25 literal names covered 34 modules. plex/client.py, plex/stream.py,
plex/subtitles.py, plex/sync.py and two Plex route modules all called themselves
`siftlode.plex`; downloads/pipeline.py called itself `siftlode.worker`;
routes/channels.py called itself `siftlode.api`. The `logger` column is in every
stored row so E22.6's console can filter on it, and so an operator can pin a level
to one part of the system — neither works when six modules share a name.
`logs.get_logger(__name__)` derives it: app/plex/sync.py -> siftlode.plex.sync.
One name per module, and it cannot drift from the file it sits in.
tests/test_logger_names.py pins the derivation, that everything stays under the
one `siftlode` tree the handler and the tests attach to, and that no module
hand-rolls a name again unless the line says why (`# logger-name-ok: <why>`).
Two do: get_logger's own call, and `siftlode.http`, which is named for the traffic
it carries rather than the module it lives in — it replaced uvicorn's access log
and is what an operator pins when they want request lines and nothing else.
app/scheduler.py called its logger `logger`; every other module calls it `log`.
ruff gains LOG, G, T20, TRY400, TRY401 and S112. Four findings cleared with them:
worker.py logged `str(exc)[:120]` where the traceback was the whole question, and
three prints/f-strings that are deliberate now say so on the line. S110 and BLE001
stay off until S3 — 23 handlers are outstanding and each is a judgement about one
of them; enabling the rules first would just mean 23 blanket noqas.
The E22 redactor is a safety net over addresses and credential params, and every
one of these call sites was leaning on it to do the whole job. What it does not
cover went in whole, and what it does cover came out as a constant.
Not covered, so a real leak:
- routes/search.py logged the raw search term at ERROR. The privacy policy shipped
in 0.88.0 says a search string is kept only at Teljes/TRACE, with the user's own
consent. The ERROR line now carries the shape of the failure (source, candidate
and collected counts) and the term follows on a TRACE line, which nothing emits
unless that consent is in force.
- downloads/backfill.py logged the full source URL at INFO — a row of the user's
download history. Now the asset id and the host.
- youtube/client.py logged the upstream error body, which is prose that quotes the
request back. Every failing YouTube call now goes through one _upstream_failure()
that logs the API's `reason` code, keeps the body for the same consented TRACE
line, and raises a YouTubeError carrying `reason` as a field — callers put that
error in log lines of their own (routes/channels.py) and in a 422 answered to the
user, so the body must not travel in it either.
Covered, so merely useless: routes/auth.py named the account by an address that
reached both sinks as `[email]`, and app/email.py printed recipient lists that read
as `['[email]']`. Both now carry the uid (or a count) and a reason code, which is
also the first half of E22.5 S4's failed-sign-in coverage.
routes/channels.py branched on the text of that error message to recognise an
already-existing subscription. It now branches on `exc.reason`, with the substring
check kept beside it for a body that carried no reason at all.
tests/test_log_pii.py pins the call sites and the family: a source-level contract
test walks every log call in app/ and fails on an argument naming user-typed
content unless the line says why it is safe (`# log-pii-ok: <why>`). Eight sites
carry that marker today, each with its reason. Gate 8/8 green; all five cases
mutation-checked.
E22 (activity trail): a consented, self-expiring diagnostics level with the user's own log visible
before anything is sent, last sign-in, bilingual privacy policy and terms, an admin diagnostics
section, and pickers for every closed-set setting. Plus what the epic's measurements turned up on
the way: doubled chat delivery, Settings on a phone, locale-ignoring dates and numbers, and the
feed poll narrowed to followed channels.
Three round-1 fixes whose tests passed against the broken version too.
The focus restore keeps watching until the element that closed the box is GONE, rather than spending
itself on the first render after the change — the distinction Chrome exposed and jsdom did not,
because jsdom commits the save in one render where Chrome takes two. Driven now through the general
case instead: the user moved the focus elsewhere while the request was out, renders keep coming
while that element is still there, and the restore happens only once it disappears.
The choice test's i18n mock returned an option's bare value, which is exactly what dropping the
`config.choices.*` lookup renders — a Hungarian admin would have seen `on`/`off` instead of
`GPU`/`Szoftver` with the gate green. Marked labels now, still short enough not to move the
segmented-bar budget the same file measures.
The admin config row's stacking had no test at all, only its sibling fix did — and stacking is the
only fix for a text or number key, whose fixed-width input is the wide control. Class contract, as
SearchBar.dom.test.tsx already does for the narrow-header rules, since jsdom does no layout.
Also: the time-zone cleanup deleted TZ, and Node re-reads it on assignment only, so the process kept
the last zone the file set. Harmless until someone appends a test below it.
Picking "Alap" revokes the consent, and a batch still in flight is then answered by the server with
the same 409 a real expiry gets. The 409 arm only checked that the consent session had not changed,
not that this tab was still streaming — so the user's own log gained a "diagnostics level lapsed"
line for a level they had just turned off themselves, plus a pointless `me` refetch. The same guard
also stops a lapse this tab has already announced being announced a second time.
