The Booth was built as a file-shuttle on a whim and turned into the fleet's
operator-review surface without anyone deciding that. This is the decision,
written down, with the measurement that forced it.
The defect behind every bolt-on: one lifetime and one shape serving five jobs.
Five separate mechanisms exist to put one question next to one artifact.
Numbers that drove the model, taken against the live service:
- 211 link rows, 145 (69%) pointing at booths that no longer exist
- 22 rows that are the same bench re-posted (talk 5x, peedlar 4x)
- 13 of 24 booths (54%) on the .forever escape hatch
- 270 images rendered as one flat wall, subfolders discarded at render
- 5 commits in one day to ship the asks primitive
Four nouns replace the accretion: booth (derived lifetime), item (one record),
mark (pick/note/flag -- asks, comments and votes were always one thing), and
bench (a registry, not an append log).
v1 is seven capabilities, each closing a measured defect. Compare mode is the
best idea in the set and is parked anyway, because it is the only one that is a
new capability rather than a fix.
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