📖♻️：rewrite the README for a newcomer - #1828
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The README explained what the portal was for but never said how to run it, so the one thing a new contributor needs first was the thing it left out. It gains a quick start, and a table of where things live. Two errors go with it. The SDK reference documentation was still called IDK, a name we have retired. And five link definitions pointed at github.com/OpenINF/open.inf.is, a repository that does not exist, so Roadmap, Issue Tracker, Changelog, Credits, and "open an issue" were all 404s. package.json named that repository too, and now names this one. The file states no version, no port, and no count. Those are the facts that go stale, and this project has been bitten by exactly that, so it points at package.json rather than quoting it and lets `pnpm start` print its own address. The tagline is new, in the README and package.json alike. The old one reached for a joke about a static site and landed on a list the next paragraph already makes. A portal, said plainly, is a front door. No full stop, because it is a title, and the handbook says a title does not take one. The portal's infancy is noted in a sentence of its own. It belongs to the portal rather than to whoever maintains it, and gives a reader something to do with a rough edge on finding one. The license prose became a table, and the Netlify badge became the two GitHub Actions workflows that gate and publish this repository. Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is> Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
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The README described what the portal was for but never said how to run it, so
the first thing a contributor needs was the one thing it left out.
documentation
Credits, and "open an issue" all pointed at
github.com/OpenINF/open.inf.is,which is not a repository; every one of them returned a 404
It names no version, port, or count. Those are the facts that go stale, so the
file points at
package.jsonrather than quoting it, and leavespnpm startto print its own address. Nothing here needs updating when a dependency moves.
Checks
nps build && nps testpasses.nps verify.mdis clean across Prettier,markdownlint, remark with the retext readability and simplify rules, link
validation, and cspell. Every URL in the file returns 200.
livewas merged in rather than rebased, so no pushed commit was rewritten.Unrelated, and left alone
package.jsonhas"repository": "OpenINF/open.inf.is", the samenon-existent repository the dead links pointed at.
open.inf.isserves an older build thanopeninf.github.io.