Remove email signup CTA and mark Flavortown as ended in hero (#2298)

claynicholson · claude · web-flow · commit a4e167ad3ad8 · 2026-05-31T19:56:30.000Z
Flavortown has ended, so the landing hero should no longer recruit
signups. Replace the hero tagline with "Flavortown has ended.", remove
the main email signup form (and Get Started button), and drop the active
"refer teens for prizes" line. The sign-in link is kept (relabeled) so
existing participants can still log in.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
diff --git a/app/views/landing/sections/_hero.html.erb b/app/views/landing/sections/_hero.html.erb
@@ -68,24 +68,12 @@
       <% if @landing_variant == "challenger" %>
         Ship a space-related project by April 30th! Submit it to this sidequest to qualify for space-themed prizes in the shop.
       <% else %>
-        Code personal projects. Win free prizes.
+        Flavortown has ended.
       <% end %>
     </h3>
 
     <div class="rsvp-form">
-      <%= form_with url: submit_email_path, method: :post, local: true do |form| %>
-        <div class="input-red">
-          <div>
-            <%= inline_svg_tag "icons/mail.svg" %>
-            <%= form.email_field :email, placeholder: "Enter your email...", autocomplete: "off", required: true %>
-          </div>
-        </div>
-
-        <%= form.button type: "submit", class: "btn btn--red btn--striped" do %>
-          <div>Get Started</div>
-        <% end %>
-      <% end %>
-      <%= button_to "or, sign back in", "/auth/hack_club", method: :post, form_class: "sign-back-in-link", class: "link-btn" %>
+      <%= button_to "Sign in", "/auth/hack_club", method: :post, form_class: "sign-back-in-link", class: "link-btn" %>
       <% if Rails.env.development? && current_user.blank? %>
         <%= button_to "dev login",
                       "/dev_login",
@@ -100,8 +88,6 @@
     <% else %>
       <h4>Ages 13-18. <u>Dec 22</u> to <u>April 30</u>.</h4>
     <% end %>
-    <h5>19 or older? Get the same prizes by <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRxWWFVm0pr4042oYljyPAdwb5pH7sdRiwfPw4i01PVs436MfiAFJnKtGoyWwRkXIlB6PlIaVyTQbvO/pub" target="_blank">referring teens</a>.</h5>
-
     <%= image_tag image_url("icons/chevrons-red-down.svg"), class: "carat", size: 48, alt: "" %>
   </div>
 
