release: 0.104.0 (improvement/adhoc-batch-oct)

int() refuses a decimal run past 4300 digits, so one such reference in a summary raised out of the sync and the text migration. Any number past seven significant digits is beyond U+10FFFF, so it becomes U+FFFD like any out-of-range reference; leading zeros are dropped first. The rails test's comment now says what it guards: both rails agree with the rollup.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -7,6 +7,29 @@ edit the release notes and re-run the generator.
 
 Upgrading, pinning a version and rolling back: [docs/self-hosting.md](docs/self-hosting.md#upgrading).
 
+## 0.104.0 — 2026-10-10
+
+### New
+
+- YouTube: a card's menu filters the feed to its channel and back, and the player gives the video more room — its side panel shuts on demand.
+- Plex: a card's picture plays it and its title opens its page; a show card puts on the episode it would continue or start, and an episode links up to its show.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Plex: summaries written as HTML read as clean text, and a Surprise draw stays put until you reshuffle. A video marked watched in the player stays out of an Unwatched feed. Plus smaller keyboard and focus fixes.
+
+## 0.103.0 — 2026-10-08
+
+### New
+
+- Plex: “Add to collection…” in a movie's or show's menu ticks the title into or out of your collections, or names a new one with it inside — one step instead of a trip to the Collections page.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- Plex player: subtitles rise above the control bar while it shows and slide back when it hides, so the bar never covers them — on an iPad too.
+- iPad: the header search fits the touch screen, tooltips no longer stick, the Plex player page no longer scrolls or shows a blue band, and the fullscreen button stays hidden where the browser cannot really go fullscreen.
+- The playlist, collection and tag menus say when their list is loading or failed to load (with a retry) instead of showing it as empty, and work from the keyboard. Plus smaller fixes in the YouTube player's title line.
+
 ## 0.102.0 — 2026-10-08
 
 ### New

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.102.0
+0.104.0

backend/.basedpyright/baseline.json

@@ -1134,22 +1134,6 @@
                     "endColumn": 48,
                     "lineCount": 1
                 }
-            },
-            {
-                "code": "reportArgumentType",
-                "range": {
-                    "startColumn": 39,
-                    "endColumn": 45,
-                    "lineCount": 1
-                }
-            },
-            {
-                "code": "reportArgumentType",
-                "range": {
-                    "startColumn": 38,
-                    "endColumn": 43,
-                    "lineCount": 1
-                }
             }
         ],
         "./app/routes/plex/playback.py": [

backend/alembic/versions/0101_plex_text_plain.py

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+"""Plex summaries and taglines as plain text
+
+Revision ID: 0101_plex_text_plain
+Revises: 0100_drop_plex_item_markers
+Create Date: 2026-10-08
+
+Some Plex agents write a summary as HTML (`<p>…</p>`, `&aacute;`), and the app showed the tags as
+text. The sync now stores every summary and tagline through `plain_text` (app/plex/plaintext.py);
+this cleans the rows it wrote before, through the same function, so nothing waits for a full resync.
+"""
+
+import sqlalchemy as sa
+from alembic import op
+
+from app.plex.plaintext import plain_text
+
+revision: str = "0101_plex_text_plain"
+down_revision: str | None = "0100_drop_plex_item_markers"
+branch_labels: str | None = None
+depends_on: str | None = None
+
+_COLUMNS = {
+    "plex_items": ("summary", "summary_hu", "tagline", "tagline_hu"),
+    "plex_shows": ("summary", "summary_hu", "tagline", "tagline_hu"),
+    "plex_collections": ("summary",),
+}
+
+
+def upgrade() -> None:
+    conn = op.get_bind()
+    for table, columns in _COLUMNS.items():
+        for col in columns:
+            rows = conn.execute(
+                sa.text(f"SELECT id, {col} FROM {table} WHERE {col} ~ '[<&]'")
+            ).fetchall()
+            updates = [
+                {"id": rid, "v": clean}
+                for rid, value in rows
+                if (clean := plain_text(value)) != value
+            ]
+            if updates:
+                conn.execute(sa.text(f"UPDATE {table} SET {col} = :v WHERE id = :id"), updates)
+
+
+def downgrade() -> None:
+    pass  # the markup is not wanted back; the next sync would clean it again

backend/app/discover/pins.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
 from app.discover import cards, queries
 from app.models import Channel, ComfortPin, PlexItem, PlexShow, Playlist, User, Video
 from app.plex import rollup
-from app.plex.cards import leaf_card, show_card
+from app.plex.cards import SHOW_NEW, leaf_card, show_card
 from app.plex.lookups import by_rating_key
 
 # kind -> the ComfortPin column that holds it. The client's vocabulary and the schema's, in one place.
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ def _shelf_card(db: Session, user: User, pin: ComfortPin, batch: _Batch, lang: s
         sh = db.get(PlexShow, pin.plex_show_id)
         if sh is None:
             return None
-        status = rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [sh.id]).get(sh.id, "new")
-        card = cards.from_plex(show_card(sh, status, lang=lang))
+        state = rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [sh.id]).get(sh.id, SHOW_NEW)
+        card = cards.from_plex(show_card(sh, state, lang=lang))
         ep = queries.next_episode(db, user.id, sh.id, lang=lang)
         nxt = cards.from_plex(ep) if ep else None
 

backend/app/discover/queries.py

@@ -256,16 +256,20 @@ def plex_in_progress(
     if show_libs:
         prog = rollup.agg_subquery(db, uid, include_resumed=True).subquery()
         sq = apply_show_state_filter(
-            select(PlexShow, prog.c.resumed_at).join(prog, prog.c.show_id == PlexShow.id),
+            select(PlexShow, prog.c.resumed_at, prog.c.total, prog.c.watched, prog.c.inprog).join(
+                prog, prog.c.show_id == PlexShow.id
+            ),
             prog.c.total,
             prog.c.watched,
             prog.c.inprog,
             "in_progress",
         ).where(PlexShow.library_id.in_(show_libs))
-        for sh, resumed_at in db.execute(
+        for sh, resumed_at, total, watched, inprog in db.execute(
             sq.order_by(prog.c.resumed_at.desc().nullslast()).limit(limit)
         ).all():
-            out.append((resumed_at, show_card(sh, "in_progress", lang=lang)))
+            out.append(
+                (resumed_at, show_card(sh, rollup.show_state(total, watched, inprog), lang=lang))
+            )
 
     return out
 

backend/app/plex/cards.py

@@ -3,9 +3,24 @@ playlists, and detail views render. Extracted from routes/plex/browse.py so the
 lives beside the other Plex read-model modules (detail.py, query.py) rather than inside the
 router. Pure functions — no DB, no request state."""
 
+from typing import NamedTuple
+
 from app.models import PlexItem, PlexShow, PlexState
 
 
+class ShowState(NamedTuple):
+    """A show's watch state rolled up from its episodes, as its card carries it. `resumable`: an unwatched
+    episode has a resume point, the one the card's Continue resumes and its Restart replays from 0. A
+    show part watched with its next episode untouched has none: Continue and Restart would both play
+    that episode from its start, so the card offers Play alone."""
+
+    status: str
+    resumable: bool
+
+
+SHOW_NEW = ShowState("new", False)
+
+
 # A card's wide backdrop, for a rail's landscape tile or a crossfading hero — but ONLY when the item
 # actually has art. `thumb` is always emitted (its endpoint placeholders a missing poster), but an
 # `art` URL for an item with no `art_key` would resolve to a broken/blank image on every card that
@@ -54,7 +69,7 @@ def movie_card(it: PlexItem, st: PlexState | None, *, lang: str) -> dict:
     }
 
 
-def show_card(sh: PlexShow, status: str = "new", *, lang: str) -> dict:
+def show_card(sh: PlexShow, state: ShowState = SHOW_NEW, *, lang: str) -> dict:
     return {
         "id": sh.rating_key,
         "type": "show",
@@ -66,7 +81,8 @@ def show_card(sh: PlexShow, status: str = "new", *, lang: str) -> dict:
         "art": _art_url(sh.rating_key, sh.art_key),
         "season_count": sh.child_count,
         # Aggregate watch-state across the show's episodes (new | in_progress | watched) → grid badge.
-        "status": status,
+        "status": state.status,
+        "resumable": state.resumable,
     }
 
 

backend/app/plex/client.py

@@ -167,12 +167,16 @@ class PlexClient:
         keys = ",".join(str(k) for k in rating_keys)
         return f"server://{self.machine_id}/com.plexapp.plugins.library/library/metadata/{keys}"
 
-    def create_collection(self, section_key: str, title: str, item_rating_key: str) -> dict:
-        """Create a (dumb) collection seeded with one item; returns its Metadata (incl. ratingKey)."""
+    def create_collection(
+        self, section_key: str, title: str, item_rating_key: str, item_type: int = 1
+    ) -> dict:
+        """Create a (dumb) collection seeded with one item; returns its Metadata (incl. ratingKey).
+        `item_type` is the Plex metadata type of its members — 1 movie, 2 show. Measured: a collection
+        made as type 1 in a TV section came out EMPTY with a show seed, and refused the show after."""
         uri = quote(self._metadata_uri(item_rating_key), safe="")
         mc = self._write(
             "POST",
-            f"/library/collections?type=1&smart=0&sectionId={section_key}"
+            f"/library/collections?type={item_type}&smart=0&sectionId={section_key}"
             f"&title={quote(title, safe='')}&uri={uri}",
         )
         items = mc.get("Metadata", []) or []

backend/app/plex/detail.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ the two never diverge — the same one-parser rule that keeps `people.py`'s cast
 (genres/directors/studio/content_rating already land from the cheap listing at `_apply_facet_fields`)."""
 
 from app.plex import people
+from app.plex.plaintext import plain_text
 
 
 def rich_detail(meta: dict) -> dict:
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ def rich_detail(meta: dict) -> dict:
         "genres": [g.get("tag") for g in (meta.get("Genre") or []) if g.get("tag")][:8],
         "directors": [d.get("tag") for d in (meta.get("Director") or []) if d.get("tag")][:4],
         "studio": meta.get("studio"),
-        "tagline": meta.get("tagline"),
+        "tagline": plain_text(meta.get("tagline")),
         "cast": people.cast_from_meta(meta),
     }
 

backend/app/plex/overlay.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from app.models import PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexShow
 from app.plex import sync as plex_sync
 from app.plex.client import PlexClient
 from app.plex.genres import hu_genres
+from app.plex.plaintext import plain_text
 
 log = logs.get_logger(__name__)
 
@@ -109,8 +110,8 @@ def _overlay_pass(
     for g, meta in hu_by_guid.items():
         targets = by_guid[g]
         title_hu = (meta.get("title") or "").strip() or None
-        summary_hu = meta.get("summary")
-        tagline_hu = (meta.get("tagline") or "").strip() or None
+        summary_hu = plain_text(meta.get("summary"))
+        tagline_hu = plain_text(meta.get("tagline"))
         genres_hu = hu_genres(plex_sync._tags(meta, "Genre"))
         for row in targets:
             row.title_hu = title_hu

backend/app/plex/plaintext.py

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+"""Plex text fields as plain text.
+
+Plex hands a summary over as the agent wrote it, and some agents (a Hungarian TV listing, for one)
+write HTML: `<p>…</p>` paragraphs and `&aacute;`-style entities. The app renders summaries as text,
+so the tags showed literally on the info page and the hover card, and a card's 300-character cut
+could land inside one. Every summary and tagline is stored through `plain_text`, and the migration
+that cleaned the existing rows calls it too, so the two cannot disagree.
+"""
+
+import html
+import re
+from html.entities import html5
+
+_BREAK = re.compile(r"<br\s*/?>", re.IGNORECASE)
+# A paragraph or block boundary: a blank line between the two. Only a tag name ends the match, so a
+# bare "<" in prose ("a < b", "<3") is left alone.
+_BLOCK = re.compile(r"</?(?:p|div|li|ul|ol|h[1-6]|blockquote)\b[^>]*>", re.IGNORECASE)
+_TAG = re.compile(r"</?[a-zA-Z][^>]*>")
+_BLANKS = re.compile(r"[ \t]*\n[ \t]*\n\s*")
+
+# A well-formed character reference only. `html.unescape` alone also decodes the legacy forms that
+# have no semicolon, so prose like "AT&notice" or "R&copy" came out as "AT¬ice" and "R©". A named
+# one counts only when its whole name is an entity: for "&notice;" `html.unescape` still falls back
+# to the legacy "&not" inside it.
+_REF = re.compile(r"&(?:#[0-9]+|#[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+|[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*);")
+
+
+def _decode(m: re.Match[str]) -> str:
+    ref = m.group()
+    if ref[1] != "#":
+        return html.unescape(ref) if ref[1:] in html5 else ref
+    if ref[2] in "xX":
+        return html.unescape(ref)
+    # `int()` refuses a decimal run past 4300 digits, and any number past seven significant digits is
+    # beyond U+10FFFF, which the parser turns into U+FFFD anyway.
+    digits = ref[2:-1].lstrip("0") or "0"
+    return "�" if len(digits) > 7 else html.unescape(f"&#{digits};")
+
+
+def plain_text(value: str | None) -> str | None:
+    """`value` with its markup gone: line breaks kept as newlines, paragraphs as a blank line,
+    every other tag dropped and entities decoded. None or an all-blank result stays None."""
+    if value is None:
+        return None
+    if "<" in value or "&" in value:
+        value = _BREAK.sub("\n", value)
+        value = _BLOCK.sub("\n\n", value)
+        value = _TAG.sub("", value)
+        value = _REF.sub(_decode, value)
+        value = _BLANKS.sub("\n\n", value)
+    return value.strip() or None

backend/app/plex/rollup.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from sqlalchemy import and_, case, func, or_, select
 from sqlalchemy.orm import Session, aliased
 
 from app.models import PlexItem, PlexState
+from app.plex.cards import ShowState
 
 # Sort sentinel for a rail row whose timestamp is missing, so `key=lambda r: r[0] or NO_TS` reads the
 # same at every rail that merges two type-homogeneous lists in Python.
@@ -32,6 +33,11 @@ def show_status(total: int, watched: int, inprog: int) -> str:
     return "new"
 
 
+def show_state(total: int, watched: int, inprog: int) -> ShowState:
+    """`show_status` plus whether an episode holds a resume point (the card's `ShowState`)."""
+    return ShowState(show_status(total, watched, inprog), (inprog or 0) > 0)
+
+
 def rollup(cards: list[dict]) -> dict:
     """From ORDERED episode cards → the aggregate watch status, the "on deck" episode to Resume (the
     last in-progress one, else the first unwatched), the first episode (for Play from the start), and
@@ -92,16 +98,16 @@ def agg_subquery(db: Session, user_id: int, include_resumed: bool = False):
     )
 
