The front door opens modestly, with plain titles

The first card says what redoal is, in two features for the two people
it exists for (the one who draws, the one who leaves a voice) and no
button; the second is a look around (the live count, releases, the
iPhone beta, varde, UHHM); only then the drawing and the notes. Bold
statement titles become what-you-get titles: "Meet a network you
carry in your hand" and "Follow the build as it lands" fold into the
opener and the look-around, "Hear from us when it matters" is "Get a
note when something lands", "Hear from this address" is "Get a note
when a voice lands here", "What just happened" is "What your drawing
became", "Come draw on the wall" is "See it in person at Podium".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4jrCgLiKKHAEFuZUJjckH

.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ on:
       - .gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
 
 env:
-  PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.6.20
+  PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.3.36
   INSTANCE: redoal-portal
 
 jobs:

.gitea/workflows/lint-and-reload.yml

@@ -15,18 +15,18 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      # The lint is portal itself (`portal lint`, since portal 0.6.0;
+      # iris (uhhm/iris) is the lint: it reads content with the portal
-      # iris is no longer released), at the version this site runs
+      # release it is pinned to, so IRIS_RELEASE should match the portal
-      # (PORTAL_RELEASE in deploy.yml).
+      # this site runs (PORTAL_RELEASE in deploy.yml).
       - name: Lint questions
         env:
-          PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.6.20
+          IRIS_RELEASE: v0.3.39
         run: |
           # The checkout is on a noexec mount for this runner; the cargo
           # target dir is where it may run what it fetched.
-          bin="/var/local/cargo-target/portal-lint-$PORTAL_RELEASE"
+          bin="/var/local/cargo-target/iris-$IRIS_RELEASE"
-          [ -x "$bin" ] || { curl -sfL "${{ github.server_url }}/uhhm/portal/releases/download/$PORTAL_RELEASE/portal-x86_64-linux" -o "$bin" && chmod +x "$bin"; }
+          [ -x "$bin" ] || { curl -sfL "${{ github.server_url }}/uhhm/iris/releases/download/$IRIS_RELEASE/iris" -o "$bin" && chmod +x "$bin"; }
-          "$bin" lint --path questions
+          "$bin" check --path questions
 
   reload:
     runs-on: bare

custom.css

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-/* redoal - the skin over portal's own stylesheet
-   (site.yaml `stylesheet`, loaded after main.css, so these rules win). */
-
-/* The way in sits beside the wordmark on every page. redoal.com is read
-   and answered without an account, so the invitation is not shown.
-   Whoever edits the site still signs in at /auth/login directly, and
-   once signed in the nav keeps its name and its way out. */
-.session:has(a[href^="/auth/login"]) {
-  display: none;
-}
-
-/* Without :has(), the link alone goes and the empty nav stays. */
-.session a[href^="/auth/login"] {
-  display: none;
-}

