💬 CLUB-ONLY

Recovered Club-Only material begins April 6, 2020 and continues through the current archive boundary in 2026. The 2020 recovery is split across early, May–August, and September–December windows; later yearly corpora were processed longitudinally through the surviving July 2026 boundary.

The fall 2020 window is the strongest saturation sample: 100,346 messages from September through December, with multiple identifiable regulars posting across more than one hundred of 121 covered days. The point is persistence, not a leaderboard. This is the baseline for understanding the room as daily habitat.

A single joke can matter because it becomes a repeated bit. A single relationship label can matter because people keep using it. A single day can matter because it changes how the room understands a person. Club-Only therefore needs both exact transcript receipts and longitudinal pattern reading; raw counts alone miss the thing the channel is best at preserving.

2020 — Formation / Saturation. Early 2021 — Domestication. Mid-2021 — Memory / Transition. Late 2021 — Durability / Portability. Early 2022 — Ritualization / Distributed Maintenance. Late 2022 — Normalization / Social Membership Outruns the Roster. 2023 — Self-Mythologization / Federated Community. 2024 — Decoupling. 2025 — Decommissioning. 2026 — Afterlife / Continuity.

Activity is not rank, authority, closeness, or importance. Export-time role arrays are not appointment timelines. The collapsed Deleted User aggregate is not one stable person. Exact quotes retain their dated authorship; phase labels are interpretation layered on the processed corpus.