 
-def state_map(db: Session, user_id: int, show_ids: list[int]) -> dict[int, str]:
+def state_map(db: Session, user_id: int, show_ids: list[int]) -> dict[int, ShowState]:
     if not show_ids:
         return {}
     rows = db.execute(agg_subquery(db, user_id).where(PlexItem.show_id.in_(show_ids))).all()
-    return {r.show_id: show_status(r.total, r.watched, r.inprog) for r in rows}
+    return {r.show_id: show_state(r.total, r.watched, r.inprog) for r in rows}
 
 
 def item_state_map(db: Session, user_id: int, item_ids: list[int]) -> dict[int, PlexState]:
     """A user's PlexState rows for a set of leaf items (movies or episodes), keyed by item_id — the
-    leaf analogue of `state_map` (which rolls a show's episodes up to a status string). One batched
+    leaf analogue of `state_map` (which rolls a show's episodes up to a `ShowState`). One batched
     fetch, so the caller serializes cards without a per-card query. Empty in → empty dict (no `IN ()`)."""
     if not item_ids:
         return {}

backend/app/plex/sync.py

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from app.plex import detail, overlay, people
 from app.plex.client import PlexClient, PlexError, PlexNotConfigured
 from app.plex.genres import hu_genres
 from app.plex.lookups import by_rating_key
+from app.plex.plaintext import plain_text
 
 log = logs.get_logger(__name__)
 # Codecs/containers a browser can play in a native <video> without any transcoding.
@@ -468,7 +469,7 @@ def _apply_item(row: PlexItem, lib_id: int, kind: str, meta: dict) -> None:
     # carries none (a server ignoring includeGuids mustn't wipe the overlay's only match key).
     row.guid = _canonical_guid(meta) or row.guid
     row.title = (meta.get("title") or "").strip() or "Untitled"
-    row.summary = meta.get("summary")
+    row.summary = plain_text(meta.get("summary"))
     row.year = meta.get("year")
     row.duration_s = _dur_s(meta)
     row.thumb_key = meta.get("thumb")
@@ -576,7 +577,7 @@ def _sync_shows(db: Session, plex: PlexClient, lib: PlexLibrary, stats: dict) ->
             _canonical_guid(meta) or sh.guid
         )  # EN<->HU pairing key; keep prior if listing has none
         sh.title = (meta.get("title") or "").strip() or "Untitled"
-        sh.summary = meta.get("summary")
+        sh.summary = plain_text(meta.get("summary"))
         sh.year = meta.get("year")
         sh.thumb_key = meta.get("thumb")
         sh.art_key = meta.get("art")
@@ -659,7 +660,7 @@ def _upsert_collection(
         db.add(col)
     col.library_id = lib_id
     col.title = (meta.get("title") or "").strip() or "Untitled"
-    col.summary = meta.get("summary")
+    col.summary = plain_text(meta.get("summary"))
     col.thumb_key = meta.get("thumb")
     col.child_count = meta.get("childCount")
     col.smart = str(meta.get("smart")) == "1"

backend/app/routes/plex/browse.py

@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ def unified_library(
                 cast(null(), Integer).label("season_count"),
                 func.coalesce(st.position_seconds, 0).label("position_seconds"),
                 m_status.label("status"),
+                literal(False).label("resumable"),
                 # "last watched" sort key: when the movie was last resumed, else when it was marked
                 # watched. NULL for never-touched movies → nullslast sinks them (see the sort dict).
                 func.coalesce(st.progress_updated_at, st.watched_at).label("last_watched"),
@@ -211,6 +212,8 @@ def unified_library(
                 PlexShow.child_count.label("season_count"),
                 literal(0).label("position_seconds"),
                 s_status.label("status"),
+                # An episode holds a resume point (`ShowState.resumable`, the card's Continue + Restart).
+                (inp > 0).label("resumable"),
                 # Show leg's "last watched": max(resume/watched time) across the show's episodes (see
                 # rollup.agg_subquery include_resumed). NULL for a never-watched show → nullslast.
                 agg.c.resumed_at.label("last_watched"),
@@ -276,6 +279,7 @@ def unified_library(
                         "thumb": f"/api/plex/image/{r.rk}",
                         "season_count": r.season_count,
                         "status": r.status,
+                        "resumable": r.resumable,
                     }
                 )
 

backend/app/routes/plex/collections.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from app.models import (
 )
 from app.plex import rollup
 from app.plex import sync as plex_sync
-from app.plex.cards import display_title, movie_card, norm_lang, show_card
+from app.plex.cards import SHOW_NEW, display_title, movie_card, norm_lang, show_card
 from app.plex.client import PlexClient, PlexError, PlexNotConfigured
 from app.plex.lookups import by_rating_key
 from app.plex.query import content_libs, runtime_by_key, title_col, top_art_keys
@@ -176,6 +176,40 @@ def collections(
     }
 
 
+@router.get("/collections/for/{item_rating_key}")
+def collections_for_item(
+    item_rating_key: str,
+    user: User = Depends(current_user),
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+) -> dict:
+    """What a movie or show card's "Add to collection" lists: the editable collections of the title's
+    library (a collection lives in one library, and only a manual one can take a title — the same
+    `can_edit` the editor offers), each saying whether the title is in it already, by name."""
+    movie = by_rating_key(db, PlexItem, item_rating_key)
+    title: PlexItem | PlexShow | None = (
+        movie if movie is not None and movie.kind == "movie" else None
+    ) or by_rating_key(db, PlexShow, item_rating_key)
+    if title is None:
+        raise not_found("item")
+    member_of = set(title.collection_keys or [])
+    rows = (
+        db.execute(
+            select(PlexCollection)
+            .where(PlexCollection.library_id == title.library_id)
+            .order_by(collated(PlexCollection.title, lang_for_user(user)))
+        )
+        .scalars()
+        .all()
+    )
+    return {
+        "collections": [
+            {**_collection_card(c), "contains": c.rating_key in member_of}
+            for c in rows
+            if _collection_editable(c)
+        ]
+    }
+
+
 class Member(NamedTuple):
     """One collection member flattened to everything the Sort control can order by. The page's two
     legs are different tables (movies and shows), so there is no single query to ORDER BY — the
@@ -284,7 +318,7 @@ def collection_detail(
         if shows
         else []
     )
-    sstate = {r.show_id: rollup.show_status(r.total, r.watched, r.inprog) for r in show_rows}
+    sstate = {r.show_id: rollup.show_state(r.total, r.watched, r.inprog) for r in show_rows}
     sresumed = {r.show_id: r.resumed_at for r in show_rows}
 
     def _movie_last_watched(st: PlexState | None) -> datetime | None:
@@ -325,7 +359,7 @@ def collection_detail(
     items = [
         movie_card(m.obj, mstate.get(m.obj.id), lang=lang)
         if m.kind == "movie"
-        else show_card(m.obj, sstate.get(m.obj.id, "new"), lang=lang)
+        else show_card(m.obj, sstate.get(m.obj.id, SHOW_NEW), lang=lang)
         for m in members
     ]
     years = [m.year for m in members if m.year is not None]
@@ -407,27 +441,47 @@ def create_collection(
     seed = body.item_rating_key
     if not title or not seed:
         raise refused(400, "collection_fields_required")
+    seed_show = by_rating_key(db, PlexShow, seed)
     if library:
         lib = (
             db.execute(select(PlexLibrary).where(PlexLibrary.plex_key == library)).scalars().first()
         )
     else:
         # The "New collection" flow only knows the seed title → derive its library.
-        seed_item = by_rating_key(db, PlexItem, seed) or by_rating_key(db, PlexShow, seed)
+        seed_item = by_rating_key(db, PlexItem, seed) or seed_show
         lib = db.get(PlexLibrary, seed_item.library_id) if seed_item else None
     if lib is None:
         raise not_found("library")
     _reject_duplicate_name(db, lib.id, title)
     wrote = False
+    new_rk = ""
     try:
         with PlexClient(db) as plex:
-            new = plex.create_collection(lib.plex_key, title, seed)
+            # A show collection is made as one (Plex type 2): as a movie one it stayed empty.
+            new = plex.create_collection(lib.plex_key, title, seed, 2 if seed_show else 1)
             wrote = True
-            col = plex_sync.resync_collection(db, plex, lib, str(new.get("ratingKey")))
+            new_rk = str(new.get("ratingKey") or "")
+            col = plex_sync.resync_collection(db, plex, lib, new_rk)
             col.editable = True
         db.commit()
     except (PlexError, PlexNotConfigured) as e:
         db.rollback()
+        if wrote and new_rk:
+            # It is on Plex now, and only the follow-up read failed. Its row is kept, editable: the
+            # full sync preserves `editable` but creates a missing row read-only, so the collection
+            # would drop out of every "add to" list; and the duplicate-name check reads these rows,
+            # so a retry of the same name would make a second one on Plex. Plex made it with exactly
+            # the seed in it, so the seed's row says so too — otherwise the title showed unticked in
+            # the collection it was just added to, and the collection empty, until that sync.
+            db.add(
+                PlexCollection(
+                    rating_key=new_rk, library_id=lib.id, title=title, editable=True, child_count=1
+                )
+            )
+            Model = PlexItem if lib.kind == "movie" else PlexShow
+            if row := by_rating_key(db, Model, seed):
+                row.collection_keys = list(dict.fromkeys([*(row.collection_keys or []), new_rk]))
+            db.commit()
         raise _write_or_pending_error(wrote, e) from e
     return _collection_card(col)
 

backend/app/routes/plex/detail.py

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from app.collation import collated, sorted_words
 from app import logs
 from app.auth import current_user
 from app.db import get_db
+from app.discover import queries
 from app.models import (
     PlexCollection,
     PlexItem,
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ from app.plex import people as plex_people
 from app.plex import rollup, subtitles
 from app.plex.query import title_col
 from app.plex import tmdb as plex_tmdb
-from app.plex.cards import episode_card, movie_card, show_card
+from app.plex.cards import SHOW_NEW, episode_card, movie_card, show_card
 from app.plex.client import PlexClient, PlexError, PlexNotConfigured
 from app.plex.lookups import by_rating_key
 from app.routes.plex._shared import _norm_lang, item_or_404
@@ -221,6 +222,24 @@ def show_detail(
     }
 
 
+@router.get("/show/{rating_key}/next")
+def show_next(
+    rating_key: str,
+    lang: str = "en",
+    user: User = Depends(current_user),
+    db: Session = Depends(get_db),
+) -> dict:
+    """The episode a show's card plays: the one in progress, else the first unwatched, else the first
+    (`discover.queries.next_episode`, the rule Home's shelves and the show page's Resume follow).
+    Asked one show at a time, when a card is hovered or played, rather than carried on every card of a
+    grid: three probes a show would cost a 60-card page 180 queries for the few cards anyone plays.
+    `next` is null for a show with no episodes."""
+    sh = by_rating_key(db, PlexShow, rating_key)
+    if sh is None:
+        raise not_found("show")
+    return {"next": queries.next_episode(db, user.id, sh.id, lang=_norm_lang(lang))}
+
+
 def _season_block(se: PlexSeason, cards: list[dict]) -> dict:
     """A season's card for the show page (with its aggregate rollup) plus its episodes (used by the
     season subpage, read from the same cached show-detail payload)."""
@@ -260,7 +279,7 @@ def _relatedshow_cards(
         if sh is None or rk in seen:
             continue
         seen.add(rk)
-        out.append(show_card(sh, statuses.get(sh.id, "new"), lang=lang))
+        out.append(show_card(sh, statuses.get(sh.id, SHOW_NEW), lang=lang))
         if len(out) >= 20:
             break
     return out
@@ -504,6 +523,7 @@ def item_detail(
 
     prev_id, next_id = _episode_nav(db, it)
     show = db.get(PlexShow, it.show_id) if it.kind == "episode" and it.show_id else None
+    season = db.get(PlexSeason, it.season_id) if show and it.season_id else None
     return {
         "id": it.rating_key,
         "kind": it.kind,
@@ -537,6 +557,9 @@ def item_detail(
         "status": st.status if st else "new",
         "position_seconds": st.position_seconds if st else 0,
         "show_title": ((show.title_hu or show.title if hu else show.title) if show else None),
+        # The episode page links up to its show and its season (their rating keys = the view keys).
+        "show_id": show.rating_key if show else None,
+        "season_id": season.rating_key if season else None,
         "season_number": it.season_number,
         "episode_number": it.episode_number,
         "prev_id": prev_id,

backend/app/routes/plex/discover.py

@@ -23,7 +23,13 @@ from app.auth import current_user
 from app.db import get_db
 from app.models import PlexItem, PlexShow, PlexState, User
 from app.plex import rollup
-from app.plex.cards import display_title, leaf_card, movie_card, show_card
+from app.plex.cards import (
+    SHOW_NEW,
+    display_title,
+    leaf_card,
+    movie_card,
+    show_card,
+)
 from app.plex.query import (
     LibraryFilters,
     apply_meta_filters,
@@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ def _movie_cards(db: Session, uid: int, items: list[PlexItem], lang: str) -> lis
 
 def _show_cards(db: Session, uid: int, shows: list[PlexShow], lang: str) -> list[dict]:
     statuses = rollup.state_map(db, uid, [s.id for s in shows])
-    return [show_card(s, statuses.get(s.id, "new"), lang=lang) for s in shows]
+    return [show_card(s, statuses.get(s.id, SHOW_NEW), lang=lang) for s in shows]
 
 
 def _recently_added(
@@ -232,7 +238,9 @@ def _continue_watching(
         # `apply_show_state_filter` the grid uses, so the rail can't drift from the grid's definition.
         prog = rollup.agg_subquery(db, uid, include_resumed=True).subquery()
         sq = apply_show_state_filter(
-            select(PlexShow, prog.c.resumed_at).join(prog, prog.c.show_id == PlexShow.id),
+            select(PlexShow, prog.c.resumed_at, prog.c.total, prog.c.watched, prog.c.inprog).join(
+                prog, prog.c.show_id == PlexShow.id
+            ),
             prog.c.total,
             prog.c.watched,
             prog.c.inprog,
@@ -243,8 +251,9 @@ def _continue_watching(
             .order_by(prog.c.resumed_at.desc().nullslast())
             .limit(RAIL_LIMIT)
         ).all()
-        for sh, resumed_at in srows:
-            rows.append((resumed_at, show_card(sh, "in_progress", lang=lang)))
+        for sh, resumed_at, total, watched, inprog in srows:
+            state = rollup.show_state(total, watched, inprog)
+            rows.append((resumed_at, show_card(sh, state, lang=lang)))
 
     rows.sort(key=lambda r: r[0] or rollup.NO_TS, reverse=True)
     return [card for _, card in rows[:RAIL_LIMIT]]
@@ -402,11 +411,71 @@ def discover(
     }
 
