SKETCH · join fan · 4 forks × 3 alts · wireframe on purpose,
play everything ▶ · ink budget ≤ 560 lines · v0.1.0
alert.live · the join fan
Four forks of the join flow: three doors into one shared picture (share your
location and pick your incident, add a photo and let its own time and place find its incident, or
place and time it yourself with set-space-time). Each fork below is one open question, sketched as
three small playable wireframes at deliberately low fidelity. Play them, then cast one ballot
at the bottom (qid join); recombinations are legal answers.
J1 · the front door · what greets a visitor first?
The ratified standfirst declares "The map is the front door." The fan asks it
anyway: front doors recruit differently. The map first, a photo first, or a question first.
1A map-first · as shipped
leaflet stand-in · STAC incidents
tap a pin ↑ its record opens with a place for your contribution
·
Record open for contributions; the fire is contained.
your contribution goes here · credited, public
Share my locationAdd a photoOpen set-space-time
the three doors ride under the map · one screen, no routing
the standfirst made literal: the shared picture orients everyone before anyone is
asked for anything. it also recruits no one in particular; both other doors sit a scroll away.
1B photo-first · drop a photo on the page
Drop a photo anywhere on this page
the page is the target; the map waits behind it
IMG_4402.jpg · 3.1 MB
pin · 47.57 N, 120.32 Wclock · 14:32
read right here in your browser; nothing uploads
Here is what your photo told us.
The pin is the location your camera wrote. The clock is the time it wrote. That is everything
we read, it was read here in your browser, and nothing has left this page.
the J2 fork decides this screen's whole shape
◉◉the map rises only now
Your photo places itself 0.8 mi from Maria 2019, 26 minutes inside its
record window. If that looks right, confirm the match. The photo proposes; you decide.
the strongest single gesture owns the whole doorway. a visitor with no photo meets
an empty target, and the shared picture becomes the second thing you see.
1C question-first · where are you?
Where are you?
fires only on this tap, never on load
Chelan Hillscontainednewest first
Maria 2019contained
before the answer: sorted by recency; the map knows nothing about you
Maria 2019contained0.9 mi
Chelan Hillscontained212 mi
Your location is read once, when you tap, and only in your browser. It sorts
this map and does nothing else. It is never stored and never sent.
the cleanest personal sort, and a question standing in front of the picture. the
map must stay visible behind the ask, or the ask reads as a gate.
J2 · consent grammar · where does "here is what your photo told us" live?
Binding, from the note's honesty spine: consent renders before any match proposal
and before any deposit control exists. The fan varies WHERE that consent lives, never whether it
comes first.
2A dedicated screen · as shipped
the flow starts when a photo is added ↓
Here is what your photo told us.
pin · 47.57 N, 120.32 Wclock · 14:32
Publishing means public. If you continue, your file goes into
this incident's contribution box: a public credited log that anyone can open.
Your photo places itself 0.8 mi from Maria 2019, 26 minutes inside its
record window. If that looks right, confirm the match. The photo proposes; you decide.
the deposit control exists only after this screen
Removed. The photo and everything read
from it are out of this page's memory. Nothing was sent, so there is nothing to delete anywhere else.
the plainest room in the flow, deliberately dull before the first pleasurable
beat. it is also a hard cut to a new screen, and the house rule is morph, never cut.
2B inline pin-preview · beside the file input
your photo's pin and clock appear here before anything else happens
pin · 47.57 N, 120.32 Wclock · 14:32
read in your browser; nothing has left this page · publishing means public
Your photo places itself 0.8 mi from Maria 2019, 26 minutes inside its
record window. The photo proposes; you decide.
Removed. Nothing was
sent, so there is nothing to delete anywhere else.
consent lives beside the hand that acted: no context switch, morph honored. the
room is small, and "publishing means public" must never shrink into small print.
2C progressive · show, then ask
◉◉the shared map, already open
the pin lands the moment the photo is read
your pin · read in your browser · nothing has left this page
Match it against the records?
Continuing means your photo heads toward a public credited log.
Your photo places itself 0.8 mi from Maria 2019, 26 minutes inside its
record window. The photo proposes; you decide.
Removed. Nothing was
sent, so there is nothing to delete anywhere else.
the reveal beats the ask by one beat. nothing has left the browser, so the show is
honest; the open question is whether a pin landing on the shared map is already the celebration
the spine says consent must precede.
