# site/ — gotchas

Hand-authored static tree for **silentmode.st**. No build step. Served by nginx
from `/opt/silent-mode/site/` on the VPS (ssh alias `silentmode`), and mirrored
to Sia (`s3://bns/silentmode/` → `silentmode.bch`) by the
`silentmode-sia-sync.timer` on the VPS every 5 minutes. Anything that lands in
`/opt/silent-mode/site/` reaches the `.bch` mirror on its own; you do not need to
run `sia-upload.js` for site files any more.

## Never `rsync --delete` (or blanket-overwrite) `site/` → the VPS

`/opt/silent-mode/site/` holds far more than this folder: `sirius-x/`,
`deviant/` (the full Deviant site incl. `wallet/`, `artemision/`, `katalogos/`,
`agora/`), `apps/`, `code/`. Those are deployed from **other repos**. In
particular `site/deviant/` here is a **stale Aug-31 copy**; the canonical
source is `D:\Dev\Deviant\site\deviant\` and the VPS already carries the newer
Sep-1 pages. Pushing this folder wholesale would roll them back.

Ship **individual files**: `scp site/<path> silentmode:/opt/silent-mode/site/<path>`.

## The release manifest lives in three places

- `https://dl.silentmode.st/releases-manifest.json` — canonical
  (`/opt/silent-mode/dl/`), what `releases.silentmode.bch` points at.
- `/opt/silent-mode/site/releases-manifest.json` — what `tools/index.html`
  links as `../releases-manifest.json`, and what the Sia mirror syncs.
- `site/releases-manifest.json` — the committed source of both.

The ship checklist (`Ship Theseus …` commits) must scp it to **both** VPS
paths. It was missed for `site/` from 0.3.4 through 0.3.16 (found 2026-09-07):
the HTML pages were current while the JSON next to them still said 0.3.3.

## Old Theseus builds fill the VPS disk

`scripts/theseus-vps-archive.sh <version>` moves everything older than N-1 to
Sia and deletes it from `/opt/silent-mode/dl/`. Run it after every ship; when
it is skipped the 48 GB disk climbs ~245 MB per release.

## Pages that are not silentmode.st pages

`hephaestus.x/` is the landing for the `.x` name and is served from Sia via the
gateway (`navigate.st/bns/hephaestus.x/`); the copy under `/opt/silent-mode/site/`
is just parity. `choose/` has no top nav on purpose.