Add India and Cinema site variants (+ Cinema Hubs map layer)

[Laksh-star]

Summary

Adds two new site variants built entirely on the existing variant system, plus one new static map layer. No engine rewrites — the variants are configuration (panels, default map layers, metadata, feed maps) and routing, following the same pattern as the shipped tech / finance / commodity variants.

india — South Asia desk. A regional geopolitical cut: curated panel set (Asia/India-forward, Western-region desks dropped), India-first RSS sources (The Hindu, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, NDTV, Economic Times, Livemint, Business Standard, plus Hindi outlets and South-Asian neighbours), India-specific metadata, and a default map camera framed on the subcontinent instead of the global view. Run with npm run dev:india.

cinema — film & entertainment desk (global, India lens). An entertainment-intelligence cut: new panels (Entertainment, Indian Cinema, Box Office, OTT & Streaming, Festivals & Awards), entertainment RSS sources (Variety, THR, Deadline, IndieWire, Screen Daily, Film Companion, Bollywood/regional coverage), and a new "Cinema Hubs" map layer — a deck.gl ScatterplotLayer rendering ~23 film festivals, studios, and production hubs worldwide from bundled static data, colour-coded by kind. Run with npm run dev:cinema.

Both variants register through the standard resolver, add dev:/build: scripts, and update the RSS proxy allowlist (all mirror files) for their new feed domains. npm run typecheck passes.

Type of change

• New feature
• New data source / feed
• New map layer

Affected areas

• Map / Globe
• News panels / RSS feeds
• Config / Settings

Checklist

• Tested locally on the new india and cinema variants (npm run dev:india / dev:cinema)
• New RSS feed domains added to the RSS proxy allowlist (shared + scripts/shared JSON mirrors and api/_rss-allowed-domains.js)
• No API keys or secrets committed
• TypeScript compiles without errors (npm run typecheck)
• Tested on tech.worldmonitor.app variant — n/a, changes are additive and don't touch existing variants

Documentation Alignment Checklist

N/A — this PR adds two variants and one static map layer. It introduces no new documented API surface, proto changes, or Redis keys, so the claim-ledger / Audit Council / proto-regeneration items don't apply. Happy to add anything specific a maintainer flags.

Screenshots

(adding: India variant framed on South Asia; Cinema variant with the Cinema Hubs map layer; entertainment panels populated)

Notes for reviewers

Changes are additive and scoped to the two new variants — existing variants are untouched. Happy to split India and Cinema into separate PRs, trim scope, or adjust the feed/hub lists if that's preferred.

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[Laksh-star]

Hi 👋 First-time contributor here. This adds two new site variants on top of the existing variant system — India (a South Asia geopolitical desk) and Cinema (a film/entertainment desk, global with an India lens), the latter including a new "Cinema Hubs" deck.gl map layer built from bundled static data.

Everything is additive and scoped to the new variants — no existing variant is touched — and npm run typecheck passes. I've filled in the checklist above and will add screenshots shortly. Totally happy to split India and Cinema into separate PRs, trim the feed/hub lists, or adjust anything to fit the project's conventions. Thanks for taking a look, and for maintaining such a fun codebase to build on.

[koala73]

Review (not ready)

CONFLICTING, and the variant wiring is incomplete vs the current one-binary / SITE_VARIANTS system.

Please rebase and then fill the gaps current main requires for a new variant:

• SITE_VARIANTS / isSiteVariant (not the old inline string list)
• WEB_DASHBOARD_VARIANTS + branded dashboard HTML / favicons if you claim india.worldmonitor.app / cinema.worldmonitor.app
• server VARIANT_FEEDS for both variants
• RSS allowlist for the India desk hosts actually used (HT, ET, Mint, etc.), not only 7 entertainment domains
• SITE_VARIANT import in DeckGLMap (the India camera preset references it)
• tooltip / pick handler for cinema-hubs-layer (pickable: true with no tooltip)

Until those land, this is not approvable as two production variants.

[Laksh-star]

Thanks for the detailed review — all six points addressed, rebased onto current main as a single commit.

1. SITE_VARIANTS / isSiteVariant — both variants added to the registry; api/download SUPPORTED_VARIANTS updated to match (desktop-one-binary test passes).
2. WEB_DASHBOARD_VARIANTS / branded HTML / favicons — I've intentionally not claimed india. / cinema. subdomains in this pass, so no favicon/dashboard-HTML assets are required. Canonicals point at worldmonitor.app, and I added matching VARIANT_OG crawler-stub entries so the deploy-config contract stays green. Happy to add full subdomain branding (favicon sets + WEB_DASHBOARD_VARIANTS) as a follow-up if you'd like these promoted to their own hosts.
3. Server VARIANT_FEEDS — added for both variants (india reuses the full categories with an India-first regional set; cinema has its own entertainment categories).
4. RSS allowlist — added the India desk hosts actually used (Hindustan Times, Economic Times, Mint, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, The Print, Scroll, Dawn, etc.) alongside the entertainment domains, across all three mirrors.
5. SITE_VARIANT in DeckGLMap — import is present; the India camera preset uses it.
6. cinema-hubs-layer tooltip — added a getTooltip case (name / city / country / kind).

Also updated the two lock-tests that adding a variant is meant to trip (webmcp panel-default snapshots and feed-catalog-drift). Local typecheck + biome + the variant/feed/deploy test suites are green. Happy to keep iterating.