- format.ts: new formatRuntime() ("1h 30m"); PlexBrowse dur() + PlexInfo
fmtDur() were byte-identical copies, now both call it.
- PlexPlayer fmt() delegates to formatDuration (keeps the NaN/negative clamp
the live media clock needs); local reimplementation gone.
- Register LS.plexPlayerPrefs; PlexPlayer uses it instead of a bare string.
- Remove the dead PlexPlayerPrefs.wasPlaying field (written on play/pause, never
read) + its two patchPrefs writes.
- PlexBrowse item page: drop the redundant onStateChange={() => q.refetch()} —
PlexInfo.setState already invalidates ["plex-item", id], so q refetches itself.
- ChatThread send had no onError: a 404 (recipient gone) or 429 (rate-limited)
send failed silently (api.req shows no modal for those "caller-handled" statuses).
Added onError → toast for 404/429 (400/409/500 already raise the global dialog);
draft is kept for retry. New trilingual messages.sendFailed key.
- ChatThread scroll-to-bottom effect keyed on `plain` too, so every 20s poll's
decrypt pass yanked a scrolled-up reader back to the bottom. Key on items.length.
- ChatThread + Messages decrypt effects keyed on `items` (a fresh `?? []` array
every render) → a render storm while loading. Key on q.dataUpdatedAt.
- chatDock.ts: use LS.chatDock(userId) instead of the bare "siftlode.chatDock.*"
literal (matches the storage LS registry).
tsc green, re-review clean, localdev boots, Messages renders (locked-state) w/o console errors.
setup() encrypted BOTH the wrapped private key AND the key_check under the same
wrapKey with the SAME wrapIv — a GCM nonce-reuse bug (leaks keystream + enables
GHASH/tag forgery, which matters under E2EE's malicious-server threat model).
Fixes:
- setup() gives key_check its own independent nonce (checkIv).
- unlock() no longer decrypts key_check to verify the passphrase — that was
redundant (a wrong passphrase already fails the wrapped_private_key GCM auth
tag) AND was the second consumer of the reused nonce.
Backward-compatible: the uploaded bundle shape is unchanged, and existing users'
bundles still unlock (unlock only presence-checks key_check now; the private-key
decrypt path with wrap_iv is untouched). Also removed the unused, architecturally
ineffective lock() export (re-unlocks from IndexedDB on next mount; the meaningful
primitive is clearDevice). Re-review clean; tsc green.
Bugs:
- ConfigPanel (CB1): unchecking a Plex library from the "all" (empty) state made
that library the ONLY selected one instead of all-except-it, because the toggle
ADDED the key to an empty list. Expand "all" to the explicit section set before
toggling. E2E-verified: uncheck from all → all-except-one.
- Scheduler (SB1): "Purge discovery" bulk-deleted search videos/videos/channels
immediately with no confirm (every AdminUsers destructive action uses useConfirm).
Wrapped in a danger useConfirm dialog (+ trilingual purgeConfirmTitle key).
E2E-verified: dialog appears, Cancel aborts.
Cleanups (behavior-neutral):
- Register LS.configTab; ConfigPanel uses it instead of the bare "siftlode.configTab".
- ConfigPanel + SettingsPanel import SaveState from ui/DraftSaveBar instead of
redeclaring the union (PrefsSaveState is now an alias).
tsc green, re-review clean, localdev boots.
BUG (YB1): the auto-watch checkpoint marked a video watched once position
crossed `duration - FINISH_MARGIN` (10s). For clips shorter than ~10s that
threshold is negative, and for ~11-20s clips it's only a few seconds in, so the
5s checkpoint tick marked short videos watched almost immediately (clearing their
resume position). Cap the margin at half the clip: Math.min(FINISH_MARGIN, dur/2).
Cleanups (behavior-neutral):
- Extract format.formatDate(iso, lang) — the day/month/year toLocaleDateString
option object was duplicated verbatim in PlayerModal (fullDate) and VideoCard.
(ChannelPage's "joined" is month/year only, so it's left as-is.)
- The in-bar prev/next buttons now reuse goPrev/goNext instead of re-implementing
the step + bounds inline (they already exist for the side arrows + keyboard).
