From 5b6b63e1bc5509d600ac2b4437d62414877a22c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude <claude@whitlocktech.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:57:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix(public): always show real hero; drop nav from landing
 page
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Bug 1 — Logged-out visitors saw the coming-soon Maintenance page while
admins saw the real hero. That difference is produced client-side by
MaintenanceGate (site_mode=maintenance && no user). Pull the `/` hero
route out from behind the gate so every visitor always lands on the real
Portal hero; the MaintenanceGate stays on all other public routes, so
content pages remain gated during maintenance and admins still preview
through it.

Bug 2 — The landing hero rendered the site nav because Portal used
PublicLayout with the default header=true. Pass header={false} so the
hero has no top nav (footer retained), using the layout's existing
escape hatch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0114TpmrNW4wNXsHq5CR72jQ
---
 client/src/App.jsx                  | 8 ++++++--
 client/src/routes/public/Portal.jsx | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/src/App.jsx b/client/src/App.jsx
index fcb4241..3b2e99a 100644
--- a/client/src/App.jsx
+++ b/client/src/App.jsx
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ export default function App() {
     <AuthProvider>
       <SiteProvider>
         <Routes>
-          {/* Public site — gated by maintenance mode (admins preview through it) */}
+          {/* Landing hero — always public, even in maintenance mode. The hero is
+              itself the pre-launch "coming soon" page, so it sits outside the
+              MaintenanceGate and every visitor sees it regardless of auth/site mode. */}
+          <Route path="/" element={<Portal />} />
+
+          {/* Rest of the public site — gated by maintenance mode (admins preview through it) */}
           <Route
             element={
               <MaintenanceGate>
@@ -68,7 +73,6 @@ export default function App() {
               </MaintenanceGate>
             }
           >
-            <Route path="/" element={<Portal />} />
             <Route path="/site" element={<Website />} />
             <Route path="/site/news" element={<News />} />
             <Route path="/site/screenshots" element={<Screenshots />} />
diff --git a/client/src/routes/public/Portal.jsx b/client/src/routes/public/Portal.jsx
index 1851b35..9cf1fd6 100644
--- a/client/src/routes/public/Portal.jsx
+++ b/client/src/routes/public/Portal.jsx
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export default function Portal() {
   const elements = [...layout.elements].sort((a, b) => (a.z || 0) - (b.z || 0))
 
   return (
-    <PublicLayout>
+    <PublicLayout header={false}>
       <main style={{ minHeight: '100vh', display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column' }}>
         {PREVIEW && draft && (
           <div