diff --git a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
index fbe3d16..f5386b5 100644
--- a/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
+++ b/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh
@@ -1159,7 +1159,10 @@ reconcile_issue_pass() { # $1 = issue — one issue's whole pass, in its own sub
       || skip_issue "$n" "could not read the issue: $(read_failure_reason "$READ_FAILURE_STDERR")"
     issue_payload_valid "$n" <<<"$ISSUE_JSON" \
       || skip_issue "$n" "the issue read answered a payload that is not issue #$n carrying a label array"
-    jq -e 'has("pull_request") | not' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON" >/dev/null || exit 0
+    # `.pull_request == null`, never `has("pull_request") | not` (#188, #210):
+    # every Forgejo entry CARRIES the key, valued null on an issue, so the
+    # has() form selects zero rows here — silently, forever.
+    jq -e '.pull_request == null' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON" >/dev/null || exit 0
     ISSUE_LABELS="$(jq -r '.labels[].name' <<<"$ISSUE_JSON")"
     reconcile_issue "$n" || exit $?
     commit_staged_effects
@@ -1273,7 +1276,8 @@ main() {
     log "could not read the issue board: $(read_failure_reason "$READ_FAILURE_STDERR")"
     return 1
   fi
-  BOARD_RECORDS="$(jq -r '.[] | select(has("pull_request") | not)
+  # `.pull_request == null`, never `has("pull_request") | not` (#188, #210).
+  BOARD_RECORDS="$(jq -r '.[] | select(.pull_request == null)
     | [(.number | tostring), ((.labels // []) | map(.name) | join(",")), (.title // "")]
     | @tsv' \
     <<<"$board_json")"
@@ -1284,7 +1288,7 @@ main() {
   # is exactly the emptied gate the release's own `blocked` -> `ready`
   # promotion answers, which is why a `ready` release leaves the flag
   # dormant rather than flagging the whole board.
-  release_bodies="$(jq -r '.[] | select(has("pull_request") | not)
+  release_bodies="$(jq -r '.[] | select(.pull_request == null)
     | select((.labels // []) | map(.name) | index("release"))
     | [(.number | tostring), ((.body // "") | gsub("[\t\r\n]"; " "))] | @tsv' \
     <<<"$board_json")"
diff --git a/changelog.d/210.md b/changelog.d/210.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..afd7927
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/210.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+### Fixed
+
+- `issueflow-reconcile` sees this forge's issues again. The board gather used
+  `has("pull_request")`, and every Forgejo entry carries that key — so it
+  selected zero rows on every sweep while printing `reconciled.` (#210).
+
+- Three sites take `.pull_request == null`, the discriminator the file's own
+  comment already specified and that one of its four call sites already used
+  (#210).
+
+- `post-merge` transitions can fire again: they could not, because the sweep
+  saw no issues to transition (#210).
+
+### Added
+
+- A gather-level case drives the real board read against a Forgejo-shaped
+  fixture — every entry carrying the key. The existing discriminator cases
+  assert `jq` expressions in isolation and passed throughout this regression
+  (#210).
+
+- A source pin forbids `has("pull_request")` on this surface, because the rule
+  was stated in a comment and violated forty lines below it (#210).
diff --git a/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh b/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
index c115695..512658d 100644
--- a/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
+++ b/test/issueflow-reconcile.test.sh
@@ -1779,6 +1779,58 @@ check "a PR reads as a PR on either shape" 0 "pr" \
 check "the old has() test misreads a forgejo issue as a PR" 0 "pr" \
   bash -c 'echo "{\"number\":1,\"pull_request\":null}" | jq -e "has(\"pull_request\") | not" >/dev/null && echo issue || echo pr'
 
+# ...AND THE GATHER, because the rows above assert jq expressions in isolation
+# and passed all the way through #210 — a sweep that saw zero issues on every
+# pass and printed `reconciled.` The 0.6.0 merge reintroduced the has() form in
+# the board gather; these cases could not see it because they never ran it.
+#
+# The fixture is FORGEJO-SHAPED: every entry carries `pull_request`, valued
+# null on an issue and an object on a PR. On a GitHub-shaped board (key absent
+# on issues) both discriminators agree, which is why this needs its own board.
+FORGEJO_BOARD="$TMP/forgejo-board"
+mkdir -p "$FORGEJO_BOARD"
+cp "$ARRIVAL/labels.conf" "$FORGEJO_BOARD/labels.conf" 2>/dev/null || true
+printf '[]\n' >"$FORGEJO_BOARD/repos_owner_repo_pulls_state_open.json"
+printf '[]\n' >"$FORGEJO_BOARD/repos_owner_repo_pulls_state_closed.json"
+printf '%s\n' \
+  '[{"number":60,"pull_request":null,"labels":[{"name":"ready"}],"title":"an issue"},
+    {"number":61,"pull_request":{"merged":false},"labels":[],"title":"a pull request"}]' \
+  >"$FORGEJO_BOARD/repos_owner_repo_issues_state_open.json"
+jq -n --arg at "$(iso_at "$INOW")" \
+  '{number:60,user:{login:"triage-one"},created_at:$at,body:"",pull_request:null,
+    labels:[{name:"ready"}],assignees:[]}' \
+  >"$FORGEJO_BOARD/repos_owner_repo_issues_60.json"
+printf '[]\n' >"$FORGEJO_BOARD/repos_owner_repo_issues_60_comments.json"
+forgejo_board_run() {
+  : >"$FORGEJO_BOARD/edits"
+  env PATH="$ARRIVAL/stub:$PATH" CEREMONY_FORGE=github GH_FIXTURES="$FORGEJO_BOARD" \
+    ISSUEFLOW_NOW="$INOW" REPO=owner/repo LABELS_CONF="$ARRIVAL/labels.conf" \
+    bash "$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh" 2>&1
+}
+fjb_out="$(forgejo_board_run)"
+check "a forgejo-shaped board is NOT read as empty" 1 "" \
+  grep -qF 'issueflow: no open issues.' <<<"$fjb_out"
+check "...the sweep completes over it" 0 "" \
+  grep -qF 'issueflow: reconciled.' <<<"$fjb_out"
+check "...and the PR row is still excluded from the issue set" 1 "" \
+  grep -qE '^issueflow: #61' <<<"$fjb_out"
+
+# -- the rule is pinned at the source, because a comment did not hold --------
+# `.pull_request == null` is stated in this file's own header AND at
+# issueflow-reconcile.sh:1113 — and the merge put `has("pull_request")` back 40
+# lines below that comment, in three places. Prose is not a guard (#210).
+# In-process, not `bash -c`: a subshell cannot see this file's functions, and a
+# pin that silently inspected nothing would be the same defect one level up.
+no_has_pull_request() {
+  local hits
+  hits="$(sed 's/[[:space:]]#.*$//; s/^[[:space:]]*#.*$//' \
+    "$ROOT/actions/issueflow-reconcile/issueflow-reconcile.sh" \
+    | grep -n 'has("pull_request")')"
+  [ -z "$hits" ] || { printf 'executable has("pull_request") at:\n%s\n' "$hits" >&2; return 1; }
+}
+check "no executable has(\"pull_request\") survives on this surface" 0 "" \
+  no_has_pull_request
+
 # -- the OPEN-pull gather, at main() granularity ----------------------------
 # The closed/merged half above proves one REST path; this proves the other,
 # which is a DIFFERENT pipeline: `.body | @base64` -> base64 -d ->