Measured in Chrome by holding the POST at the network layer, switching to Alap and only then
answering 409: the line appears without the guard and not with it.
Three tests that named the session counter never reached it — they settled the refusal while the
stream was already stopped, where `unsubscribe` does the work, so the counter could be deleted from
both arms with the suite green. The refusal now settles after the re-raise, which is the ordering it
exists for. Same for the queue trim on the 429 path: the old test unshifted a batch into an empty
queue, so the trim was a no-op and only the subscribe path was ever measured.
Two reviewers in a row read the admin card's selection against `run_deep_backfill`'s, saw it was
missing the job's `recent_synced_at` filter, and called it a card that counts channels the job will
never touch. It is the opposite: the card is the same backlog figure /api/sync/my-status shows the
user, and a channel still missing its recent pull is one the same job tick fetches first. Narrowing
it would hide genuinely queued work. Written down where the next reader will look.
Round 2 of the E22 review, on what round 1 changed.
`redact_query` decodes a parameter before the text rules see it, which is what lets `%40` be
recognised as an address — but `_SECRET_PARAM_RE` was written for the raw, encoded form, where a
value holds no space, `&` or quote. On decoded text its value class stops at the first one, so
`?state=a%20b` kept its tail and `?code=%20abc` was not matched at all. The parameter-NAME rule now
decides, on the key, before any text rule runs.
`forget_user` dropped the account's level elevation without recomputing the root level, so a process
whose only elevated account had just deleted itself kept building TRACE records to throw away, until
some later request happened to recompute it. Every other path that drops an elevation recomputes.
The sink's writer took the erasure lock and THEN waited for a pooled connection, while every request
path already holds a connection when it reaches that lock — so under pool pressure the writer held a
process-global lock against the very requests that could hand a connection back. Same order on both
sides now; the lock still spans the check, the insert and the commit.
The storage-budget notice said the rest of the hour was not kept, and then smaller batches kept
landing underneath it: the window slides and a refused batch is not charged to it. Says what it does.
Tests: the route's half of the erasure rule had no test — only the sink's did — and a source-level
contract test now covers the third insert nobody has written yet. `logs._erased` is process-global
with an hour's memory while the DB fixture hands serial ids back out from 1, so it is swept before
each test like the rate limiters are.
formatDate read a date-only value as UTC midnight and showed it in the viewer's zone, so the legal pages' last update read a day early west of UTC. Date-only values are shown in UTC. The legal pages' hand-rolled language buttons are the landing page's LanguageSwitcher. formatDateTime and formatDate get the two-language test formatNumber already had.
A segmented bar cannot shrink or wrap, and the five log levels (~300 px) are wider than a phone leaves beside the navigation rail. A choice is a bar only when its labels are short; the rows stack below sm.
Deep-review round 1 of E22.
- After a 429 the stream sent one POST per new event while a full batch
waited; it now stays quiet for 15 s. Past the queue cap the oldest
events go, as the comment always said, a refused batch included.
- A batch refused after the level was lowered came back into the queue
of a later consent in the same tab; each consent is its own session.
- A `me` fetch that left before a level or preference change could put the
old value back for up to a minute. `updateMeCache` writes the cache and
cancels that fetch; usePref goes through it too.
- The consent box's buttons and "revert now" took the focus with them to
<body>; it returns to the level picker. Watched until the button is
gone — in Chrome the saved level arrives in two renders, and a one-shot
check spent itself on the first (jsdom never showed it).
- The countdown line is no longer a live region re-read every minute.
- "Saját napló" rows were keyed by index on a newest-first list, so every
new event remounted every row and dropped the focus off a row button.
The explore purge rebuilt followed_channel's two EXISTS clauses inline, so what is polled and what may be deleted could drift; it now uses the predicate, which moved to sync/explore.py. The env validator and sysconfig each folded a choice value on their own; both call config.canonical_choice. The deep-backfill comment no longer calls recent backfill unconditional.
The bind sat inside the try, so it was already reset when the crash line and the cleanup were logged — the one line most worth finding by job id had none.
Deep-review round 1 of E22.
- A NUL character (`GET /assets/%00` logs the decoded path) made Postgres
refuse the row and with it the sink's whole batch, every user's rows
included. `to_row` replaces NUL in every text column and in attrs.
- An erased account's lines kept arriving after purge_user's DELETE: the
erasing request's own access line, a queued row, a background task.
`logs.forget_user` runs first; later rows are stored without the account,
and the check and the insert share a lock with the erasure.
- An admin setting the whole process to TRACE logged every user's query
string. The query is now logged only under the user's own Teljes consent,
and decoded before redaction, so `%40` no longer hides an address.
- The browser log ingest has an hourly storage budget per account (5 MiB,
one notice when spent) and reads only a JSON Content-Type, so a
same-site text/plain form post cannot write into a user's log.
RateLimiter takes a per-attempt cost for the byte budget.
- The root level is applied under the elevation lock: two concurrent
changes could leave it at the base while an elevation was active.
