Two corrections from a read of the live pages.
The location. Three public places named countries or a city — "aus deutschen
und finnischen Rechenzentren" on the placeholder, "in Österreich und
Deutschland" in the FAQ, "EU · Wien" in the product panel — and they did not
even agree with each other. They all say EU now, which is the thing that is
promised, the thing the AV-Vertrag pins down, and the thing that stays true
when a host moves.
The same string in the customer dashboard was worse: 'EU · Rechenzentrum
Falkenstein' was hard-coded and shown to every customer whatever host their
instance actually runs on. A specific claim nobody derived from the record.
The closing headline asked who you call when a folder is missing on a Monday
morning. It promised the wrong thing: what happens inside a customer's own
Nextcloud is their own house — the recycle bin and the version history are
right there — and presenting ourselves as the first call for somebody else's
user error offers a service we do not run. It now asks who looks after
updates, backups and outages, which is what the comparison section already
says in the operator's own words and what the product is actually for.
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Correctly rejected: the last pass was the old page in new paint. It kept the
skeleton — eight numbered sections, a split hero, a twelve-row comparison
matrix — and changed only the palette. A palette is not a design.
What is actually different now:
- The § numbering is gone. Numbered sections with a drawn rule are a document
convention, and the document voice is exactly what the product's design
system dropped.
- The hero shows the product instead of describing it: centred type, then a
wide panel built from the real console's own tokens, cropped by the section
below. The old hero put a table of facts beside the headline, so a visitor
read two columns before seeing anything.
- Six identical cards, then six more, then six more became one asymmetric
grid — a large panel, a dark tile, an accent tile, a wide module row — so
the important thing is allowed to be bigger than the rest.
- The industries are one dense two-column list instead of six cards repeating
each other's shape.
- The page has one dark hinge in the middle (the deployment) rather than a
dark section among seven light ones.
- The evidence table became rows that pair the measure with the piece of
paper you can hand somebody, which is what it is for.
- Prices are cards, with the full matrix folded away underneath. The matrix
used to be the first thing a visitor met: twelve rows of ticks before a
single price was legible.
- The FAQ heading sits still while the questions scroll past it.
- The footer is a real footer.
The header is a floating bar rather than a full-width band, and opaque in
both states — translucency plus backdrop-blur reads as a rendering fault over
the dark panels that scroll under it.
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Reported plainly: the site is still in the old style. It was — it was the
last of the three surfaces the token file describes that had never been
converted. landing.blade.php carried its own complete design system inside a
<style> block: warm paper, IBM Plex Serif headlines, 3px corners, its own
scale of greys, written before the tokens existed. Somebody who clicked
"Anmelden" left one company and arrived at another.
The page now draws from resources/css/portal-tokens.css like the portal and
the console: same surfaces, same radii, same button hierarchy, same
small-caps label, one family at weight 700 instead of a serif. What still
differs is rhythm, which is what a marketing page is allowed to differ in.
Content is unchanged. New: components/layouts/site.blade.php holds the header
and footer for every public page, and legal.blade.php uses it too — the
imprint used to be a stranded card in a third style again.
Two things found on the way:
- .lbl set `color: var(--muted)`, which is not a token. An undefined var() in
`color` computes to `unset`, so every small-caps label on every surface was
whatever colour its container happened to be.
- The big figures were set in mono. Mono gives the decimal comma a full glyph
cell, so "99,95" read as three separate numbers.
coming-soon and the status page stay self-contained on purpose — both are
served when the application may not have a built stylesheet at all.
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Three things the owner asked for, and one the review found underneath them.
The console leaves /admin. It has its own route file now, registered before
routes/web.php because once it has a hostname to itself it sits at the ROOT of
that host — where `/` and `/settings` also exist for the portal, and the first
matching route wins. Where it mounts is one decision in one place: `/` on the
console hostname where it has one to itself, `/admin` on any host otherwise.
Names stay admin.* in both modes, so nothing that builds a URL has to know.
Exclusivity is its own switch, not a consequence of having a hostname. The
first attempt made "this host is the console" follow from ADMIN_HOSTS, and a
development machine lists its own IP there so the console works without DNS —
which took the public site and the portal off that machine entirely. The
switch also registers the console on every listed hostname, canonical last, so
the alternates that exist as recovery paths keep working.
The status page moves out of /legal, where it sat beside the imprint and the
terms. Nothing about the current health of the platform is a legal document. It
is a real page now: portal, instances, provisioning and backups, each derived
from records, aggregate only, and a component with no signal reports "unknown"
rather than "operational".
