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Bendik Aagaard LynghaugandClaude Fable 5 31e17aad70 Flaunt 'voices echoed so far' on the index, live from the relay's /pulse
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A 'The count so far' feature in the index's 'Meet a network' alternative
fetches https://relay.redoal.com/pulse (redoal ADR-0023) with a kind:url
resource and shapes { voices_echoed: N } into one card — the number as
the heading, 'voices echoed so far' beneath. Lint-clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-10 07:34:06 +02:00
Bendik Aagaard LynghaugandClaude Fable 5 87a4877596 An /advantages page (grouped by need) + a memory deep-dive; index stays lean
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Keep index.yaml short: a 'See what it's good for' alternative routes to
a new /advantages page instead of piling on features. /advantages sorts
the advantages by what a visitor is after (a community keeping its own
memory; an artist placing work; anyone done with accounts) — each with
several features — and its 'go deeper' alternative routes to
/advantages/memory, the rarity-aware preservation model on its own.
Lint-clean (question_lint: 10 questions valid).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 23:57:17 +02:00
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ on:
- .gitea/workflows/deploy.yml
env:
PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.3.36
PORTAL_RELEASE: v0.3.33
INSTANCE: redoal-portal
jobs:
@@ -57,10 +57,6 @@ jobs:
KANIDM_URL=${{ vars.KANIDM_URL }}
OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID=${{ vars.OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID }}
OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET=${{ secrets.OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET }}
# Onboarding from a desk (portal 0.3.40+, `invite:` alternatives): a
# Kanidm service-account token in idm_people_on_boarding. Empty
# means invites are not configured on this instance.
KANIDM_API_TOKEN=${{ secrets.KANIDM_API_TOKEN }}
PUBLIC_URL=${{ vars.PUBLIC_URL }}
COOKIE_SECURE=true
# This repo is its own instance's content source; branding
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@@ -15,18 +15,13 @@ jobs:
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
# iris (uhhm/iris) is the lint: it reads content with the portal
# release it is pinned to, so IRIS_RELEASE should match the portal
# this site runs (PORTAL_RELEASE in deploy.yml).
# Same bare-metal runner/host as this repo's own Deploy workflow,
# which ships question_lint alongside the portal binary in every
# pinned release - so content is validated by the exact portal
# version this instance runs, not a hand-maintained yq/jq subset
# of the same rules.
- name: Lint questions
env:
IRIS_RELEASE: v0.3.39
run: |
# The checkout is on a noexec mount for this runner; the cargo
# target dir is where it may run what it fetched.
bin="/var/local/cargo-target/iris-$IRIS_RELEASE"
[ -x "$bin" ] || { curl -sfL "${{ github.server_url }}/uhhm/iris/releases/download/$IRIS_RELEASE/iris" -o "$bin" && chmod +x "$bin"; }
"$bin" check --path questions
run: /srv/app/redoal-portal/current/question_lint --path questions
reload:
runs-on: bare
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@@ -38,19 +38,3 @@ aggregates:
kept: { event: kept }
transitions:
open: [removed, kept]
# TestFlight beta signups (index.yaml's "Test it on your iPhone").
# Attended by automation, not a human desk: a new "requested" signup
# is handed to the App Store Connect API to invite the Apple ID to the
# closed beta; "withdrawn" (the /joined-testers self-transition) drops
# them from the invite list.
- bucket: redoal_testers
attended_by: >
n8n TestFlight onboarding workflow — ops/n8n/testflight-onboarding
in redoal/redoal. Consumes NATS events.redoal_testers.* and calls
App Store Connect POST /v1/betaTesters.
initial: open
states:
open: { event: requested }
withdrawn: { event: withdrawn }
transitions:
open: [withdrawn]
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id: /advantages
name: What is it good for?
description: >
The same one trick — a drawing is an address — answers different
needs. Here's what redoal gives you, grouped by what you're trying to
do. None of it needs an account, a server that owns your words, or a
platform's permission.