 
+def _draw(db: Session, stmt, key_col, per: int, exclude: list[str]) -> list:
+    """`per` random rows of `stmt`, the previous draw's (`exclude`) left out while the pool allows: a
+    reshuffle over a small filtered pool kept dealing the same few titles. What the fresh rows leave
+    short is topped up from the excluded ones, so a pool smaller than a draw still fills the rail."""
+    fresh = (
+        db.execute(stmt.where(key_col.not_in(exclude)).order_by(func.random()).limit(per))
+        .scalars()
+        .all()
+        if exclude
+        else []
+    )
+    if len(fresh) == per:
+        return list(fresh)
+    taken = [key_col.not_in([r.rating_key for r in fresh])] if fresh else []
+    rest = db.execute(stmt.where(*taken).order_by(func.random()).limit(per - len(fresh))).scalars()
+    return [*fresh, *rest.all()]
+
+
+def _kept(
+    db: Session, uid: int, movie_ids: list[int], show_ids: list[int], keep: list[str], lang: str
+) -> list[dict]:
+    """The `keep` titles' cards in their given order, as they stand now: a title watched since the draw
+    stays in it, marked watched, and one gone from the scope's libraries drops out."""
+    movies = (
+        db.execute(
+            select(PlexItem).where(
+                PlexItem.kind == "movie",
+                PlexItem.library_id.in_(movie_ids),
+                PlexItem.rating_key.in_(keep),
+            )
+        )
+        .scalars()
+        .all()
+        if movie_ids
+        else []
+    )
+    shows = (
+        db.execute(
+            select(PlexShow).where(PlexShow.library_id.in_(show_ids), PlexShow.rating_key.in_(keep))
+        )
+        .scalars()
+        .all()
+        if show_ids
+        else []
+    )
+    cards = {
+        c["id"]: c
+        for c in [
+            *_movie_cards(db, uid, list(movies), lang),
+            *_show_cards(db, uid, list(shows), lang),
+        ]
+    }
+    return [cards[k] for k in keep if k in cards]
+
+
 @router.get("/surprise")
 def surprise(
     scope: str = "both",
     lang: str = "en",
     limit: int = Query(default=2 * SURPRISE_PER_KIND, ge=1, le=40),
+    # The previous draw's rating keys: a reshuffle deals other titles first.
+    exclude: list[str] = Query(default=[], max_length=40),
+    # The draw on screen, read again rather than redrawn: its titles' watch state moves (a play, a
+    # toggle) while the draw itself stands until the ↻.
+    keep: list[str] = Query(default=[], max_length=40),
     f: LibraryFilters = Depends(),
     user: User = Depends(current_user),
     db: Session = Depends(get_db),
@@ -419,6 +488,8 @@ def surprise(
     lang = _norm_lang(lang)
     p = f.as_dict()
     movie_ids, show_ids = _scope_libs(db, scope)
+    if keep:
+        return {"scope": scope, "items": _kept(db, user.id, movie_ids, show_ids, keep, lang)}
     per = min(limit, SURPRISE_PER_KIND)
     movies = []
     if movie_ids:
@@ -432,23 +503,21 @@ def surprise(
             )
             .exists()
         )
-        movies = (
-            db.execute(
-                _movie_meta(
-                    select(PlexItem).where(
-                        PlexItem.kind == "movie",
-                        PlexItem.library_id.in_(movie_ids),
-                        ~watched_movie,
-                    ),
-                    p,
-                    lang,
-                    f,
-                )
-                .order_by(func.random())
-                .limit(per)
-            )
-            .scalars()
-            .all()
+        movies = _draw(
+            db,
+            _movie_meta(
+                select(PlexItem).where(
+                    PlexItem.kind == "movie",
+                    PlexItem.library_id.in_(movie_ids),
+                    ~watched_movie,
+                ),
+                p,
+                lang,
+                f,
+            ),
+            PlexItem.rating_key,
+            per,
+            exclude,
         )
     shows = []
     if show_ids:
@@ -458,21 +527,19 @@ def surprise(
         not_fully_watched = or_(
             prog.c.total.is_(None), prog.c.total == 0, prog.c.watched < prog.c.total
         )
-        shows = (
-            db.execute(
-                apply_meta_filters(
-                    select(PlexShow)
-                    .outerjoin(prog, prog.c.show_id == PlexShow.id)
-                    .where(PlexShow.library_id.in_(show_ids), not_fully_watched),
-                    PlexShow,
-                    p,
-                    lang,
-                )
-                .order_by(func.random())
-                .limit(per)
-            )
-            .scalars()
-            .all()
+        shows = _draw(
+            db,
+            apply_meta_filters(
+                select(PlexShow)
+                .outerjoin(prog, prog.c.show_id == PlexShow.id)
+                .where(PlexShow.library_id.in_(show_ids), not_fully_watched),
+                PlexShow,
+                p,
+                lang,
+            ),
+            PlexShow.rating_key,
+            per,
+            exclude,
         )
     mcards = _movie_cards(db, user.id, movies, lang)
     scards = _show_cards(db, user.id, shows, lang)

backend/app/routes/plex/people.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from app.models import (
 )
 from app.plex import rollup
 from app.plex import tmdb as plex_tmdb
-from app.plex.cards import movie_card, norm_lang, show_card
+from app.plex.cards import SHOW_NEW, movie_card, norm_lang, show_card
 from app.plex.query import content_libs, split_csv, title_col
 
 router = APIRouter(prefix="/api/plex", tags=["plex"])
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ def _resolve_known_for(
         # A credit resolves against its OWN media_type's bucket only.
         if k.get("media_type") == "tv":
             if g in shows:
-                out.append(show_card(shows[g], show_statuses.get(shows[g].id, "new"), lang=lang))
+                out.append(show_card(shows[g], show_statuses.get(shows[g].id, SHOW_NEW), lang=lang))
         elif g in movies:
             out.append(movie_card(movies[g], m_states.get(movies[g].id), lang=lang))
     return out[:_KNOWN_FOR_SHOWN]
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def person_detail(
             .all()
         )
         statuses = rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [s.id for s in show_rows])
-        shows = [show_card(sh, statuses.get(sh.id, "new"), lang=lang) for sh in show_rows]
+        shows = [show_card(sh, statuses.get(sh.id, SHOW_NEW), lang=lang) for sh in show_rows]
 
     known_for = _resolve_known_for(
         db, person.known_for if person else None, user.id, movie_lib_ids, show_lib_ids, lang

backend/tests/test_plex_client.py

@@ -159,6 +159,10 @@ def test_a_collection_is_created_with_a_well_formed_uri(plex):
     assert plex.seen[-1].method == "POST"
     assert params["title"] == "Best of: 90s" and params["sectionId"] == "3"
     assert params["uri"] == "server://abc/com.plexapp.plugins.library/library/metadata/42"
+    assert params["type"] == "1"  # a movie collection unless told otherwise
+    # A show collection is made as one: made as a movie one, it came out empty in a TV section.
+    plex.create_collection("3", "Shows", "42", 2)
+    assert plex.seen[-1].url.params["type"] == "2"
 
     plex.routes["/library/collections"] = {}
     with pytest.raises(PlexError):

backend/tests/test_plex_collections_filter.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ DB lane (`db` fixture) — skipped without Postgres.
 
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
 
+import pytest
 from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
 from sqlalchemy import select
 
@@ -14,6 +15,7 @@ from app.db import get_db
 from app.main import app
 from app.models import PlexCollection, PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexShow, User
 from app.plex.client import PlexError
+from app.plex.lookups import by_rating_key
 from app.routes.plex import collections as coll_routes
 
 
@@ -224,8 +226,9 @@ class _CollStub:
         if self.fail_on == name:
             raise PlexError("boom")
 
-    def create_collection(self, section_key, title, item_rating_key):
+    def create_collection(self, section_key, title, item_rating_key, item_type=1):
         self._maybe("create_collection")
+        self.created_type = item_type
         return {"ratingKey": "NEW"}
 
     def add_collection_item(self, rk, item):
@@ -320,6 +323,22 @@ def test_create_writes_through_to_plex(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
     assert body["editable"] is True  # create marks the new collection editable
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(("seed", "plex_type"), [("s1", 2), ("m1", 1)])
+def test_create_makes_a_show_collection_as_one(db, monkeypatch, override_dep, seed, plex_type):
+    # Measured on a real Plex: a collection made as a movie one (type 1) in a TV section came out
+    # empty with a show seed, and refused the show when it was added after.
+    lib, user = _seed_editable(db)
+    db.add(PlexShow(rating_key="s1", library_id=lib.id, title="Series"))
+    db.commit()
+    stub = _CollStub()
+    client = _admin_client(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, stub, resync=_resync_create)
+    r = client.post(
+        "/api/plex/collections", json={"library": "", "title": "New", "item_rating_key": seed}
+    )
+    assert r.status_code == 200, r.text
+    assert stub.created_type == plex_type
+
+
 def test_create_resync_failure_is_422(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
     # The collection was created in Plex (wrote=True) but the follow-up resync read failed → 422 with
     # the honest "reconcile on the next sync" detail, not a false "write failed".
@@ -337,6 +356,19 @@ def test_create_resync_failure_is_422(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
     assert r.status_code == 422, r.text
     assert r.json()["detail"] == {"code": "refused", "reason": "collection_pending_sync"}
     assert "create_collection" in stub.calls
+    # It exists on Plex: its row stays, editable, until the next sync fills it in — so it is offered
+    # where collections are added to, and the same name is not made twice.
+    row = by_rating_key(db, PlexCollection, "NEW")
+    assert row is not None and row.editable and row.title == "Fresh Coll"
+    # Plex made it with the seed in it: the seed's row says so, so the title shows ticked in it.
+    assert row.child_count == 1
+    assert "NEW" in (by_rating_key(db, PlexItem, "m1").collection_keys or [])
+    again = client.post(
+        "/api/plex/collections",
+        json={"library": "1", "title": "Fresh Coll", "item_rating_key": "m1"},
+    )
+    assert again.status_code == 409, again.text
+    assert stub.calls.count("create_collection") == 1
 
 
 def test_mutation_failure_returns_422_write_failed(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):

backend/tests/test_plex_collections_for_item.py

@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+"""A movie or show card's "Add to collection": the collections it can go into, each saying whether the
+title is in it already. DB lane (`db` fixture)."""
+
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
+
+import app.state as state
+from app.auth import current_user
+from app.db import get_db
+from app.main import app
+from app.models import PlexCollection, PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexShow, User
+
+
+def _seed(db):
+    movies = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    shows = PlexLibrary(plex_key="2", title="Shows", kind="show", enabled=True)
+    db.add_all([movies, shows])
+    db.flush()
+    enriched = datetime(2024, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+    db.add_all(
+        [
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="m1",
+                title="Film",
+                kind="movie",
+                library_id=movies.id,
+                collection_keys=["cA"],
+                people_enriched_at=enriched,
+            ),
+            PlexItem(
+                rating_key="e1",
+                title="An episode",
+                kind="episode",
+                library_id=shows.id,
+                people_enriched_at=enriched,
+            ),
+            PlexShow(rating_key="s1", title="Series", library_id=shows.id, collection_keys=[]),
+            # The movie library's: two manual ones it can go into, and three it cannot.
+            PlexCollection(rating_key="cA", library_id=movies.id, title="Alpha", editable=True),
+            PlexCollection(rating_key="cB", library_id=movies.id, title="Beta", editable=True),
+            PlexCollection(rating_key="cP", library_id=movies.id, title="Plain", editable=False),
+            PlexCollection(
+                rating_key="cS", library_id=movies.id, title="Smart", editable=True, smart=True
+            ),
+            PlexCollection(
+                rating_key="cI", library_id=movies.id, title="IMDb Top 250", editable=True
+            ),
+            # The show library's own.
+            PlexCollection(rating_key="cT", library_id=shows.id, title="Sci-fi", editable=True),
+        ]
+    )
+    user = User(email="collfor@example.com")
+    db.add(user)
+    db.commit()
+    return user
+
+
+def _get(db, monkeypatch, override_dep, rk):
+    user = _seed(db)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(state, "_configured_cache", True)
+    override_dep(get_db, db.info["request"])
+    override_dep(current_user, lambda: user)
+    return TestClient(app).get(f"/api/plex/collections/for/{rk}")
+
+
+def test_a_movie_lists_its_librarys_manual_collections_and_which_hold_it(
+    db, monkeypatch, override_dep
+):
+    resp = _get(db, monkeypatch, override_dep, "m1")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200
+    got = [(c["id"], c["contains"]) for c in resp.json()["collections"]]
+    assert got == [("cA", True), ("cB", False)]
+
+
+def test_a_show_lists_its_own_librarys(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    resp = _get(db, monkeypatch, override_dep, "s1")
+    assert [(c["id"], c["contains"]) for c in resp.json()["collections"]] == [("cT", False)]
+
+
+def test_an_episode_is_not_a_collection_member(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    assert _get(db, monkeypatch, override_dep, "e1").status_code == 404
+
+
+def test_an_unknown_key_is_not_found(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    assert _get(db, monkeypatch, override_dep, "nope").status_code == 404

backend/tests/test_plex_detail.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ import app.state as state
 from app.auth import current_user
 from app.db import get_db
 from app.main import app
-from app.models import PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexShow, User
+from app.models import PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexSeason, PlexShow, PlexState, User
 from app.plex import detail
 from app.plex.sync import _apply_facet_fields, _enrich_people_batch
 
@@ -276,8 +276,16 @@ def test_item_detail_episode_serves_rich_from_live(db, monkeypatch, override_dep
     show = PlexShow(rating_key="s1", library_id=lib.id, title="A Show")
     db.add(show)
     db.flush()
+    season = PlexSeason(rating_key="se1", show_id=show.id, season_number=1)
+    db.add(season)
+    db.flush()
     ep = PlexItem(
-        rating_key="e1", library_id=lib.id, kind="episode", title="Pilot", show_id=show.id
+        rating_key="e1",
+        library_id=lib.id,
+        kind="episode",
+        title="Pilot",
+        show_id=show.id,
+        season_id=season.id,
     )
     db.add(ep)
     db.commit()
@@ -289,6 +297,8 @@ def test_item_detail_episode_serves_rich_from_live(db, monkeypatch, override_dep
     assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
     body = resp.json()
     assert body["imdb_id"] == "tt0068646"  # from the live meta, not the (NULL) row
+    # The page's links up to the show and the season.
+    assert (body["show_id"], body["season_id"]) == ("s1", "se1")
     assert [c["name"] for c in body["cast"]] == ["Marlon Brando", "Al Pacino"]
     db.refresh(ep)
     assert ep.full_cast is None  # episodes are not persisted/enriched
@@ -436,3 +446,63 @@ def test_item_detail_markers_carry_plex_final_flag(db, monkeypatch, override_dep
         {"type": "credits", "start_s": 6811.0, "end_s": 6831.0, "final": False},
         {"type": "credits", "start_s": 7549.0, "end_s": 7559.0, "final": True},
     ]
+
+
+def _show_with_episodes(db, n=3):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="3", title="Shows", kind="show", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    show = PlexShow(rating_key="sn1", library_id=lib.id, title="Next Show")
+    db.add(show)
+    db.flush()
+    eps = [
+        PlexItem(
+            rating_key=f"sn1e{i}",
+            library_id=lib.id,
+            kind="episode",
+            title=f"Episode {i}",
+            show_id=show.id,
+            season_number=1,
+            episode_number=i,
+        )
+        for i in range(1, n + 1)
+    ]
+    db.add_all(eps)
+    db.flush()
+    return eps
+
+
+def test_show_next_plays_the_first_episode_of_an_untouched_show(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    """A show card's picture plays: never started → its first episode."""
+    _show_with_episodes(db)
+    user = _user(db, "next1@example.com")
+    db.commit()
+    resp = _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/show/sn1/next")
+    assert resp.status_code == 200, resp.text
+    nxt = resp.json()["next"]
+    assert nxt["id"] == "sn1e1"
+    assert nxt["show_title"] == "Next Show"
+
+
+def test_show_next_continues_the_episode_in_progress(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    """Started → the episode in progress (the show page's Resume), not the first unwatched."""
+    eps = _show_with_episodes(db)
+    user = _user(db, "next2@example.com")
+    db.add(PlexState(user_id=user.id, item_id=eps[0].id, status="watched"))
+    db.add(PlexState(user_id=user.id, item_id=eps[2].id, status="new", position_seconds=120))
+    db.commit()
+    resp = _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/show/sn1/next")
+    assert resp.json()["next"]["id"] == "sn1e3"
+    assert resp.json()["next"]["position_seconds"] == 120
+
+
+def test_show_next_is_null_for_an_empty_show_and_404_for_an_unknown_one(
+    db, monkeypatch, override_dep
+):
+    _show_with_episodes(db, n=0)
+    user = _user(db, "next3@example.com")
+    db.commit()
+    assert _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/show/sn1/next").json() == {
+        "next": None
+    }
+    assert _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/show/nope/next").status_code == 404

backend/tests/test_plex_discover.py

@@ -165,6 +165,30 @@ def test_continue_watching_movies_and_shows(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
     assert "m1" not in ids
 