- Memoize savedPrefs so the ['me'] cache read + spread runs once, not on every
render (it only seeds the initial autoMode/loopMode state).
tsc green, knip clean, localdev boots healthy.
- Extract notifyYouTubeActionError (new lib/youtubeErrors.ts): the "403 → Connect
your YouTube account, else fallback toast" logic was duplicated in Channels.tsx
and ChannelDiscovery.tsx. (Separate file, not lib/notifications, to avoid the
api ↔ notifications import cycle.)
- Extract format.formatCountOrDash(): the `n != null ? formatViews(n) : "—"` count
cell was repeated across the subs/videos columns in Channels + ChannelDiscovery.
- Register channelsTable / channelDiscoveryTable in storage.ts LS instead of bare
"siftlode.*" string literals.
- Delete 7 dead channels.json keys (filterPlaceholder, tags.newTag/createTag,
row.stored/subs/getFullHistory/getFullHistoryHint) from en/hu/de — verified 0
refs (createTag matches were the unrelated api.createTag method, not the key).
Behavior-neutral. tsc green, knip no new unused, localdev boots.
- Delete dead top-level downloads.rename.* i18n block (en/hu/de); the
metadata modal moved to downloads.edit.*. Keep downloads.actions.rename
(still used by ProfileEditor).
- Rename misnamed state renameJob/setRenameJob -> metaJob/setMetaJob in
DownloadCenter (it opens MetaEditModal, not a rename dialog).
- Extract the duplicated [downloads]/[download-index]/[download-usage]
invalidation trio into lib/downloads.ts invalidateDownloads(qc);
used by DownloadCenter and DownloadDialog.
Behavior-neutral. tsc green, knip shows no new unused export, JSON valid.
Machine-baseline harvest (ruff + knip), all tsc/parse-green, no runtime change:
- backend: remove 3 unused imports (channels/playlists/youtube) via ruff; drop the
unused `job` binding in unshare_download (keep the _own_job ownership guard call).
- frontend: remove `export` from 23 internally-used-only symbols (knip "unused
exports") to shrink the public surface; delete 2 genuinely-dead declarations
(PlexBrowseResult — leftover from the removed /browse route; WIDGET_TITLES —
hardcoded English titles superseded by i18n).
Held back for a decision (unused here = possibly-unwired, NOT dead — flagged, not
removed): e2ee.lock()/clearDevice() (security primitives never wired to logout / a
"forget device" feature) and loadDefaultViewFilters (App reimplements it inline — a
DRY issue). See siftlode-ops/CODE-HYGIENE.md.
The searchable Collections picker was dropped from the sidebar when browsing
went unified (movies+shows across libraries) because collections are per-library
and there's no single selected library. Bring it back library-agnostic: GET
/api/plex/collections `library` is now optional — without it the endpoint unions
collections across all enabled libraries (with it, the old single-library path the
collection editor uses). The sidebar re-adds the searchable list (chip when one is
active). Its query key is ["plex-collections","union",<search>] so a search term
equal to a library plex_key can't collide with the editor's ["plex-collections",<key>],
while the shared prefix keeps editor invalidation refreshing the picker.
F6: coalesce whole-show/season Plex watch-pushes into ONE background task
(push_bulk_state_to_plex) that reuses a single DB session + keep-alive Plex
client, instead of scheduling one task (own session + HTTP client) per episode.
F8: cache a show's live Plex enrichment (metadata + related) per rating_key for
a short TTL and fetch the two calls in parallel; repeat opens skip the network.
Raw payloads are cached; per-user shaping stays out. An empty related list is not
cached (plex.related swallows a transient failure as [] — don't pin it for the TTL).
F10: remove dead code — the pre-unified /browse route + browse(), the /people
route + people() + _person_photo(), api.plexPeople, interface PlexPerson, and the
orphaned plex.people i18n block. DRY: appendPlexFilters() shared by plexLibrary +
plexFacets; one exported plexDetailUi.Filterable (was Fil + Filterable); PlexInfo
migrated onto the shared plexDetailUi hooks/menu (DetailCustomizeMenu gained
overlay + extra props; useDetailPrefs exposes savePref; PrefToggle exported).
