Twelve mails carried hardcoded English while the app itself has enforced HU/EN parity since E5.
A mail is the one user-facing surface nobody can re-render by switching the UI language: it arrives
once, in whatever language we picked, and stays that way. That made the epic's own headline mail —
"one mail, one click" — English for a Hungarian reader.
The text moved to a catalog (`mailtext.py`) with a `text(key, lang, **vars)` renderer, and the parity
rule is now a test rather than a habit: every key must carry both languages AND the same
`{placeholders}`. A translation that drops `{link}` sends a mail with no link in it; one that invents
a placeholder raises inside a background task nobody is watching. Both are silent in production.
Every `send_*` takes the language as its second argument, resolved by the REQUEST handler and never
inside the mail — these all run as background tasks, after the request's session is gone, which is
the same reason the approval mail computes its link in the handler.
Where the language comes from, in order: the account's own preference; failing that, the language the
person asked us in; failing that, English. The middle one is new — `invites.lang`, migration `0082` —
because the mails an access request produces go to an address that usually has no account yet, and
the signal does exist: the page their form was submitted from, or the locale Google reported for a
sign-in we refused. Captured rather than derived, for the third time in this epic (`google_email` in
S3, `preferences.language` in S6 taught the same lesson): a signal that exists only in one moment
cannot be backfilled later. So the admin is asked in exactly one place — the invitation to an address
they typed in themselves, where nobody has ever told us anything.
That send is now a dialog rather than a bare click, which is also where the "you already wrote to
them" warning belongs — it used to live only in a tooltip the admin may never hover, guarding the one
action whose failure mode is mailing a real person twice.
S6's registration `lang` field turned out to be dead on arrival: the backend accepted it, the
frontend never sent it, so every account has been storing nothing. The request builders now stamp the
UI language themselves — a signal that has to be passed in by every caller is one every caller can
forget, which is exactly how it shipped unset.
Admins are notified one mail per language group instead of one blast to everyone. They are people
with their own UI language; a single message would have to pick one of them and be wrong for the rest.
Also removes a duplicated `invited_at` column declaration on `Invite` (two identical definitions
landed in S6).
B-core-3 (2026-08-17 review): decouple two things from router modules.
1. Feed read-model → new app/feedquery.py: the pure query-building and
row-serialization layer (feed_columns, serialize, _filtered_query,
to_tsquery_str, and the keyset-pagination helpers) moves out of
routes/feed.py, which keeps only the route handlers, _feed_params, and
the request models. The three external consumers (playlists, search,
plex/browse) now import from app.feedquery instead of reaching into the
feed router.
2. admin_user sweep: 7 modules imported admin_user via app.routes.admin
(an incidental re-export of app.auth.admin_user). Repoint them all to
the definition in app.auth (audit, channels, config, quota, scheduler,
plex/admin, plex/browse); routes.admin keeps its own import for its use.
Pure code motion — no behaviour change. Full DB-lane suite 287 passed /
2 skipped; ruff clean.
- scheduler _run_changed: count a run as "changed" only on a truthy NUMERIC
value — status-string no-op dicts like {"skipped":"disabled"} (Plex off, the
default) or {"skipped":"no demo account"} were flooding the trail every interval.
- audit.record: truncate target_id to the column width (128) like summary[:255],
so an over-long target (e.g. a 128+ char demo email) can't abort the mutation
the audit row is committed alongside.
- config set/reset: redact URL userinfo (user:pass@) from logged non-secret
values — a proxy setting can embed credentials that shouldn't land in the trail.
- config set: skip the audit row when a non-secret value didn't actually change
(no-op re-save shouldn't add noise); secrets are write-only so always logged.
- audit page title (pageMeta): add the missing "audit" case so the browser tab
reads "Audit log · Siftlode" instead of falling back to "Feed".
Add a generic admin-editable config layer (epic 4a): system_config KV table
(migration 0021), a sysconfig registry that is the single source of truth for
DB-overridable keys (type/group/default/bounds/secret) + a DB-override-or-env
resolver, and admin endpoints (GET/PATCH/DELETE /api/admin/config + a test-email
probe). Secrets are Fernet-encrypted at rest (TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY); without it
they stay env-only. First group wired end-to-end: Email/SMTP — email.py now
reads host/port/user/from/password via the resolver (own session, since email
is sent from background tasks).
peter