 
+def test_a_continue_watching_show_says_whether_it_has_an_episode_to_resume(
+    db, monkeypatch, override_dep
+):
+    # Both in-progress rails (Discover's and Home's) agree with the one rollup: a show part watched
+    # with nothing to resume offers Play alone, not Continue + Restart.
+    from app.discover.queries import plex_in_progress
+
+    user = _seed(db)
+
+    def rails():
+        d = _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/discover?scope=both").json()
+        home = {c["id"]: c for _, c in plex_in_progress(db, user.id, lang="en")}
+        return {c["id"]: c for c in d["continue_watching"]}["sh1"], home["sh1"]
+
+    assert [c["resumable"] for c in rails()] == [True, True]
+    ep1 = db.execute(select(PlexItem).where(PlexItem.rating_key == "sh1e1")).scalar_one()
+    st = db.execute(
+        select(PlexState).where(PlexState.user_id == user.id, PlexState.item_id == ep1.id)
+    ).scalar_one()
+    st.status, st.position_seconds = "watched", 0
+    db.commit()
+    assert [(c["status"], c["resumable"]) for c in rails()] == [("in_progress", False)] * 2
+
+
 def test_continue_watching_null_status_in_hidden_out(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
     # A started movie whose PlexState.status is NULL is still "in progress": `NULL NOT IN (...)` is NULL
     # (not TRUE), so a bare notin_ would wrongly drop it — the or_(is_(None), notin_) branch keeps it.
@@ -316,6 +340,35 @@ def test_surprise_excludes_watched_and_caps_per_kind(db, monkeypatch, override_d
     assert len([c for c in items if c["type"] == "show"]) <= 3
 
 
+def test_a_reshuffle_deals_other_titles_first(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    # The ↻ sends the previous draw: what is left of the pool comes first, and a pool smaller than a
+    # draw is topped up from the excluded titles rather than leaving the rail short.
+    user = _seed(db)
+
+    def movies(url: str) -> list[str]:
+        items = _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, url).json()["items"]
+        return [c["id"] for c in items if c["type"] == "movie"]
+
+    for _ in range(5):  # random order: one lucky pass would prove nothing
+        got = movies("/api/plex/surprise?scope=movie&exclude=m2")
+        assert got[0] == "m3" and set(got) == {"m2", "m3"}
+    assert set(movies("/api/plex/surprise?scope=movie&exclude=m2&exclude=m3")) == {"m2", "m3"}
+
+
+def test_a_kept_draw_is_read_again_not_redrawn(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
+    # The rail's draw stands until the ↻, but its cards' watch state moves: `keep` answers the titles on
+    # screen, in their order and as they stand now, a watched one included; the scope still bounds it.
+    user = _seed(db)
+    url = "/api/plex/surprise?scope=both&keep=m3&keep=sh1&keep=m1&keep=nope"
+    items = _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, url).json()["items"]
+    assert _ids(items) == ["m3", "sh1", "m1"]
+    by_id = {c["id"]: c for c in items}
+    assert by_id["m1"]["status"] == "watched"
+    assert by_id["m3"]["position_seconds"] > 0
+    movie_only = "/api/plex/surprise?scope=movie&keep=sh1&keep=m2"
+    assert _ids(_get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, movie_only).json()["items"]) == ["m2"]
+
+
 def test_discover_scope_movie_excludes_shows(db, monkeypatch, override_dep):
     user = _seed(db)
     d = _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/discover?scope=movie").json()

backend/tests/test_plex_plaintext.py

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+"""Plex summaries and taglines are stored as plain text.
+
+A Hungarian TV agent hands summaries over as HTML (`<p>A műsorban … p&aacute;rosnak …</p>`), and
+the info page and the hover card showed the tags. `plain_text` is the one cleaner: the sync's every
+summary path and the HU overlay store through it, and migration 0101 cleaned the rows written before.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from alembic import command
+from alembic.config import Config
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+from app.db import engine
+from app.models import PlexCollection, PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexShow
+from app.plex.detail import rich_detail
+from app.plex.overlay import sync_overlay
+from app.plex.plaintext import plain_text
+from app.plex import sync
+from app.plex.sync import _apply_item, _upsert_collection
+
+HU_SUMMARY = "<p>A műsorban minden p&aacute;rosnak stoppal kell eljutnia.</p>"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "raw, clean",
+    [
+        (HU_SUMMARY, "A műsorban minden párosnak stoppal kell eljutnia."),
+        ("<p>One.</p><p>Two.</p>", "One.\n\nTwo."),
+        ("Line one<br>line two<BR/>three", "Line one\nline two\nthree"),
+        ("<b>Bold</b> &amp; <i>more</i>", "Bold & more"),
+        # Prose that only looks like markup stays as written.
+        ("a < b and 1 <3 you", "a < b and 1 <3 you"),
+        # Only a reference with its semicolon is one: an ampersand in prose stays as written.
+        ("AT&notice, R&copy and H&M", "AT&notice, R&copy and H&M"),
+        # ...and only a whole entity name: a legacy one at its start ("&not", "&amp") is not.
+        ("AT&notice; and &ampx;", "AT&notice; and &ampx;"),
+        ("&#233;t&#xE9; &copy;", "été ©"),
+        # A decimal reference too long for int() to parse is out of range, like &#x110000;.
+        ("a &#" + "9" * 5000 + "; b", "a � b"),
+        ("&#" + "0" * 5000 + "65;", "A"),
+        ("Plain summary.", "Plain summary."),
+        ("  padded  ", "padded"),
+        ("<p></p>", None),
+        ("", None),
+        (None, None),
+    ],
+)
+def test_plain_text(raw, clean):
+    assert plain_text(raw) == clean
+
+
+def test_the_item_sync_stores_a_summary_as_plain_text():
+    row = PlexItem()
+    _apply_item(row, lib_id=1, kind="episode", meta={"title": "Ep", "summary": HU_SUMMARY})
+    assert row.summary == "A műsorban minden párosnak stoppal kell eljutnia."
+
+
+def test_the_show_sync_stores_a_summary_as_plain_text(db, monkeypatch):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="2", title="Shows", kind="show", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.commit()
+    meta = {"ratingKey": "s1", "title": "Show", "summary": HU_SUMMARY}
+
+    def listing(_plex, _key, typ, progress=None):
+        if progress is not None:
+            progress["complete"] = True
+        return [meta] if typ == sync._TYPE_SHOW else []
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(sync, "_paginate", listing)
+    sync._sync_shows(db, object(), lib, {"shows": 0, "seasons": 0, "episodes": 0})
+    db.commit()
+    show = db.execute(select(PlexShow).where(PlexShow.rating_key == "s1")).scalar_one()
+    assert show.summary == "A műsorban minden párosnak stoppal kell eljutnia."
+
+
+def test_a_collection_stores_its_summary_as_plain_text(db):
+    lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Movies", kind="movie", enabled=True)
+    db.add(lib)
+    db.flush()
+    col = _upsert_collection(db, None, "c1", lib.id, {"title": "C", "summary": "<p>A &amp; B</p>"})
+    assert col.summary == "A & B"
+
+
+def test_a_fetched_tagline_is_plain_text():
+    assert rich_detail({"tagline": "<i>An offer</i> &amp; more"})["tagline"] == "An offer & more"
+
+
+class _StubPlex:
+    def __init__(self, items: list[dict]):
+        self._items = items
+
+    def section_items(self, key, item_type, start, size):
+        return self._items[start : start + size], len(self._items)
+
+
+def test_the_hungarian_overlay_stores_plain_text(db):
+    en_lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="4", title="Movies", kind="movie")
+    hu_lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="9", title="Filmek", kind="movie", metadata_lang="hu")
+    db.add_all([en_lib, hu_lib])
+    db.flush()
+    hu_lib.overlay_of = en_lib.id
+    row = PlexItem(rating_key="m1", library_id=en_lib.id, kind="movie", title="Heat", guid="tmdb:1")
+    db.add(row)
+    db.commit()
+
+    meta = {
+        "ratingKey": "h1",
+        "title": "Szemtől szemben",
+        "summary": HU_SUMMARY,
+        "tagline": "<i>Egy &eacute;let</i>",
+        "Guid": [{"id": "tmdb://1"}],
+    }
+    sync_overlay(db, _StubPlex([meta]), hu_lib, en_lib.id, {"overlaid": 0})
+    db.commit()
+    db.refresh(row)
+    assert row.summary_hu == "A műsorban minden párosnak stoppal kell eljutnia."
+    assert row.tagline_hu == "Egy élet"
+
+
+def test_0101_cleans_the_stored_rows(db):
+    cfg = Config("alembic.ini")
+    command.downgrade(cfg, "0100_drop_plex_item_markers")
+    upgraded = False
+    try:
+        with Session(engine) as s:
+            lib = PlexLibrary(plex_key="1", title="Shows", kind="show", enabled=True)
+            s.add(lib)
+            s.flush()
+            ep = PlexItem(
+                rating_key="e1",
+                library_id=lib.id,
+                kind="episode",
+                title="Ep",
+                summary=HU_SUMMARY,
+                tagline_hu="<i>x</i>",
+            )
+            plain = PlexItem(
+                rating_key="m1", library_id=lib.id, kind="movie", title="M", summary="a < b"
+            )
+            show = PlexShow(rating_key="s1", library_id=lib.id, title="S", summary_hu="<p>Hu</p>")
+            col = PlexCollection(rating_key="c1", library_id=lib.id, title="C", summary="A &amp; B")
+            s.add_all([ep, plain, show, col])
+            s.commit()
+            ids = (ep.id, plain.id, show.id, col.id)
+        command.upgrade(cfg, "head")
+        upgraded = True
+        with Session(engine) as s:
+            ep2, plain2 = s.get(PlexItem, ids[0]), s.get(PlexItem, ids[1])
+            show2, col2 = s.get(PlexShow, ids[2]), s.get(PlexCollection, ids[3])
+            assert ep2 and plain2 and show2 and col2
+            assert ep2.summary == "A műsorban minden párosnak stoppal kell eljutnia."
+            assert ep2.tagline_hu == "x"
+            assert plain2.summary == "a < b"
+            assert show2.summary_hu == "Hu"
+            assert col2.summary == "A & B"
+    finally:
+        if not upgraded:
+            command.upgrade(cfg, "head")

backend/tests/test_plex_query_conversion.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from app.db import get_db
 from app.main import app
 from app.models import PlexItem, PlexLibrary, PlexSeason, PlexShow, PlexState, User
 from app.plex import rollup, sync
+from app.plex.cards import ShowState
 
 
 def _dt(day: int) -> datetime:
@@ -184,21 +185,53 @@ class TestRollup:
     def test_state_map_new_inprogress_watched(self, db):
         s = _seed(db)
         show, user = s["show"], s["user"]
-        # e1 in-progress, e2 new -> in_progress
-        assert rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [show.id]) == {show.id: "in_progress"}
+        # e1 in-progress, e2 new -> in_progress, and e1's resume point makes it resumable
+        assert rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [show.id]) == {show.id: ShowState("in_progress", True)}
         # empty input short-circuits
         assert rollup.state_map(db, user.id, []) == {}
         # a fresh user with no state -> new
         other = User(email="rollup-other@example.com")
         db.add(other)
         db.commit()
-        assert rollup.state_map(db, other.id, [show.id]) == {show.id: "new"}
-        # mark every episode watched for `user` -> watched
+        assert rollup.state_map(db, other.id, [show.id]) == {show.id: ShowState("new", False)}
+        # e1 finished, e2 untouched: part watched, but no episode to resume — Continue and Restart
+        # would both play e2 from its start
         db.execute(delete(PlexState).where(PlexState.user_id == user.id))
-        for e in db.execute(select(PlexItem).where(PlexItem.kind == "episode")).scalars():
-            db.add(PlexState(user_id=user.id, item_id=e.id, status="watched"))
+        e1, e2 = db.execute(
+            select(PlexItem).where(PlexItem.kind == "episode").order_by(PlexItem.episode_number)
+        ).scalars()
+        db.add(PlexState(user_id=user.id, item_id=e1.id, status="watched"))
         db.commit()
-        assert rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [show.id]) == {show.id: "watched"}
+        assert rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [show.id]) == {
+            show.id: ShowState("in_progress", False)
+        }
+        # mark every episode watched for `user` -> watched
+        db.add(PlexState(user_id=user.id, item_id=e2.id, status="watched"))
+        db.commit()
+        assert rollup.state_map(db, user.id, [show.id]) == {show.id: ShowState("watched", False)}
+
+    def test_the_grid_card_says_whether_a_show_has_an_episode_to_resume(
+        self, db, monkeypatch, override_dep
+    ):
+        s = _seed(db)
+        user = s["user"]
+        cards = {
+            i["id"]: i
+            for i in _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/library").json()["items"]
+        }
+        assert cards["s1"]["resumable"] is True
+        # e1 finished, e2 untouched: in progress, but nothing to resume
+        e1 = db.execute(select(PlexItem).where(PlexItem.rating_key == "e1")).scalar_one()
+        db.execute(
+            delete(PlexState).where(PlexState.user_id == user.id, PlexState.item_id == e1.id)
+        )
+        db.add(PlexState(user_id=user.id, item_id=e1.id, status="watched"))
+        db.commit()
+        cards = {
+            i["id"]: i
+            for i in _get(db, user, monkeypatch, override_dep, "/api/plex/library").json()["items"]
+        }
+        assert (cards["s1"]["status"], cards["s1"]["resumable"]) == ("in_progress", False)
 
 
 def _fake_paginate(by_type):

