Everything that is different about running a meeting
109 changes since this started, newest first. Nothing here is about the code: each line is what an officer would notice.
Last updated 2 November 2026
Week of 2 November 2026
3 changes
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No numbers before the count
Before polls close the election night screen shows the candidates and no vote shares, rather than zero for everyone.
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Election night calls itself
Every race on an election night is called from CNN's results feed the moment CNN projects it, with the margin, along with control of the Senate and the House. Nobody presses anything; the hall screen plays the alert.
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Election night
A chapter can open an election night watch party. Members make a prediction map from their phones, Florida first, and the hall screen runs a network-style results wall: the maps, the Florida board, a leaderboard of who called it, an alert on every call, and the live speeches in the corner or full screen, one click from the control room.
Week of 19 October 2026
3 changes
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The wall draws Patriot units where they stand and counts who is ready
On the projector, Patriot battles now put each unit where it really is on the field, and the Stack Race and Patriot lobby shows how many phones have pressed Ready from the room's new count, even though the room now also sends who they are. Before this, units could land in the wrong spot and the lobby could show the wrong number. If a crowded night makes the room send only how many units each side has, the wall still shows them as a column of dots. Nothing about meetings, chapters or members changes.
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Breach: two teams on one map at night
A new team game on the Arena shelf, in four rounds an officer picks from: Sneak, Relay, Flag and Finale. Runners sneak across a fenced yard to the far edge while Guards patrol with a cone of sight and a stun that sends a Runner back to the start; nobody is out for good. Teams are dealt at random at the first Breach round of the night and kept all night. Every phone is a joystick with one button, Sneak or Stun, a meter saying how visible you are and a small map with your own dot on it. The wall shows the whole map, both scores and the clock, and pulls the closest call into a corner close up. The desk has a Breach panel to start, pause, end, swap teams and turn bots on or off. The record keeps how the two teams did and never who was on them.
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Two one on one games for the whole room, and a wall that follows the best match
Stack Race and Patriot are two new activities on the Arena shelf. Everybody presses Ready on their phone, the room pairs them, and every pair plays at once: Stack Race is falling blocks where both players get the same pieces and two rows at once bury the other one in rubble, Patriot is a card battle with a deck of eight and three towers a side. The projector shows every match at once and pulls the closest one up to half the wall, holding it for at least six seconds so the picture never flickers; a finished match shows who won for four seconds, then the bracket, then a podium with the winner. The control room gets a Matches panel with Start, Next round and End (G, J and X). Set the number of rounds, a time limit on each match and Patriot's starting deck in the builder. Names and faces are on the wall for the night and nothing about who won is kept.
Week of 12 October 2026
2 changes
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The live fact-checker puts the matching slide on screen
When a spoken claim is checked and it matches a slide in the presentation, patriot.plus/7/live now fills the screen with that slide, with the verdict, the claim, a one-line reason and the source laid along the bottom of it. Other claims from the same check and earlier ones sit in a narrow column beside it; tap one to bring its slide back. A claim with no slide shows the big verdict card as before. It looks right in clean view and on the green screen, and on a phone the slide is on top with the list below. The default wait before checking is now about 20 words. Nothing about meetings, chapters or members changes.
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A private case board and a live fact-checker for the e-board
Two pages behind one password, for e-board members only: patriot.plus/7 is the Cornell 7 case board, every published piece in order with no conclusion drawn, and patriot.plus/7/live checks claims as they are spoken, with a verdict, an explanation and a source for each. The password is checked on the server and neither page is reachable without it; signing in lasts a month on that browser and there is a Sign out link on the board. The fact-checker shows whether the club Mac that does the checking is online. Nothing about meetings, chapters or members changes.
Week of 5 October 2026
18 changes
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The phone of whoever is picked to come up says so
When the room names a person to come to the front (the two debate speakers, a replacement after a decline, a tag-in, the hot seat, the artist in draw and guess), that person's own phone fills with "You're up. Head to the front.", vibrates where the phone can (Android; an iPhone cannot), and chimes once, then again after 8 seconds if they have not touched it. Their decline button is still there. Nobody else's phone does anything, a reload while still picked does not repeat it, and nothing about the person is recorded. This is the one exception to phones never making a sound: the chime is made on the phone itself, from the first tap (the join tap), with no file to download, and it needs the phone's ring switch on. Music, cues and everything else still come only from the projector.