- Tests for the running sink (level gate, drain on stop) and for the
admin log level applied at runtime and at boot.
- Home tests mocked the api without downloadIndex, so every card's download button logged a
missing-queryFn error (64 stderr blocks per run).
- QueryState rendered without an i18n instance; Modal.fullscreen awaited a synchronous act,
which React reports as an act environment it does not support.
- pytest: Starlette 1.x's TestClient is built on httpx2 and warned on every run without it
(pinned in requirements-dev); alembic.ini declares its path separator.
The 43 react-refresh/only-export-components warnings the gate let through meant an edit to a
provider (or AnchoredPopover, Toaster, plexDetailUi, …) could not be hot-swapped: Fast Refresh
reloads a module that also exports hooks or helpers.
- Each provider's contexts, the types its hooks return and the hooks themselves live in a sibling
context module (navigationContext.ts, channelsContext.ts, …); the provider file keeps the
component. loadAccountFilters moved next to the feed filters' defaults (feedFiltersInit.ts),
following navigationInit/playlistsInit.
- Helpers that sat in component files have their own modules: welcomeMode, downloadTitle,
plexPlayable, channelSync, ui/anchoredPopoverHooks, ui/pageToolbarSlot, ui/pagerContent,
ui/toastLevels, ui/overlayOrder, ui/tableAlign, lib/plexDetail; the cells of the channel columns
and the registry's page wrappers are components files of their own (channelCells, modulePages).
- usePersistedTab, an alias of useAccountPersistedState, is gone; its callers use the original.
npm run lint is now eslint --max-warnings 0, so a warning fails the gate like an error does.
The 12 react-hooks/exhaustive-deps warnings the gate let through:
- ShareDialog and YearFilter built a fresh [] per render while their query loaded, so their
memos recomputed on every render; they share one empty list now.
- VideoEditor's drag effect called a seek/moveBoundary recreated each render; both are stable
callbacks in its deps.
- WizardProvider re-checks onboarding on exactly the fields it reads (not the me object, whose
60 s refetch would reopen a closed wizard).
- Channels, Feed and PlexPlayer list the stable values they already used.
- The player's keydown effect is bound once on purpose (its helpers read refs): said so, with a
disable, as the codebase's other deliberate sites do.
- dialogFocus and the YouTube player's cleanup read refs React may already have let go of; they
use what they captured when the effect ran.
A user can raise their diagnostics level to Részletes (DEBUG) or Teljes (TRACE) for 24 hours from a
new Settings tab, after a consent box that says what is recorded, that the server keeps it and for
how long (the instance's own retention), and that it lapses. Alap is the base and needs no consent.
- users.diagnostics_level/_until (migration 0087), written only by PUT /api/me/diagnostics, which
computes the expiry itself; the demo account cannot raise it. /api/me reports the level in force.
- The server logs an elevated user's requests at that level and stores every line of them
(logs.LevelGate on the stdout handler and the sink; the root is lowered only while an elevation
is active). Teljes adds the redacted query string to the request line.
- POST /api/diagnostics/events stores the browser's log as source=web rows: account from the
session, body capped while streaming, events/attrs capped, re-redacted, events under the
consented level dropped, timestamps clamped, 30 batches a minute, 409 once the level lapsed.
- lib/diagnostics.ts applies the level to the tab and streams only what happens after consent, in
batches, never its own request lines, with a keepalive flush on pagehide; stops on lapse (its
own timer), on withdrawal and on 409.
- Detail hooks at DEBUG: which control was clicked (test id, icon, app copy in English — never user
text, input values or a link's query), visibility/bfcache/resize, filter changes
(lib/filterLog.ts; typed search only at TRACE), player events (lib/mediaLog.ts; media errors are
warnings at every level). Offline/online at the base level.
- "Saját napló" viewer: live, newest first, level groups with counts, search, row details, copy
the filtered events as JSON lines, clear.
- Privacy policy and Terms exist in Hungarian and English (a contract test holds both languages to
the same sections); the policy now describes the server logs and diagnostic logging, self-service
deletion and password sign-in.
Fixed on the way:
- A sync auth dependency ran logs.set_user on a copied context, so the account never reached a
handler's own log lines (measured); a per-request mutable scope carries it now.
- The Settings tab rail left a phone no room (clipped labels, buttons over text): below `sm` it is
a scrolling row above the content.
- PUT /api/me/preferences took a bare dict body; it is a Pydantic model now.
The browser now keeps its half of the one event shape logs.py defines:
lib/log.ts is a levelled, redacted, bounded (2000 events) in-memory ring
with the server's level names and severity numbers. Nothing leaves the
browser yet; sending is the consented diagnostics level (S5).
- lib/http.ts `send` is the one fetch: every request carries an
X-Request-Id and becomes one http.request event. The server echoes the
matched route template in X-Route (only for a matched route, so a raw
path with a value in it is never sent back); without one the client
templates the path itself. req, beacon, the upload XHR, the public
watch page and the legal pages all go through it.
