Overhaul MeshCore Canada: task-first journeys, structured communities, and safer delivery

[n30nex]

Ready for review

PR #66 is the consolidated MeshCore Canada overhaul. The exact branch head is live on Canadaverse in English and French. Production meshcore.ca has not changed.

The branch includes current main, has no merge conflicts, and passes the required checks.

What changed

• Reorganized the site around clear tasks: getting started, finding a community or region, choosing hardware, using network tools, learning, and contributing.
• Simplified the home page. Region lookup is now a direct choice alongside setup and community search, without embedding the configurator on the home page.
• Made the region finder task-first. Place search and map tiles load normally, and the full 193-region directory stays collapsed until requested.
• Added a complete first French version with a route-preserving language switcher.
• Shortened English and French copy throughout the site. Stale site references, migration notes, Outcome: labels, repeated instructions, and unnecessary jargon are gone.
• Moved community details into structured data with a searchable bilingual directory and generated province or territory pages.
• Added direct setup paths for companions, repeaters, room servers, and observers.
• Added responsive hardware guides, including both solar repeater builds and readable mobile tables.
• Polished the shared shell and home page: larger navigation, logo, and title; a wider default-settings table; a GitHub star counter; and a clear notice that agentic help is used only for content reviewed and approved by people.
• Added whole-site accessibility, responsive-layout, link, content, and Lighthouse checks.

Repeater ID check

The repeater start, flashing, and ID-generation workflows include an optional bilingual duplicate-ID check. It is collapsed by default and no longer appears in the general region configurator.

The tool compares 1-, 2-, and 3-byte hash prefixes in the selected Beacon region and across the observed Canadian network. Only the first byte of the public key is sent to Beacon; the full key stays in the browser. Results also explain that Beacon coverage cannot prove an ID is unused, so operators should still confirm locally.

Folded work

• PR Add Alberta communities and update StoonMesh #75: Alberta communities, refreshed YQLMesh links, and the StoonMesh path setting. PR Add Alberta communities and update StoonMesh #75 is closed as superseded by this PR.
• Issue [Community idea] New communitie in Quebec #78: Réseau MESH de Charlevoix (YML), including bilingual cards and search terms.
• Issue [Community idea] Add frequency in use across British Columbia #79: BC Mesh for the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, including its 910.425 MHz / 62.5 kHz / SF7 / CR5 setting.
• Current main changes for YQRMesh and Salish Mesh.

The directory contains 24 listings: 23 active and 1 forming. Older contacts without a verified date remain marked for confirmation.

Live preview

• English home
• French home
• Find your region
• Communities
• Repeater setup and optional ID check
• 1 W solar repeater guide
• Build manifest

Exact preview identity:

• commit: 27ea43cd74100029f585bf0ca865acdca2505460
• artifact SHA-256: d823c226e55f132ecf972fce815f5c114bd3570a6de8375b8da2e5e96240ba66
• Pi image: sha256:8c7021000a8d09e7084854ba4467bfe4aa0edea68ccf4f01c679d03c12cc266b
• 128 pages: 70 English and 58 French
• all 128 preview pages are noindex, nofollow; the preview sitemap contains no indexed URLs

The Pi container is healthy, read-only, and has zero restarts. Its three existing read-only host mounts, the Canadaverse landing page, and proxy configuration were preserved. The previous preview image and source remain available for rollback.

Verification

Exact-head GitHub Actions run: Validate site quality

• validate, browser, and Lighthouse jobs passed on the exact PR head
• 72 content tests, 65 editor tests, and 391 browser checks passed; 29 browser-specific skips were intentional
• strict builds passed for all 128 pages, and 12,671 local links were checked
• all 193 region geometries passed with no positive-area overlap
• Lighthouse met every budget on all seven audited English and French routes
• the public preview passed 41 desktop and 42 mobile live-route checks in both languages, including automatic map loading, search, the star counter and human-review notice, and horizontal-overflow checks
• production meshcore.ca does not contain the preview revision and was not changed

Review focus

• French tone and terminology
• hardware, RF, electrical, firmware, and regional facts
• community ownership and older contact details

Closes #67
Closes #68
Closes #69
Closes #70
Closes #72
Closes #73
Closes #74
Closes #78
Closes #79

Supersedes #75.

[wykweb]

excellent news

[n30nex]

Public preview deployment verified

The Canadaverse test route is now serving this PR's exact head:

• preview: https://canadaverse.org/meshcore-canada/
• revision: 953e4cd82be426ec7cf2b2e9a040dd4c501b19f8
• artifact SHA-256: 49dfb3f609a8e41895b66c97be6b4a23e36041f72a15d5dc35b7a3d57fa768e4
• Pi container image: sha256:f14b20c7de9d93c39c9912ea9d955d7f37967685ee42af97445edf952928753a
• exact-head Actions run: https://github.com/MeshCore-ca/MeshCore-Canada/actions/runs/29914246869 — green
• public HTTPS browser test: 70 passed, 4 expected project-specific skips, 0 failed
• public Lighthouse budgets: passed
• desktop/mobile visual review: passed; no Canadaverse-origin console errors or CSP violations
• unrelated Canadaverse root: unchanged on the Pi

PR #66 remains draft and should not be merged until the review gates in the updated description are complete.