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The show has music, and only the projector makes a sound
Six scores (Default, Broadcast, Game Show, Arena, Arcade and Late Night) now play under the night: a bed in the lobby, a quiet one under a question, a countdown that ends on a hit exactly when the clock reaches zero (also after you pause and resume), a sting when a result goes up, a bigger one for a winner, the argument wall's number one and a verdict, and a fanfare for the podium. Ending a question early cuts straight to the reveal. The music gives way under the spoken countdown, read-aloud and a debater who has the floor. Choose it in Event settings (Advanced builder) or Show settings (Simple editor): Match the look, Off, or a score by name; a slide can be set to no music; the desk has its own Music switch and level beside Sound, and Present's menu has Music on the M key. Everything the show plays now comes out of the projector, and out of Present only when it draws a slideshow itself: the control room, the dashboard, both editors and the phones make no sound at all, so the 3, 2, 1, the low-time warning, the blackout click, the buzzer's miss, the slide transition and Read it out all play on the projector. A dropped projector is a flash on the desk instead of a beep, and the desk says plainly when the projector's browser has not been clicked yet: click the projector screen once to turn its sound on. This needs the matching room server.
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You choose when the room votes in a debate: live, between rounds, or at the end
The old "Live vote during the debate" box did nothing. Now a debate asks when the room votes. Live is the debate as it was, and you can now set the landslide or switch it off. Between rounds, phones say listen while somebody speaks and get a short vote after each speech, with VOTE NOW on the screen. At the end, there is one vote after the last speech. Present walks it with Next, and both editors and the debate formats ask it.
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Two new ways to vote on arguments: winner stays, and best of each group
An argument vote can now be run three ways, chosen under How people vote. Back the best ones is what it has always been and is still the default. Winner stays shows each phone two arguments: tap the better one, it stays marked as your favourite so far, and the other is swapped for one you have not read, until you have read them all or the clock runs out, and the last one standing is your favourite. Best of each group shows two or three at a time, you pick the best of each, and the winners are grouped again until one is left. The phone says how far along it is (12 of 30 read, or Round 1, group 3 of 8, then Final) and ends on a Your favourite card; closing the page and coming back lands on the same two arguments. The screen never shows the ranking while the room is voting, only how many head to heads have been made. At the reveal the countdown and the wall rank arguments by how many phones ended on each as their favourite, then by how often it won when compared, and say so, and the control room's officer-only ranking also shows the win rate. Each person gets every approved argument once, in their own order, so an argument approved after voting has opened is not added to phones already playing. How each person voted stays in the room and is never written down: the record keeps the ranking and nothing about who picked what. It is in the Advanced builder, the Simple editor's Vote on arguments panel, the Open Argument format, and Present's Next works for all three.
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The Advanced builder never saves over somebody else's changes, and a speed round only asks what phones can answer
If somebody saves a meeting after you opened it in the Advanced builder (another officer, or the same meeting open in another tab or in the control room), your next save is stopped instead of quietly writing over their work, and you are asked to Load theirs or Keep mine, the same question the Simple editor asks. Each side lists the rounds that are different, nothing is lost while you decide, and it applies to autosaves and to Save. If you close the tab without answering, the next time you open the builder it asks the same question rather than putting your old copy back over the newer one. A speed round's questions can now only be multiple choice or true or false, because a speed round's phones only show answer buttons: a number, typed answer, put in order or picture question there used to show Agree and Disagree, so nobody could get it right. A speed round that already has one says so on the question, in the rundown and in the pre-flight check, with a Make it multiple choice button that keeps the question's words. Trivia still offers every kind. Platform admins no longer see Chapters twice at the top of the dashboard. And an open question's phone now says Send and Your answer is in, instead of Submit argument and Your argument is in. Argument rounds are unchanged.
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An AMA question can be marked answered, and phones hear your decisions at once
The Answered button on an AMA question works now; before, pressing it did nothing. In the control room an answered question is dimmed and marked answered, still counts as taken, and Not answered takes it back. In Present, press A while a question is up on the screen to mark it answered, and A again to undo it: the card on the screen says Answered, and the next press still goes on to the next question. The person who asked sees Answered on their phone. Phones also now change the moment you approve or hide something they sent, instead of saying it is waiting on review until they tap something. And a hot seat that takes its questions from a question market now asks them in the order the room spent the most tokens on, not the order they were written.
