The public homepage is the membership page, whether you meant it to be or not. Visitors decide from the archive, not from the upgrade modal.
Keep enough public posts that a stranger can judge the voice. Put the paid work behind a clear label so it does not look like a broken link.
When the split is honest, the upgrade is a next step instead of a surprise. Airlancer can enforce the gate. It cannot invent a public archive you did not publish.
