorrent <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">restart required</span></div>
+  <div class="card-title">qBittorrent <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">needs restart</span></div>
   <form method="POST" action="/ui/settings/qbittorrent">
     <div class="setting-row">
       <label class="setting-label">Web UI URL</label>
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ async fn render(state: &AppState, params: &PageParams) -> anyhow::Result<Html<St
 
     let apikeys_section = format!(
         r#"<div class="card">
-  <div class="card-title">API Keys — for Sonarr / Radarr / Lidarr</div>
+  <div class="card-title">API Keys</div>
   <div class="table-wrap" style="margin-bottom:.9rem">
     <table>
       <thead><tr><th>Label</th><th>Key</th><th>Created</th><th>Last used</th><th></th></tr></thead>
@@ -367,69 +367,55 @@ function copyKey() {
     let body = format!(
         r#"<h1>Settings</h1>
 <p style="color:var(--muted);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:1.2rem">
-  Settings saved here are stored in the database and applied on the next restart.
-  They override values in your YAML config file. Sections marked
-  <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">restart required</span>
-  take effect after restarting kindexr.
+  Changes here are saved to the database. Anything marked
+  <span class="badge badge-warn" style="font-size:10px;vertical-align:middle">needs restart</span>
+  won't kick in until you restart kindexr.
 </p>
 {flash}
 <div class="section">
   <div class="section-title">API Keys</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">API keys authenticate requests from Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Prowlarr.
-  Each app gets its own key so you can revoke access individually without affecting other clients.
-  The key is entered in the indexer settings of each app — label it so you remember which is which.</p>
+  <p class="section-desc">Paste one of these into Sonarr, Radarr or any other app when adding this as an indexer.
+  Give each app its own key so you can cut one off without breaking the others.</p>
   {apikeys_section}
 </div>
 <div class="section">
   <div class="section-title">Torrent clients</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">kindexr can watch a torrent client for newly completed downloads and automatically
-  publish them to Nostr as kind 2003 events. Only one client needs to be configured.
-  Use labels (Deluge) or categories (qBittorrent) to control which torrents get published —
-  leave them blank to publish everything that finishes downloading.</p>
+  <p class="section-desc">Hook up your torrent client and kindexr will post finished downloads to Nostr automatically.
+  You only need one client configured. If you only want certain torrents published, set a label or category
+  on them in your client and put it here. Leave it blank to publish everything that finishes.</p>
   {deluge_section}
   {qbittorrent_section}
 </div>
 <div class="section">
   <div class="section-title">Network</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">Controls how kindexr connects to Nostr relays and external APIs (TMDB).
-  Direct mode uses your server's default network. Tor and I2P route all outbound traffic through
-  the respective anonymity network — the proxy must already be running on the same machine.
-  SOCKS5 lets you point at any proxy, including PIA or Mullvad's built-in proxies.</p>
+  <p class="section-desc">How kindexr reaches the internet. Direct is the default. Tor and I2P need to already be running
+  on this machine. SOCKS5 works with PIA, Mullvad or any proxy you have set up.</p>
   {network_section}
 </div>
 <div class="section">
   <div class="section-title">Relays</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">Nostr relays kindexr subscribes to for incoming kind 2003 torrent events.
-  More relays means broader coverage but higher bandwidth and connection overhead.
-  kindexr tracks the last event seen per relay so it only requests new events on reconnect —
-  removing and re-adding a relay will re-fetch its full history up to the backfill window.</p>
+  <p class="section-desc">The Nostr relays to pull torrent posts from. More relays means more content but uses more bandwidth.
+  kindexr remembers where it left off on each one so it won't re-download old stuff when it restarts.</p>
   {relays_section}
 </div>
 <div class="section">
-  <div class="section-title">Curation &amp; Trust</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">Controls which publishers kindexr trusts and indexes.
-  The <strong>operator pubkey</strong> is your Nostr identity — kindexr reads your kind 3 follow list
-  from the relay network every 24 hours and uses it to score publishers by how many hops away
-  they are from you. Publishers outside your follow graph get a lower trust score.
-  Enable <strong>WoT only</strong> to hard-drop events from anyone not in your graph.
-  Use the Publishers page to manually override trust for specific pubkeys.</p>
+  <div class="section-title">Trust</div>
+  <p class="section-desc">Your Nostr pubkey is used to figure out who to trust. People you follow get a higher score,
+  people your follows follow get a bit less, everyone else is untrusted. Turn on trusted only to ignore posts
+  from people completely outside that circle. You can always override individual publishers on the Publishers page.</p>
   {curation_section}
 </div>
 <div class="section">
-  <div class="section-title">Ingest</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">Controls how much history kindexr requests when first connecting to a relay.
-  The backfill window is applied per relay — if you add a new relay, kindexr will request events
-  going back this many days. Existing relays only receive events newer than the last one seen,
-  so changing this setting only affects relays added after the change.</p>
+  <div class="section-title">History</div>
+  <p class="section-desc">When you add a new relay, how far back should it grab posts from?
+  This only applies to relays you haven't connected to before. Existing ones pick up from where they left off.</p>
   {ingest_section}
 </div>
 <div class="section">
-  <div class="section-title">TMDB enrichment</div>
-  <p class="section-desc">When enabled, kindexr looks up movie and TV show metadata from The Movie Database
-  for events that don't already have a TMDB ID tag. This helps Sonarr and Radarr match torrents
-  to their library entries. Requires a free TMDB API read-access token — get one at
-  <a href="https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api" target="_blank">themoviedb.org</a>.
-  Lookups are cached for 7 days to avoid hitting rate limits.</p>
+  <div class="section-title">TMDB</div>
+  <p class="section-desc">Automatically fills in movie and TV show info so Sonarr and Radarr can match things properly.
+  You need a free API key from <a href="https://www.themoviedb.org/settings/api" target="_blank">themoviedb.org</a> to use this.
+  Results are cached so you won't run into rate limits.</p>
   {tmdb_section}
 </div>
 {js}"#