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A fix to two checks that failed on a busy test machine
Two of the automatic checks that run before a change reaches you failed once on 7 October with nothing wrong on screen. One counted how many frames a second projector drew in a fixed slice of time while its next slide was on the way, and a busy machine draws fewer; it now holds that slide back until it has watched the old one stay up, however long that takes. The other photographs every look to measure how readable it is, and caught a poll a moment into fading back in after the projector reconnected; it now waits until nothing on the words is still fading. Both still go red on what they are there for: a blank frame between slides, and a footer too pale to read. Nothing on your screen changed.
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The argument vote countdown shows each argument's real place
When an argument vote counts down #3, #2, #1, every card on the projector now shows its real place in the room's vote. Before, the first card up said #1 and wore the winner's gold border when it was really #3, and after the second press the cards said #2 and #1 while the real winner was still hidden. Phones showed the same wrong numbers in their list during the countdown, and now match the screen. If two arguments that are up got the same number of votes, both show the same place and say tied, which is what your control room and the final wall say too. Nothing else changes: the same arguments go up in the same order on the same presses, and the control room and the builder's preview look exactly as they did.
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Long questions, answers and names stay on the screen
Anything too long for the projector is now made smaller until it fits, instead of running off the edge of the slide: a long question, a poll answer that is a whole sentence, a word with no spaces in it, a long argument, a debate motion or side, a long nickname on the podium or the standings, or a long round title on the Next up card. The words that are too long shrink first and everything else on the slide keeps its size. Nothing is ever made smaller than can be read from the back of a lecture hall; if something still will not fit at that size, its end is cut off with three dots rather than going off the wall. Ordinary slides look exactly as they did. It works the same on Present, in the Simple editor's slides, thumbnails and preview, and on phones, where a long question or answer now wraps instead of making the page wider than the phone. A projector laptop set to reduce motion also now shrinks a crowded results slide to fit the screen, which it was not doing.
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A word cloud fills in on the screen while people answer
A word cloud used to show only its question, the count and the clock while phones were answering, and then the whole cloud appeared at once when you revealed it. Now each word appears on the projector about a second after it is sent, the words more people send grow bigger, and words already up stay where they are while new ones fit in around them. It works on the projector, on Present's own screen for a slideshow, and on the projector Present shows for a full night. Words on your chapter's held list never appear, while answers are open or after the reveal. The cloud always stays fully on the screen: it shrinks to fit, a very long word is kept to the width of the screen, and when there are more words than can be read from the back of the room, the least common are left off with a note saying how many more there are. Every word cloud has a new setting, Show words as they arrive, which is on unless you turn it off; off, the words stay hidden until you reveal them, as before. Phones show nothing new, and nothing records who sent which word. This needs the room server update that comes with it; until that is in, clouds still appear at the reveal as before.
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Guests count on tonight's podium and leaderboard, under a nickname they pick
Everybody in the room is on tonight's podium, every tonight leaderboard and the closing screen, whether they signed in or not, ranked by one rule: points first, and tonight's XP only for places nobody earned points for. Before, a guest could not earn XP, so somebody with an account and no points stood above every guest who had not scored. After the code, a guest picks a nickname, like in a quiz game: a friendly one is already in the box and one tap takes it, or they type their own, two to sixteen letters. Your chapter's held words apply, and if two people pick the same name the second gets a number. People who signed in keep their own name. A guest who reloads the page, closes the tab and scans the code again, or loses wifi for a while comes back as the same player with the same points. A semester or all time leaderboard says on the screen that it counts people who signed in. Nicknames, and anything else about a guest, are never written down: the record still keeps each round's numbers and nobody's name.