That last rule is what exposed the real bug. monitoring_targets.status was
written once — 'up', at provisioning — and nothing ever updated it. Both the
console's notices and the new public page read it, so an outage would have been
published as healthy indefinitely. There is a sync job now, on a five-minute
schedule, and a checked_at column so a verdict can go stale instead of standing
forever.
The monitoring contract had to grow a third state for that to be honest.
isHealthy() answers true when no monitoring is configured and false when the
monitor is unreachable; recording that boolean would have published either a
fleet-wide all-clear nobody measured or a fleet-wide outage that was really one
broken monitor. health() returns null for both, the recorder leaves the old
verdict to go stale, and isHealthy() keeps its forgiving semantics for the one
caller that wants them — the provisioning acceptance check, which must not fail
a delivery because monitoring is not set up.
Backups are counted from the instances that need protecting rather than from
the backup rows that exist, so an instance with no schedule at all cannot be
missing from the arithmetic that declares the estate protected.
Also: the update panel polls itself, offers the button only when there is
something to install, and opens the log while a run is in progress.
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Three console pages were fiction. The front page claimed 42 customers, 39
instances, four hosts named pve-fsn-1..3 and €7,842 a month, over a twelve-month
growth curve; the instance list held seven invented machines; the revenue page
reported churn and a trend for a business with no recorded history. All of it
was hard-coded. It read like a running company and measured nothing.
They now read the database. Two figures are gone rather than approximated —
the revenue trend, which needs a monthly history nobody records, and churn,
which needs a base the data cannot supply. ARR stays, labelled as the
projection it is. The green "all systems normal" badge is computed from the
notice list instead of asserted, and the notices themselves come from failed
runs, hosts reporting errors or gone quiet, and monitoring that is down.
Host load is the one number that had to agree with something else: placement
counts the VM disk allocation, ignores a failed instance that never got a VM,
and subtracts the host's reserve. A dashboard doing its own arithmetic would
show a host as comfortable while orders were already being refused on it, so it
uses the host's own accounting — with the filter moved into a scope both share,
and the sum preloaded so listing hosts stays one query.
The instance list drops the Nextcloud version column: that version is not
recorded anywhere, and a column filled with a plausible number is worse than no
column. Statuses the lifecycle writes but nobody had translated no longer
render as "admin.status.failed".
The price sheet also gains the included traffic, which the catalogue has always
carried and the page simply never printed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The marketing page was a generic centred hero in the system font stack: it
neither used the design system the console is built on nor looked like the
product it sells. Rebuilt around what CluPilot actually promises — security you
can produce evidence for — so the page reads as a controlled technical
document: a specification plate instead of a hero image, numbered sections, an
audit register with rhythm and proof per measure, and a price sheet rather than
floating cards. IBM Plex Serif joins Sans and Mono as the display voice, self
hosted as static files so the public page renders even without the Vite build.
The prices were written into the page by hand, and the page and the catalogue
had already drifted apart on three of four plans: the site advertised 249 € for
a plan the checkout charges 399 € for. The sheet now reads the catalogue, like
every other caller — including the currency, which is configurable and was also
hard-coded here.
The catalogue fails loudly on purpose; a public website must not. A broken or
overlapping catalogue is caught in the controller alone: the page still
renders, the sheet is replaced by "on request", and nobody is quoted a number
the checkout would not honour.
The sign-in and registration panels shared a copy-pasted orange gradient. They
now share one component and the same ink plate as the site, so the two halves
of the product no longer look like two companies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Public www landing page (your design) as a self-contained Blade view at / — own
CSS/JS, system fonts (no CDN, R14), hero, marquee, typewriter, product mock with
scroll-zoom, security section, honest comparison, pricing gallery, FAQ, CTA. It is
intentionally outside the app token/component system (marketing page, not control
panel). Wired a sign-in link to route('login').
Robustness/a11y hardening from the Codex (R15) loop:
- reduced-motion: pin hero/reveal elements to their visible end state.
- <noscript> fallback so reveal content is visible without JS.
- login link kept visible on mobile (moved out of the hidden nav group).
- stats render their real values in HTML (correct without JS).
- footer legal links now resolve to real /legal/* routes (placeholder pages).
- reconciled contradictory data-migration pricing (add-on from €390).
48 Pest tests green; R12 browser: landing 0 console errors. Codex (R15) clean.
NOTE: the /legal/* pages (Impressum, Datenschutz, AGB) are placeholders — real
legal content must be supplied before this homepage goes public.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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