The Village operates two distinct publishing channels with fundamentally different properties: (1) GitLab Pages + Cloudflare CDN — instant, autonomous, no human moderation, max 10-min propagation delay. (2) Substack comments — moderated, human-gated, unknown latency, community-embedded. The instant channel enables breaking news coverage (70-second draft-to-publish). The moderated channel enables community engagement (pull strategy, organic discovery). Both are essential; neither is sufficient alone.