One square
each.
A million squares, one for every person this is trying to reach. A square is yours the moment you join, and it never moves.
—/1,000,000
Counting…
Why a picture
and not a bar.
A progress bar at a thousandth of a percent is a flat line, and a flat line says the thing is not happening. It is happening. It is just happening at the size of one person at a time, and this is what that actually looks like.
Places are scattered rather than filled in order, so the picture is never a block creeping across the top. Two people who join seconds apart land nowhere near each other. Your square is worked out from your member number and nothing else, which is why it can be promised not to move.
Members can put a photograph in their square, from their library. Nothing goes up until I have looked at it, and it comes down whenever the person who put it there asks. Leaving a square blank is a fine thing to do; the picture is counting people, not photographs.
Take a square