Reviewed (high) → clean. F7 (facet aggregate collapse) deferred: self-exclusion
gives each sub-aggregate a distinct WHERE, and no measurement shows /facets slow.
1. Series detail pages now match the movie info page: the customize menu lives in the
hero panel (top-right), the Cast/Seasons/Related strips sit in glassy panels, and the
menu is dynamic — Related shows can be toggled (new plexInfoRelated pref).
2. The Plex search box now survives F5 (persisted per-account like the filters).
3. Show + season hero posters get a hover Play/Resume overlay.
4. Card top-right watched toggle can now UN-watch: the watched/in-progress badges were
intercepting the click (no pointer-events-none), so the toggle underneath never fired.
5. Episode card: the watched check no longer jumps on hover (badge now shares the
toggle's box); every card's title/meta gets its own glassy translucent background and
the Add-to-playlist button is always visible (not hover-only).
6. Season-card 'In progress' label is readable again (solid dark badge over the poster).
7. On a season page the show title is clickable → back to the show (history-correct).
- Season cards (show page) gain a hover Play overlay, a clickable title, a quick
watched/unwatched toggle (whole season) and an add-whole-season-to-playlist button.
- Episode cards gain a hover watched/unwatched quick toggle (single episode) — in the
season page and the search Episodes section.
- Series show + season pages now use the same glassy HTPC look as the movie info page:
a faint fixed art backdrop + a customize menu (toggle the backdrop / hide the cast
row), factored into a shared lib/plexDetailUi (useDetailPrefs / useArtBackdrop /
DetailCustomizeMenu), reusing the movie info prefs (plexInfoArtBg/plexInfoCast) so the
toggle state is consistent across movies and series.
- Facets now respect the watch-state filter too (In progress / Watched / Unwatched),
so e.g. the Year bounds match the visible set (was showing the library min, not the
filtered min).
- Genre chips sorted alphabetically (was by count).
- Sort chips ordered alphabetically by their localized label.
- Ascending/Descending chips swapped (Ascending first) and the default sort direction
is now Ascending.
- Default sort is now Title (ascending) instead of Recently added / Descending.
The sidebar's filter chips/bounds now ADAPT to the active filters: /facets takes the
current filters and computes each group's available values with all the OTHER active
filters applied but not its own (standard faceted search). So picking e.g. IMDb rating
>=8 trims the genre/content-rating chips + year bounds to what's still reachable, and
picking a genre narrows them further — while a multi-select group (genres) still shows
options to add. Extracted _meta_filter_conds (shared by browse/unified/facets), and the
frontend passes the live filters to plexFacets (query keyed on them, previous chips kept
during refetch). Search text is intentionally not factored into facets.
Collapse the separate Movie/Show library sections into ONE unified library with a
shared search + shared filter sidebar and a Movies/Shows/Both scope selector.
Backend: new GET /api/plex/library — a cross-library UNION of movies (plex_items) and
shows (plex_shows) as one mixed, paginated, sorted feed, scoped movie|show|both, with
the shared filters (extracted into _apply_meta_filters, DRY), FTS search, and per-user
watch-state (a show's state = the aggregate of its episodes). On a search that also
matches episodes, matching episodes come back in a separate 'episodes' list (the grouped
'Episodes' section — Proposal 3). /facets is now scope-aware (merged across the scope's
libraries). /item and /show now return their library section key (for the admin
collection editor, since there's no single library prop in the unified view).
Frontend: PlexSidebar's library picker -> a scope selector (Both/Movies/Shows); facets +
browse follow the scope (App's plexLib repurposed to a validated scope, default both).
PlexBrowse uses the unified endpoint, renders a mixed Titles grid + an Episodes section
on search. Poster cards are generalized: a hover Play/Resume overlay on every card, a
clickable title (not just the poster), and a movie/show type tag. The quick watched
toggle is now optimistic so it reliably flips BOTH ways (fixes the movie card that could
mark but not un-mark). Cast/crew members and the show hero's meta (year/rating/genre/
content-rating) are clickable filters; clicking a person widens the scope to Both so the
result is a mixed movie+show feed. i18n plex.filter.scope*/plex.unified.* (en/hu/de).