questions/create.yaml

@@ -1,234 +0,0 @@
-# What you can make with redoal, and how far each piece is. Every card
-# is cut to the same measure: one sentence for what it is, one for
-# where it stands, opening with a status word that the accent repeats:
-#   Running  (green)  - in your hands today
-#   Landing  (amber)  - on the desktop since 0.1.20, phones get it with
-#                       the next beta; flip to Running after that build
-#   Planned  (grey)   - decided, not built
-# The two live cards (the pulse, the releases) keep themselves current.
-name: What can you make with redoal?
-description: >
-  A drawing is an address. What you make is what you leave at it, what
-  you teach it to do, or the piece of the network you carry yourself.
-  Each card says what a thing is, then how far it is: running today,
-  landing on the phone next, or planned.
-alternatives:
-  - name: Draw your way in
-    description: >
-      Making with nothing but a finger and a voice. Everything here runs
-      in the apps, in the browser on this page, or both.
-    features:
-      - name: The count so far
-        description: >
-          Live from the front door: how many voices have been left at
-          places so far.
-        icon: lucide:activity
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-        resource:
-          source:
-            kind: url
-            url: https://relay.redoal.com/pulse
-          public: true
-          jq: >
-            { "name": (.voices_echoed | tostring),
-              "description": "voices echoed so far" }
-          empty: The first voice hasn't echoed yet.
-      - name: A line is an address
-        description: >
-          Draw a line and the shape itself is where you are; draw it
-          again anywhere and you are back. Running everywhere.
-        icon: lucide:map-pin
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: The line comes back
-        description: >
-          The address redraws the shape, so a place looks like the line
-          that made it. Running everywhere.
-        icon: lucide:pen-line
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Neighbours at the line's foot
-        description: >
-          The nearest places line up under your drawing, fainter the
-          further off they are, and your ink settles on the best one.
-          Running in the apps.
-        icon: lucide:route
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: A place holds voices
-        description: >
-          Recordings stay at the drawing they were left at, for whoever
-          draws their way there. Running everywhere.
-        icon: lucide:archive
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Leave a voice
-        description: >
-          Record on top of what is there; it carries your machine's
-          seal, not your name. Running in the apps and the browser.
-        icon: lucide:mic
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Who is here
-        description: >
-          The people standing at the same drawing right now, counted
-          only once they have reached you. Landing: on the desktop now,
-          on the phone with the next beta.
-        icon: lucide:users
-        color: "#e0b04a"
-      - name: Talk, live
-        description: >
-          Hold to speak to the people here, from your machine to theirs,
-          nothing in between. Running whenever there is company.
-        icon: lucide:audio-lines
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Answer with a drawing
-        description: >
-          A reply is a second line, anchored at the voice it answers.
-          Running in the apps.
-        icon: lucide:reply
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: One place across hands
-        description: >
-          The same line drawn facing another way is the same place.
-          Landing: on the desktop now, on the phone next.
-        icon: lucide:rotate-ccw
-        color: "#e0b04a"
-      - name: Voices that find you
-        description: >
-          Listen once, and the author's next voice at that place is sent
-          to you. Landing: on the desktop now, on the phone next.
-        icon: lucide:send
-        color: "#e0b04a"
-      - name: Favourites and recents
-        description: >
-          The places you keep, and the ones you passed on the way.
-          Running in the apps.
-        icon: lucide:star
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Forget
-        description: >
-          Only the one who left a voice can erase it, and the erasure
-          travels as far as the voice did. Running everywhere.
-        icon: lucide:eraser
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Draw in the browser
-        description: >
-          This site's canvas finds the place and who is near, without
-          installing anything. Running here.
-        icon: lucide:globe
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Two lines at once
-        description: >
-          Two shapes added into one address. Planned.
-        icon: lucide:combine
-        color: "#8b9099"
-
-  - name: Teach a place a behaviour
-    description: >
-      A place can do more than hold voices. Behaviour is written in a
-      small language of twenty-four words and left at a drawing like
-      anything else, for every visitor's device to run.
-    features:
-      - name: A place that does something
-        description: >
-          A doorbell, a counter, a turn-taker: a small machine that runs
-          on the device of whoever arrives. Running from the command
-          line.
-        icon: lucide:bell
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Twenty-four words
-        description: >
-          The whole language can send, remember, publish and change
-          state, and nothing else, so it can never do harm. Running.
-        icon: lucide:spell-check
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Events, states, handlers
-        description: >
-          Name what can happen, where the thing can be, and what to do
-          when. Running.
-        icon: lucide:git-branch
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Check it, then make the bytes
-        description: >
-          One command says whether the file is sound and how big it is
-          on the wire; another turns it into the bytes for a place.
-          Running.
-        icon: lucide:terminal
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Try it dry
-        description: >
-          Fire events at it on your own machine and watch each one move,
-          before anyone else sees it. Running from the command line.
-        icon: lucide:flask-conical
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: The bench in the app
-        description: >
-          The other side of a place's sheet: how it works with its
-          surroundings. Running on personal devices; the installation
-          keeps it closed.
-        icon: lucide:wrench
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Publish from the app
-        description: >
-          Leaving a behaviour at a place from the app itself, with no
-          command line. Planned.
-        icon: lucide:upload
-        color: "#8b9099"
-      - name: A whole experience at a place
-        description: >
-          A game, a service, an app, found by drawing near it. Planned.
-        icon: lucide:sparkles
-        color: "#8b9099"
-
-  - name: Carry a piece of the network
-    description: >
-      Nothing here belongs to a company. Install it, hold a copy of what
-      people leave, or run a door of your own.
-    features:
-      - name: Install it
-        description: >
-          Desktop for Linux and Mac, iPhone through the beta program.
-          Running.
-        icon: lucide:package
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-        resource:
-          source:
-            kind: url
-            url: https://dl.redoal.com/releases.json
-          public: true
-          empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
-      - name: varde holds the bytes
-        description: >
-          A small daemon that keeps recordings and moves them between
-          machines that agreed to it. Running on the desktop, and built
-          into the phone app.
-        icon: lucide:hard-drive
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: The front door
-        description: >
-          The first node answers the browser, introduces phones to each
-          other and keeps a copy of what is left. Running on one machine
-          in Oslo.
-        icon: lucide:door-open
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: Two phones meet through it
-        description: >
-          Introduced at the door, two phones reach each other directly
-          and keep that path open. Landing: on the desktop now, on the
-          phone next.
-        icon: lucide:smartphone
-        color: "#e0b04a"
-      - name: Nothing arrives uninvited
-        description: >
-          A voice is only sent to you after you have listened to its
-          author. Landing: on the desktop now, on the phone next.
-        icon: lucide:hand
-        color: "#e0b04a"
-      - name: Same room, no door
-        description: >
-          Two desktops on one network find each other without the front
-          door at all. Running.
-        icon: lucide:wifi
-        color: "#6cc08b"
-      - name: A door of your own
-        description: >
-          Run a second front door that helps people meet and learns
-          nothing about them. Planned.
-        icon: lucide:key-round
-        color: "#8b9099"