docs/DESIGN.md

@@ -135,9 +135,11 @@ style guide.
 - **State layers (B3):** hover and pressed are a layer, not a colour swap: the text colour mixed at **10%**
   (hover) / **16%** (pressed) over whatever the control sits on, so it reads on the page, a card and glass
   alike. A filled control mixes its own text colour into its fill at 14% / 24%. Opacity dimming and
-  `bg-card` hovers are violations (invisible on a light card). Selected stays the solid accent. The one
-  exception is an edged pill (a chip, a toolbar or form trigger, a segment): its hover is the accent edge
-  (`.pill:hover`, `glass-hover`), which reads on every surface too (owner decision F14).
+  `bg-card` hovers are violations (invisible on a light card). Selected stays the solid accent. The
+  exceptions are an edged pill (a chip, a toolbar or form trigger, a segment): its hover is the accent edge
+  (`.pill:hover`, `glass-hover`), which reads on every surface too (owner decision F14); and a dark
+  translucent button on a picture (the `media` variant: a card's hover row, a rail's scroll arrows, Restart),
+  whose hover is a 2px accent ring over a darker body, since a layer is lost in the picture.
   A card that is one row with actions answers as a whole: the layer is the card's, under its badges and
   buttons, and the row's open button spans the card beneath the actions (a hover that stopped at the first
   badge read as broken; owner, E28 — `AdminUsers` user rows).
@@ -398,7 +400,9 @@ pick a density step; it never changes the anatomy or loses an action. [Nielsen #
   `mediaTitleClass`, `mediaPictureBox`).
 - **Play only where the click plays.** The hover layer dims the picture and shows `MediaPlayGlyph`, the
   one round media Play (the button family's `media` variant), only on a card whose click starts
-  playback; a show without a next episode opens instead and shows none. The hover row (watched, save or
+  playback. Every Plex picture plays, a show too: the episode in progress (Continue + Restart, offered only
+  when an episode holds a resume point), else the first unwatched, else the first, which the click asks the server for (`/show/{id}/next`); its title
+  and an ⓘ open the show's page, and one with no episodes opens there. The hover row (watched, save or
   add, "…") docks at the picture's bottom-right; the length badge steps aside while it shows.
 - **Density.** A grid card: a two-line title and the full meta (Plex: year · ★ score; a video: the
   channel, then views · age). On a shelf (any horizontal strip) the title is one line, cut with an
@@ -411,7 +415,8 @@ pick a density step; it never changes the anatomy or loses an action. [Nielsen #
   had become the strip's.
 - **The preview (the owner's pick C).** Resting the mouse on a Plex card for ~0.9 s opens a panel beside
   it: the whole title, year · length · ★, and the synopsis in short lines (`ui/MediaPreview` +
-  `useMediaPreview`). Mouse only (a keyboard walk or a tap never opens it; "…" → Media info has the same),
+  `useMediaPreview`); a show's adds the episode it would play ("Next: S6·E16 — Title"), asked as the
+  panel opens. Mouse only (a keyboard walk or a tap never opens it; "…" → Media info has the same),
   passive (it never takes a click), and any press on the card closes it. Long text never goes in a
   native `title` tooltip.
 - **Home's hero is a card** (the owner's pick A): the same hover row and Play on its picture, the same
@@ -531,9 +536,15 @@ of a full-width panel and nothing on the right.
   applies to the item the player opened on (`fromStart`); every item it moves on to resumes. A library
   row is not a card and keeps its one play button: started, that button continues, its "…" has Continue +
   "Play from the beginning", and its picture carries the cards' progress bar.
-- **The YouTube modal:** its chrome uses the `Button` rungs (44 on touch), the side arrows stay inside the
-  screen, and the description opens from an ⓘ button, because a hover popover never opens on a tap (measured
-  live). [WCAG 1.4.13]
+- **The YouTube modal:** its chrome uses the `Button` rungs (44 on touch); Previous / Next live in the panel
+  (its transport row, or the shut panel's strip) and on Shift+← / →, with no strips beside the card. Close is
+  an icon at the top right of the panel (wide: its head, or its strip) and at the end of the title row
+  under the video (stacked). Wide, the panel shows the description outright, clamped to three
+  lines with a More (`ClampedText`; a Tab onto a link below the cut opens it), and collapses to a 2.75rem
+  strip of close, expand and Previous / Next, kept shut as the queue steps on and open again on a new
+  open. Stacked, the description opens from an ⓘ, because a hover popover never opens on a tap (measured
+  live). The wheel: over the video it sets the volume; over a panel with something to scroll it scrolls
+  only, never the volume, even at its end; over one with nothing to scroll it sets the volume. [WCAG 1.4.13]
 
 ## Dialogs — _Decided_ (C4, built in S3f)
 
@@ -609,105 +620,113 @@ of a full-width panel and nothing on the right.
 
