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zeekay 858a193e22 Count the papers, the proposals and the models from their sources
The numbers were typed by hand and three of the four were wrong: 86 papers when
there are 88, 149 proposals when there are 146, and 45 models against 78 — the
site published barely half its own work, and a `45+` beside it hedging a number
nobody could check.

Counting at build rather than in getStaticProps, because that spends the whole
sixty-an-hour allowance on a single build: Next runs nine workers and then
exports every page a second time, so nothing a module remembers survives. One
script writes the counts before the build and the whole site compiles with them,
which also means every page is right with JavaScript off rather than the ten
that had been plumbed by hand. Three requests, one build.

A browser then counts at most once an hour and remembers what it found. Without
that a visitor spends two of their sixty requests on every page they open —
thirty pages before the sources refuse, and the refusal is invisible because the
page simply keeps the number it already has.

Nothing renders a zero. A source that fails keeps the last number that answered,
a truncated tree throws rather than reading as a short count, and a value that
is not a positive integer is refused. Papers are the directories holding their
own .tex, which is the convention the repo already follows, so a paper added
tomorrow counts itself and nothing here keeps a list.

proofs stays typed by hand: that repository is private, so a public site has
nothing to count.
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