Josabah/povet

An archive of every day Ethiopian Llife # pov.et > *Archive of everyday Ethiopian life.* A quiet archive of everyday Ethiopian life, captured through phone photography. This repository hosts the **website** — the canonical, immersive presentation layer for an archive that already lives on Telegram. - **Website** — pov.et - **Telegram channel** — `@pov_et` - **Submission bot** — `@povetbot` - **Instagram mirror** — `@pov_et1` The website is **read-only** in V1. Telegram is the submission, community, and moderation layer. The website is for discovery, presentation, immersion, and permanence. --- ## Documents Read in this order: 1. **`PRODUCT.md`** — what pov.et is, how it should feel, visual language, content structure. The soul of the project. 2. **`ARCHITECTURE.md`** — stack, system design, data model, sync strategy, image pipeline. The engineering counterpart. 3. **`ROADMAP.md`** — build order, phases, done-when criteria. --- ## What we built **Live in production** at pov.et. Phases 1–5 are deployed; **Explore** is shipped; Phase 6 (editorial tooling) is next. ### Presentation layer | Route | Purpose | | ----- | ------- | | `/` | Main immersive feed — CSS-column masonry, ISR every 5 minutes | | `/explore` | Flattened image wall — infinite scroll, per-photo discovery | | `/explore/image/[id]` | Full-page reader for a single photograph | | `/post/[slug]` | Single post — gallery, caption, lightbox with keyboard/swipe nav | | `/location/[slug]` | Location archive — emotional map of a place | | `/photographer/[username]` | Contributor archive | | `/about` | Manifesto / philosophy | | `/submit` | Quiet redirect to `@povetbot` | Explore uses a parallel `@modal` slot for intercepting routes — opening a photo from the grid can stay in-context without losing scroll position. ### Discovery & SEO - `/sitemap.xml` — posts, locations, contributors, explore - `/robots.txt` - `/feed.xml` — RSS 2.0 with cover thumbnail and `dc:creator` - `/opengraph-image` — editorial OG card for wordmark pages; post pag …