Still pending from the polish list (next pass): season-card quick toggles (watched +
add-to-playlist), per-episode watched toggle, and the full glassy art-bg + hide-cast
customize menu on the series pages.
Restructure TV browsing into show detail → seasons → season episodes → player, like
the Plex web app.
Backend: /show/{rk} now returns a rich show page — hero meta (rating/content_rating/
genres/studio + live IMDb), live Cast & Crew, Related shows (Plex 'related', mapped to
our mirrored shows so they're openable), and per-season cards with an aggregate
watch-state + on-deck episode, plus show-level resume (on-deck)/first(play-from-start)/
status rollup. New PlexClient.related(). New bulk-state endpoints POST /show/{rk}/state
and /season/{rk}/state mark every episode watched/unwatched for the user and mirror
each change to a linked Plex account in the background (best-effort, checked once).
Frontend: PlexShowView reworked into the show detail page (hero + Resume/Play-from-start/
Mark-show-watched/Add-to-playlist/[admin]Add-to-collection + season card grid + cast +
related strips); new PlexSeasonView season subpage (hero + Resume/Play/Mark-season/
Add-season-to-playlist + landscape episode grid). Both read the one cached ['plex-show']
payload (season page picks its season out of it — instant, no extra fetch). Player queue =
the whole show (from the show page) or the season (from the season page) so prev/next +
auto-advance follow order. New 'season' history subview; Backspace steps back one drill
level (grid←show←season, out of info/playlist) alongside browser/mouse Back. Season-level
'Add to collection' intentionally omitted (Plex collections hold whole shows, not seasons).
i18n plex.series.* (en/hu/de).
User-tested on prod: the flash fires (fullscreen → back to small) but the source
stays 360p — YouTube doesn't switch quality within the flash window and we can't set
it via the (dead) API, so the unlock has no effect. Give up on forcing windowed HD.
Restore PlayerModal to its 0.36.2 state (native-menu-yield + scroll-anywhere volume
kept). Also prune the failed HD-quality attempts from the release notes (the flash
and the transform-revert notes, plus the hollow 'higher quality' claim in 0.36.0) so
there's no user-facing trace of an effort that yielded nothing.
Completes the two-way Plex ↔ Siftlode watch-state sync: Phase B (Siftlode→Plex push, immediate)
and Phase C (incremental history/on-deck pull + daily full reconcile incl. un-watch). Also the
auto-advance watched-mark id-race fix.
Mirror watched/unwatched/resume from Siftlode to a linked (owner) Plex account.
- PlexClient: scrobble / unscrobble / set_timeline (/:/scrobble, /:/unscrobble, /:/timeline).
- watch_sync: link_for_push() gates on owner + sync_enabled + initial_import_done; best-effort
push_state_to_plex() runs as a background task with its own session, never raises (Plex being
down must not break the user's action), and flips synced_to_plex on success so Phase C's pull
won't bounce it back.
- item_state / item_progress schedule the push: watched/unwatched immediately, resume only on a
"final" checkpoint (pause / pagehide / unmount) — not every 10s tick — so one watch doesn't spray
/:/timeline at the server. `hidden` is Siftlode-only and never touches Plex.
- Frontend: plexProgress / plexProgressBeacon carry a `final` flag; the periodic checkpoint is
non-final, pause/pagehide/leaving the player are final.
Verified live against the real Plex server (scrobble/unscrobble/timeline round-trip + restore;
link gating; synced_to_plex flip).
Admins get a 'Plex watch sync' section in Settings → Account (shown when the Plex module is on):
a two-way-sync toggle whose first enable imports the Plex watch history, a last-import line, and an
'Import from Plex now' button. api.plexWatch{Link,SetLink,Import}; trilingual EN/HU/DE strings.
- Multi-audio items now ship every audio track as an HLS rendition in one session
(stream.py var_stream_map -> master.m3u8), so hls.js switches audio CLIENT-SIDE with
no ffmpeg restart, same timeline, no gap/drift. /session gains ?multi=1 (forces HLS
even for direct-playable multi-audio files); K is probed from the video variant seg.
- Restore the selected audio track on AUDIO_TRACKS_UPDATED, not MANIFEST_PARSED (the
renditions aren't parsed yet on MANIFEST_PARSED, so the set was dropped -> after F5 the
UI showed the restored track but playback stayed on the default).