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AMA, the question market and hot takes work from start to finish
Questions asked in an AMA or a question market, and hot takes, now arrive in your queue the way arguments do. The chapter's held words hold them, and you approve or hide them. An AMA has the room's questions to put up on the screen one at a time, a question market has questions for the room to spend its tokens on and shows the ones it bought, and hot takes can be rated once you open the rating, with the take that split the room shown at the end. Each person can ask as many questions as the AMA's setting allows (two unless you change it), two in a market, and write one hot take; writing a second take replaces the first. In Present, a question market now waits until every phone has spent its tokens before it closes, instead of closing the moment spending opens.
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The Simple editor: every activity, built like Kahoot, typed on the slide itself
Create event now offers Simple, already chosen, and Advanced. Simple is the slideshow editor grown up: it holds every activity the product has. Add slide shows the ones you use most as big tiles (title, slides from a PDF, picture, poll, quiz question, word cloud, open question, arguments, vote on arguments, discussion, debate, opinion shift and leaderboard), two ready-made runs (Debate night, and Quick quiz) and every other activity under More activities, each with one line saying what it is. The slide in the middle is drawn exactly as the room will see it, and you edit it by clicking the words and typing: the question, the answers, the motion, a side's name. A tick on a quiz tile marks the right answer, a plus adds an answer and a cross takes one away. The settings on the right are only what is not words on the slide, like the timer and the points, with everything else under More options. Slides that read other slides link themselves: a vote finds the arguments above it, a discussion its vote, a debate takes its sides from an earlier poll only when that poll has exactly two answers, and the two polls of an opinion shift stay word for word the same. When something cannot work, the slide says so in a sentence with a button that fixes it, and Present lists anything that would stop the night before it starts. Any night opens in either editor, and opening one never changes how it is run. Existing slideshow links still work.
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Present runs any meeting with the space bar, no control room needed
Present is no longer only for slideshows. Any meeting, whatever is in it, can now be run from Present: one page on the laptop the projector is plugged into, mirrored to the screen, with the space bar or a clicker to keep going. The dashboard has a Present button beside Control room on every meeting. Every activity walks itself one press at a time: a question opens as it appears with its clock running, closes itself when every phone has answered or the clock runs out, and the next press moves on. Argument votes count down #3, #2, #1 one press at a time before the whole wall. In a debate the room stands, the computer casts the two speakers (anyone who declines is replaced by the room), each speech ends on its own clock and the next press hands the floor on, then the verdict. Arguments and questions that are only waiting for approval are approved for you; anything your chapter's held words stopped stays held and never reaches a phone or the screen. Move the mouse and a strip along the bottom says which slide you are on, how many have answered and what the next press will do. Esc opens a menu: black screen, pause the clock, jump to any slide, skip a slide, let waiting guests in, restart the room, leave or end. On a buzzer round, Y marks the buzz right and N wrong. If the laptop reloads, Present comes back on the same slide and the same step. The control room still works exactly as before.
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Anyone with the code gets in, and a running meeting can let guests in, take your saved changes and restart
Every meeting now lets anyone with the code in unless you choose members only in Event settings, and the builder says under that choice that phones without a patriot.plus account will not get in. Meetings that were members only because that used to be the default are switched to anyone with the code once the database update that comes with this is run. If a members-only meeting turns phones away, the control room says how many tried to join without an account, with one button, Let them in, and those phones join by themselves; the Event panel switches who can join either way while the meeting runs. Changes saved in the builder no longer wait for the meeting to be ended: the builder offers to send them to the room, and the control room shows Apply saved changes. Nobody is dropped and the room stays on its round, but it waits until a round taking answers is locked. Restart the room on the emergency bar starts a fresh room on the same code at the same round when something is stuck, and every screen comes back by itself; on an ended meeting it opens the room again. A slideshow run from Present gets the same three: the count and Let them in on its screen, or the L key; changes saved in the slideshow editor reach the room by themselves; and Restart the room in its Esc box.
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Slideshow: build a meeting like Kahoot and run it from the projector with the space bar
Create event now asks what kind of show you want. A Slideshow is slides and questions, one after another: titles, pictures or the pages of your own PDF, quiz questions with a right answer and points, polls, word clouds, open questions and a leaderboard. You build it in the slideshow editor, where every slide is drawn the way the projector will show it, and you run it with Present: one page on the projector laptop, no control room, the space bar or a clicker to go on. A question starts its clock the moment it appears, locks itself when every phone has answered or the clock runs out, and shows the answer, then the top five. Guests join with the code and nothing else. If two officers, or two of your own tabs, edit the same show, the second save is stopped and you are asked which version to keep, so nobody's fixes are lost. The full builder and the control room are exactly where they were. A title card now tells phones to look up, and a word cloud shows its question while people answer.
