Marty's ask: use the Friday promo as a tool where the sponsor gets the
credit, and as a bridge-page entry point. The sponsor part already worked
(any public page + ?ref sets the sponsor cookie, 2026-09-21); what was
missing was a page that is ABOUT the offer, so a click on a "20% bonus
credits today" image did not land on the general pitch and leak.
/friday: the banner as the hero, the live state from /api/friday (live now
with today's pack count and bonus credits issued, or the next date with a
countdown to midnight Central found by scanning minutes so DST cannot put it
an hour out), three steps, the email-first join with a new `friday` angle so
it shows as its own row in Admin > Traffic, and the credit definition. No
attribution logic added: last touch, walk-up, as everywhere.
Promo tools: a {{FRIDAY}} token that turns the member's invite link into
/friday?ref=<username>; posts for X, Facebook and Telegram and a text that
carry it; the three new banners (loft 1200x630, dark 1200x630, square
1080x1080) as a group in the kit with a copy-my-Friday-link button on it.
Chatbot answer points at the page and drops the stale "first one is
September 25" line. /friday in the traffic list, the sitemap and the QA
public walk. Cache tags bumped on my.js, promo.js and site.css.
QA member walk: 0 bugs.
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The dashboard card was too easy to scroll past, so this is a real overlay: once
per browser session, on every page that loads common.js, dismissed with the X,
Escape or the backdrop.
It leads with the mechanic rather than the promotion, because the ask was to
remind people what the site is about: the ad spend in your line pays you, in the
same transaction. Five Dollar Friday rides underneath as the reason to act, and
the copy is driven by the live /api/friday, so it reads "tomorrow", "today" or
nothing at all without anyone editing text on a Friday morning.
Not shown on /join or /admin: an overlay in the middle of signing up costs
sign-ups, and staff do not need reminding what the product is.
QA: the overlay appears after an async fetch, so hiding it at load time missed
it and every click in the harness timed out. The harness now pre-sets the same
sessionStorage flag a real dismissal uses, before page scripts run. Green again,
0 bugs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Headless Playwright checks that boot a throwaway local copy for anything that
signs in or writes; npm run qa / qa:public / qa:member / qa:earn.
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