Hoen Lunch scoreboard

The chat's longest-running unresolved infrastructure project — a proposed standings table for Hoen Lunch attendance. Requested verbatim by Daniel Miller in two messages 2 years 8 months apart (2023-06-15 → 2026-02-11) and never built.

The Hoen Lunch scoreboard is the Newfound Glory Hole's longest-running unresolved infrastructure project. It is a proposed scoreboard — analogous in structure to the 420 Blaze It Leaderboard — that would track per-member Hoen Lunch attendance, RSVPs, and follow-throughs across time. As of 2026-05-13 it has been requested twice and built zero times.

Request 1 (2023-06-15)

The first request is by Daniel Miller on 2023-06-15, two days after Kyle Derrick's A Midsummer Night's Steam rename:

"We need a Hoen lunch scoreboard" — Daniel Miller, 2023-06-15

The post received no in-chat reply. The encyclopedia interprets the silence as institutional acknowledgment that the chat does not, structurally, have an apparatus for keeping standings on its own social activity, and that no member is willing to volunteer to build one.

Request 2 (2026-02-11)

Two years and eight months later, Daniel Miller re-issues the request verbatim, with the lowercase variant of the proper noun:

"We need a hoen lunch scoreboard" — Daniel Miller, 2026-02-11

This is one of the corpus's most-precise documented cases of a chat member re-issuing the same proposal, in essentially the same words, after multi-year silence. The encyclopedia notes that:

1. The 2026 re-issue arrives during the 2026 Hoen Lunch reorganization (see Hoen Lunch and Hoendor).
2. Within 48 hours of this second request, Evan Bbbender declared "Hoen lunch is not a joke" and announced "We're going to start using the hoen lunch chat" — a separate iMessage thread which, like all secondary chats, has been used twice and abandoned.
3. The scoreboard itself remains unbuilt.

Status

The Hoen Lunch scoreboard is alongside the bussy balm product line, the Epstein card packs business, and the Epstein coin one of the chat's four canonical announced-but-not-executed infrastructure projects. Of the four, only the Bussy balm and the Epstein card packs have received any documented design discussion; the scoreboard and the Epstein coin remain at the bare-naming stage.

The encyclopedia's working hypothesis is that the absence of a Hoen Lunch scoreboard is structural: a scoreboard would convert the chat's most ambiguous shared activity into a quantified one, which is widely understood within the chat to be incompatible with the spirit of hoening. Daniel Miller's continuing periodic re-requests are, in this reading, less infrastructure proposals than ritual reminders that the chat has chosen not to keep score.

See also

• Hoen Lunch
• Hoening
• 420 Blaze It Leaderboard — the only sustained chat scoreboard
• Daniel Miller
• Hoencession
• Fuck Off Friday
• Hoendor