Two ladders

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Open the profile of somebody who both flies and runs a receiver, and you saw one number: #12 on the leaderboard. That's the XP ladder, the one every catch, race and drop feeds. The receiver on their windowsill has a ladder of its own, the station list ordered by Signal, and the profile said nothing about it. Not the class, not the place, not even a link. The 📡 badge next to the name went to the recruiting page, as if the person reading a feeder's profile needed to be told what a receiver is.

Two ladders is the right number

We're not merging them. XP is earned per person, with a shutter. Signal is earned per receiver, by hardware that runs while its owner sleeps. Put the two into one number and whoever owns an antenna out-ranks whoever actually goes out and catches things, by doing nothing, which is the failure this whole design exists to avoid. A profile therefore keeps two separate lines, and neither one is allowed to borrow from the other.

What was missing was never a merge. It was the edge between them.

What changed

The station list is numbered. It has always been ordered by Signal, but an unnumbered order doesn't read as a place. A # column now says where each receiver stands, and the same number appears on the station's own page, #3 of 6 stations, linking back to the list it belongs to.

A profile lists its receivers. Under Career, a new 📡 Receivers section shows each credited station with its class, its Signal points, whether it is online right now, and its place on the station ladder. The 📡 badge now opens that station, or the ranked list for owners of several, instead of the landing page.

A station page names its owner. Run by @username sits in the first line, and the network table says by @username under the station's name. The number is computed once, on the ranked list, and every surface reads that one copy, so the profile, the list and the page can't disagree about where a receiver stands.

Where to find it

The station ladder had a page but almost no doors. Now your own station card on the feed page shows its class, its Signal points and its place, #3 of 6 on the station leaderboard, and the page header has a button for the ladder next to the coverage map. The player leaderboard got a third tab, 📡 Stations, that takes you across. Two ladders, one place to start looking for either.

Credit is on by default, and it is yours to turn off

Feeding anonymously has been allowed since the first day of the network, and still is. Each station card on your feed page now has a second switch next to Show this station in the public network: Credit me for this station. It's on by default. Turn it off and the station stays listed under its own name, but nothing connects it to your profile in either direction: no line under Career, no run by. The two switches answer different questions. One is whether the station is shown, the other whether it is shown to be yours.

Nothing about a receiver's exact position changes with any of this. The station ladder, like the station page, still works from a country and a reception rose, never from an address.

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