diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md index 19163e3..6a98ae7 100644 --- a/CONTEXT.md +++ b/CONTEXT.md @@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ is real activity, so only Progress reorders the list. _Avoid_: position, bookmark (the noun is taken), last read **Latest Chapter**: -The highest-numbered chapter a Site has published for a Series, discovered without the -reader present. The number is what ranks it, never a date and never the Site's own -"newest chapter" banner — where a Site disagrees with itself, its list of chapters is -the record and its summary of that list is not. Distinct from Progress in every way -that matters: it is a fact about the Site, not about the reader, and it must never -reorder the list. +The highest-numbered chapter a Site has published for a Series. The number is what +ranks it, never a date and never the Site's own "newest chapter" banner — where a Site +disagrees with itself, its list of chapters is the record and its summary of that list +is not. Established by a Poll and, between Polls, by a Sighting. Distinct from Progress +in every way that matters: it is a fact about the Site, not about the reader, and it +must never reorder the list. _Avoid_: newest, current chapter, update **Poll**: @@ -70,6 +70,20 @@ Reader present. Performed once per Series no matter how many Readers bookmarked a Poll is work done on behalf of the Series, never on behalf of a Reader. _Avoid_: scrape, refresh, check, sync +**Poll Lane**: +One Site's own stream of Polls, carrying the pace at which that Site is willing to be +asked. Every Site has exactly one and no Lane can slow, block or borrow from another's; +a Reader never has one and never influences one. +_Avoid_: worker, queue, scheduler, batch, wave + +**Sighting**: +What a Reader's browser happened to see of a Series's Latest Chapter while that Reader +was on the page. It reports the same fact as a Poll but carries none of its authority: +a Poll always overrules it, and only a Sighting on a Series no Reader else holds may +defer one. A Sighting a later Poll contradicts downwards is a false Sighting, and +enough of those cost the Reader the right to defer at all. +_Avoid_: client report, user poll, observation, claim + **Acquisition**: The single read of a Series page made the moment the Series first exists, giving it both its Latest Chapter and its Cover without waiting out the Poll queue. Distinct