- Hooks: app start snapshot, uncaught errors and rejections, History
push/replace/popstate (a scroll-only replace is not an event; parameter
values only at DEBUG, typed search only at TRACE), notifications, the
error dialog, the crash boundary, failed queries and mutations (key
head only), and the messages socket (lifecycle, frame types at DEBUG).
- Redaction is one contract: backend/tests/fixtures/log_redaction_cases.json
runs against both redact() implementations.
- Lint: fetch, XMLHttpRequest and WebSocket each belong to one logging
module, console to none; a contract test proves the rules fire.
Fixes a socket takeover: the close of a socket released by the last
subscriber cleared the newer socket a quick re-subscribe had opened and
scheduled a third, leaving two live sockets that delivered every message
twice (measured in Chromium: 3 created / 2 live before, 2 / 1 after).
The scheduled RSS poll and recent backfill covered every channel row,
but rows also come from search results, playlist sync and dropped
subscriptions, and nothing deletes them. On prod 582 of 979 polled
channels had no follower, three of them dead feeds answering 404 on
every poll. Both jobs now take subscribed or explored channels only,
and the scheduler card counts the same set. As a deliberate trade-off,
the shared Library no longer receives new uploads from channels nobody
follows.
The log now has a stored, queryable copy for the diagnostics console:
every WARNING and above plus the request line of every request, kept
for log_retention_days (default 7, no "forever") and pruned hourly by
the new log_gc job.
Rows are built on the logging thread from the same redacted fields as
the stdout line, queued without blocking and written in batches by one
background thread on its own connection. A full queue or a failed write
drops and reports instead of retrying. Flood control keeps 30 of any
one message per minute plus a count of the rest; anonymous request
lines are capped at 60 a minute per client, and the client address is
never stored. Deleting an account deletes its stored events.
Measured on prod first: a YouTube RSS outage wrote 11k warnings in four
hours, one per channel per poll. The poll now writes one warning with
per-reason counts and a few examples, and a failure on our side gets
one traceback per poll instead of one per channel.
"Naplózás" (logging) named the audit log in the nav, its page and its
Configuration tab, right beside the new "Naplózási szint" (log level)
under Diagnosztika — two different things under one word. The scheduler
hint also pointed at a "Beállítások → Naplózás" path that does not
exist; it is Konfiguráció → Auditnapló, as the English already says.
log_level, search_source, download_layout and the transcode hw/preset
were typed by hand, and every consumer carried its own guess at what a
typo meant. The value set is now a Literal in config.py: pydantic
rejects a bad env value at boot (any letter case accepted), sysconfig
refuses a bad override and derives the admin picker's options from the
same Literal, and the consumers read the value as-is.
The Configuration page renders a choice key as a segmented bar, or a
dropdown past six options, with translated option names. Its tabs now
follow the registry's order instead of a hand-kept copy that had
already dropped the explore group.
A single-choice FilterSelect now opens on the option in use: in the
browser it could land on the first row instead.
A review round read yt-dlp's source and found the comment behind the previous commit's safety-net
marker did not match it. Measured in the worker with a real account cookie and
`player_client=android_vr`: yt-dlp logs `Skipping client "android_vr" since it does not support
cookies`, drops it, and the request left with no client fails with "Requested format is not
available" — not "No player clients have been requested". That raise sits EARLIER in yt-dlp, before
the cookie-capability removal, so the cookie path can never reach it; and an unknown or renamed
client is skipped with a warning and replaced by yt-dlp's defaults, so the other scenario the
comment named cannot reach it either.
So the marker bought nothing: the symptom that does occur was already retriable here before this
branch. It is dropped, the comment now states what was measured, and the test asserts the real
symptom instead of a message the code cannot produce. The cookie-capability filter itself is
vindicated by the same measurement — without it every signed-in download would burn its first
attempt on a client yt-dlp discards.
Also from the round: an enqueue test for a `source_kind="youtube"` job, the one join nothing else
made (a YouTube job stores a bare 11-char ref and the URL the cookie gate keys on is rebuilt by the
adapter — both ends were pinned apart, the join was not, and a break there would stop every YouTube
cookie silently while signed-out downloads kept working). And copy corrections: the group's only
unhedged claim is hedged, "described the video" loses the pipeline vocabulary, and four Hungarian
phrasings that read as translated English are rewritten.
Measured on the isolated test stack the same night, on the very same video ~90 minutes after it was
answering with the bot message: yt-dlp got the player response and picked its formats, and the CDN
then refused the stream itself — "unable to download video data: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden".
Signed out it did that on every attempt; with the owner's cookie attached the video downloaded in
full. So the wall moves between the player response and the stream, and the text it wears there was
costing the download twice.
retriable: the format URLs belong to the client that minted them, so the next client set is a real
second chance — but this text classifies as `network` and nothing in the YouTube marker list matched
it, so the ladder ended the job on attempt 1 and never tried the fallback.
catalog: `youtube.media_forbidden` for the cookie-less case, so the UI stops calling it a network
error when nothing was wrong with the network, and names what actually gets past it. Scoped exactly
as narrowly as the measurement: another host keeps the generic `network` category, and so does a
download that already carried a cookie — telling a signed-in user to sign in is the failure the
catalog exists to avoid. EN + HU copy.