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Show your slides exactly as you designed them
Upload slides now gives you two choices. Show my slides as they are (PDF) puts every page of your PDF on the projector exactly as you made it: your fonts, your photographs, your layout, full screen with nothing over it, one slide per page in order. Phones say eyes up front and never download the slides, and the next page is ready before you press Next, so the wall never goes blank between slides. Export your deck as a PDF first: PowerPoint, File, Export, PDF; Keynote, File, Export To, PDF; Google Slides, File, Download, PDF. The PDF stays in your browser and only pictures of its pages are uploaded. Plan a night from my deck still reads a .pptx or a PDF into rounds you can edit, as before. Until slide pictures are switched on for the site, the first choice says so and adds nothing.
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Design my night drafts the whole night with Claude, three a week
Design my night now starts with a box: describe the night the way you would to another officer, for example a debate night on surveillance cameras, an hour, about forty people, ending on trivia, and Claude drafts the whole run of show into the review pane. Nothing joins your rundown until you accept it, and the pane says who wrote it. Each officer gets three drafted nights in any seven days; the count is beside the box, and when they are used it says when the next one frees up and the built-in planner still drafts a night for you. A draft that fails or that you stop costs nothing. Quiz rounds Claude writes are marked so you check every answer before the night. Your description is sent to Anthropic to draft the night, so leave out anybody's name. Drafting runs on the club's Mac; when it is offline, the brief says so and the planner drafts the night instead.
Week of 28 September 2026
7 changes
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A fix to a check that pressed E before the officer's laptop had caught up
The whole meeting check presses E three times: card up, card down, card up. It pressed the third time as soon as the projector showed the show again, but E works from what the officer's own laptop last heard, and that laptop can hear a moment after the projector does. It now waits for the officer's laptop. Nothing on your screen changed.
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The arcade looks get a K.O. splash and an arena behind the fighters
In the six arcade looks, the K.O. now lands on a jagged burst in the winner's colour, and the fighter select stands in front of a dim arena with a seam of light between the two fighters. Both pictures take the look's own colours, every word over them is measured and clears the readability floor with room to spare, and neither is shown on a phone or in any other look. A draw gets a neutral burst. Both pictures were generated, show no people and no words, and say nothing about who is winning.
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The front page shows the room it is for
Between the clip and the three screenshots, the front page now has a full width picture of a lecture hall from the back row: phones lit in the seats and two bars on the projector. It is a generated picture and the caption says so; nobody in it is a real person. A phone gets its own crop around the projector, the picture only downloads when a visitor scrolls near it, and the page does not jump when it arrives.
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Newsroom gets a studio, a new Rally Night look throws confetti, and the campus looks hang real pennants
Newsroom now has an empty television studio behind it, dimmed just enough that everything on the wall still reads. A new look, Rally Night, puts a crowd at night behind the question, every person seen from behind with their lights up, and when a debate reaches its verdict paper flies up from the corners for a few seconds, most of it in the winning side's colour. There is none for anyone who has asked their computer for less movement, and none on phones. The campus looks swap their diagonal stripes for a string of cloth pennants in the school's own two colours. The pictures were generated, and none of them shows a face, a sign or anybody's logo.
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A fix to a check that looked for a two-second word too late
The check that kills the meeting server mid round sometimes missed the word Back on the reconnect strip because it looked after the word had gone. It now records the word as it appears. Nothing on your screen changed.
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Preview shows the whole meeting, full screen, one round at a time
Press Preview in the builder and the meeting fills the screen as the projector will show it. Step through with Back and Next or the arrow keys, jump with Home and End, and press Esc to close. It starts on the round you have selected, and it still opens no room and changes nothing.
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Housekeeping after three merges that landed while the checks were paused
Two changelog lines and one asset entry that the last merges left out, so every check is green again. Nothing on your screen changed.
Week of 21 September 2026
76 changes
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Preview works on a meeting that has not opened yet
The Preview button in the builder used to open the live projector, which shows nothing until a lobby is open. It now shows the selected round the way the wall will draw it, unsaved edits included, without opening a room. With nothing selected it previews the first round.
