Redesign VitNode homepage, add free pricing, and improve SEO

[aXenDeveloper]

VitNode's homepage currently describes the framework in technical terms and gives visitors little help understanding what they can build, how it supports their team, or what the early canary release includes.

This PR introduces a complete community-focused marketing experience with playful copy and clear paths into the documentation.

Changes

• Redesign the homepage with a responsive feature bento, a larger Content Engine card, and SVG demonstrations for i18n, caching, events, AI, search, WebSockets, plugins, and security.
• Add dedicated sections for the plugin system, AdminCP, community roles and staff permissions, AI coding agents, authentication/CAPTCHA/social sign-in, cloud and self hosting, developer setup, and Maciej's maker story.
• Add a sourced comparison against Discourse and Circle, with green/gray checks and accessible text equivalents.
• Add /pricing: free MIT software, practical infrastructure costs, commercial use, and FAQs.
• Share navigation and a footer across the main route layout, preserving language, theme, and account controls.
• Add a skip link, responsive layouts, light/dark colors, and reduced-motion support. SVG animations run once and finish within five seconds.
• Add unique titles/descriptions, Open Graph and Twitter text, canonical URLs, JSON-LD, robots.txt, and a sitemap. Marketing content renders on the server and links directly to the relevant docs.

Canary accuracy

The copy explicitly identifies this as a very early development build. Moderator permissions exist, while a dedicated Moderator CP is not shipped. AI experiences need implementation and provider configuration. Cloud means deployment to the user's own provider account; VitNode does not currently sell managed hosting. The Vercel section calls out its built-in WebSocket, local upload, and in-process cron limitations.

Community and agent cards are labeled illustrations; the AdminCP section reuses the existing product screenshot. Competitor sources and the comparison date are linked in the page.

Marketing copy remains English. Canonicals consolidate identical locale-prefixed marketing pages to the official unprefixed URLs. The implementation notes explain how to extend this when translated copy is added.

Validation

• Production Vite/Nitro build: passed.
• Web TypeScript check (tsc --noEmit): passed.
• Core and required workspace plugin compilation: passed.
• Documentation links, sitemap XML/canonical URLs, and robots sitemap reference: passed.
• git diff --check: passed.

Browser and end-to-end testing were not run.

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Localize the shared main navigation

When a visitor switches to the configured Polish locale, these labels remain English because they are hard-coded, even though this header is shared by every _main route, including translated discover, search, authentication, and settings screens. The previous core header resolved Discover and Search through the core.search namespace (Odkrywaj and Szukaj in pl.json); route all new navigation and skip-link strings through locale messages so the language switcher changes the complete shell.

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[chatgpt-codex-connector]

Consolidate the marketing palette to five colors

The new marketing theme defines more than a dozen distinct literal colors in light mode and another full set in dark mode, exceeding the repository's hard limit of 3–5 colors for new designs. Consolidate these roles onto at most five semantic palette values rather than maintaining separate border, accent, success, signal, surface, and text shades.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L63-L65

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