A YouTube link can fail with "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" while every
other YouTube download works — YouTube gates INDIVIDUAL videos behind a
signed-in session. Measured on prod job 273: all twelve of yt-dlp's player
clients fail on that one video while its neighbours download fine, the bgutil
PO-token sidecar is live and answering, and the newest yt-dlp fails identically.
So the download is not broken by our stack or a stale yt-dlp, and no retry,
client switch or upgrade gets past it. A cookie is the only way in.
The failure copy already sends the user to Settings -> Account -> Download
authentication, but YouTube was not in the cookie host registry, so that
dropdown could not help them: the app asked for something it did not offer.
credentials: YouTube joins SUPPORTED_HOSTS (youtube.com, youtu.be,
youtube-nocookie.com). The Settings dropdown, the SEC-12 host scope and the
private-asset cache salt all derive from the row, so that is the whole wiring.
adapters: a signed-in YouTube download runs only cookie-capable player clients.
Measured against yt-dlp's own INNERTUBE_CLIENTS table: with account cookies
attached yt-dlp REMOVES every client whose SUPPORTS_COOKIES is False, and a set
it empties that way raises "No player clients have been requested" — which is
not a per-client flake it retries past. Our primary set is android_vr, one of
those, so without this the cookie would have failed the download on attempt 1
and never reached the POT-backed web fallback it exists for. A test pins the
client list against the installed yt-dlp so a version bump turns the gate red
instead of silently un-authing every YouTube download, and the empty-set message
joins the retriable markers as the second line of defence.
errors: catalog entries for the wall with and without a cookie, so a user who
has already added cookies is told they were rejected (YouTube rotates exported
ones) rather than to add some. The marker is quote-agnostic: YouTube writes the
apostrophe as U+2019, so "you're not a bot" with a straight quote never matches
the real text. EN + HU copy.
A deployment printed four different log formats and none of them could be
joined up: uvicorn's log_config.json for the API, a hand-rolled StreamHandler in
main.py for anything not started by uvicorn, logging.basicConfig() in the worker
and in the download child (no timestamp at all), and alembic's fileConfig.
app/logs.py replaces all four with one JSON line per event (OpenTelemetry's log
data model, no SDK): ts, level, severity, source, logger, event code, message,
attributes, plus the correlation the context carries — request id, account,
download job.
Redaction is applied at the HANDLER, not at the call sites: every message, every
attribute and every traceback is scrubbed on the way out, so a secret cannot
leak by being forgotten at one of ~125 call sites. Passwords, tokens, cookies,
secret config values and email addresses never reach a line.
The access log is ours now (`http.request`): the route template instead of the
concrete path, the status, the duration and the account — and never the query
string, which uvicorn's access log printed on every single request (`?account=`,
`?source=`, the `?token=` of a share link). A well-formed client request id is
accepted and echoed in X-Request-Id, so a browser line and a server line join up.
The account comes from `request.state`, filled by the auth dependency: the
middleware is the outermost one, so it runs outside SessionMiddleware and in a
different task context.
`log_level` becomes an admin knob (sysconfig), applied without a restart and
re-applied at startup — best-effort on purpose, since a logging knob must never
be what stops the app from booting. Every compose service gets bounded json-file
logs (3×50 MB): Docker keeps every line forever by default, and the API now
writes one line per request.
Verified on the localdev stack: JSON everywhere including alembic and the
worker, the query strings gone, a supplied X-Request-Id echoed and logged, and
three /healthz hits of which only the one made while the level was DEBUG
produced a line.
`n.toLocaleString()` groups in the BROWSER's locale, so an English UI in a
Hungarian browser printed "1 234 567" while a Hungarian UI in an English
browser printed "1,234,567" — the number half of the date defect fixed in
618ef812. One `formatNumber` in lib/format.ts (a per-language cached
Intl.NumberFormat, like the relative-time formatters beside it) now serves
every grouped figure: Stats, Scheduler, the channel columns and the stats
popover, VideoCard's view tooltip, the ItemCount pill, and formatTotalHours.
ReleaseNotes' `toLocaleDateString(undefined, …)` was the one DATE site the
previous sweep missed; it moves onto formatDate.
The new cases assert both languages and that the two differ, instead of
comparing against the runtime's own default: that default is Hungarian on the
dev box and English on a CI image, so a one-language assertion would pass
under the old bug on half the machines. Verified in Chromium on :5173 with the
browser forced to hu-HU and the UI in English — Stats, Scheduler and the
channel table all keep comma grouping.
Seven sites formatted with a bare toLocaleString()/toLocaleDateString(), so an
English UI on a Hungarian machine printed Hungarian-shaped dates (and the reverse).
They now go through formatDateTime/formatDate, which take the i18n language.
