The community has a page, and the page is its invite

A fourth About page, `Join Discord`, sitting between the author and the ask:
what is this, who made it, where is everyone, how do I help. Like its three
siblings it is written markdown under assets/pages, reads nothing and
transmits nothing, and keeps a CLI face — `meshterm discord`.

It is short on purpose. The invite link, and the code for it in a `qr` fence,
because on a PicoCalc there is no clipboard and the code is how a link leaves
the screen at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

tests/test_about.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""About MeshTerm tests: the three pages, their placeholders, and their menu section.
+"""About MeshTerm tests: the four pages, their placeholders, and their menu section.
 
 The pages carry no state and no controls, so what is worth pinning is what they *say*
 and how they are framed: the live package facts they must never drift from, the
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from meshterm.ui.about import (
     AboutPage,
     about_author,
     about_meshterm,
+    join_discord,
     support_project,
 )
 
@@ -126,18 +127,27 @@ def test_the_licence_section_states_the_terms_and_the_credit_it_owes() -> None:
         assert owed in prose, owed
 
 
+def test_the_discord_page_carries_the_invite_link_and_a_code_to_scan_it_with() -> None:
+    """The link is the whole page, and on a console with no clipboard the QR is how it
+    leaves the screen — so both have to survive the render."""
+    text = _page(join_discord)
+
+    assert "https://discord.gg/AZwe5Uvb3S" in text
+    assert "█" in text, "the scannable code didn't render"
+
+
 def test_pages_are_written_markdown_that_ships_with_the_package() -> None:
     """Filling a page in is editing its ``.md`` file — no Python has to follow."""
     from meshterm.ui.about import _PAGES
 
-    for name in ("about", "author", "support"):
+    for name in ("about", "author", "discord", "support"):
         source = (_PAGES / f"{name}.md").read_text(encoding="utf-8")
         assert source.lstrip().startswith("#"), f"{name}.md doesn't open with a heading"
 
 
 def test_no_package_placeholder_survives_into_the_rendered_page() -> None:
     """The live facts are filled in as the page opens, so none of the braces reach a reader."""
-    for builder in (about_meshterm, about_author, support_project):
+    for builder in (about_meshterm, about_author, join_discord, support_project):
         text = _page(builder)
         assert "{" not in text and "}" not in text, text
 
@@ -194,7 +204,7 @@ def test_menu_rows_carry_the_icon_and_the_titles_do_not() -> None:
     """Each page has a menu icon; none of it leaks into the title the screen draws."""
     from meshterm.tools import get_tool
 
-    for name in ("about", "about-author", "support"):
+    for name in ("about", "about-author", "discord", "support"):
         tool = get_tool(name)
         assert tool is not None
         assert tool.icon, f"{name} has no menu icon"
@@ -211,7 +221,7 @@ def test_every_page_icon_has_a_picocalc_glyph() -> None:
 
     set_platform(PICOCALC)
     try:
-        for name in ("about", "about-author", "support"):
+        for name in ("about", "about-author", "discord", "support"):
             tool = get_tool(name)
             assert tool is not None
             compact = glyph(tool.icon)

tests/test_gallery.py

@@ -54,7 +54,13 @@ from meshterm.services.message_paths import Arrival
 from meshterm.services.monitor_service import ACTIVITY_BUCKETS
 from meshterm.services.records import CATEGORY_BY_ID
 from meshterm.services.topology import MeshTopology, build_topology
-from meshterm.ui.about import AboutPage, about_author, about_meshterm, support_project
+from meshterm.ui.about import (
+    AboutPage,
+    about_author,
+    about_meshterm,
+    join_discord,
+    support_project,
+)
 from meshterm.ui.chat import ChatScreen
 from meshterm.ui.contactlist import SORT_COLUMNS, SORT_OPENS_ASCENDING
 from meshterm.ui.contacts_screen import ContactsScreen
@@ -493,6 +499,10 @@ def _support_project(cols: int, rows: int) -> Screen:
     return AboutPage("Support MeshTerm", support_project())
 
 
+def _join_discord(cols: int, rows: int) -> Screen:
+    return AboutPage("Join Discord", join_discord())
+
+
 _ENTRIES: list[_Entry] = [
     _Entry("dashboard", _dashboard),
     _Entry("contacts", _contacts),
@@ -515,6 +525,7 @@ _ENTRIES: list[_Entry] = [
     _Entry("tx_sweep", _tx_sweep),
     _Entry("about_meshterm", _about_meshterm),
     _Entry("about_author", _about_author),
+    _Entry("join_discord", _join_discord),
     _Entry("support_project", _support_project),
 ]
 

tests/test_menus.py

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def test_main_menu_sections_answer_the_menus_own_question() -> None:
         "Explore": ["map", "walk", "trace", "trace-path", "records"],
         "This node": ["info", "config", "device-actions", "advert"],
         "Other nodes": ["repeater-admin", "tx-optimize"],
-        "About MeshTerm": ["about", "about-author", "support"],
+        "About MeshTerm": ["about", "about-author", "discord", "support"],
     }
     # No section is so big it stops being a grouping (the old Mesh bucket held seven of
     # nineteen rows), and none is a bucket of one.