Row 1 (Live Wire, scrolls →): most recent imported + AI-rewritten
articles, neon-green label, monospaced [HH:MM] [SOURCE_CODE] prefix.
Row 2 (On Calendar, scrolls ←, slower): upcoming events from
bb.events (confirmed/tentative, start_date >= today), neon-cyan
label, [Mon DD] [SHORT_NAME] prefix.
Defensive: each query is in its own try/catch so a partial failure
renders an empty row rather than crashing the page — that was the
silent build crash that took down the prior DoubleTicker incarnation.
If BOTH queries return zero rows we render nothing instead of two
blank bars.
CSS tokens added to redesign-tokens.css:
- bb-marquee--reverse + bb-marquee--slow modifiers
- .bb-neon-bar / .bb-neon-label / .bb-neon-time / .bb-neon-code
(scoped class names so this is the ONLY place on the site that
uses the neon palette — rest of the site keeps dark-navy + blue)
User cancelled the wholesale neon redesign; only the dual-ticker
keeps the neon green/cyan styling.
Two horizontal lanes stacked on top of each other:
Lane 1 LIVE WIRE red gradient label, pulsing white dot,
latest 14 published articles, 65s loop
Lane 2 RECENT FORUM POSTS green gradient label, pulsing white dot,
latest 14 forum threads, 82s loop
The two lanes use intentionally different animation durations (65s vs
82s) so they never sync up — feels alive like a real wire room. Both
loops use CSS translateX with a duplicated content track for seamless
infinite scroll. Edges fade via mask-image so items dissolve in/out
rather than appearing on a hard line.
Both lanes pause on hover (the whole row) so users can stop motion
to read or click. Each item is a real <Link>; clicking opens the
article or thread page.
Server component — data is fetched once at request time from
bb.wp_imported_posts and bb.forum_threads, cached at the page's
revalidate boundary. No client JS needed.
Old LiveWireTicker.tsx is removed (orphaned, not referenced elsewhere).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dates
- FeaturedBentoFromDb hero + 4-up rail no longer render `ago(wp_published_at)`.
The whole component renders only Featured-category posts (filter is
category ILIKE 'featured'), so dropping the date display globally inside
it satisfies the "Featured posts have no date" requirement.
- /gear and /technology category cards: wrap the existing `{article.date}`
output in `{article.category !== "Featured" && ...}` so only non-Featured
posts continue to show their publish date.
- All other category landing pages, /news/<slug> detail, ArticleFeed, and
LiveWireTicker either don't render a visible article date or only use it
for SEO/structured-data fields (kept).
Trends sidebar
- Remove `BB AI · detected trends` block from the homepage (between
ArticleFeed and NewsletterSignup). Drop the unused import and delete
the orphaned TrendsSidebar.tsx component file. The detect-trends data
fetch and `bb_pulse_dot` mini-widget are gone from the page; nothing
else referenced them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drops <AISuggestedArticles variant="compact"> + its ScrollRevealSection
wrapper from /home-page. Component file stays — still rendered on /news
(NewsPageClient uses variant="full").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the bento's old hero+side-rail layout with a full-width cinematic
21:9 hero on top + 4-up vertical-card rail below. Single DB query, single
component. Standalone FeatureStoryHero component removed (was rendered
above the bento; design now lives inside the bento itself).
- FeaturedBentoFromDb.tsx: new hero (gradient overlay, Feature Story badge,
large overlaid title, "Read full story" cue) + 4-card grid below
- home-page/page.tsx: drop <FeatureStoryHero /> import + JSX block
- src/components/FeatureStoryHero.tsx: deleted (composition replaced by
inline JSX in the bento for single-query efficiency)
Accent uses var(--color-text-info, #60a5fa) — the existing blue from the
codebase, matching the rest of the post-Slice-4-revert site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New component src/components/FeatureStoryHero.tsx renders a wide 21:9 hero
of the top-pinned featured article (same query shape as FeaturedBentoFromDb).
Wired into home-page/page.tsx above the bento. Teal accent (#5B7C8D) used
intentionally — Slice 4 will sweep the rest of the site to match.
Bento remains intact and may share its top article with the hero; that's
the magazine "lead story emphasized" treatment, not a bug.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the 5-slide FeaturedCarouselServer that lost the Sony hero +
side-rail layout. New FeaturedBentoFromDb pulls every category=Featured
row, sorts featured=true (pinned hero) first then by published date.
- Hero (left, 2 columns): Sony BRC-AM7 + HXC-FZ90 — pinned via featured=true
- Side rail (right): next 4 Featured-category posts (BVM-HX1710, MCRs/NOCs,
Tessera SQ200, Backlight Iconik)
Old carousel kept on disk for future use. Layout matches the prior
FeaturedBento.tsx visual structure (hero + 4 small cards right).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Remove duplicate 728x90 LeaderboardAd below news ticker (per Ryan)
- Footer: remove NAB Official Media Partner badge
- Header: replace AdSlot stub with real AdImage rotation (3 verified 728x90s)
- Header: fix logo path from dead WP URL to local /assets/images/logo.png
- ads.ts: only include ads with verified real images (3x728x90, 2x300x250)
- ads.ts: remove 22 unrecovered ads — see PENDING_ads.md for upload list
- SidebarAdStack: handle null FIXED_300X600 gracefully (Blackmagic not recovered)
- public/legacy/ads/: 5 real ad images committed (Tower, Sony, LiveU 728x90; LiveU PAYG, Telycam 300x250)
- public/assets/images/logo.png: recovered from Wayback Machine
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