questions/exhibition.yaml

@@ -1,42 +1,29 @@
-# «Atelic Antics», the group exhibition at Podium, part of Attac's
+# The group exhibition at Podium, part of Attac's «Big Tech må vekk»
-# «Big Tech må vekk» 2026: opens 24 October 2026 at 19:00 and runs for a month. Announced
+# 2026: opens 23 October 2026 at 19:00 and runs for a month. Announced
 # in every header while it runs (portal's event: window); afterwards a
 # followup, and a "post what happened" task lands on /review.
 name: Where can you see it in person?
 description: >
-  redoal is part of «Atelic Antics», the group exhibition at Podium,
+  redoal is part of the group exhibition at Podium, opening 23 October
-  opening 24 October and running for a month — the art strand of the
+  and running for a month — the art strand of the conference
-  conference «Big Tech må vekk». Draw a shape at the podium, hear the
+  «Big Tech må vekk». Draw on the screens, leave a voice at a shape,
-  voices left there, and leave your own.
+  hear who came before you.
 event:
-  starts: 2026-10-24T19:00:00+02:00
+  starts: 2026-10-23T19:00:00+02:00
-  # To 15 November, per the poster — not a month. The header announces
+  duration: 31d
-  # this while it runs, so a duration that overshoots keeps inviting
-  # people to a closed room.
-  duration: 23d
   place: Podium, Hausmanns gate 34, Oslo
-slideshow:
-  slides:
-    - image: images/atelic-antics.webp
-      caption: >
-        «Atelic Antics» — suggestions on digital resistance. Podium,
-        Hausmanns gate 34, 24 October to 15 November 2026.
-      width: 989
-      height: 1400
 alternatives:
-  - name: Come draw at the podium
+  - name: See it in person at Podium
     description: >
-      A podium with a touch screen, running the same app you can
+      The installation runs the same code as this site, on screens
-      install yourself. The shape you draw on it is an address: it
+      you can stand in front of together — the network at the scale
-      takes you to a place, and to the voices people have left there,
+      of a room.
-      whether they stood here or drew it somewhere else.
     features:
-      - name: Opening 24 October, 19:00
+      - name: Opening 23 October, 19:00
         description: >
-          «Atelic Antics» opens at [Podium](https://podium.enterprises/),
+          At [Podium](https://podium.enterprises/), Hausmanns gate 34,
-          Hausmanns gate 34, and is up until 15 November. Come to the
+          and up for a month. Come to the opening, or any Saturday
-          opening, or any Saturday or Sunday after between 13:00 and
+          or Sunday after.
-          17:00.
         icon: lucide:calendar-days
       - name: Part of «Big Tech må vekk»
         description: >
@@ -47,7 +34,12 @@ alternatives:
         icon: lucide:megaphone
       - name: Draw, then listen
         description: >
-          Draw a shape on the screen and arrive at a place.
+          Draw a shape on the touch screen and arrive at a place.
           Listen to the voices left there, add your own, and watch
           your line find the lines drawn before it.
         icon: lucide:hand
+      - name: Take the zine with you
+        description: >
+          The printed zine sits in the room — six short pieces on what
+          a network like this could mean. Fold one, hand it on.
+        icon: lucide:book-open

