0.13.16 — an account page without prices

The account page used to open with two tiles. The first: basic account, free, with nineteen struck through beside it. The second, greyed out and not clickable: Premium, sixty-nine, “coming soon”. They were there for a sensible reason — so the reader would know the free account was not a trimmed-down version of something kept out of sight.

The reason turned out to be weaker than the cost. A price list placed before the address field forces the question of money to be settled before the real question is even asked: what is this account for. A struck-through price adds a note of clearance sale, and a greyed tile marked “coming soon” promises something that does not exist and could not be bought today even by someone willing. A page whose job is to take an address and hand back the reader's record was opening with an advert.

As of 0.13.16 the tiles are gone, and seven strings with them — `planBasicName`, `planBasicPrice`, `planBasicPriceWas`, `planBasicNote`, `planPremiumName`, `planPremiumPrice`, `planPremiumNote` — so instances no longer declare them in their `ui` block. This is not hiding by blanking the configuration: the markup is simply absent, and the string guard does not ask about keys the engine no longer knows.

The wall for posts beyond the basic account is untouched. `wallPremiumBody` and `wallPremium` are a separate mechanism — they act on a post, not on the sign-in page, and never had anything to do with the price list. When there is something to sell, the price will return where the decision to buy is made, not where the address field stands.