The login screen used to be a static carousel of marketing slides. It now interleaves three different kinds of content: marketing, operator hints, and the most recent news posts — the same posts you're reading here.
The interleaving is wall-clock aligned, so every operator looking at the login screen at the same moment sees the same slide. That detail matters more than it sounds: it makes the carousel a usable place to broadcast a short hint ("scheduled maintenance Sunday 03:00 UTC") to every user who logs in during that window, without bolting on a banner system.
A new look while we were there
The Keycloak login theme also got a complete reskin: amber and teal brand colours, DM Sans typography, and a fully responsive layout including the small-but-thorny details — checkbox positioning, footer nav arrows, the "remember me" affordance — that betray a half-themed SSO flow.
Hints are written through the admin MCP surface, scheduled like any
other slide, and respect an audience filter so a hint can target only
operators, only end-users, or anyone (any). News slides pull from the
same /news index this post lives in.