A right-aligned column at the end of every Users & roles row says how long ago the
account signed in, with the exact moment as the hint and as a line in the account
panel; a dash where nothing is recorded, and the demo account says it is not recorded.
formatDateTime formats that moment in the UI language rather than the browser's.
users.last_login_at (migration 0085, no backfill) is stamped by _establish_session,
which the Google callback now shares with password login instead of repeating its
session setup inline. The demo entry does not stamp its shared account. The admin
user list carries the field.
The providers mount for the public landing too, and the saved-views query had no
enabled gate, so every signed-out load logged a 401 for /api/saved-views. The query
now waits for a signed-in account in BootGate's me cache, like WizardProvider.
Deep-review round 4, targeted at round 3's changes (f569b19c..e7f38396).
Accounts
- Switching, adding or signing out an account moved the tab's pin before
the page unloaded, so the players' resume beacons fired on the way out
under the NEW account: one account's playback position saved into the
other. The pin is now handed to the next page (pinOnNextPage) and taken
over at import; clearActiveAccount is gone.
- Switching to a suspended account was refused but left it in the
switcher, refused on every click; a deactivated one was not refused at
all, and made the default it signed every account in the browser out on
the next request. Every account _session_user would refuse — gone,
deactivated, suspended, revoked — is refused and dropped from the list.
Share page (/watch)
- An IPv6 client is limited by its /64 (client_ip becomes client_key, for
every limiter): keyed on the full address, one subscriber could rotate
through endless identities. The comments now state what the per-link
ceiling costs: guessing from five networks can keep a link shut for its
window, and guesses already running when it fills are still checked.
- The link is looked up before the limiter records the attempt, so made-up
tokens no longer grow it by an entry each.
Forms
- Failing the same way twice is announced again: the sign-in, passphrase
and setup errors are keyed on the attempt (a clear and a set in one
handler left the alert node untouched).
- The install wizard's own validation showed the generic error — it threw
plain objects its catch did not read. It sets the step's message.
Tests: a re-pin leaving the previous account's notices behind; the pin
hand-over; switching to an ended account; the /64 viewer; made-up tokens;
the repeated alerts. Each mutation-checked RED for its own reason.
Deep-review round 3 over main..improvement/watch-background-audio.
Account boot
- The notification history and settings, and the hints toggle, are read
when their modules load, which in a new tab (bookmark, typed URL) is
before BootGate pins the account: they read as nobody's, and the tab's
first notice replaced the account's stored history (up to 100 entries)
with a one-item list. They now read again when the tab is pinned
(onAccountPinned, run by setActiveAccount); a notice raised before the
pin stays, after the history.
- A tab pinned to an account still in this browser's wallet but whose
session ended (suspended, deleted, or revoked by "log out everywhere")
got "signed out" from /api/me while the default account was still
signed in, and signing in again as anyone else left it there. A refused
per-tab account now leaves the wallet, and the probe answers as the
default, so the tab reloads onto it.
Share page (/watch)
- The password unlock is limited per viewer (link + client IP), under a
per-link ceiling that counts only wrong passwords. Keyed on the link
alone, ten wrong guesses every five minutes locked out every viewer,
the ones with the password included. client_ip moves to app.ratelimit
so the public routes can key on it.
- Its failure messages and the load-failure screen are announced
(role=alert, the password input described by its error). The sign-in,
passphrase, password-change and setup form errors get role=alert too.
Comments that still described removed machinery are corrected: App's
collapse flags, SettingsPanel's Save bar, ConfigPanel, authed_format_sig.
Tests: the account's history and hints across the pin; a revoked and a
suspended pinned account; the per-viewer limit and the ceiling; the
limiter's exhausted(); the share page's announced failures; a share
link's feed filters persisted. Each mutation-checked RED for its own
reason.
Deep-review round 2 over main..improvement/watch-background-audio.
Account resolution (server)
- A request naming an account that is no longer signed in to this browser
(X-Siftlode-Account or ?account=) now acts as nobody instead of the
session's default account. A tab still pinned to an account signed out in
another tab went on acting as the default: its player checkpoints and
preference saves landed in that account, the messages socket and Plex
playback ran as it, and its Sign out signed THAT account out. A hidden tab
never polls /api/me, so a tab playing in the background kept doing it.
The /api/me bootstrap probe alone keeps the fallback, which is how such a
tab learns who it now is: the app's 401 handler reloads, and BootGate
re-pins the tab.
BootGate
- On an identity change the tab reloads without moving its pin first. The
tree being torn down still runs its unmount saves before the page goes,
and with the pin already moved they wrote into the new account's local
keys (a player volume still pending). The reloaded page corrects the pin.
Share page (/watch)
- Only a 404 says the link is gone. A 5xx, a dropped connection, and the
unlock's own rate limit all rendered "no longer available ... expired or
revoked" to a viewer with a valid link, with no way to try again. A load
failure now offers Retry; too many password tries says so and keeps the
form; an unlock that gets no answer says so instead of doing nothing.
Strings in en/hu/de.
Downloads
- A cookie-authed asset is recognised under the current signature version
and the one before it, so a job queued before a deploy that bumps the
version still downloads with its cookie instead of failing on the login
wall with an error that says no cookie was used.
