Lanes keep a game's events adjacent, which is what makes the board
readable for someone playing four of them — but a reader with four games
has one queue of deadlines, and lanes scatter it: the thing ending
tonight sits three lanes below the thing ending next month, and no
amount of scrolling puts them side by side. So the stacking becomes a
choice, and the choice is remembered like the scale and the view are.
The merged mode sorts with endingSoonestFirst rather than a bare end
date, so the timeline and the list cannot mean different things by the
same words — and an unannounced end keeps its place behind every dated
one instead of pretending to a deadline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
"Ending soon" described the sort, not the job — and it sat one line above a
sort control whose own option reads "Ending soonest", so the tab and the
ordering looked like the same control said twice. Checklist is what a reader
with four games is doing with it.
The stored id stays "soon". That value is in `prefs.view` on real devices, and
a label is copy: renaming one must never move a reader to the other view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Two changes to how the board reads.
The window was drawn from the earliest start, so one long-running event — a
standing login campaign can have been going half a year — bought months of
empty calendar that nobody scrolls back through and that pushed every other
bar off to the right. It now floors at two months, a patch cycle and a half:
far enough that a running event's start is usually still on the board, past
the point where the answer changes what anyone does today. A bar older than
the board keeps its faded left edge rather than being redrawn as though it
started there.
The bars themselves were 28px with 4px between them, which read as a stack of
hairlines rather than a schedule. They are 36px now, with more padding, more
air between events, and more between lanes.
`boardWindow` comes out of the component while it is being changed: it
decides what a reader can and cannot see, which is worth a test rather than a
rendering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
`view` was component state, so a reader who preferred the timeline was put
back on the list by every reload — and which view opened at all had been
decided for them twice over: the PRD said calendar, the app shipped the list.
Neither was the reader's answer.
So the first run asks, and the tabs write to `prefs` from then on. The
question ships pre-answered with the list, because a reader cannot choose
between two layouts they have not seen and that is the one that answers "what
expires next" in a look — and each option is drawn rather than described, for
the same reason. The screen says where to change it afterwards, since the tabs
are small text in a corner.
Adds `view` to the prefs key space. Additive and defaulted, so an existing
reader's stored prefs open exactly where they did before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
A reader with two games switched on said the list lost its point at
twenty-one rows and asked for the three closest deadlines up front. One row
was also fragile on its own terms: ticking off the headline event left the
panel pointing at something the reader had no context for.
Three equal panels would be a stat grid, and a reader arrives with one
question — so the shape is one answer at full size and two follow-ups under
it, with no meter, summary or badges to turn the panel into a second copy of
the list below it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