questions/index.yaml

@@ -1,14 +1,115 @@
 id: /
-name: What shapes us?
+name: What is redoal, and what can you do here?
 description: >
   redoal is a gesture-addressed network. Draw a line and it becomes
   an address — the drawing itself, ready to use the moment your hand
   lifts. Similar drawings land near each other, and everything else
-  follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near.
+  follows from that. What it is comes first; the drawing is further
+  down the page.
 responsible:
   name: Bendik Aagaard Lynghaug
   contact: bl@uhhm.no
 alternatives:
+  # The opener: what redoal is, in two features and no button. The
+  # two people it exists for are the one who draws and the one who
+  # leaves a voice; both keep what they made.
+  - name: What redoal is
+    description: >
+      The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today,
+      said plainly.
+    features:
+      - name: A drawing is an address, and yours to use
+        description: >
+          The computer measures how your line curves, turns, and keeps
+          rhythm, and boils it down to a twenty-byte fingerprint.
+          Similar drawings get similar fingerprints — two spirals land
+          like two houses on the same street, and that closeness is
+          the whole network. Your machine asks the machines around it,
+          "has anyone been near this shape?", and your spiral finds my
+          spiral directly, peer to peer.
+        icon: lucide:map-pin
+      - name: A voice stays where you left it, sealed by your own hand
+        description: >
+          A drawing is a place, and places hold voices. Listen to the
+          recordings people left at a gesture, leave your own on top,
+          and when someone stands at the same drawing right now, just
+          talk. Every recording carries a signature from the leaver's
+          own machine: keep the key and you're recognized, delete it
+          and you were never here. A child, an elder, or a newcomer
+          still learning the local script arrives on the same terms.
+        icon: lucide:mic
+
+  # The look around: nothing to fill in.
+  - name: Have a look around first
+    description: >
+      The network as it runs right now, and where it is going.
+    features:
+      - name: The count so far
+        description: >
+          Live from the front-door relay — the running tally of what's
+          been left at places.
+        icon: lucide:activity
+        resource:
+          source:
+            kind: url
+            url: https://relay.redoal.com/pulse
+          public: true
+          # /pulse (redoal ADR-0023) returns { voices_echoed: N }; shape
+          # it into one card — the number as the heading, the phrase
+          # beneath. Emit a bare object, not a wrapped [ … ]: the portal
+          # collects the jq output stream into an array itself, so a
+          # wrapping [ ] nests it ([[{…}]]) and drops to a raw JSON dump.
+          jq: >
+            { "name": (.voices_echoed | tostring),
+              "description": "voices echoed so far" }
+          empty: The first voice hasn't echoed yet.
+      - name: Releases
+        description: Run one of the desktop applications, free, no sign-up.
+        icon: lucide:package
+        resource:
+          source:
+            kind: gitea_releases
+            owner: redoal
+            repo: redoal
+          public: true
+          empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
+          # url pinned to null while the repo is private - a private
+          # release's html_url 404s for anonymous visitors, and the
+          # card renders an unlinked heading instead (same lesson as
+          # uhhm/questions 9b7162f).
+          jq: >
+            .[] | {name: .name, description: .body, tag: .tag_name,
+            published: .published_at, url: null}
+      - name: The iPhone app, in beta
+        description: >
+          The iPhone build rides TestFlight (Apple's beta program) —
+          [join the redoal testers](https://testflight.apple.com/join/eR9dvHkz)
+          with one tap on your iPhone; no invitation, no email, no
+          waiting on us.
+        icon: lucide:smartphone
+      - name: Carried by iroh, through varde
+        description: >
+          What is left at a place is kept and mirrored by
+          [varde](https://project.uhhm.no/uhhm/varde), a small
+          daemon that moves bytes between consenting machines over
+          [iroh](https://iroh.computer) — verified, rate-limited, and
+          legible to the network it runs on. Recordings travel that way,
+          with no company carrying them.
+        icon: lucide:waypoints
+      - name: Built in the open at UHHM
+        description: >
+          [UHHM](https://uhhm.no) builds and carries the gesture math,
+          the relay, and the portal this page runs on — and hosts the
+          network's first node. It is a prototype and an artwork before
+          it is a product: what you can touch is real and running, the
+          transport that reaches across the internet is being built
+          now, and the rough edges are where the interesting questions
+          live. A client, a relay, an instrument — if you want to put
+          the network on a surface it isn't on yet, say so through the
+          path below.
+        icon: lucide:anvil
+
+  # The offers.
   - name: Draw a path and see who's near
     description: >
       By associating similar movements while facilitating discourse we
@@ -35,59 +136,7 @@ alternatives:
             relay: wss://relay.redoal.com
             optional: true
 