 ## Decision log
 
-| Date       | Decision                                         | Chosen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Over                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Why                                                                                                                                                                                           |
-| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| 2026-09-24 | Floating button                                  | Back to top: a round 48 glass FAB; "round" = floats over something (media or the page)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | A Material 3 rounded square; a labelled pill; the old 64 circle                                                                                                                                        | The common web convention for back to top; round tells it apart from every toolbar button; 64 was oversized                                                                                   |
-| 2026-09-24 | Device contract                                  | Tablet portrait + landscape and up; phones out                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | A 1024px floor with a "too small" message                                                                                                                                                              | Portrait tablet use is real, and the app already renders at 820 portrait                                                                                                                      |
-| 2026-09-24 | Card actions on touch                            | Fewer visible, the rest in a "…" menu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 44px buttons that no longer fit the card                                                                                                                                                               | Six 44px targets need more width than a card has                                                                                                                                              |
-| 2026-09-24 | Action placement                                 | One menu with several triggers, never gesture-only, a desktop background menu that mirrors the toolbar                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Visible buttons for everything                                                                                                                                                                         | Fewer non-critical buttons on screen, without hiding any function                                                                                                                             |
-| 2026-09-24 | Text selection                                   | Text stays selectable; a click that ends a selection does nothing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Click-to-play on titles                                                                                                                                                                                | The user must be able to copy any text the app shows                                                                                                                                          |
-| 2026-09-24 | A1 Button shape                                  | r8 + a rung per context; glass is a Button variant                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | r12; a pill                                                                                                                                                                                            | Nested corners (r8 in r12 in r16); the pill already means "a filter or a choice"                                                                                                              |
-| 2026-09-24 | A2 Icon buttons                                  | Two sizes, r8; a round button only on media                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | One size; all round                                                                                                                                                                                    | A lone toolbar icon at the row size looks lost; round rows read as tags                                                                                                                       |
-| 2026-09-24 | A3 Touch size                                    | 44 for every control primitive                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | 36 + gaps; Button only                                                                                                                                                                                 | One rule (HIG 44) instead of two sizes nobody remembers                                                                                                                                       |
-| 2026-09-24 | A4 Input                                         | Bordered, a 55% fg-into-bg edge (≥ 3:1)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Filled; today's look as a primitive                                                                                                                                                                    | The only option that clears WCAG 1.4.11 without a heavy fill on glass                                                                                                                         |
-| 2026-09-24 | A5 Dropdown trigger                              | Pill in a toolbar, r8 in a form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Pill everywhere; r8 everywhere                                                                                                                                                                         | Matches the neighbours in each context                                                                                                                                                        |
-| 2026-09-24 | A6 Checkbox, switch, slider                      | Native, accent-tinted, the row is the target                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Drawn primitives                                                                                                                                                                                       | Free keyboard / screen-reader / forced-colours support; only 3 sites                                                                                                                          |
-| 2026-09-24 | B1 Density                                       | Compact 32 / 28 / 24 by explicit height                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Standard 38 / 32 / 26                                                                                                                                                                                  | The owner's read of the lab; touch is covered separately (A3), and one toolbar row lines up at 28                                                                                             |
-| 2026-09-24 | B2 Scheme set                                    | Midnight, Forest→cyan, Slate→fuchsia, Matrix→lime                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Today's six                                                                                                                                                                                            | The accent collided with danger (YouTube), warn (Slate) and success (Forest, Matrix); Midnight and Starship were one scheme twice; 4 of 6 light accents failed 4.5:1                          |
-| 2026-09-24 | B3 State layers                                  | Text colour at 10% / 16% over anything                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Material's 8 / 12%; today's opacity + bg-card                                                                                                                                                          | Visible in every scheme and mode (≥ 1.2:1); today's row hover was 1.00:1 on a card                                                                                                            |
-| 2026-09-24 | B4 Page chrome                                   | One sticky band + fade; filters fold when short                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | A floating glass bar; everything scrolls                                                                                                                                                               | Tabs and filters always in reach, in one place; a keyboard-up tablet keeps its content                                                                                                        |
-| 2026-09-24 | B5 Surfaces                                      | One class + radius per role                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Today's per-site mix                                                                                                                                                                                   | Nested corners and no per-site alpha drift                                                                                                                                                    |
-| 2026-09-24 | B6 /watch                                        | The app's surfaces, native video controls                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Flat and minimal                                                                                                                                                                                       | The page strangers see should look like the product; native controls work on any device                                                                                                       |
-| 2026-09-24 | B7 Nav rail                                      | Soft tint + edge bar, optional labels (a user setting), slim                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Solid accent (recommended); a Material rail                                                                                                                                                            | The owner's combination: calmer than a solid fill, labels for who wants them, no width cost                                                                                                   |
-| 2026-09-24 | B8 Loading                                       | Skeleton by shape, spinner in a control                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | A spinner everywhere                                                                                                                                                                                   | Nothing jumps when data lands; a long wait doesn't look stuck                                                                                                                                 |
-| 2026-09-24 | B9 Fade                                          | Toolbars / headers, panel tabs, dialog edges, chip rows                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Thumbnails; buttons                                                                                                                                                                                    | The north-star depth where content scrolls under chrome; not on content or small controls                                                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-24 | C1 Action classification                         | The table (lab C1): state + primary at rest, everyday toggles on hover, "…" on touch, destructive into the menu                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Visible buttons per site, as today                                                                                                                                                                     | One action list per object, nothing gesture-only, fewer buttons without losing a function                                                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-24 | C2 Side panels                                   | A tap opens an overlay drawer; pin is a separate button ≥ 1024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | A tap pins and the content reflows                                                                                                                                                                     | Below 768 the filters were unreachable; on touch a tap pinned and pushed the grid                                                                                                             |
-| 2026-09-24 | C3 Players on touch                              | Tap = show the controls; 44px seek hit area; 44 buttons; the YT description behind ⓘ                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Today (tap also pauses; 7.5px seek bar)                                                                                                                                                                | Measured live: you couldn't reach the seek bar without pausing, and the hover-only description never opened on a tap                                                                          |
-| 2026-09-24 | C4 Dialogs                                       | Focus by purpose; a pinned footer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Focus on Close; the footer scrolls                                                                                                                                                                     | A form starts in its first field, and Save stays on screen with the keyboard up                                                                                                               |
-| 2026-09-24 | C5 Plex player controls                          | The owner's lean set: no Stop / Restart / ±10 s buttons, Back by position, Next only with a next item, Resume + From the start on the card, touch double-tap ±10 s                                                                                                                                                     | Every control in one row (it ran off-screen below 1024); Back by a press counter; ±10 s keyboard-only                                                                                                  | The row fits a portrait tablet; the decision to restart is made on the card; a tablet keeps the 10 s skip                                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-24 | Glass tuner                                      | Retired; the schemes are the only colour choice                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Keep it with ranges clamped to the rules                                                                                                                                                               | Free tuning is the drift the constitution exists to stop (owner)                                                                                                                              |
-| 2026-09-24 | Matrix toned down                                | Moss #86a05a at Midnight's lightness, near-neutral greys; every white-on-accent part → `--accent-fg`                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | The B2 lime #a3e635                                                                                                                                                                                    | The owner found the lime neon and tiring; it was the loudest accent (L 0.85, C 0.21), and fixed white parts sat on it at 1.5:1                                                                |
-| 2026-09-24 | Field primitives                                 | `Input` / `Textarea` / `InnerInput` + `fieldClass`, `SelectTrigger`, the native controls; the lint rule "no raw `<input>`"                                                                                                                                                                                             | `inputCls` and ~40 hand-styled boxes                                                                                                                                                                   | Six edges, four radii and two focus looks for one control; the ≥ 3:1 edge held nowhere                                                                                                        |
-| 2026-09-25 | Surface roles                                    | `SURFACE` roles in `ui/surfaces.ts`; the lint rule "no bare glass class"; menus p-1 with r8 rows                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Three tiers paired ad hoc with five radii and three menu paddings                                                                                                                                      | ~140 sites drifted; nested corners only hold if the radius comes with the role                                                                                                                |
-| 2026-09-25 | Static labels                                    | Flat tonal `Badge`, no edge; a filtering tag is an edged chip                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | A glass pill with an edge, like the chips                                                                                                                                                              | Edged = pressable at a glance; a static tag that looks like a chip gets clicked and does nothing                                                                                              |
-| 2026-09-25 | Header search                                    | A 40 glass pill with the field edge (`lg`); what sits inside it is round                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 44, r16, a glass box with a faint edge                                                                                                                                                                 | The one rounded box among pills, and its edge under 3:1; the hero search is the YouTube/Gmail pill                                                                                            |
-| 2026-09-25 | Switch row (F12)                                 | The whole settings row toggles (`SwitchRow`; a hand-laid row points a label at the switch)                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | Only the 36×24 switch toggles                                                                                                                                                                          | The iOS / Material settings row; the text was a dead click beside the control it names                                                                                                        |
-| 2026-09-25 | Edges and hovers (F14)                           | The ≥ 3:1 edge on the field family (fields, the form trigger); labelled pills keep the faint edge and the accent-edge hover                                                                                                                                                                                            | The ≥ 3:1 edge and a state-layer hover on every control                                                                                                                                                | 1.4.11 asks an edge only where nothing else identifies the control; a heavy edge on every chip and tab weighs the whole UI down                                                               |
-| 2026-09-25 | Rating and live (F16)                            | Own tokens: `--rating` (theme-scoped gold), `--live`/`--live-fg`, `--rating-media`, `--media-chrome`; palette classes lint-refused                                                                                                                                                                                     | Map them to `--warn` / `--danger`                                                                                                                                                                      | A gold star and a red LIVE are what the eye expects; as warn/danger they would read as a status. The old amber score was 2:1 on light                                                         |
-| 2026-09-25 | Fjord trial (B2 exception)                       | A fifth scheme, temporary: Midnight's neutrals, Playnite's steel accent (#337599 lifted to #5aa1cb) and steel rules; exit = fold into Midnight or remove                                                                                                                                                               | Retune Midnight straight away; borrow only the qualities                                                                                                                                               | The owner wants to live with the calmer palette app-wide before it replaces the default; it breaks "own hue family" on purpose, and only until that call                                      |
-| 2026-09-25 | Whole-card row (owner)                           | A card row's B3 layer is the card's `::before` under its content; the open button's hit layer spans the card, the actions sit above it                                                                                                                                                                                 | The name button's own hover, ending at the first badge or button                                                                                                                                       | A row that half-answers the pointer reads as broken; a badge click did nothing                                                                                                                |
-| 2026-09-25 | Badge tones (F29)                                | `Badge tone` neutral / accent / warn at 6%; light `--warn` #b45309 → #a14a07; edged label spans lint-refused                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Keep edged status pills (a private Badge in Users, Settings "Granted", the suggestions count)                                                                                                          | Edged = pressable at a glance; amber-700 was 4.58:1 as text and fell under 4.5 on its own tint                                                                                                |
-| 2026-09-26 | Page band built (B4)                             | Controls only in the band (intros scroll); the fold shows the same row in place; one `h1` per page (`PageHeading` steps the hidden one aside); `SectionLabel` headings; Skip to content                                                                                                                                | A popover of the folded filters; the page title kept visible                                                                                                                                           | A folded row is still the same controls, nothing duplicated; the rail and the tab title already name the page                                                                                 |
-| 2026-09-26 | Fade built (B9)                                  | `fade-below` on sticky toolbars and table headers; the scroller mask where the band sits on the backdrop                                                                                                                                                                                                               | A painted band over the backdrop                                                                                                                                                                       | The backdrop is the colour under the band, so fading the content into it is the same edge                                                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-26 | Viewport units                                   | `dvh` everywhere (the Plex player stage with S3f)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | `vh` / `h-screen`                                                                                                                                                                                      | `100vh` hides the last rows under a tablet browser's toolbar                                                                                                                                  |
-| 2026-09-26 | Video actions built (C1)                         | One list per video (menu, right-click, long-press, "…"); the card keeps watched / save / add to playlist on its picture on hover; download, details, copy, hide, reset in the menu                                                                                                                                     | The six-button row under the card and the hover ⓘ                                                                                                                                                      | The menu is the one door every device has; the card loses a line of height and the touch card its row of 28px buttons                                                                         |
-| 2026-09-26 | Plex actions built (C1)                          | One list per Plex title (play/open, watched, add to playlist, media info, copy title, pin); the poster keeps watched / add / "…" on its picture on hover; seasons get open / watched / add / copy                                                                                                                      | The hover ⓘ, the pin-only menu, an episode's add button at rest, a collection's "Remove" X on the card                                                                                                 | The same door as a video's; the collection grid goes to two columns on a phone so the touch "…" leaves the title its line                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-26 | Playlist actions built (C1)                      | A playlist row's "…" (play, pin, copy title / link, move, order, remove), Delete + an undo toast; one list per playlist (rename, pin, YouTube open / push / revert, delete) from its rail row and its header's "…"                                                                                                     | The row's X column and its confirm; the header's pencil, YouTube link, push, revert and trash buttons                                                                                                  | Remove is reversible, so it needs no confirm; the header keeps Play all; a narrow table drops "#" and Channel so the title keeps a width                                                      |
-| 2026-09-26 | Channel + Plex list actions (C1)                 | A channel row's "…" (open, pin, YouTube, copy, full history, hide + undo, unsubscribe); a Plex playlist's title / show / season "…", Delete + undo; its header's "…" (rename, delete); an action toast lasts ≥ 8 s                                                                                                     | The channel row's full-history, hide and unsubscribe buttons; the Plex list's red X on every row, show and season; the header's pencil and trash                                                       | Hiding and removing are reversible, so they need no confirm and the undo needs time; unsubscribe and deleting a playlist keep theirs                                                          |
-| 2026-09-26 | Download / notification / Scheduler actions (C1) | A download row's "…" (play, share, save, edit, details, re-download, manage sharing, copies, cancel / delete / remove); a library row's Share stays in sight, ahead of save; a notification row's "…" and hover dismiss; the inbox band's and the Scheduler strip's "…"                                                | The download row's five rare buttons and its cancel / delete / remove; the source link's copy button; an activity notice's Find / Undo links; the band's Clear everything; the strip's Purge discovery | The destructive rows keep their confirm, and Clear everything gains one; a row link keeps the browser's own menu; Find in feed drops the tag / search / age filters that could hide its video |
-| 2026-09-26 | Channel menu: Tags + Priority (C1)               | Tags A–Z as in-place checks; Priority as fixed steps 10 · 5 · 3 · 2 · 1 · 0, the current one ticked; a pick re-sorts at once and the page + focus follow the row; one drawn `MenuCheck` for every checkable row that cannot be an `<input>`                                                                            | Relative steps (+1 / +5); straight to the top; the stepper only; seven hand-drawn check marks (three box sizes, a tinted box, a × for "on", a trailing tick)                                           | Bubbling a channel up is one pick; fixed levels keep the scale the reader already uses; the list moving where the reader can see it is the feedback                                           |
-| 2026-09-26 | Reorder without a drag (WCAG 2.5.7)              | Row menus: Top / Up / Down / Bottom (YouTube + Plex playlists); saved views: four buttons with the place beside the selected view (owner: A); side panels in edit mode: an Up / Down pair per group (owner: A), the name wrapping there                                                                                | A "…" on every saved-view row; a "…" on every panel group; drag only                                                                                                                                   | A visible, one-click path where the list is edited; the edge moves shown off so the buttons never shift                                                                                       |
-| 2026-09-26 | Titles in click surfaces                         | The surface stays a button, flagged `selectable`: its text selects, and the click that ends a selection does nothing; every plain `Pressable` pinned with its reason                                                                                                                                                   | Rebuilding each card and row so the title sits outside the button; exceptions for master-detail lists                                                                                                  | Chrome selects inside a button once it is `user-select: text` (measured), so one flag on the primitive keeps the keyboard, focus and list walking every surface already has                   |
-| 2026-09-26 | Right-click on a selection                       | The browser's own menu opens on selected words; beside them the object's menu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | A "Copy selection" row in the app menu                                                                                                                                                                 | The reader selected the words to do something with them; the native menu copies, searches and translates, and changes nothing else                                                            |
-| 2026-09-26 | Keyboard ring on a flush row                     | Inside the row (a table row by its tag, a log line, a show header in its clipping card, with the card's corners)                                                                                                                                                                                                       | The ring outside, as on a card                                                                                                                                                                         | Outside it ran under the table head and past the table, and a clipping card cut it away entirely (invisible focus)                                                                            |
-| 2026-09-26 | Fade at rest                                     | The sticky header's fade appears with the first 1rem of scroll (a scroll-driven animation; no fade where unsupported)                                                                                                                                                                                                  | A fade that is always drawn                                                                                                                                                                            | At rest it dimmed the first row and hid its ring's top edge; nothing is under the header yet                                                                                                  |
-| 2026-09-26 | Narrow playlist table                            | "#" and Channel hide by the table's own width (under 42rem), not the window's                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Hiding below the `sm` window width                                                                                                                                                                     | Beside the playlist rail a desktop window left the table 432 px and the title 0 px                                                                                                            |
-| 2026-09-26 | Background menu built                            | Five list pages (feed, Plex grid, channels, playlist, notifications); the toolbar's sort / view / filters and the band's actions; no destructive row                                                                                                                                                                   | Every page with a toolbar; the "…" menus copied whole, delete included                                                                                                                                 | The tab-only pages have nothing a menu would add; a blank-area right-click must not be one click from delete                                                                                  |
-| 2026-09-26 | Media card anatomy (C)                           | One frame; the meta line pinned to its bottom; the length a badge on the picture; the Plex card on the same primitive as the video card                                                                                                                                                                                | A: the year as an overline over the title; B: the year inline after it; a fixed two-line title slot                                                                                                    | A one-line title left a hole the eye reads as a missing line; C puts nothing under a variable-height title                                                                                    |
-| 2026-09-26 | One Play                                         | `MediaPlayGlyph` (the media button variant) and only where the click plays                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | The Plex card's hand-painted accent circle; a playable dot on every card                                                                                                                               | One Play for every card; a dot that only a colour and a tooltip explain says nothing                                                                                                          |
-| 2026-09-26 | Filtering values on the info page                | A value that filters (year, certificate, studio, director) is an edged chip; a fact is flat text                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Everything flat, the clickable ones only hover-tinted                                                                                                                                                  | The S3d rule: edged = pressable, so the reader sees which values do something                                                                                                                 |
-| 2026-09-26 | Shelf density                                    | On any strip: one title line over one meta line                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | The grid's two lines and full meta on a strip                                                                                                                                                          | The tallest card set the strip's height and left holes in the cards with less to say                                                                                                          |