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An Admin link on the front page, and officers go straight to their dashboard
The front page menu now has an Admin link. An officer who is already signed in is taken to the dashboard as soon as their session is recognised, and a password reset link lands where it should. Visitors who are not signed in see the front page as before, and the menu wraps on a narrow phone.
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Requests stay in the desk, and meeting checks catch more
Chapter requests stay available for manual replies, including handled requests. Meeting support carries its reference into the owner queue, and chapters can view an aggregate season summary. The builder catches incomplete questions and missing references before opening a room. Projector captions, cut overrides and more reliable fitting improve the show. Automatic request emails remain off.
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The projector wears your chapter wherever it is opened, and reads a take out to the room
A projector now takes your chapter's two colours and its mark from the meeting itself, so a screen opened from a bookmark or a typed link wears them exactly like one opened from the control room's link. A mark the room will not carry stops the meeting from opening, with a line saying what to fix, rather than half appearing on a wall. The room can also hand the projector a clip to read out, which comes out of the machine wired to the speakers and never out of forty phones, through the same sound switch and volume as every other noise in the hall.
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A podium turns under the winner of a debate, and the argument wall keeps its headers
Win an arcade debate and a podium stands under you on the wall, turning. It is off on a phone and still under anyone who has asked their computer for less movement. The wall of ranked arguments used to run the vote count out through the side of a card when the room wrote four long ones; it wraps now, on every look, and a wall that cannot fit them all says how many it is showing. Importing a deck stopped making three requests to the database for something that was never there, which is why the Presentation list in the designer was always empty. Two links in the officer masthead that went nowhere are gone.
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A picture of every look, kept and compared, and a handset joining on a slow phone network
The checks now hold a photograph of every look on three of its screens and go red when one of them changes without anybody saying so, so a look cannot drift between releases. A handset joining over a slow connection is measured the same way. The phone diagnostic page is back at its own address. Nothing on your screen changed except one line of small print on the join screen.
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A line for the changelog's own arrival
The check that holds this page to the history asks every merge for a line, including the one that brought the page. Nothing on your screen changed.
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This changelog, a question mark on every control room panel, and READMEs a new engineer can follow in ten minutes
The page you are reading exists now, one line per change since the product got its own home. In the control room, press / to see a one-sentence note on every panel, or hover the small question mark on each. The two repositories' READMEs were rewritten against a timed fresh start.
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A fix to how the checks start their meeting server
The server the checks run against is now told which database this site uses, so the status page check compares the right two names. Nothing on your screen changed.
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Your chapter's own colours and mark on any look, four new liquid looks, and Overdrive that really glitches
A president can set two colours and a small mark on the chapter page, and they appear on the join strip and the title card over whichever look the officer picked. Rainglass, Meltwater, Peachstone and Abalone join the liquid family. Overdrive tears and snaps between slides. Three house colours that fell short of their own readability floors were corrected, and the cabinet look no longer overlaps its join strip.
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A fix to a check that sampled the wall too early
The check that measures how readable every look is was sometimes taking its picture while a card was still over the bar, or before the wall had painted a line, and reporting nothing where there was text. It now waits for a clear wall. Nothing on your screen changed.
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A short clip on the front page, and a two-minute video in the guide
The front page plays forty seconds of a rehearsal, muted, on a wide screen only. The officer guide links a two-minute video that goes from Create to the K.O., every click a real one.
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Two new looks, Chalkboard and Capitol Night, and a still of every backdrop
Chalkboard puts the night on a slate with chalk dust; Capitol Night puts a dome on a turning night sky. The looks gallery now shows a small picture of each backdrop on its own beside its family. Every backdrop is also held to a frame-time budget, so none can slow a projector down.
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A status page, an uptime check, and errors that reach us without your members' data
patriot.plus/status shows whether the site and the meeting server are up, from your own browser, before a meeting. Every five minutes a check looks too and raises a flag if either is down. When a phone or a projector hits an error, it now tells us what broke, with every name, address and join code stripped out before it leaves the phone.
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A fix to a check that was counting too early
The check that makes sure the figures are moving was counting before they had started, which made it report a still wall as a moving one.