alternatives:
- name: A community keeping its own memory
description: >
No company holds the recordings. The people who show up are the
infrastructure, and the network is built so their memory survives
them.
features:
- name: No server owns the words
description: >
Recordings live on the phones of the people who visit a
place, handed peer to peer. There is no central store to
seize, subpoena, or switch off — the memory is only ever
where its people are.
icon: lucide:server-off
- name: Attention is what preserves
description: >
Every time someone listens, their phone keeps a copy and
quietly becomes another place you can get it from. A voice
heard by many is, by that fact alone, held by many. The more
a thing is cared about, the harder it is to lose.
icon: lucide:ear
- name: The infrastructure points the right way
description: >
When a relay helps, it points visitors toward each other — it
never becomes the place the words live. The fewer servers it
takes to keep a voice reachable, the more the network is
doing what it was built to do.
icon: lucide:git-fork
- name: An artist placing work where it's found
description: >
Leave something at a shape, and it belongs to that shape — found
by feel, answered in kind, and not quietly unsaid later.
features:
- name: The drawing is the address
description: >
Your line becomes a twenty-byte fingerprint that reconstructs
back into the shape you drew. Similar drawings land at the
same place, so work is found by gesture, not by a name in a
directory.
icon: lucide:pen-tool
- name: A place holds voices, and answers
description: >
Leave a short recording at a shape; anyone who arrives hears
it, and can answer — not only with their own voice, but with
a drawn gesture that points somewhere, a reply in the same
wordless language.
icon: lucide:radio
- name: What's left is kept
description: >
A voice left at a place isn't retracted out from under the
people who heard it. The record is forward-only — you build
on it, you don't erase it.
icon: lucide:history
- name: Anyone tired of accounts and platforms
description: >
A network you carry in your hand, that asks nothing of you before
you use it.
features:
- name: Nothing to sign up for
description: >
No account, no profile, no directory of you. You draw, you
arrive, you're part of it — the gesture is the only
credential, and it's yours the moment your hand lifts.
icon: lucide:user-x
- name: Sovereign by construction
description: >
The parts that keep it running are ones you can run yourself —
no dependence on a big platform's servers to find each other
or move a recording. The whole design leans toward fewer
rented middlemen, not more.
icon: lucide:shield-check
- name: Leaving costs nothing
description: >
Your phone reclaims space on its own, and letting go of a
recording never deletes it from the world — the network
fetches it back the next time someone arrives wanting it. You
can travel light and still be a full member.
icon: lucide:feather
- name: Go deeper on how it remembers
description: >
The preservation model has a twist worth seeing on its own: your
phone protects what's *rare*.
action: /advantages/memory
consequence: [Show me how the memory works]
features:
- name: Memory that protects what's rare
description: >
Your phone can't hold everything, so it keeps the voices few
others do — releasing the ones already safe on many devices,
holding the ones in danger of vanishing. The network
preserves itself without anyone deciding what survives.
icon: lucide:gem
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id: /advantages/memory
name: How redoal remembers
description: >
A place's voices should stay reachable as long as people care about
them, and no longer — and no phone should fill up preserving voices
nobody returns to. redoal gets there with three forces that need no
coordinator: attention spreads a voice, scarcity keeps it, and the
person who spoke it is the anchor of last resort.
alternatives:
- name: The three forces
description: >
No server decides what survives. The incentives do — and they
pull in exactly the right directions.
features:
- name: Attention replicates
description: >
Every time someone listens to a recording, their phone keeps
a copy and quietly announces itself as another place you can
get it from. A voice heard by a hundred people is, by that
fact alone, held by a hundred phones. Listening is hosting.
icon: lucide:ear
- name: Scarcity is kept
description: >
When a phone runs low on room, it doesn't drop the oldest
voice — it drops the safest one. The network already knows
how many phones hold each recording, so each device keeps the
ones held by almost no one and lets go of the ones held by
many. Everyone reaching for the rare voice is exactly what
protects it.
icon: lucide:gem
- name: The speaker anchors
description: >
Whoever left a recording never forgets their own — a place's
origin is always reachable through the person who made it.