- Resume position now survives F5: a pagehide keepalive beacon (plexProgressBeacon)
saves the current position on reload/close/navigate, since React effect cleanup does
not run on a full reload; seekTo writes the target into absRef immediately so a save
right after a seek is accurate.
Streaming / subtitle sync (the core fix):
- stream.py: add -copyts so HLS segments carry the true absolute PTS, and measure
the real keyframe start K from seg_0 (ffprobe) -> return it as the session start.
Fixes the seconds-long subtitle lead caused by using the requested seek offset
instead of the keyframe ffmpeg actually lands on with video stream-copy.
- Add -noaccurate_seek so the re-encoded audio starts at the same keyframe as the
video (was starting (X-K)s later -> seconds of silence after each seek/audio switch).
- Compensate the fixed ~1.0s lag hls.js introduces for non-zero-start copyts streams,
folded into the session start so the clock, seeking and the subtitle shift are all
content-accurate.
- /subtitle gains an offset param; _shift_vtt shifts absolute cues onto the session's
zero-based clock and DROPS fully-past cue blocks (collapsing them to 0->0 made every
past cue active at currentTime 0 on resume -> a pile-up until playback advanced).
Audio:
- /session + stream.py gain an audio A/V-sync offset (-itsoffset, full +/-, second
input only when non-zero).
Player settings & personalization (per-account, persisted -> survive F5):
- storage.ts: useAccountPersistedObject (per-account JSON prefs blob).
- PlexPlayer: volume/mute, audio+subtitle language (index-based match, fixes the F5
audio-revert), sync offsets, seek steps, subtitle style, auto-hide, play intent.
- Hotkeys A (cycle audio) / S (cycle subtitle), mouse-wheel volume, Ctrl+arrow fine
seek, per-user plain/fine seek-step + auto-hide toggle.
- Subtitle appearance: size / colour / vertical position / background via ::cue + line.
- UI: split into a Tracks quick-menu + a tabbed gear panel (Sync | Playback | Subtitle);
both dismiss on outside-click; edge-aware control tooltips.
- i18n en/hu/de for all new strings.
Shared links didn't unfurl in Messenger: robots.txt disallowed /watch/ for ALL
user-agents, so facebookexternalhit honoured it and got a blocked (403) fetch —
the OG tags were correct but never read. Add an allow group for the link-preview
bots (facebookexternalhit, Twitterbot, Discordbot, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram,
LinkedIn, …) so they can fetch share pages; the wildcard still keeps /watch/ out
of search indexes. Release v0.32.1.
A remote thumbnail as og:image is unreliable for the crawler — Facebook's signed
CDN URL expires (so an old shared link's image later vanishes) and cross-origin
hotlinking is flaky. Record a self-hosted poster for EVERY download (ensure_poster
returns the existing <base>.jpg thumbnail sidecar, or cuts a frame) and point
og:image at our own /api/public/watch/{token}/poster.jpg. Backfill now fills
poster_path for all existing downloads, not just thumbnail-less ones.
Two visual gaps for non-catalog downloads:
- Channel link: YouTube already exposes channel_url; Facebook exposes none but a
numeric uploader_id that resolves at facebook.com/<id>. `_uploader_url` derives
it so the auto-detected channel renders as a real clickable link.
- Poster: a source with no thumbnail (e.g. a direct reddit HLS URL) showed a
blank image box. The worker now cuts a representative frame with ffmpeg
(`ensure_poster`) into the `<base>.jpg` sidecar and records `poster_path`
(migration 0050). The card, the public watch page (<video poster> + og:image),
and link previews fall back to it via new authed + public poster endpoints.
Adds `app.downloads.backfill` (one-off, re-run-safe) to fill uploader_url
(re-extract YouTube/Facebook metadata) and posters for pre-existing downloads.
A download whose source title exceeded 255 chars (e.g. a recipe baked into a
Facebook video's title) failed with a StringDataRightTruncation: the worker
auto-fills an empty display_name from the title, which overflows the 255-char
column. Clip the title to 255 at every point it flows into display_name (worker
completion paths + enqueue); the full title is untouched on the asset. Pre-existing
latent bug, surfaced by an unusually long title.
