refactor(brand): drop evig architecture + health, and the "not a charity" line - #379
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Two divisions leave the site. `evig architecture` and `evig health` were real
research, but they were George's research, not evig's work, and carrying them
here cost the one thing a young organisation cannot spare: a reader being able
to say in one sentence what evig does. They now live as projects on
orangecat.ch ("Building for the Ruin", "Healthspan and Preservation").
Because EVIG_DIVISIONS is the only list, removing the two entries is the whole
change on the render side: the homepage hero rail, the divisions section and
its ICU {count}, the footer column and the nav entries all follow with no edit
of their own. That is the SSOT paying for itself — a five-division site became
a three-division site without a single hardcoded number to hunt down.
Also removed, per the same focusing pass:
- `/architecture` and `/health` routes, their ROUTES entries, and their
'architecture'/'health' theme keys in SECTION_KEYS.
- divisions.items.* and divisions.pages.* for both, in all eight locales
(912 lines of message JSON).
- The "we are not a charity" framing. It appeared as
about.mission.paragraph1 and vision.diff.intro (plus README and
EVIG_STORY), and it had gone stale: it was an over-correction away from
Revamp-IT's specific charity-recycling model, and it now contradicted
evig's own legal page, which says gemeinnütziger Verein in Gründung.
Defining yourself by what you are not is weak copy anyway. It states the
positive instead — and keeps "in Gründung", the honesty boundary that no
recognised tax-exempt status is claimed until the Verein is registered.
Docs updated in the same commit (CLAUDE.md brand table, EVIG_STORY divisions
section) with a note not to reintroduce the two, so the next session does not
read a doc describing a site that moved on.
npm run verify green: lint, umlauts, chrome, docs, compliance, typecheck,
7747 tests, production build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two divisions leave the site, and one line of copy that had gone stale goes with them.
What changed
evig architectureandevig healthare removed. They were genuine research, but George's research — not evig's work. Carrying them here cost the one thing a young organisation cannot spare: a reader being able to say in a sentence what evig does. They now live as projects on orangecat.ch ("Building for the Ruin", "Healthspan and Preservation").Because
EVIG_DIVISIONSis the only list, deleting the two entries is the render-side change. The homepage hero rail, the divisions section and its ICU{count}, the footer column and the nav entries all follow with no edit of their own — a five-division site became a three-division site with no hardcoded number to hunt down. That is the SSOT paying for itself.Also removed: the
/architectureand/healthroutes, theirROUTESentries, their'architecture'/'health'theme keys inSECTION_KEYS, anddivisions.items.*/divisions.pages.*for both in all eight locales (912 lines of message JSON).The "we are not a charity" line is gone. It appeared twice —
about.mission.paragraph1andvision.diff.intro— plus the README andEVIG_STORY.md. It had gone stale two ways: it was an over-correction away from Revamp-IT's specific charity-recycling model, and it now contradicted evig's own legal page, which says gemeinnütziger Verein in Gründung. Defining yourself by what you are not is weak copy regardless. It states the positive instead, keeping "in Gründung" — the honesty boundary that no recognised tax-exempt status is claimed until the Verein is registered.Docs are updated in the same commit (CLAUDE.md brand table, EVIG_STORY divisions section) with a note not to reintroduce the two, so the next session doesn't read a doc describing a site that moved on.
Verification
npm run verifygreen end to end: lint, umlauts, chrome, docs, compliance, typecheck, 7747 tests, production build.Before this deploys,
/architectureand/healthboth answer 200 live — I'll re-probe after the deploy to confirm they 404 and that the homepage count reads three.🤖 Generated with Claude Code