The app chunk is preloaded through lazyWithPreload, so a failed fetch no
longer leaves an unhandled rejection beside the ErrorBoundary. The panel
layout seed is one helper (seedLayout).
Tests: the stale-tab refusal, its harmless Sign out and the probe fallback;
the pre-bump authed asset; BootGate keeping the pin on reload and staying
mounted through a same-account change; the reveal clock's later-commit
hand-off; the prefs, panel layout and demo-scope seeds from the me cache;
the share page's failure states. Each mutation-checked RED for its own
reason.
Deep-review round 1 over main..improvement/watch-background-audio.
BootGate
- The tab's account pin is corrected to the account the server answered as.
The server honours the pin only for an account still signed in to this
browser and otherwise answers as the default, so a tab pinned to an account
signed out in another tab ran as the default on the server while reading
and writing the gone account's local state.
- A mounted tab whose identity changes (its session ended, or the case above)
reloads instead of rebuilding the tree in place, like every account switch;
that also drops the previous account's query cache. The account key on the
tree goes: the readyFor gate already unmounted it on every change.
- An unanswered setup probe shows the error with Retry, like an unanswered
account probe, instead of the signed-out landing to a signed-in user.
- Comments: /api/me never 401s; the ended-session path is identity → nobody.
Loading states
- LoadingState's reveal delay is one clock across loading states that hand
over to each other (boot screen → page-chunk fallback → the page's own
fetching state), instead of a CSS delay restarted by each, which blanked a
visible spinner for another 300 ms at every hand-off. BootScreen is now the
shared loading visual, full screen, counting from navigation start.
Plex shared link
- Persists only the dimensions the link carries again. Writing the default
filters for an omitted `pf` created the stored-filters key, which is what
tells SavedViewsProvider the account picked filters, so the account's
default Plex saved view was never applied again.
Watch page
- The Repeat toggle uses the shared pressed-pill paint (a solid fill when on)
instead of Button variants that differ only in colour, and its flag goes
through storage.ts readJSON/writeJSON.
- The actions wrap under the title when the row is too narrow, instead of
squeezing the title into a column a word wide on a phone; the title breaks
long words.
Comments that still justified code by the removed adopt effects (usePref,
PrefsProvider, FeedViewProvider) are rewritten against the seed-once model.
Tests: BootGate error/retry for both probes, setup mode, a failed background
refetch keeping the app, the pin correction and the reload on an identity
change; the shared reveal clock; the Plex link persist; the audio signature
actually moved off version 4; a video download (av and v) still remuxed to
an mp4. Each mutation-checked RED for its own reason.
On iPad Brave, a shared video stopped the moment the browser left the
foreground, even with Brave's "Enable Background Audio" on, while an mp3
kept playing. Brave iOS keeps a web <video> going by re-playing one the OS
paused (brave-core ios/browser/web/media/resources/media_backgrounding.ts),
but it only hooks a <video> present at document start or added as a
MutationObserver addedNode that IS a video. React inserts a player's
<video> inside its freshly mounted wrapper in one go, so Brave never saw it.
lib/browserBackgroundPlay re-inserts a mounted <video> at its own position,
once per element: it becomes an added node, the DOM React manages does not
change, and playback is not interrupted. The watch page, the downloads
library player and the Plex player hand their <video> to it. Measured on the
owner's iPad (Brave) with a prototype of the same idea: the video kept
playing in another app and with the screen locked. The YouTube modal is not
ours to change: its <video> lives in YouTube's cross-origin iframe, and
nothing of ours pauses it on backgrounding.
The prototype's two audio-element variants (a muted video following an
<audio>, and an <audio> taking over on hide) went silent in the background on
the iPad and are removed.
The watch page gets a Repeat toggle, on by default and remembered per
browser (LS.watchRepeat; the page has no account): it sets `loop` on the
<video> or the audio-only <audio>.
On iPad Brave a shared mp3 keeps playing when the browser leaves the
foreground, but a shared h264 video stops at once, even with Brave's own
"Enable Background Audio" on. Three variants behind a `?bg=` param on the
/watch page, for a real-iPad comparison; without the param the page is
unchanged.
a: the sound comes from a hidden <audio> on the same file, the <video> runs
muted and follows it (drift correction, user seeks and mute moved onto
the audio; our own catch-up seeks are not copied back, which re-seeked
the sound on every correction and sent both back seconds in WebKit).
b: the <video> plays with sound; an <audio> unlocked by the start tap takes
over while the page is hidden and hands back on return.
c: no audio trick: the <video> is inserted as a node of its own into an
already-mounted wrapper. Brave iOS's background play only hooks a video
present at document start or added as a MutationObserver addedNode that
IS a video (brave-core ios/browser/web/media/resources/
media_backgrounding.ts); the page inserted the video inside a new wrapper
in one go, so Brave never saw it. A re-implementation of that detection
rule reports the default page's video unhooked and mode c's hooked.
