MetaX once claimed, plainly: "no database, no login wall, no client-side fetch." Authentication, payment and per-user state entered the estate — and made that sentence false. A false claim on a doctrine page is precisely the failure mode this estate exists to prevent, so the sentence was not left standing and not quietly deleted.
A doctrine page that quietly acquires exceptions is worse than one that never existed.
The principle was not abandoned; it was partitioned. The estate now runs two planes, and the difference between them is not cosmetic — it is a difference in what each is allowed to do.
metax.academy, toptech., bcia., academies., library., lexicon., verify., and every {academy}.metax.academy. Static, pre-rendered, crawlable and archivable. Holds no state. Renders completely and legibly with JavaScript disabled. Indexed and archived. Publishes claims.
auth., pay., me.. Stateful — sessions, entitlements, intents, artefacts. Requires JavaScript. Never indexed, never archived. Publishes no doctrine, no curriculum and no claim.
The content plane may be decorated by the identity plane but never depends on it.
Concretely: a signed-in visitor on a series page receives the same HTML as an anonymous visitor, plus an identity bar and up to three entitlement chips injected by a single ≤ 4 KB script. If that script fails, times out, or is blocked, the page is unchanged and unbroken.
This is the only sanctioned exception to "no client-side fetch", and it is not asserted on trust.
The estate is built once normally, and once with the identity script stubbed to throw an error.
The two rendered outputs are compared for any difference in the rendered content.
Any difference fails the build. A content page that changes when the script dies is a broken content page.
Saying "partitioned" rather than "abandoned" is a description, not a defence — and the reader is entitled to judge the trade for themselves.
Three named hosts now hold state. That is a real change and it is written down with its date, not smoothed over.
Sessions, entitlements and learner artefacts are held on auth., pay., me. — classified Class 4 under MX-003 and retained under MX-018.
Every claim, every credential record, every doctrine and curriculum page remains readable, citable and archivable by a stranger with no account, no JavaScript and no permission.