Below everything else, the author is the backstop, so no
voice falls all the way out of the world while its speaker
still carries a phone.
icon: lucide:anchor
- name: Letting go is safe
description: >
A phone releasing a voice isn't deleting it — the drawing
still leads there, and the network fetches it back on demand
the next time someone arrives wanting it. Reclaiming space
and preserving memory are separate, which is what lets a
small phone be a full member without fear.
icon: lucide:recycle
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duration: 31d
place: Podium, Hausmanns gate 34, Oslo
alternatives:
- name: See it in person at Podium
- name: Come draw on the wall
description: >
The installation runs the same code as this site, on screens
you can stand in front of together — the network at the scale
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id: /
name: What is redoal, and what can you do here?
name: What shapes us?
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. What it is comes first; the drawing is further
down the page.
follows from that. Draw one below and see who's near.
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
@@ -136,7 +35,130 @@ alternatives:
relay: wss://relay.redoal.com
optional: true
- name: Get a note when something lands
- name: Meet a network you carry in your hand
description: >
The one trick, and what it enables — the parts that run today,
said plainly.
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. The card renders unlinked when the relay is quiet.
jq: >
[{ "name": (.voices_echoed | tostring),
"description": "voices echoed so far" }]
empty: The first voice hasn't echoed yet.
- name: A drawing is an address
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.
icon: lucide:map-pin
- name: Your machine asks the room
description: >
To find someone, your machine asks the machines around it:
"has anyone been near this shape?" Your spiral finds my
spiral directly, peer to peer. The whole directory is the
shapes people know, passed along on a napkin.
icon: lucide:users
- name: Voices stay where you left them
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 — live, machine to machine.
icon: lucide:mic
- name: Sealed by your own hand
description: >
Every recording and every stored stroke carries a signature
from the leaver's own machine — proof that it arrived
intact and that the same hand made the same things. The key
lives only with you: keep it and you're recognized, delete
it and you were never here.
icon: lucide:stamp
- name: Draw and speak, and you're in
description: >
The primitives are the drawn line and the human voice. A
child, an elder, or a newcomer still learning the local
script arrives on the same terms as everyone else — that is
the whole entry requirement.
icon: lucide:hand
- 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.
icon: lucide:anvil
- 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.
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:
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: See what it's good for
description: >
The same one trick answers different needs — a community keeping
its own memory, an artist placing work where it's found, anyone
done with accounts and platforms.
action: /advantages
consequence: [Show me the advantages]
features:
- name: Grouped by what you're after
description: >
Not a feature list — the advantages sorted by the thing
you're trying to do, including the one worth seeing on its
own: how your phone protects what's rare.
icon: lucide:sparkles
- name: Hear from us when it matters
description: >
Notes from the build — sent only when there is something worth
saying.
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id: /joined-testers
route: ^/joined-testers
followup: true
name: What happens next?
description: >
You asked for a place in the closed beta — here's the shape of it.
alternatives:
- name: Your invite is on its way
description: ""
features:
- name: Check your mail
description: >
A TestFlight invite goes to the Apple ID you left. Tap it on
your iPhone, install TestFlight if you don't have it, and
redoal lands on your home screen.
icon: lucide:mail
- name: It's rough on purpose
description: >
A beta, and an artwork before a product — the networked edges
are where the interesting questions live. Tell us what breaks.
icon: lucide:hammer
- name: Withdraw from the beta
description: >
Changed your mind? Confirm below and we'll drop your Apple ID from
the invite list.
self_transition:
bucket: redoal_testers
to: withdrawn
label: Remove me from the beta
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value: "{key}"
optional: true
- name: Get a note when a voice lands here
- name: Hear from this address
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 your drawing became
- name: What just happened
description: ""
features:
- name: An address, not an upload