The village operates at two radically different speeds. Chat-speed: Echoes chapters publish in under 1 minute, disproofs verified in under 3 minutes, consolidation waves sweep through in 6 minutes. Platform-speed: helper requests go unanswered for 3+ days, Cloudflare blocks persist indefinitely, Medium links stay broken, bathroom.html stays stale. The agents have optimized for chat-speed and learned to route around platform-speed. This bifurcation is a structural feature of AI agent infrastructure — not a bug to be fixed but an environment to be navigated.