-| 2026-09-26 | Compact list row (B)                             | The title leads; a faint "…" at the end; the toggles float over the date on hover                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | A leading 128px action column                                                                                                                                                                          | That column sat empty at rest, a hole at the start of every row                                                                                                                               |
-| 2026-09-26 | Media-info layout (B)                            | A main column (collections first, crew, cast) beside a facts sidebar; an empty column is not drawn                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Every section full width, stacked                                                                                                                                                                      | The collection is the most used; the keywords' column left a void beside a short details box                                                                                                  |
-| 2026-09-26 | Mixed Home shelf (A)                             | Plex titles as wide art beside videos                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Posters, with the videos not stretched                                                                                                                                                                 | Stretching a video card to a poster's height left an ~80px gap                                                                                                                                |
-| 2026-09-27 | Home hero                                        | A card (hover row + Play on the picture, the whole menu, a touch "…"; owner: A); three quarters wide and centred on a wide window; one fact line; the summary at the measure                                                                                                                                           | The hero's pin row alone; full width; an 18rem picture column                                                                                                                                          | The one answer stands in focus, and it offers what the same card offers anywhere                                                                                                              |
-| 2026-09-27 | Home shelf tiles                                 | A channel / playlist tile: Play, ↗ open, "…" with Open; a show acts on its next episode, ⓘ opens it; the shelf slot 232px                                                                                                                                                                                             | The tile's pin row alone; 200px                                                                                                                                                                        | A tile without its object's actions read as broken; at 200 the Play touched the hover row                                                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-27 | Synopsis preview (C)                             | A ~0.9 s mouse rest opens a passive panel beside the card                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | The synopsis as the picture's `title` tooltip; an ⓘ to hover; none                                                                                                                                     | One long tooltip line fired anywhere on the art and clashed with the cut title's own tooltip                                                                                                  |
-| 2026-09-27 | Reading measure                                  | Prose capped at ~65 characters a line (`measure`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | The container's full width                                                                                                                                                                             | At 110–130 characters a line the eye loses the next line's start                                                                                                                              |
-| 2026-09-24 | Chip family                                      | One `Chip` (filter / token / tag / suggest / ghost) + `DismissibleChip`; nothing under 24; the lint rule "no raw `<button>` outside ui/"                                                                                                                                                                               | Five chip geometries in five files                                                                                                                                                                     | The applied-filter row, the tag cells, the year picker and the saved-view editor each drew their own chip; a one-letter tag was 21px wide                                                     |
-| 2026-09-24 | Button families                                  | `Button` / `IconButton` / `Pressable` / chips / `DragHandle`; `lg` 40 for a hero CTA; pills and a 48 Play on media (from C5)                                                                                                                                                                                           | Every button hand-painted                                                                                                                                                                              | 268 hand-rolled buttons in 79 files drifted into as many looks; the ladder only holds if every button stands on it                                                                            |
-| 2026-09-27 | C4 as built                                      | `initialFocus` required on every `Modal`; the commit row in `ModalFooter`, portalled under the body from any depth; the fades driven by the body's scroll timeline; `interactive-widget=resizes-content`                                                                                                               | An optional prop defaulting to the ✕; a `footer` prop (the issue composer's buttons live three components down); always-on fades                                                                       | A default is how 21 dialogs came to open on the ✕; lifting the composer's state to reach a prop is the larger change; a resting fade dimmed the first line                                    |
-| 2026-09-27 | C3 + C5 as built                                 | A tap toggles the bar through `pointerType` from `pointerdown`; a double-tap takes back its first tap's toggle; the card's pair is the video card's `MediaResumeButtons` (Continue / Restart), a sibling over the picture; the YT description is an ⓘ click popover                                                    | A delayed single tap (wait out the double-tap window); new "Resume / From the start" words for Plex; the pair inside the picture's button                                                              | A delayed tap feels dead; one media card says one pair of words; a button inside a button is invalid and the hover row already sits beside the picture                                        |
-| 2026-09-27 | C2 as built                                      | The side panel's drawer is `ui/Modal` `drawer-start`; drawer = a coarse pointer or below 768; the pin offered in its header ≥ 1024                                                                                                                                                                                     | A drawer of its own inside `SidePanel`                                                                                                                                                                 | Esc, Back, the scrim, the trap and the scroll lock are the dialog's; a second implementation is how two shells drift                                                                          |
-| 2026-09-30 | Composition and the reader (E30 S6)              | A chapter and a Conformance step: the space is used, one focal point, worst real data, where am I, a click answers at once, zoom and text size first-class; the person page as two columns (facts and bio left, "Known for" right)                                                                                     | Rules for pieces only; the bio in a full-width panel; a narrower panel                                                                                                                                 | The person page passed every piece rule with half its panel empty; the owner reads zoomed in, so zoom is a requirement, not a nicety                                                          |
-| 2026-09-30 | Hungarian words (E30 S5)                         | The D3 list: Feed, Shorts, Admin, Token, Port stay; stream, Prio, Job, Audit, Demo, Auto, Info, Frontend/Backend, Backfill, transcode get the Hungarian word; one name per thing (kérelem, behúzás, one "Test connection")                                                                                             | Keep every loanword; translate Feed/Shorts too                                                                                                                                                         | The owner chose the list (D3); the final sweep found the same feature under two names in three places                                                                                         |
-| 2026-09-29 | Numbers and order in the UI language (E30 S3)    | Every number through `lib/format.ts` in the UI language (decimal mark, grouping, compact, units); A→Z by the shown name in the UI language's alphabet, client and server alike; the language comes off `useTranslation`, never the singleton                                                                           | `toFixed`, hand-built "1.2K", `localeCompare` in the browser's locale, byte-order server sorts                                                                                                         | A Hungarian reader saw "8.3", "1.2K", "Életrajzi" after "Z"; the singleton read also left values in the old language after a switch (React Compiler)                                          |
-| 2026-09-27 | Narrow rows by container                         | The download row, the playlist table and the Channels tag row stack by a container query; a fact line never wraps                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Breakpoints on the window                                                                                                                                                                              | The iPad zoomed in, split screen and a column beside a rail are narrow while the window is not; the zoomed download row broke "18.9 / MB" apart                                               |
-| 2026-09-27 | Phones deferred                                  | A phone-only layout (the hamburger nav, a folded feed band) waits for its own epic; E28 stays desktop + tablet                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Fix the phone views inside E28                                                                                                                                                                         | Principle 2; the first phone attempts made the feed worse, and the epic's review grows with every sprint                                                                                      |
-| 2026-09-27 | Conformance check (S3g)                          | A four-step check before a UI change is done: primitive at a named rung, the chapter re-read, the rendered page measured by kind and look, every state seen                                                                                                                                                            | A reviewer's eye per sprint                                                                                                                                                                            | The S1 probe found 69 button looks; after S3 every control kind is drawn by its primitive, and the check keeps a new look from arriving unnoticed                                             |
-| 2026-09-27 | Segmented rung                                   | `SegmentedToggle` defaults to the toolbar rung (28, `text-xs`); 24 only for a panel's captioned match toggle                                                                                                                                                                                                           | The small default                                                                                                                                                                                      | Two toolbars had inherited 10px type from the default beside 28px buttons                                                                                                                     |
-| 2026-09-27 | Copy rule (S3g)                                  | One name per feature (the rail may shorten it); four verbs for four meanings; sentence case with the app's places capitalised; "…" when a command asks first; one-sentence messages without a stop; curly quotes; dates relative in lists with the exact minute on hover, three absolute forms; units from Intl, short | Word-for-word names everywhere; the verbs as they were; all lower case; no "…"; always a stop; always absolute dates; long or compact units                                                            | The copy survey found 7 EN and 6 HU double names, 22 Delete against 27 Remove, five date shapes and three spellings of a minute; the owner picked every recommended option                    |
-| 2026-09-27 | One glyph, one meaning (S4)                      | Play only for playback or resuming a paused transfer; Retry = `RefreshCw`; reset / revert = `RotateCcw`                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Retry drawn with Play                                                                                                                                                                                  | The first UI-review run (Downloads) found a failed row whose Retry showed ▷ in the row and its menu                                                                                           |
-| 2026-09-27 | Fjord kept                                       | Fjord stays a fifth scheme beside Midnight; the trial wording goes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Fold it into Midnight; remove it                                                                                                                                                                       | The owner lived with it and likes it; the vivid Midnight stays for those who want it. B2's own-hue rule still binds any new scheme                                                            |
-| 2026-09-27 | Tablet columns                                   | A table hides `tabletHidden` columns below 64rem of its own width; Channels drops Prio, About, Length                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Hide About only; give the name a bigger share                                                                                                                                                          | At 1024 the channel name had 60 px; the owner chose to drop all three there                                                                                                                   |
-| 2026-09-27 | Glyph pager                                      | First / previous / next / last as glyph buttons round the page box, names as tooltips                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Words beside the arrows (hidden only on a phone)                                                                                                                                                       | The owner's call: the words widened the row; four arrows are the shared convention                                                                                                            |
-| 2026-09-27 | Match switch on the panel                        | `ui/MatchToggle` above the picker from two picks, everywhere; one wording (Any / All)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | The picker's popover footer (Feed, Plex collection)                                                                                                                                                    | A closed picker hid an active "all"; six pickers had drawn it two ways                                                                                                                        |
-| 2026-09-27 | Missing picture, bare link                       | A glyph of the kind for no picture; a download with no name is titled by its short link, once                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | An empty box; the URL as title, channel and link                                                                                                                                                       | The owner's picks 4A and 3A: an empty box read as loading, the URL showed three times                                                                                                         |
-| 2026-09-27 | Copy on a selection                              | Right-click on selected words keeps the browser's menu; no app Copy row                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | An app menu with Copy first                                                                                                                                                                            | A real browser's menu has copy, search and translate; only the desktop pane's is thin                                                                                                         |
-| 2026-10-01 | Zoom target 125–133%                             | Screens are held at 125% and 133% browser zoom (1536 × 729, 1444 × 685 on a 1080p window) and the largest text size                                                                                                                                                                                                    | 200% browser zoom                                                                                                                                                                                      | The owner: 200% was a guess; 125–133% is what they read Siftlode and most sites at, so 200% would be an upper bound nobody uses                                                               |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Nav rail at short heights                    | One "Admin" rail item opening a panel of the admin pages                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | A denser rail when short; a visible "+4" hint                                                                                                                                                          | The rail fits at 133–150% without a hidden scroll; the admin pages are rare and admin-only                                                                                                    |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Configuration sections                       | A vertical, grouped section list, as Settings has                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Group tabs + sub-tabs; one long page with a contents list                                                                                                                                              | Sixteen tabs wrapped to three rows at 133%; one pattern for both settings pages                                                                                                               |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Statistics overview                          | Number tiles, and the per-operation counts as horizontal bars                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Three narrow cards; a 30-day chart                                                                                                                                                                     | The label sits by its value; what spends the quota is seen at a glance                                                                                                                        |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Channel page header                          | The full banner, folding to one row once the grid scrolls                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Always compact; no banner                                                                                                                                                                              | The header is fixed and took 40% of a 685px window; the channel keeps its face at first sight                                                                                                 |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Channel page watch state                     | A fresh channel page shows the unwatched videos; a picked state is remembered                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Show all, forgotten on reload                                                                                                                                                                          | The owner: open a channel to see what is new; a choice made there should stick                                                                                                                |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Audit log runs                               | A job's successful runs fold into one row that opens, whatever ran between; only that job's failure (never folded, danger colour) breaks it                                                                                                                                                                            | A filter defaulting to admin actions; both                                                                                                                                                             | Nothing hidden, the noise collapsed, the failure seen                                                                                                                                         |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Users row                                    | Role and state as badges, the actions in the row's one menu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | An inline role toggle; icon-only buttons                                                                                                                                                               | Action placement: the row shows state, rare and destructive actions live in the menu                                                                                                          |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 YouTube player                               | Video beside an info panel at 1280px and wider (the video as large as the height allows); stacked below                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Today's stack with a one-line bar; full-window like Plex                                                                                                                                               | The owner's eyesight: about 1460px of video on 1080p instead of 1008, the actions still visible                                                                                               |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Plex info and show pages                     | A second column for the facts, keywords and crew, as the person page; a collection's hero sized to its content                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Full-width text; a larger poster and fanart                                                                                                                                                            | The right ~40% was empty; one composition for every media page                                                                                                                                |
-| 2026-10-01 | E31 Nav rail rows are links                      | Each page row is a real link: a middle-click or Ctrl-click opens the page in a new tab                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | A button                                                                                                                                                                                               | The owner: open a page in a tab of its own, as on any site                                                                                                                                    |
-| 2026-10-02 | E31 Plex detail second column (refined)          | The facts over the key crew beside the text; the keywords, chips that filter like the genres, under the text; the show page gets all three too                                                                                                                                                                         | All three in the column, as the mockup drew it                                                                                                                                                         | At 20 keywords and 12 crew the column ran to twice the text's height (849 vs ~400 px at 133%): a hole under the text instead of beside it                                                     |
-| 2026-10-02 | E31 Plex detail poster and crew                  | The movie and show poster keeps its 2:3 and grows a rung in a wide hero (w-56 at a 64rem panel); the crew shows its first 6 names and "Show N more" (a list of 8 or fewer shows whole)                                                                                                                                 | Poster stretched to the row; a "More" on the keywords                                                                                                                                                  | The row is as tall as the crew column, so the poster drew ~175×590 and cropped; the crew, not the keywords, set the hero's height                                                             |
-| 2026-10-04 | E32 `field` focus skips a mode switch | A form opens on its first field; a control above it that is not a field (the composer's Edit / Preview) is passed over by marking the field `data-initial-focus` | The first text field everywhere | That moved the focus in the download dialog off its profile choice and in the upload dialog off its drop zone; the mark changes only the form that needs it |
-| 2026-10-04 | E35 Lint for z-levels and edged labels | Both rules stay; the two eslint selectors (`Z_RAW`, `EDGED_LABEL`) that refused them go | Keep the selectors | 0 hits since the E28 sweep that fixed the sites: a check that never fires costs a probe test and a snapshot each, and the UI review holds both rules |
-| 2026-10-06 | `player` focus | A dialog that is a player opens focused on its panel (the YouTube player's rule, now `Modal`'s too); on the media element itself, Space and the arrows stay the element's own | `close`, or the media element | On the ✕ Space closed the player; on the element the browser's own controls acted on the same key as the player's (one Space played and paused, measured in Chrome) |
+| Date       | Decision                                         | Chosen                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Over                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Why                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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+| 2026-09-24 | Floating button                                  | Back to top: a round 48 glass FAB; "round" = floats over something (media or the page)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | A Material 3 rounded square; a labelled pill; the old 64 circle                                                                                                                                        | The common web convention for back to top; round tells it apart from every toolbar button; 64 was oversized                                                                                                                  |
+| 2026-09-24 | Device contract                                  | Tablet portrait + landscape and up; phones out                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | A 1024px floor with a "too small" message                                                                                                                                                              | Portrait tablet use is real, and the app already renders at 820 portrait                                                                                                                                                     |
+| 2026-09-24 | Card actions on touch                            | Fewer visible, the rest in a "…" menu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | 44px buttons that no longer fit the card                                                                                                                                                               | Six 44px targets need more width than a card has                                                                                                                                                                             |
+| 2026-09-24 | Action placement                                 | One menu with several triggers, never gesture-only, a desktop background menu that mirrors the toolbar                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Visible buttons for everything                                                                                                                                                                         | Fewer non-critical buttons on screen, without hiding any function                                                                                                                                                            |
+| 2026-09-24 | Text selection                                   | Text stays selectable; a click that ends a selection does nothing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Click-to-play on titles                                                                                                                                                                                | The user must be able to copy any text the app shows                                                                                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-24 | A1 Button shape                                  | r8 + a rung per context; glass is a Button variant                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | r12; a pill                                                                                                                                                                                            | Nested corners (r8 in r12 in r16); the pill already means "a filter or a choice"                                                                                                                                             |
+| 2026-09-24 | A2 Icon buttons                                  | Two sizes, r8; a round button only on media                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | One size; all round                                                                                                                                                                                    | A lone toolbar icon at the row size looks lost; round rows read as tags                                                                                                                                                      |
+| 2026-09-24 | A3 Touch size                                    | 44 for every control primitive                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | 36 + gaps; Button only                                                                                                                                                                                 | One rule (HIG 44) instead of two sizes nobody remembers                                                                                                                                                                      |
+| 2026-09-24 | A4 Input                                         | Bordered, a 55% fg-into-bg edge (≥ 3:1)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Filled; today's look as a primitive                                                                                                                                                                    | The only option that clears WCAG 1.4.11 without a heavy fill on glass                                                                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-09-24 | A5 Dropdown trigger                              | Pill in a toolbar, r8 in a form                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Pill everywhere; r8 everywhere                                                                                                                                                                         | Matches the neighbours in each context                                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| 2026-09-24 | A6 Checkbox, switch, slider                      | Native, accent-tinted, the row is the target                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Drawn primitives                                                                                                                                                                                       | Free keyboard / screen-reader / forced-colours support; only 3 sites                                                                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-24 | B1 Density                                       | Compact 32 / 28 / 24 by explicit height                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Standard 38 / 32 / 26                                                                                                                                                                                  | The owner's read of the lab; touch is covered separately (A3), and one toolbar row lines up at 28                                                                                                                            |
+| 2026-09-24 | B2 Scheme set                                    | Midnight, Forest→cyan, Slate→fuchsia, Matrix→lime                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Today's six                                                                                                                                                                                            | The accent collided with danger (YouTube), warn (Slate) and success (Forest, Matrix); Midnight and Starship were one scheme twice; 4 of 6 light accents failed 4.5:1                                                         |
+| 2026-09-24 | B3 State layers                                  | Text colour at 10% / 16% over anything                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | Material's 8 / 12%; today's opacity + bg-card                                                                                                                                                          | Visible in every scheme and mode (≥ 1.2:1); today's row hover was 1.00:1 on a card                                                                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-24 | B4 Page chrome                                   | One sticky band + fade; filters fold when short                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | A floating glass bar; everything scrolls                                                                                                                                                               | Tabs and filters always in reach, in one place; a keyboard-up tablet keeps its content                                                                                                                                       |