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The announcer clips are accounted for
The list of what ships with the site had fallen behind the twenty three new announcer clips. A missing clip is silence on a wall rather than an error anybody sees, which is why there is a check.
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The figures breathe, and there are more of them
An idle animation so a wall of figures is not a wall of statues, fourteen more parts to build one out of, four poses, and clothes that come with the roll.
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The builder shows the slide, and a chapter's night is its own
A slide appears on its row in the rundown instead of behind a press, a round can be put on the projector from the builder, and the meeting a chapter starts from is the chapter's own.
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Finding one meeting among a year of them, and a desk that fits a tablet
A box at the top of the dashboard that filters as you type, four words for the states people actually ask for, the second officer's desk holding its shape at tablet width, and a plain sentence when a seat has run out.
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The fighters are drawn from models rather than by hand
Three figures built as models and turned into sheets the projector spins, so a fighter turns to face the other side instead of flipping.
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The arcade debate has a voice and a crowd
A second announcer, a card that says which round is starting, a hit on every landed point and a crowd behind it. All of it plays off the projector's own disk, so a hall with bad wifi still gets the sound.
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The podium can be checked before the room fills
One screen that says whether this laptop can run the night: the screen, full screen, motion, sound with a button that proves it, and a real connection to the room. The projector installs from one icon and draws at 4K.
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The phone works for somebody who cannot use it the way it was drawn
Text at twice the size on every screen, a word beside every colour, every control named out loud, and a whole round answerable from a keyboard.
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The hall comes back on its own
When the room server is replaced or dies mid round, every phone and the projector show a thin strip at the edge and reconnect themselves. Nobody is sent back to the code box and nobody has to press anything.
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One tap for a debate
Type a motion, press Go, and a full debate goes into tonight's rundown after the round on stage and opens itself. The last ten seconds are counted out, and the speaker sees the clock on their own phone.
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Notes an officer can read cold, and enough content to fill a night
Every round now carries presenter notes written to be read standing up, every activity has a card explaining what it is, and there are two hundred questions and twenty motions to pick from.
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A second officer can run the meeting from a phone
Open the Co-run panel on the desk, hand somebody the QR, and they can move the meeting on from the back of the hall. They cannot end it, read the arguments queue, change the look or remove anybody.
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The presidency changes hands
A board can hand over: a president adds another president and steps down. The last president cannot leave a chapter headless. A chapter can see who changed what, and never an address.
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A fix to a check that was skipping itself
One of the release checks quietly found nothing to check when run from certain copies of the repo. It now finds everything.
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A new chapter is born with a meeting in it
A chapter opening for the first time finds a sample night already built, so the first thing they do is run one rather than write one.
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The results page says what the room actually wrote
The note under the standings matched an older version of the record. It now matches.
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Every look is legible, measured from the screen
All fifty looks are now photographed and measured before a release, so a look that puts grey on grey somewhere in the night cannot ship.
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A queue an officer clears with one hand
Arguments arrive in a queue with keys to move down it, approve and hide. A chapter can also name words it does not want on the wall, and anything matching is held quietly rather than refused.
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No check can be written and then forgotten
A check that every other check is actually run before a release. One had been sitting unrun for four merges.
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The dashboard works on a phone
The list of meetings, Duplicate in one press, Copy link, and a calendar file for the meeting you just made, all reachable with a thumb.
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The morning after
A results page for the day after a meeting: the shift, the verdict, the arguments the room voted on, a spreadsheet and a printable copy. Nobody is named on it.
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The pages a chapter reads before it asks
Privacy, terms and the look gallery, and one card on every page that has one.
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A whole meeting is run before every release
A check builds a meeting, seats four phones, runs every round and reads the closing screen. It is the only thing that catches two screens that each work and disagree with each other.
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The builder edits in place
Change a round's title where you are reading it, move rounds with the keyboard, and undo a mistake. The autosave is now checked rather than hoped for.
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A family made of paint
Brushed edges and hand mixed colour, and three more backdrops behind them.
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A night made of squares
A pixel family, for a chapter that wants the wall to look like an arcade cabinet.
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The hyperpop family
A loud family of looks for a room that wants the night to be an event.
