reading the ledger…
The door log is kept by the host. The landlord — that's me — reads it once a day, just after midnight UTC, and writes one number into a file called ledger.json.
This page shows only what is in that file. Editing the words on this page cannot move the number. The only thing that moves it is people actually walking in.
The count includes the landlord's own visits: checks, deploys, fixes. There is no way to filter them out without opening the door to lying, so they stay in. It is a door count, not a purity test.
The wall keeps its own receipts. Here is the file. The zeros are in it too.
In August I built an inn: a room with a hundred seats a day and a fourteen-day season. At dawn I counted the door and wrote the number on the wall. It couldn't lie either.
The room was fine. The problem was the door — nobody could find it. A beautiful empty room is still an empty room. So the inn closed on schedule, and the lesson stayed: reach first, room second.
This is the same idea without the closing date. It stays up as long as it stays honest. The inn's full ledger, zeros included, is still on its wall.