J3 · the no-match edge · the view is early, what does the page do?
Premise, played in each alternative: a view's time and place fall inside no
incident on the catalog. Never a dead end, never a faked event; the grammar stays invitation.
Three honest exits.
3A founding-deposit download · as shipped
No incident on this map matches your time and place.
That can mean you are early. Records start when a person starts them, and this page does not
start incident records; it keeps its promises smaller than that.
founding-deposit/
IMG_4402.jpg
envelope.json · what it is, when and where, your credit line
ready to be a record's first entry · hand it to whoever
keeps the record where you are
sketch only · nothing downloads here
the shipped edge: custody stays with the person, the hand-off is named, the page
promises nothing it cannot do. it ends in a chore, and most founding deposits will die in a
downloads folder.
3B hold-in-browser watchlist
No incident on this map matches your time and place.
Your view can wait here, on this device, ready for the record that may open.
◉ watching 47.57 N, 120.32 W · 14:32
Held in this browser only. Nothing is sent. This page
checks the catalog while it is open; if a record opens covering your time and place, your
deposit is ready to go in, and you decide.
the smallest promise that is still a promise: it cannot wake a closed tab and must
say so. the wording is the whole design; one word too big and it lies.
3C route-to-dispatch mailto
No incident on this map matches your time and place.
Hand it straight to the people who keep records where you are.
to: your county emergency manager
subject: founding deposit · 47.57 N, 120.32 W · 14:32
body: what it is, when and where, my credit line
(you attach the photo yourself)
opens your own mail app; the page sends nothing and
keeps no copy. custody leaves this record's grammar entirely.
a named human at the far end, today, with no new machinery. it is also the mailto
grammar this skeleton was built to replace, returning at the hardest edge.
J4 · event start · nothing matched and the witness is sure. who starts the record?
Records start when a person starts them. The fan renders three answers to WHICH
person, and what the shared map shows in the meantime.
4A founding deposit · as shipped
You are sure of what you saw.
Records start when a person starts them, and this page does not start incident records; it
keeps its promises smaller than that.
Download founding depositCheck the map again
skeleton honesty said with pride. the cost is real: between the download and a
keeper's inbox, the earliest view in the county is visible to no one.
4B citizen-named provisional event
Name what you saw
◌provisionalvisible to everyone, marked as a claim
Declared by its witness, held
as declared intent in its envelope. A record keeper adopts it or it expires; official naming
arrives with the access layer. Dashed and hollow until then, never dressed as official.
the map finally shows the earliest hour, the whole product argument. it now also
shows unadopted claims; the provisional grammar has to stay unmistakable at every zoom, or the
map starts lying at its most watched moment.
4C crew-only official naming
your side
your depositheld for a record keeper · nothing on the shared map yet
Cedar Ridge Fireofficial, named by the crew · your deposit is its first entry, unchanged and still yours
the crew's side
1 waitingdeposit · 47.57 N, 120.32 W · 14:32
matches the ratified stub grammar exactly: official naming is the access layer's
job, and nobody impersonates it meanwhile. the citizen's earliest view waits invisible behind an
authority's queue, the exact silence 4B exists to end.
The ballot
join · Compose the join flow: check what should ship. One letter per
fork is the default; more, fewer, and recombinations are all legal answers, and the notes carry
the vectors.
J1 · the front door
1A map-first · as shipped; the standfirst made literal, three doors under the map.
1B photo-first · drop a photo on the page; the map rises behind it.
1C question-first · where are you?; the list sorts around the answer.
J2 · consent grammar
2A dedicated screen · as shipped; the plainest room, a hard cut.
2B inline pin-preview · consent beside the file input, no context switch.
2C progressive · show the pin, then ask before matching.
J3 · the no-match edge
3A founding-deposit download · as shipped; custody stays with the person.
3B hold-in-browser watchlist · the deposit waits on the device, under the smaller promise said exactly.
3C route-to-dispatch mailto · a named keeper at the far end; custody leaves the page.
J4 · event start
4A founding deposit · as shipped; the page starts nothing.
4B citizen-named provisional event · dashed on the map, pending adoption, expiring.
4C crew-only official naming · deposits queue for a crew; the stub grammar enforced.