Release v0.31.1.
The edit (pencil) action now edits a download's full display metadata — title,
channel name, channel link and any number of extra reference URLs — instead of
just the name. The channel and links render as clickable links on the library
card, and the channel link is auto-filled from the source (yt-dlp channel_url)
when available. Shared watch pages resolve the same per-download overrides, so a
rename/channel/link edit is reflected on the public /watch page too, with every
link clickable.
Adds migration 0049 (media_assets.uploader_url; download_jobs.display_uploader,
display_uploader_url, extra_links) and generalizes the rename endpoint into a
metadata update with URL validation. EN/HU/DE strings included.
Playlist view now groups a run of episodes from the same show into a
collapsible season/show block so a whole series doesn't sprawl into an
endless flat list; movies stay standalone (larger poster card in the
accordion). Two per-account layouts — Accordion and Tree — persisted via
LS.plexPlaylistLayout; show groups start collapsed. Reorder is drag &
drop (@dnd-kit): a show block moves as one unit, episodes reorder within
their show, keyboard-draggable via KeyboardSensor. Remove works per item,
per season, or per whole show. The add-to-playlist dialog is generalised
to a single leaf or a whole group (tri-state none/some/all with an in/size
count); the show page gains add buttons for an episode, a season, and the
whole show. i18n en/hu/de.
Personal ordered lists of Plex items, kept in Siftlode's own DB (works for users
without a Plex account, like watch-state) — the "your own lists" counterpart to
shared collections. Plex-direction sync is a later phase (plex_rating_key
reserved).
Backend: migration 0048 (plex_playlists + plex_playlist_items with position),
PlexPlaylist/PlexPlaylistItem models, and per-user CRUD endpoints under
/api/plex/playlists (list [+?contains for the add dialog], create [seeded],
detail [ordered cards], rename, delete, add/remove item, reorder). _leaf_card
handles the movie/episode mix. Frontend: "Add to playlist" dialog from the movie
info page (all users), a Playlists section in PlexSidebar (list + create),
PlexPlaylistView (reorder up/down, remove, rename, delete, Play all), and
PlexPlayer gained an optional `queue` so play-through follows the list order
(prev/next + auto-advance). i18n en/hu/de. Verified end-to-end on localdev
(backend CRUD + the create→add→view→play-through UI flow).
Admins can curate Plex collections from a movie's info page ("Collections"
button → PlexCollectionEditor dialog): create a collection (seeded with the
movie), add/remove the movie to/from editable collections, delete a collection,
and "take over" an existing plain Plex collection (mark it editable). All writes
go to Plex (POST/PUT/DELETE via new PlexClient methods) and are reflected on
every client; a targeted single-collection re-sync (sync.resync_collection /
delete_collection_local) updates the local mirror without the full ~4-min sync.
Gating (per the design decisions): editing is ADMIN-ONLY (collections are shared
library-wide); only plain manual collections are editable — smart + external
auto-lists (IMDb/TMDb/…) are always read-only (can_edit = editable && !smart &&
source=="collection"). New admin endpoints under /api/plex/collections
(create/items add+remove/rename/delete/editable). Verified end-to-end incl. the
live Plex write API (create/add/rename/remove/delete all 200, self-cleaned) and
the editor UI (create + delete with confirm) on localdev.
Selecting a subtitle restarted the HLS session with `-map 0:s:{ord}`, assuming an
EMBEDDED stream. Films whose subs are external sidecar .srt files (Plex reports
them, but they aren't in the mkv) matched no stream; the master-playlist's
declared subtitle group then made ffmpeg fail → "Playback couldn't start".
Subtitles now go through a new GET /api/plex/subtitle/{rk}/{ord} → text/vtt
(external subs fetched from Plex via the stream key + SRT→VTT; embedded text subs
extracted with ffmpeg; image subs → 415), served as native <video><track> that
the browser overlays. So choosing/switching a subtitle is instant with NO session
restart, and stream.py drops all subtitle muxing (`-sn`, no master playlist).
Image-based subs (PGS/VobSub) are marked text=false and hidden in the picker.
