Adds §16: sync website news articles into the modern Town Cryer News gump
(TownCryerSystem.NewsEntries), distinct from the Protocol 1.0 scrolling-crier
lines (GlobalTownCrierEntryList). Grounded in the shard's Town Cryer source.
Key findings / decisions:
- NewsEntries is a public mutable List and TownCryerNewsEntry's ctor is public,
and the display gumps already branch on Title/Body .Number>0 (cliloc) vs
string (AddLabelCropped / AddHtml with HTML support). So website content
needs NO gump changes and NO stock patch — the overlay inserts/removes
directly and tracks its own entries, leaving stock uo.com news intact.
(Refines the pasted guidance, which proposed adding methods to the stock
TownCryerSystem.cs = a patch.)
- Ties the two surfaces together: full article -> news gump; crier "says" just
the title via the existing GlobalTownCrierEntryList path.
- news.add/news.remove verbs (id-correlated, idempotent), POST /news +
DELETE /news/{id}; website is source of truth, re-synced on shard reconnect
since NewsEntries isn't persisted across reboot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude
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