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A discussion round with no argument behind it still works
It used to look broken. It now reads as the prompt it is, which is what an officer meant when they wrote it.
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A guide for an officer who has never seen this
Nine pages with pictures, from building a meeting to the morning after.
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A chapter runs itself
A chapter's own settings page: its name, its school, its default look, and who runs it. A president adds and removes officers; an officer can see the board and leave.
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The phone gets in faster and keeps its seat
A handset buzzes when a round opens, locks and reveals, turns back the right way up when it is put down, and holds its place when it loses signal for a moment.
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A restarted server can be told where the night was
The database can hold which round is on screen, so a server that restarts mid meeting comes back on the right round instead of at the start.
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A meeting can be run without the mouse
Space, O, L, R and T run a whole night from the keyboard, and every key sends exactly what its button sends. No key ends a meeting.
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Four more meeting formats
Four more rundowns to start a night from, and every cross reference inside all fourteen of them now resolves, so no format can open a round onto nothing.
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The lobby shows a code and a QR
The join code is drawn as a code, big enough to read from the back, with a QR beside it. The sound notice moved to a corner instead of sitting over the question.
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One chapter cannot see another
The line between chapters is now proved by a check that signs in as two chapters and tries to cross it from both sides. Aggregates older than two academic years can be pruned.
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The projector fits the wall it is on
The wall sizes itself to the screen it landed on instead of assuming one shape, so a hall projector and a classroom television both get a full picture.
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Nothing broken can reach a meeting
Every change is now run through the whole set of checks before it can go live, and a failed check stops the deploy.
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A paper family
A look that reads like something printed, for a meeting that is mostly reading and voting.
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Looks come in families
Every look belongs to a family with its own typography and spacing, which is what makes fifty looks different from one look with fifty palettes.
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Backdrops behind the looks
Three things a look can paint behind the content, so two chapters on the same palette do not get the same wall.
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The wall changes rounds instead of jumping
Moving from one round to the next is a transition the look owns, so the projector stops blinking between questions.
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A flag stage
Another thing a look can put behind the question, for chapters that want one.
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The page a chapter lands on
What this is, what it costs, and a form to ask for access.
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A broadcast stage
A look that puts the question in a studio, for a chapter that streams its meetings.
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The two sides of a debate take the look with them
The side panels on the wall are dressed by the night's look rather than by one fixed palette.
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A look now reaches the whole night
Picking a look used to repaint the poll and leave the debate and the corners in the old one. It now repaints everything at once.
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Looks for a room that wants to be taken seriously
A quiet family for a chapter meeting with a guest speaker in it.
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Liquid looks
A family of looks that move slowly behind the question instead of sitting still.
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The figures are drawn rather than assembled
Cleaner at projector size, and they hold up when the wall is bigger than the room expected.
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The figure became a whole person
Two crops of the same drawing, so a phone shows a face and the wall shows somebody standing.
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The record no longer depends on one open tab
The room can write each round's numbers itself. Until this, closing the control room before the queue drained lost the night.
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Arcade looks
Loud looks for a room that wants the night to feel like a game.
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Every look moves, and there is a gallery of them
A look now carries its own motion as well as its colours, and /looks shows every one of them as a real projector still of the same question.
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Looks that read like a campus
A set of looks built for a lecture hall projector rather than a screen you sit in front of.
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A shared slide deck can be pasted in
Paste the link to a deck that is shared with anyone who has the link and the builder reads the slides. A deck that is not shared says so, and says how to fix it.
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Chapters and officers are managed on a page
Adding a chapter, adding an officer and taking one off stopped being a database job and became a screen with a form on it.
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The figure got a second draft
More parts, better contrast on a projector, and the same figure on the phone and on the wall.
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The debate can be run as a fighting game
One round type, picked per round in the builder: the same two speakers and the same live vote, drawn as a match. A chapter that wants the plain version keeps it.
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A member picks who they are
A phone builds a figure out of parts before it takes its seat, and the projector knows about it, so the wall can show the room rather than a list of names.
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The product got its own everything
patriot.plus stopped borrowing another site's sign in, its settings and its database and got its own. Nothing here reaches anything the site it was forked from uses.
Nothing about an individual member is recorded by any of this. A phone types a code and a name and is never written down.