-  - name: Meet a network you carry in your hand
+  - name: Get a note when something lands
-    description: >
-      The one trick, and what it enables — said plainly, with how far
-      each piece is.
-    action: /create
-    consequence: [Learn more]
-    features:
-      - name: A drawing is an address
-        description: >
-          Draw a line and the shape itself is where you are. Similar
-          lines land near each other, and everything else follows: the
-          voices people left at a place, the ones standing there now,
-          a line drawn back in answer. No accounts, and no company in
-          the middle.
-        icon: lucide:map-pin
-
-  - name: Follow the build as it lands
-    description: >
-      The network as it is being built — and we need collaborators on
-      every new surface it grows. Desktop releases run free; the iPhone
-      beta is one tap away below.
-    features:
-      - name: Communicate
-        description: >
-          A client, a relay, an instrument — if you want to put the
-          network on a surface it isn't on yet, say so through the
-          path above and we'll find each other.
-        icon: lucide:message-circle
-      - name: Releases
-        description: Start exploring by running one of our applications.
-        icon: lucide:package
-        resource:
-          # The public manifest redoal's release job writes to
-          # dl.redoal.com (the repo is private; its own release assets
-          # 404 for visitors). Portal renders a manifest of this shape as
-          # one download card: the newest version, this device's file
-          # first, the Arch repo lines and TestFlight folded with the
-          # rest (content-reference, "A releases manifest").
-          source:
-            kind: url
-            url: https://dl.redoal.com/releases.json
-          public: true
-          empty: Nothing released yet — the first cut lands here.
-      - name: Test the iPhone app
-        description: >
-          The desktop releases above run free, no sign-up. The iPhone
-          build rides TestFlight (Apple's beta program) — [join the
-          redoal testers](https://testflight.apple.com/join/eR9dvHkz)
-          with one tap on your iPhone; no invitation, no email, no
-          waiting on us.
-        icon: lucide:smartphone
-
-  - name: Hear from us when it matters
     description: >
       Notes from the build — sent only when there is something worth
       saying.
@@ -108,4 +157,3 @@ alternatives:
           - name: email
             label: Email
             type: email
-

questions/shape/[key].yaml

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ alternatives:
             value: "{key}"
             optional: true
 
-  - name: Hear from this address
+  - name: Get a note when a voice lands here
     description: >
       The fallback for a phone without the app: one note when
       something is left at exactly this shape — and nothing about
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ alternatives:
             type: hidden
             value: "{key}"
 
-  - name: What just happened
+  - name: What your drawing became
     description: ""
     features:
       - name: An address, not an upload

site.yaml

@@ -5,4 +5,3 @@ hero:
   kind: module
   module: hero.js   # this repo's sine-swings piece, served at /site/hero.js
 wordmark_invert: true
-stylesheet: custom.css