EMGravity Research Portal

Visitors create an account with Clerk, then apply with their name, role and reason for joining. Until an admin approves them they see a pending page, and admins can also deny an application or revoke access later. Approval lives in the account's metadata and is checked on every gated page.

Referees are the program's outside reviewers. An admin promotes a member to referee, the referee sets up a public profile with a photo, and from then on can comment on any run or build and give it an approve or disapprove verdict. A disapproval needs a reason, and a new verdict replaces that referee's previous one.

The screenshots show the public site; the portal itself is members-only.

The data logger uploads each run as one bundle through an API authenticated by a shared secret, compared in constant time. Photos and videos go straight to Vercel Blob with short-lived upload tokens, so large files never pass through a server function.

Uploads are keyed by run number, so a re-upload updates the run in place inside one transaction. New runs stay unpublished until an admin reviews them, and when the logger deletes a build, the portal deletes it too, so the two never drift apart.

Each run's readings are charted in the browser. The lab stream carries a live badge from a server-side check cached for 30 seconds, and a heartbeat-based counter shows how many people are watching.