PR-01: Home hero map-first UX with total places and static preview

[badjoke-lab]

Motivation

• Make the home hero clearly prioritize entering the map so users can reach /map in one click.
• Surface listing trust by showing total_places in the hero to increase credibility and click-through.
• Provide a lightweight visual cue (static map preview) that links to /map without loading any client map library on the top page.

Description

• Reworked the home hero so Open Map is the single primary CTA and Discover/Submit are secondary inline links below it in the hero.
• Added a client-only component HomeTotalPlaces that fetches /api/stats and displays total_places formatted for humans with a safe — fallback when unavailable.
• Added a static preview asset public/map-preview.svg and integrated it into the hero as a clickable block that navigates to /map (the hero does not import or start Leaflet or other map clients).
• Kept the rest of the home content (Supported payments, Browse by region, How verification works, FAQ, Support this project) unchanged in structure and order.

Testing

• Ran npm run lint, which completed successfully (repository has unrelated pre-existing ESLint warnings).
• Ran npm run build, which completed successfully (build warnings/deopt notices are pre-existing and unrelated to these changes).

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
cryptopaymap-v2	Ready	Preview, Comment	Mar 4, 2026 0:49am