[n30nex]

Browser feedback and automatic map loading are live

The Canadaverse preview now serves the exact updated PR head:

• revision: fadb94afae7fe37b8120540ed225bde34c06d71c
• artifact SHA-256: 63e617c2fd63b6e3f50ab53ef37a59712e3c80eba63e3ad86a5083dce2852c32
• Pi image: sha256:23dffbbdfdaed9bd70dd5a810a8e802e55e858fd54e181b6b4d31ac691e91e78
• exact-head Actions run: https://github.com/MeshCore-ca/MeshCore-Canada/actions/runs/29917468239 — green
• public HTTPS critical journeys: 50 passed, 4 expected project-specific skips, 0 failed

This update applies the nine homepage comments, fixes the header-search geometry, highlights the Observer path accessibly, removes place-search consent controls, and automatically loads OpenStreetMap tiles on the region map. Public browser verification observed nine loaded tiles and no remaining search/tile consent gate. The unrelated Canadaverse root is unchanged, and the prior validated image remains pinned for rollback.

PR #66 remains draft and should not be merged until its remaining human-review gates are complete.

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Ready for maintainer review

The final exact head is now live on the Canadaverse preview:

• preview: https://canadaverse.org/meshcore-canada/
• revision: 2b1b54a2c300b01fec08a8bc4a7db444517bcefd
• artifact SHA-256: 0281c46f0c5e3dafffcb9db5caec4305cbad3ec2d82a4ef963fcbd806100390c
• Pi image: sha256:de1be533bfb20584468a2424bf7c2f0a17b2227ec9d2ae8c4614f4334423c60b
• exact-head Actions run: https://github.com/MeshCore-ca/MeshCore-Canada/actions/runs/31273490219 — validate, browser, and Lighthouse are green

The repeater ID conflict checker is live on the four relevant pages in both English and French. Public browser verification passed all eight placements, live Beacon checks in both languages, full-key privacy assertions, and French mobile layout checks. The Pi container is healthy, read-only, has zero restarts and mounts, and retains the previous source and image for rollback. Production meshcore.ca is unchanged.

Review requests have been sent to @MrAlders0n, @446564, @kore-signet, @dchant, and @ElDoctorWar. The PR description now contains the consolidated scope, migration audit, reviewer focus, and exact deployment evidence.

[n30nex]

Final overhaul audit is complete and this PR is ready for a fresh review at d8c6b5db66034deed67e7b9b5d17eb158e3ddce5.

• merged current main and resolved the generated BC page conflict through the canonical community data
• folded in [Community idea] Add frequency in use across British Columbia #79 with the bilingual BC Mesh 910.425 MHz / 62.5 kHz / SF7 / CR5 local setting
• completed the English/French content, layout, accessibility, mobile, map, directory, and repeater-checker audit
• fixed Safari-visible focus and stabilized the local browser test server
• exact-head Actions run: validate, browser, and Lighthouse all green
• exact-head Canadaverse preview with manifest; production meshcore.ca remains untouched

@MrAlders0n @446564 @kore-signet @dchant @ElDoctorWar, please review the completed overhaul when you can. The PR description has the suggested review focus and full verification evidence.

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[n30nex]

@MrAlders0n @446564 @kore-signet @ElDoctorWar @dchant — PR #66 is ready for another look.

The English and French copy has been shortened and cleaned up, the home page is simpler, the repeater ID checker is complete, and the work from #75, #78, and #79 is included. All current review threads are resolved.

The exact head (80447a7) is live at https://canadaverse.org/meshcore-canada/ and all three GitHub checks are green: https://github.com/MeshCore-ca/MeshCore-Canada/actions/runs/32350067752

Production meshcore.ca has not changed. Please pay particular attention to French tone, community details, and hardware/RF facts.

[n30nex]

@MrAlders0n @446564 @kore-signet @ElDoctorWar @dchant @djkranic — PR #66 is ready for final review.

The exact candidate at 27ea43cd74100029f585bf0ca865acdca2505460 is live on the English and French Canadaverse previews. The build manifest identifies the same commit and artifact.

• validate, browser, and lighthouse are green on the exact head: Actions run 32466467130
• 391 browser checks passed locally; the deployed preview passed another 41 desktop and 42 mobile route checks
• the PR is conflict-free and mergeable, with no unresolved review threads
• the Pi preview is healthy, read-only, and at zero restarts; the previous preview remains available for rollback
• production meshcore.ca has not changed

Please review the French wording, RF/hardware guidance, regional/community details, and the final desktop/mobile experience. Approve if it looks ready, or leave any blocking changes here.

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