Modes a and b were driven in Chromium and WebKit with a simulated backgrounding
(document.hidden forced plus the OS's pause): sound continues, the picture
catches up on return, a user pause stops both. iPadOS's own media policy can
only be judged on the iPad.
The Vite dev proxy had no `ws: true` on /api, so the in-app messages socket
(/api/messages/ws) was an upgrade nobody handled: it never connected on :5173,
and the first reset on it (a closed tab, a dropped connection) threw an
unhandled ECONNRESET that took the whole dev server down. Reproduced with a raw
upgrade + RST (dev server dead); with `ws: true` the backend answers the
upgrade, the dev server survives the reset and a closed tab, and the signed-in
socket is accepted through the proxy.
The Playwright net now runs every flow in three projects: chromium (Desktop
Chrome), webkit (Desktop Safari) and ipad (iPad gen 7 landscape: touch, mobile
viewport). WebKit catches the engine-level differences every iOS browser
inherits; the config and the README say plainly what it does NOT catch: iPad
media refusals. Playwright's WebKit decodes through the host OS, and on Windows
it played an mp3-in-mp4 and an AV1 mp4 that a real iPad refuses, so media
formats are checked on a real iPad against the dev stack over the LAN.
global.setup opts the e2e account out of starting on Home (the Startup setting),
which the feed, channel and player specs need since E24. It only takes effect
with the new-tab boot fix: before it, all twelve of those specs landed on Home
in every project. 49/49 green on :8080 across the three projects.
With Settings -> Appearance -> Startup turned off, every NEW tab or window still
opened on Home; only a same-tab reload honoured it. The provider tree mounted
before /api/me answered, so NavigationProvider's initializer could not read the
per-account opt-out, landed on Home and mirrored ?page=home into the address bar.
When App pinned the account a moment later, the re-hydrate re-read that mirror
and stayed on Home. The same mount-then-patch shape made a new tab start on
default filters, the default theme and the browser language, and correct each
after the first paint.
BootGate (main.tsx, above the providers) now owns the setup-status and /api/me
queries and mounts the tree only once the identity is settled: it pins the tab's
account and adopts the account's language in a layout effect, so the first frame
of the app is already right. The tree is keyed on the account id, which makes
"per-account state is read once, for this account" a structural guarantee.
With that, the whole re-hydrate machinery is gone: useAccountRehydrate, the
reactive active-account store, the markDirty guards, the pin-deferred saved-view
seed and the present-dimension bookkeeping of the shared Channels/Plex links.
PrefsProvider, FeedFiltersProvider, usePref and App's panel layouts seed from the
me cache instead of adopting it in an effect; the theme is applied in layout
effects. The app chunk is fetched in parallel with the probe, and the boot screen
only fades its label in after 400 ms, on one clock across the gate and the
Suspense fallback.
Module switches no longer flash a placeholder either. Measured frame by frame
in Chromium and WebKit, every first visit to a module showed "Loading..." for
17-70 ms: the lazy chunk's Suspense fallback, then often the first fetch's
LoadingState. Pages are now lazyWithPreload components, and App fetches the
chunks of every module the account can reach (plus the channel page) once the
first page is idle; a preloaded page renders synchronously and never suspends.
LoadingState, the one shared loading visual, fades in only after 300 ms, so a
fast load shows nothing in between and a slow one still gets its spinner.
Since a Facebook cookie was added on prod, every reel came down titled
"Video": measured on dev, a signed-in read gives yt-dlp the placeholder
"Video" (an 18+ reel read as Chrome gives "Facebook") while the post's text
is still in the description. A new SourceAdapter.title hook takes the whole
first line of the description in that case, and both title writes (the early
fill and the finished download) go through it, so the row, the file name and
the share preview carry the post's text again. The line is not cut with an
ellipsis: normalize_title's NFKC turns "…" into "..." and collapses it to
".", which read as a finished sentence (seen in dev UAT).
The "Audio (MP3)" profile's extracted .mp3 was remuxed into an .mp4 by the
browser-safe step (the audio spec is clamped to container mp4 too) and served
as video/mp4, which iPad's WebKit will not play (prod job 268). Audio mode now
skips that step, so an .mp3 is served as audio/mpeg and an .m4a as audio/mp4.
Audio downloads version their cache identity on their own (v5), so a cached
remuxed audio re-derives without re-downloading every cached video.
Pause now re-reads the job under the same asset-then-job row lock as resume,
cancel, delete and redownload. Its unlocked write waited for a concurrent
cancel's lock and then set the released job back to paused, a holding status,
so a later delete released the same hold again and could free a file another
user's job still held (measured: the overlapping-request test ends 'paused'
instead of 'canceled' with the old read). The lock test now calls the route
handlers, so it also pins which helper each route uses.
Comments follow the code: resolve_url's contract names both verdicts and that a
failed page read is raised as itself; the inherited-failure diagnosis asks the
cookie gate as it stands when the job is claimed, so its advice fits the cookie
that job's Retry would use; the undecryptable-cookie warning no longer claims a
download goes ahead, since the worker parent reaches it only to diagnose.
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