A gallery of our own - and a Convention site to hold the story
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💬 How a favor grew legs
It began with a simple ask in a WhatsApp thread: Anne R. wanted her Pixieset album to live at gallery.psychedelicsinrecovery.org. The auto-connect path wanted the org’s SiteGround master login over chat - declined, politely. The manual path needed exactly one DNS record, added by Christopher in the SiteGround Zone Editor on October 15:
| Type | Host | Points to |
|---|---|---|
| CNAME | gallery |
domain.pixieset.com |
Anne picks the manual set-up option in Pixieset, enters the subdomain, and the certificate follows within 48 hours. No credentials ever left anyone’s hands.
Then the thread went rogue. A shared Drive folder started gathering everyone’s photos from Denver - and a decision made itself: the photos of our recovery deserve a home we own.
🖼️ Two new rooms in the GitHub home
The PIR® Gallery - every album the fellowship makes, not tied to one event. Conventions, gatherings, service years, whatever comes next: each album is a folder in the repository and a card in the portal. Captions and credits come from filenames, with credits in the fellowship’s anonymity tradition: first name + last initial. A walkthrough walks any member through adding photos - the send-it-in path (upload to Drive, a trusted servant places them with care) or the do-it-with-us path (folders, a manifest builder, a push, and the photos are live in about a minute).
The Convention site - the Inaugural’s story on the fellowship’s own ground: the four days in Denver, what happened (the first gathering in person in the anniversary year, the announcement of Living Psychedelic Sober, the streams, the scholarships), the gallery bridge, and past & upcoming events. Built from the same pattern as this AstroLog - one night sky, many desks.
Both serve from GitHub Pages, free and fast, until the day we outgrow GitHub. (And what a day that will be.)
🔗 Everything cross-linked
- The WordPress Convention Hub page is live in the navbar at psychedelicsinrecovery.org/convention-hub - the front door for anyone looking for the Convention, its schedule, its stream, and its galleries.
- The 2026 Convention announcement page now points there too.
- The Convention site links back to the Hub, the schedule, the stream, the committee, and the galleries.
- The Gallery’s featured album card bridges to its Astro home - the Convention - while staying the fellowship’s gallery, not the Convention’s.
🪶 Why this matters, in one sentence
Everyone now knows where things live: service pages for being informed, Discord for gathering, GitHub for the record - instead of getting lost in WhatsApp threads, PDFs, and Drive links. Every gathering leaves a record, and the record has a front door.
The first album is being gathered. The rest of the story writes itself.