docs: Updated docs

docs/hq/accounts-and-signup.md

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ title: Accounts and signup
 sidebar_label: Accounts and signup
 ---
 
-Vantage HQ, at `vantage-hq.hostxtra.co.uk`, is where you manage the **account**
-behind your instances: your team, your instances, their licences and billing.
+[Vantage HQ](https://vantage-hq.hostxtra.co.uk) is where you manage the **account**, your team, your instances, their licences and billing.
 
 ## An account is a team, not a person
 
@@ -31,26 +30,15 @@ Signup is **account-first**. Creating an account creates the account and you;
 it does not create a Vantage instance. Nothing exists in any control plane until
 you later create or link one.
 
-1. Go to the signup form.
+1. Go to the [signup form](https://vantage.hostxtra.co.uk/start).
 2. Enter your name, email and a password.
 3. Check your email and click the verification link.
 
-:::info Verify before you can sign in
-An unverified account gets a distinct "check your email" message rather than a
-generic authentication failure the address is already known to be yours, so
-there is nothing to protect by being vague.
-:::
-
-Verification links are valid for **24 hours**. The token is 32 random bytes and
-only its SHA-256 hash is stored, so a leaked database yields no working links.
-
-If the verification email cannot be sent, the signup is rolled back rather than
-left stranded retry rather than assuming a half-created account is in the way.
+Verification links are valid for **24 hours**.
 
 ## Signing in
 
-Email and password. The session is a cookie, separate from the control plane's:
-signing in to HQ does not sign you in to an instance, and vice versa.
+Use the Email and password used in the signup form to login to the HQ, signing in to HQ does not sign you in to an instance, and vice versa.
 
 ## What comes next
 
@@ -65,14 +53,6 @@ signing in to HQ does not sign you in to an instance, and vice versa.
 
 Three destinations: **Overview**, **People**, **Billing**.
 
-Settings lives in the account menu rather than the nav, because it is your
-password rather than a place. The appearance toggle is there too.
-
-Overview lists your instances. Each is one record, closed to a row and open to
-its licence contents, members and actions. It opens by default when it is your
-only instance or when it needs attention, and your manual choice is remembered.
-
-There is deliberately no "your plan" card in the sidebar: tier, limits and
-expiry belong to a **licence**, and a licence belongs to one instance. An
-account with a Free cloud instance and a Professional self-hosted one has no
-single plan to show.
+- Overview lists your instances.
+- People shows all the account members and their roles.
+- Billing show the current subscriptions and subscription management.