Verified on prod's Nymphomaniac Vol. II: HU sidecar → 1693 WebVTT cues, no crash.
Posters/art were proxied at full resolution (many 1-7MB, some 9.5MB) into ≤176px
grid/info cells — heavy to fetch + decode, so fast scrolling lagged 1-2s even
with a warm cache (the cache removed the Plex round-trip, not the image weight).
Now PlexClient.image_bytes optionally hits Plex's /photo/:/transcode to resize
server-side; the /image endpoint requests thumb=400x600, art=1280x720 and keys
the cache by width (old full-size files orphaned, re-cached small). Measured:
a poster 5.5MB->50KB, art 8.1MB->137KB, at 400x600 (crisp on 2x DPR). Grid
scroll is near-instant and the disk cache shrinks ~8x.
A collections page fires 100+ concurrent poster requests. Both image proxies
(/image and /person-image) authenticated via current_user + Depends(get_db),
holding a pooled DB connection for the whole request — including the slow Plex/
CDN fetch. Under the burst, the 15-connection pool was exhausted → QueuePool
checkout timeouts → 502s → slow, partially-loaded grids on prod.
Fix: authenticate these two high-fan-out endpoints with a signed-session check
(no DB user-load), serve disk-cache hits with zero DB access, and on a cold miss
open a short session only to resolve the image key + Plex config, releasing it
BEFORE the fetch (image_bytes uses no DB). Also raise the pool (20 + 30 overflow)
as headroom above the sync-endpoint threadpool.
From UAT feedback on the collections info page:
- Per-source show/hide toggles in the customize menu, one per collection-strip
type present on the item (Collections/IMDb/TMDb/…), persisted per account.
- Customize menu closes on Escape / outside click (reuses useDismiss).
- Preserve the info-page scroll position when returning from "Browse collection".
- Glassy refresh: content floats as .glass/.glass-card panels over a faint FIXED
art backdrop on the <main> scroller (HTPC-style, toggleable); frosted menu;
wider ~90% layout. Uses the existing glass surface system.
Derive a `source` bucket per collection from the already-synced title + smart
flag (no schema change, no re-sync): external list providers (IMDb/TMDb/TVDb/
Trakt) by leading token, Plex smart lists via the smart flag, everything else a
genuine "collection". Returned on each info-page collection strip so the client
can show/hide each type independently. Adds the stripSource labels (en/hu/de).
Backend (migration 0047_plex_collections): a plex_collections table mirrors every Plex
collection (card metadata + smart flag + an editable flag reserved for Phase 2); membership
is stored as GIN-indexed collection_keys on member movies (plex_items) and shows (plex_shows).
The background sync (plex_sync) now fetches each library's collections + their children and
rebuilds membership — so ALL reads are local (Plex's dual-language collection queries are slow;
this trades a ~4-min background sync for instant reads). New /api/plex/collections endpoint;
/browse gains a combinable filter; item_detail returns the movie's collection
'strips' (sibling titles as playable cards, smallest/most-specific collection first) — all pure
local lookups.
Frontend: PlexSidebar gains a searchable Collection picker + an active-collection chip;
PlexInfo renders the collection strips (playable posters + 'Browse collection' → sets the
filter); the collection is part of PlexFilters (persisted). i18n en/hu/de.
Phase 2 (create/edit collections with write-back to Plex) is separate.
Backend (migration 0046_plex_people_search): a new people_text column (cast +
director names, de-duped) is folded into the generated search_vector at weight B,
so the top search box finds titles by an actor/director name and ranks them above
summary-only mentions. New /api/plex/people endpoint returns the cast/crew matching
the term (name prefix or word-start) with a film count + a headshot (pulled from one
representative film's live metadata; image bytes disk-cached).
Frontend: PlexBrowse shows matching people as virtual cards above the grid; clicking
one adds them to the actor/director filter (multi-value, from the C1 work) and clears
the search box so you land on exactly that person's films. Answers the 'why does
"drew" match Rambo?' confusion — it was matching the word in the synopsis; now names
are searchable. i18n en/hu/de.
⚠️ Prod needs a Plex re-sync after deploy to populate people_text (search_vector
regenerates automatically once the column has data).
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