For the eight Fridays a year when a chapter drops.
The series window is a flag a person sets. When it is open the site changes shape: the chapter that just aired comes to the top of everything, the archive reorders around it, and the pages people reach for at nine on a Friday night are one tap away instead of four.
What actually changes when the flag is on.
The current chapter takes the top of every hub
Above the pillar content, not instead of it. If you came for jam you can still find jam.
The archive reorders
Newest first, current series expanded, the other four collapsed. The rest of the year it is the other way round.
Chapter pages get their companion band
What was in it, who was in it, what it cost, and which of the things on screen you can actually buy.
The ticker line changes
From where the ledger has got to, to what aired tonight.
The search palette gets a chapter section
Because on a Friday night people search for a gerund, not a product.
And it all switches off again
When the flag is cleared. There is no gradual decay and no half-state.
The flag.
The input
- Type
- A manual flag, set by a person
- States
- Open or closed. There is no third state
- TTL
- NoneIt is not cached because it is not fetched
- Default
- ClosedThe quieter of the two
- Changes
- Roughly eight times a year
What it does not do
- Play anything
- There is no video on this site and there is not going to be
- Sync to a timecode
- That would need rights this build does not have
- Push a notification
- Unless you asked for one, in which case exactly one
- Change any price
- Nothing commercial moves with the series window
The honest limitation
- This is a demonstration build
- The programme lives on Prime Video
- Rights
- Sit with Amazon and the production companies
- So second screen here
- Is a reordering of our own pages, and nothing more
The series window opens when series six lands.
A placeholder date on a demonstration build. When the real one is known, one person sets one flag and the whole site changes shape for eight weeks.
The site, in both states.
| Element | Window closed | Window open |
|---|---|---|
| Pillar hubs | Pillar content first | The current chapter first, pillar content beneath |
| The archive | Chronological, series one first | Newest first, current series expanded |
| Chapter pages | The record, and the naming operation | Plus a companion band |
| Ticker line 03 | "Chapter 41 is open. Forty came before it" | What aired tonight |
| Search palette | Grouped by pillar | A chapter section at the top |
| Everything commercial | Unchanged | Unchanged |
Why a flag and not a schedule.
A calendar-driven version would be neater. It would also be wrong at least once a series, because release dates move, episodes get held, and platforms change their minds about timezones.
A site that has announced a chapter that has not aired is worse than a site that is an hour behind, and a site that is still in second-screen mode a fortnight after the finale looks abandoned. So a person sets it, a person clears it, and both actions take about four seconds.
This is also the only one of the five inputs where the right answer was a human rather than a feed, which is worth noticing.
A manual flag
Two states, no schedule.
Eight Fridays
Roughly, per series.
Reordering only
No video, no timecode, no rights.
Nothing commercial moves
Not one price, ever.
The chapter system it reorders.
Forty chapters, one continuous ledger, and the grammar behind every name.
