docs: the front door is a platform, not a UO bridge #2

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aa2245b315 docs: the front door is a platform, not a UO bridge
The org landing page still opened with "A website + game bridge for private
Ultima Online (ServUO) shards" and listed six repositories. The module system
made the first untrue and Phase 5 made the second wrong by two: Module-uo and
Integration-kit.

Reframed rather than patched. Runic Gateway is a website platform for game
communities that knows nothing about any particular game; everything
game-specific arrives as an installable module, and Ultima Online is the first
one. The repo table splits accordingly — the platform (website, Android-app,
docs, Integration-kit) and UO support (Module-uo, link, servuo-plugins,
installer) — and "How they fit together" now leads with the three layers any
game needs (plugin, sidecar, module) before the UO specifics, including the rule
that the website process never opens a connection to a game server.

Quick start gains step 2: install a module. Paste a release's install-manifest
URL into Admin -> Modules, or declare MODULES=<id>@<version>=<url> on a
compose-managed host. Both were checked against server/.env.example rather than
written from memory.

One honest blockquote says the module system lives on the website's `edge`
branch until the cutover, so nobody clones `main` looking for a Modules screen
that is not there yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 14:29:25 -05:00