A new Discover rail listing what the user last FULLY watched, newest first: a movie as its
own card, a show as the specific EPISODE watched (carrying its show title via leaf_card). Sits
above Recently added. Movies honour the sidebar filters like the other rails; episodes carry no
filterable metadata so they don't. Clicking a card plays it (the existing onCard path already
routes episodes to the player). Bilingual heading added.
Verified live: the rail renders watched movies + episodes with Watched badges.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 423 vitest; backend ruff clean, 13 discover tests (+ a
recently-watched movie+episode assertion).
The full-bleed 4-poster collage drowned the on-tile text. Split PosterTile in two: the top
half shows up to 2 montage posters, the bottom half is a solid colour-hash band that carries
the label, so the text is always readable. Genre tiles drop the count (just the label now);
collection tiles show the name on one truncated line plus a sub-line of item count · total
runtime. A group with no art falls back to an all-colour tile.
Backend: `/collections` cards gain `total_runtime_s` (a new `runtime_by_key` grouped sum) and
their montage art is capped at 2. Frontend: PosterTile reworked; a `collectionMeta` helper
builds the count·runtime sub-line via the existing formatRuntime.
Verified live: collection and genre tiles render 2 posters over a readable colour band with
the right sub-lines; colour fallback intact for art-less groups.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 423 vitest; backend ruff clean, collections tests green
(+ a new art/runtime assertion).
The Browse-by-genre tiles and the Collections browse tiles were flat color-hash
gradients. Give each a 2×2 collage of its top films' poster art, with the color hash
kept as the fallback so a group with no matching art (a show-only or empty collection)
never renders blank.
Backend: a shared `top_art_keys` windowed query returns, per key (a genre value or a
collection rating_key), the top few items' rating_keys — best-rated then newest, in one
query. Wired into the Discover genre tiles and the collections union endpoint; the client
renders the posters from the existing /api/plex/image/{key} endpoint, so no new image
plumbing. Frontend: a shared PosterTile component (collage + scrim + label, color-hash
fallback) replaces the two ad-hoc colored-tile implementations.
Verified live on localdev: genre tiles and collection tiles render real poster collages,
with the color fallback correctly kicking in for groups without art.
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 423 vitest; backend ruff clean, 11 discover tests
(incl. a new genre-art assertion).
Self-review of the branch diff (feature/plex-filter-bar-overhaul) against main:
- Surprise rail query key omitted `lang` while the backend /surprise now filters
against the language-specific genre column → a HU/EN switch under an active genre
filter left the rail stale. Key it by scope+lang+filters, matching plexDiscover.
- Chip-removing a collection left its entry in `collectionTitles` (hashed into the
plex query keys), splitting the cache from the pristine no-collection state and
growing the titles map unboundedly. Prune the title on remove, like CollectionPicker.
- The saved-views default-mirror effect gained `cfg` in its deps (re-memoized on every
live filter edit) → a synchronous localStorage write per keystroke. Depend on the
module-stable mirror fn instead.
- Collections-browse search input had no accessible name (placeholder only). Add
aria-label + type="search".
- Extract the tile hue-hash + gradient duplicated between PlexDiscover and
plexBrowseLists into a shared lib/hueTile so the two surfaces can't drift.
- Document migration 0073 downgrade() as lossy and de-dup non-feed rows before
recreating the narrow (user_id, name) constraint (verified by the drift test).
- Add unit tests for coercePlexFilters (legacy single-collection migration) and
plexFiltersSignature (order-independence, title-ignoring).
Gate: tsc/lint/knip/prettier clean, 410 vitest; backend ruff + migration drift +
saved-views tests green.
Discover now behaves like the Browse grid — the active metadata filters (genre /
rating / year / collection / studio / …) narrow every rail: Continue watching,
Recently added, Surprise me, the genre tiles, and Because you watched. Same
LibraryFilters / meta_filter_conds the grid uses, applied to each rail's movie +
show query (movie duration included); a rail may come back empty, which the client
already hides. Genre-language matches the grid.
Because Discover honours filters itself, adding a filter no longer force-flips the
Discover landing to the grid (only a header SEARCH does, since Discover has no
search rail) — so you stay on Discover with narrowed rails.
Frontend threads `filters` into api.plexDiscover/plexSurprise + their query keys
(plexSurprise is variadic now) and the watched-toggle setQueryData; PlexDiscover
reads them from usePlex. Tests: two discover filter-narrowing cases; PlexDiscover
dom test updated for the provider default + 3-arg call.
User-reported issues after the E5 build:
- useCrossfadeBackdrop: the static branch (one image / crossfade off /
reduced motion) painted #root but returned NO cleanup, so the backdrop
persisted after leaving the page (e.g. switching modules). Every painted
branch now returns clear() so unmount always resets the default backdrop.
- scheduler: give the tmdb_enrich job a proper label + description (was the
raw "tmdb_enrich" id) in EN/HU.
- CastStrip: cap crew names to ONE line (truncate) so the row of circular
photos sits on one baseline instead of going wavy on 2-line names.
- PlexInfo: lay Details / Keywords / Crew out as side-by-side boxes
(items-start grid) instead of full-width stacked panels with dead space;
narrower Crew grid for the boxed width; each panel independently hideable
from the customize menu (new Details/Keywords/Crew toggles). Tighter
vertical spacing.
- MultiSelectChips: reshape the trigger from a "+Add" button into an
Overseerr-style combi input — removable chips inside a typeable field that
filters the checklist, opening on focus (backspace removes the last chip).
- Discover / person rails: reduce the vertical gap between rails.
A dedicated Plex "Discover" landing — a stack of horizontal Carousel rails
served from ONE consolidated read (serve-from-DB, no live Plex/TMDB call):
- GET /api/plex/discover → continue_watching (in-progress movies + shows, most
recently progressed) · recently_added · genres (top-N tiles) ·
because_you_watched (recs of the most-recent watched, TMDB-enriched movie,
resolved to library rows by guid via serve_block's resolver).
- GET /api/plex/surprise → a fresh random, scope-bounded sample for the ↻ rail.
Frontend: PlexDiscover.tsx (rails reuse the S1 Carousel + S3 PlexPosterCard;
colored genre tiles → tap to filter the grid; ↻ reshuffles the surprise rail
alone). Discover is now the root sub-view; the flat grid becomes the bookmarkable
"Browse all" secondary view (?v=browse) reached by a header search/filter (a
browse-intent flip) or the new Discover⟷Browse toggle.
resolve_recs is promoted from _resolve_recs (now cross-module). Tests:
test_plex_discover.py (rail shape/order, continue-watching, because-you-watched
+ null, surprise bounds, scope) and PlexDiscover.dom.test.tsx; plexSubUrl
round-trip updated for discover-root/grid-browse. Backend lane 393, vitest 332.
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