## Purpose The Journal home page (`/`) serves two audiences with one layout: anonymous visitors arriving at the flagship trails.cool instance, and anyone landing on a self-hosted Journal instance. It introduces the product on the flagship, shows a public activity feed on every instance, and avoids asking self-hosters to write their own marketing copy. ## Requirements ### Requirement: Hero and auth CTAs The home page SHALL render a hero section with a product-describing headline, a short tagline, and — for logged-out visitors — Register and Sign In as the primary CTAs. A link to the Planner SHALL be available but visually secondary to auth, because the main conversion goal is account creation. #### Scenario: Logged-out visitor sees auth CTAs - **WHEN** a visitor without a session loads the home page - **THEN** Register (primary button) and Sign In (outlined button) appear together, with a smaller "Or try the Planner without an account →" link below them #### Scenario: Logged-in user sees welcome instead of CTAs - **WHEN** a signed-in user loads the home page - **THEN** the auth CTAs are replaced by a welcome line linking to their profile ### Requirement: Flagship-only marketing section The home page SHALL render a four-card marketing section (Planner / Journal / Federation / Ownership) if and only if the `IS_FLAGSHIP` environment variable is `"true"`. Self-hosted instances SHALL NOT render this block; instead they SHALL show a "Powered by trails.cool — about the project" link that points to `https://trails.cool` so operators don't have to author their own marketing copy. #### Scenario: Flagship shows marketing - **WHEN** the home page renders with `IS_FLAGSHIP=true` - **THEN** the four marketing cards are shown and the "Powered by" link is suppressed #### Scenario: Self-host shows the back-link - **WHEN** the home page renders with `IS_FLAGSHIP` unset or empty - **THEN** the marketing cards are not rendered and a "Powered by trails.cool — about the project" link appears below the feed ### Requirement: Public activity feed on home The home page SHALL list the most recent public activities on the instance (see `activity-feed` spec, "Instance-wide public activity feed"). Each entry SHALL link to the activity detail page, show a map thumbnail when geometry is available, and display the owner's display name, distance, and start date. #### Scenario: Feed populated - **WHEN** public activities exist on the instance - **THEN** the home renders a reverse-chronological list of at least the 20 most recent, each as a card with map thumbnail + owner + stats + date #### Scenario: Empty feed - **WHEN** the instance has no public activities - **THEN** the home shows an empty-state message instead of the feed list; all other sections (hero, marketing, CTAs) remain unchanged