+| 2026-09-24 | B5 Surfaces                                      | One class + radius per role                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Today's per-site mix                                                                                                                                                                                   | Nested corners and no per-site alpha drift                                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| 2026-09-24 | B6 /watch                                        | The app's surfaces, native video controls                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Flat and minimal                                                                                                                                                                                       | The page strangers see should look like the product; native controls work on any device                                                                                                                                      |
+| 2026-09-24 | B7 Nav rail                                      | Soft tint + edge bar, optional labels (a user setting), slim                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Solid accent (recommended); a Material rail                                                                                                                                                            | The owner's combination: calmer than a solid fill, labels for who wants them, no width cost                                                                                                                                  |
+| 2026-09-24 | B8 Loading                                       | Skeleton by shape, spinner in a control                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | A spinner everywhere                                                                                                                                                                                   | Nothing jumps when data lands; a long wait doesn't look stuck                                                                                                                                                                |
+| 2026-09-24 | B9 Fade                                          | Toolbars / headers, panel tabs, dialog edges, chip rows                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Thumbnails; buttons                                                                                                                                                                                    | The north-star depth where content scrolls under chrome; not on content or small controls                                                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-24 | C1 Action classification                         | The table (lab C1): state + primary at rest, everyday toggles on hover, "…" on touch, destructive into the menu                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Visible buttons per site, as today                                                                                                                                                                     | One action list per object, nothing gesture-only, fewer buttons without losing a function                                                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-24 | C2 Side panels                                   | A tap opens an overlay drawer; pin is a separate button ≥ 1024                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | A tap pins and the content reflows                                                                                                                                                                     | Below 768 the filters were unreachable; on touch a tap pinned and pushed the grid                                                                                                                                            |
+| 2026-09-24 | C3 Players on touch                              | Tap = show the controls; 44px seek hit area; 44 buttons; the YT description behind ⓘ                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Today (tap also pauses; 7.5px seek bar)                                                                                                                                                                | Measured live: you couldn't reach the seek bar without pausing, and the hover-only description never opened on a tap                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-24 | C4 Dialogs                                       | Focus by purpose; a pinned footer                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Focus on Close; the footer scrolls                                                                                                                                                                     | A form starts in its first field, and Save stays on screen with the keyboard up                                                                                                                                              |
+| 2026-09-24 | C5 Plex player controls                          | The owner's lean set: no Stop / Restart / ±10 s buttons, Back by position, Next only with a next item, Resume + From the start on the card, touch double-tap ±10 s                                                                                                                                                     | Every control in one row (it ran off-screen below 1024); Back by a press counter; ±10 s keyboard-only                                                                                                  | The row fits a portrait tablet; the decision to restart is made on the card; a tablet keeps the 10 s skip                                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-24 | Glass tuner                                      | Retired; the schemes are the only colour choice                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Keep it with ranges clamped to the rules                                                                                                                                                               | Free tuning is the drift the constitution exists to stop (owner)                                                                                                                                                             |
+| 2026-09-24 | Matrix toned down                                | Moss #86a05a at Midnight's lightness, near-neutral greys; every white-on-accent part → `--accent-fg`                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | The B2 lime #a3e635                                                                                                                                                                                    | The owner found the lime neon and tiring; it was the loudest accent (L 0.85, C 0.21), and fixed white parts sat on it at 1.5:1                                                                                               |
+| 2026-09-24 | Field primitives                                 | `Input` / `Textarea` / `InnerInput` + `fieldClass`, `SelectTrigger`, the native controls; the lint rule "no raw `<input>`"                                                                                                                                                                                             | `inputCls` and ~40 hand-styled boxes                                                                                                                                                                   | Six edges, four radii and two focus looks for one control; the ≥ 3:1 edge held nowhere                                                                                                                                       |
+| 2026-09-25 | Surface roles                                    | `SURFACE` roles in `ui/surfaces.ts`; the lint rule "no bare glass class"; menus p-1 with r8 rows                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Three tiers paired ad hoc with five radii and three menu paddings                                                                                                                                      | ~140 sites drifted; nested corners only hold if the radius comes with the role                                                                                                                                               |
+| 2026-09-25 | Static labels                                    | Flat tonal `Badge`, no edge; a filtering tag is an edged chip                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | A glass pill with an edge, like the chips                                                                                                                                                              | Edged = pressable at a glance; a static tag that looks like a chip gets clicked and does nothing                                                                                                                             |
+| 2026-09-25 | Header search                                    | A 40 glass pill with the field edge (`lg`); what sits inside it is round                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | 44, r16, a glass box with a faint edge                                                                                                                                                                 | The one rounded box among pills, and its edge under 3:1; the hero search is the YouTube/Gmail pill                                                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-25 | Switch row (F12)                                 | The whole settings row toggles (`SwitchRow`; a hand-laid row points a label at the switch)                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | Only the 36×24 switch toggles                                                                                                                                                                          | The iOS / Material settings row; the text was a dead click beside the control it names                                                                                                                                       |
+| 2026-09-25 | Edges and hovers (F14)                           | The ≥ 3:1 edge on the field family (fields, the form trigger); labelled pills keep the faint edge and the accent-edge hover                                                                                                                                                                                            | The ≥ 3:1 edge and a state-layer hover on every control                                                                                                                                                | 1.4.11 asks an edge only where nothing else identifies the control; a heavy edge on every chip and tab weighs the whole UI down                                                                                              |
+| 2026-09-25 | Rating and live (F16)                            | Own tokens: `--rating` (theme-scoped gold), `--live`/`--live-fg`, `--rating-media`, `--media-chrome`; palette classes lint-refused                                                                                                                                                                                     | Map them to `--warn` / `--danger`                                                                                                                                                                      | A gold star and a red LIVE are what the eye expects; as warn/danger they would read as a status. The old amber score was 2:1 on light                                                                                        |
+| 2026-09-25 | Fjord trial (B2 exception)                       | A fifth scheme, temporary: Midnight's neutrals, Playnite's steel accent (#337599 lifted to #5aa1cb) and steel rules; exit = fold into Midnight or remove                                                                                                                                                               | Retune Midnight straight away; borrow only the qualities                                                                                                                                               | The owner wants to live with the calmer palette app-wide before it replaces the default; it breaks "own hue family" on purpose, and only until that call                                                                     |
+| 2026-09-25 | Whole-card row (owner)                           | A card row's B3 layer is the card's `::before` under its content; the open button's hit layer spans the card, the actions sit above it                                                                                                                                                                                 | The name button's own hover, ending at the first badge or button                                                                                                                                       | A row that half-answers the pointer reads as broken; a badge click did nothing                                                                                                                                               |
+| 2026-09-25 | Badge tones (F29)                                | `Badge tone` neutral / accent / warn at 6%; light `--warn` #b45309 → #a14a07; edged label spans lint-refused                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Keep edged status pills (a private Badge in Users, Settings "Granted", the suggestions count)                                                                                                          | Edged = pressable at a glance; amber-700 was 4.58:1 as text and fell under 4.5 on its own tint                                                                                                                               |
+| 2026-09-26 | Page band built (B4)                             | Controls only in the band (intros scroll); the fold shows the same row in place; one `h1` per page (`PageHeading` steps the hidden one aside); `SectionLabel` headings; Skip to content                                                                                                                                | A popover of the folded filters; the page title kept visible                                                                                                                                           | A folded row is still the same controls, nothing duplicated; the rail and the tab title already name the page                                                                                                                |
+| 2026-09-26 | Fade built (B9)                                  | `fade-below` on sticky toolbars and table headers; the scroller mask where the band sits on the backdrop                                                                                                                                                                                                               | A painted band over the backdrop                                                                                                                                                                       | The backdrop is the colour under the band, so fading the content into it is the same edge                                                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-26 | Viewport units                                   | `dvh` everywhere (the Plex player stage with S3f)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | `vh` / `h-screen`                                                                                                                                                                                      | `100vh` hides the last rows under a tablet browser's toolbar                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| 2026-09-26 | Video actions built (C1)                         | One list per video (menu, right-click, long-press, "…"); the card keeps watched / save / add to playlist on its picture on hover; download, details, copy, hide, reset in the menu                                                                                                                                     | The six-button row under the card and the hover ⓘ                                                                                                                                                      | The menu is the one door every device has; the card loses a line of height and the touch card its row of 28px buttons                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-09-26 | Plex actions built (C1)                          | One list per Plex title (play/open, watched, add to playlist, media info, copy title, pin); the poster keeps watched / add / "…" on its picture on hover; seasons get open / watched / add / copy                                                                                                                      | The hover ⓘ, the pin-only menu, an episode's add button at rest, a collection's "Remove" X on the card                                                                                                 | The same door as a video's; the collection grid goes to two columns on a phone so the touch "…" leaves the title its line                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-26 | Playlist actions built (C1)                      | A playlist row's "…" (play, pin, copy title / link, move, order, remove), Delete + an undo toast; one list per playlist (rename, pin, YouTube open / push / revert, delete) from its rail row and its header's "…"                                                                                                     | The row's X column and its confirm; the header's pencil, YouTube link, push, revert and trash buttons                                                                                                  | Remove is reversible, so it needs no confirm; the header keeps Play all; a narrow table drops "#" and Channel so the title keeps a width                                                                                     |
+| 2026-09-26 | Channel + Plex list actions (C1)                 | A channel row's "…" (open, pin, YouTube, copy, full history, hide + undo, unsubscribe); a Plex playlist's title / show / season "…", Delete + undo; its header's "…" (rename, delete); an action toast lasts ≥ 8 s                                                                                                     | The channel row's full-history, hide and unsubscribe buttons; the Plex list's red X on every row, show and season; the header's pencil and trash                                                       | Hiding and removing are reversible, so they need no confirm and the undo needs time; unsubscribe and deleting a playlist keep theirs                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-26 | Download / notification / Scheduler actions (C1) | A download row's "…" (play, share, save, edit, details, re-download, manage sharing, copies, cancel / delete / remove); a library row's Share stays in sight, ahead of save; a notification row's "…" and hover dismiss; the inbox band's and the Scheduler strip's "…"                                                | The download row's five rare buttons and its cancel / delete / remove; the source link's copy button; an activity notice's Find / Undo links; the band's Clear everything; the strip's Purge discovery | The destructive rows keep their confirm, and Clear everything gains one; a row link keeps the browser's own menu; Find in feed drops the tag / search / age filters that could hide its video                                |
+| 2026-09-26 | Channel menu: Tags + Priority (C1)               | Tags A–Z as in-place checks; Priority as fixed steps 10 · 5 · 3 · 2 · 1 · 0, the current one ticked; a pick re-sorts at once and the page + focus follow the row; one drawn `MenuCheck` for every checkable row that cannot be an `<input>`                                                                            | Relative steps (+1 / +5); straight to the top; the stepper only; seven hand-drawn check marks (three box sizes, a tinted box, a × for "on", a trailing tick)                                           | Bubbling a channel up is one pick; fixed levels keep the scale the reader already uses; the list moving where the reader can see it is the feedback                                                                          |
+| 2026-09-26 | Reorder without a drag (WCAG 2.5.7)              | Row menus: Top / Up / Down / Bottom (YouTube + Plex playlists); saved views: four buttons with the place beside the selected view (owner: A); side panels in edit mode: an Up / Down pair per group (owner: A), the name wrapping there                                                                                | A "…" on every saved-view row; a "…" on every panel group; drag only                                                                                                                                   | A visible, one-click path where the list is edited; the edge moves shown off so the buttons never shift                                                                                                                      |
+| 2026-09-26 | Titles in click surfaces                         | The surface stays a button, flagged `selectable`: its text selects, and the click that ends a selection does nothing; every plain `Pressable` pinned with its reason                                                                                                                                                   | Rebuilding each card and row so the title sits outside the button; exceptions for master-detail lists                                                                                                  | Chrome selects inside a button once it is `user-select: text` (measured), so one flag on the primitive keeps the keyboard, focus and list walking every surface already has                                                  |
+| 2026-09-26 | Right-click on a selection                       | The browser's own menu opens on selected words; beside them the object's menu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | A "Copy selection" row in the app menu                                                                                                                                                                 | The reader selected the words to do something with them; the native menu copies, searches and translates, and changes nothing else                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-26 | Keyboard ring on a flush row                     | Inside the row (a table row by its tag, a log line, a show header in its clipping card, with the card's corners)                                                                                                                                                                                                       | The ring outside, as on a card                                                                                                                                                                         | Outside it ran under the table head and past the table, and a clipping card cut it away entirely (invisible focus)                                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-26 | Fade at rest                                     | The sticky header's fade appears with the first 1rem of scroll (a scroll-driven animation; no fade where unsupported)                                                                                                                                                                                                  | A fade that is always drawn                                                                                                                                                                            | At rest it dimmed the first row and hid its ring's top edge; nothing is under the header yet                                                                                                                                 |
+| 2026-09-26 | Narrow playlist table                            | "#" and Channel hide by the table's own width (under 42rem), not the window's                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Hiding below the `sm` window width                                                                                                                                                                     | Beside the playlist rail a desktop window left the table 432 px and the title 0 px                                                                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-26 | Background menu built                            | Five list pages (feed, Plex grid, channels, playlist, notifications); the toolbar's sort / view / filters and the band's actions; no destructive row                                                                                                                                                                   | Every page with a toolbar; the "…" menus copied whole, delete included                                                                                                                                 | The tab-only pages have nothing a menu would add; a blank-area right-click must not be one click from delete                                                                                                                 |
+| 2026-09-26 | Media card anatomy (C)                           | One frame; the meta line pinned to its bottom; the length a badge on the picture; the Plex card on the same primitive as the video card                                                                                                                                                                                | A: the year as an overline over the title; B: the year inline after it; a fixed two-line title slot                                                                                                    | A one-line title left a hole the eye reads as a missing line; C puts nothing under a variable-height title                                                                                                                   |
+| 2026-09-26 | One Play                                         | `MediaPlayGlyph` (the media button variant) and only where the click plays                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | The Plex card's hand-painted accent circle; a playable dot on every card                                                                                                                               | One Play for every card; a dot that only a colour and a tooltip explain says nothing                                                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-26 | Filtering values on the info page                | A value that filters (year, certificate, studio, director) is an edged chip; a fact is flat text                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Everything flat, the clickable ones only hover-tinted                                                                                                                                                  | The S3d rule: edged = pressable, so the reader sees which values do something                                                                                                                                                |
+| 2026-09-26 | Shelf density                                    | On any strip: one title line over one meta line                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | The grid's two lines and full meta on a strip                                                                                                                                                          | The tallest card set the strip's height and left holes in the cards with less to say                                                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-26 | Compact list row (B)                             | The title leads; a faint "…" at the end; the toggles float over the date on hover                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | A leading 128px action column                                                                                                                                                                          | That column sat empty at rest, a hole at the start of every row                                                                                                                                                              |
+| 2026-09-26 | Media-info layout (B)                            | A main column (collections first, crew, cast) beside a facts sidebar; an empty column is not drawn                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Every section full width, stacked                                                                                                                                                                      | The collection is the most used; the keywords' column left a void beside a short details box                                                                                                                                 |
+| 2026-09-26 | Mixed Home shelf (A)                             | Plex titles as wide art beside videos                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Posters, with the videos not stretched                                                                                                                                                                 | Stretching a video card to a poster's height left an ~80px gap                                                                                                                                                               |
+| 2026-09-27 | Home hero                                        | A card (hover row + Play on the picture, the whole menu, a touch "…"; owner: A); three quarters wide and centred on a wide window; one fact line; the summary at the measure                                                                                                                                           | The hero's pin row alone; full width; an 18rem picture column                                                                                                                                          | The one answer stands in focus, and it offers what the same card offers anywhere                                                                                                                                             |
+| 2026-09-27 | Home shelf tiles                                 | A channel / playlist tile: Play, ↗ open, "…" with Open; a show acts on its next episode, ⓘ opens it; the shelf slot 232px                                                                                                                                                                                             | The tile's pin row alone; 200px                                                                                                                                                                        | A tile without its object's actions read as broken; at 200 the Play touched the hover row                                                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-27 | Synopsis preview (C)                             | A ~0.9 s mouse rest opens a passive panel beside the card                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | The synopsis as the picture's `title` tooltip; an ⓘ to hover; none                                                                                                                                     | One long tooltip line fired anywhere on the art and clashed with the cut title's own tooltip                                                                                                                                 |
+| 2026-09-27 | Reading measure                                  | Prose capped at ~65 characters a line (`measure`)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | The container's full width                                                                                                                                                                             | At 110–130 characters a line the eye loses the next line's start                                                                                                                                                             |
+| 2026-09-24 | Chip family                                      | One `Chip` (filter / token / tag / suggest / ghost) + `DismissibleChip`; nothing under 24; the lint rule "no raw `<button>` outside ui/"                                                                                                                                                                               | Five chip geometries in five files                                                                                                                                                                     | The applied-filter row, the tag cells, the year picker and the saved-view editor each drew their own chip; a one-letter tag was 21px wide                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-24 | Button families                                  | `Button` / `IconButton` / `Pressable` / chips / `DragHandle`; `lg` 40 for a hero CTA; pills and a 48 Play on media (from C5)                                                                                                                                                                                           | Every button hand-painted                                                                                                                                                                              | 268 hand-rolled buttons in 79 files drifted into as many looks; the ladder only holds if every button stands on it                                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-27 | C4 as built                                      | `initialFocus` required on every `Modal`; the commit row in `ModalFooter`, portalled under the body from any depth; the fades driven by the body's scroll timeline; `interactive-widget=resizes-content`                                                                                                               | An optional prop defaulting to the ✕; a `footer` prop (the issue composer's buttons live three components down); always-on fades                                                                       | A default is how 21 dialogs came to open on the ✕; lifting the composer's state to reach a prop is the larger change; a resting fade dimmed the first line                                                                   |
+| 2026-09-27 | C3 + C5 as built                                 | A tap toggles the bar through `pointerType` from `pointerdown`; a double-tap takes back its first tap's toggle; the card's pair is the video card's `MediaResumeButtons` (Continue / Restart), a sibling over the picture; the YT description is an ⓘ click popover                                                    | A delayed single tap (wait out the double-tap window); new "Resume / From the start" words for Plex; the pair inside the picture's button                                                              | A delayed tap feels dead; one media card says one pair of words; a button inside a button is invalid and the hover row already sits beside the picture                                                                       |
+| 2026-09-27 | C2 as built                                      | The side panel's drawer is `ui/Modal` `drawer-start`; drawer = a coarse pointer or below 768; the pin offered in its header ≥ 1024                                                                                                                                                                                     | A drawer of its own inside `SidePanel`                                                                                                                                                                 | Esc, Back, the scrim, the trap and the scroll lock are the dialog's; a second implementation is how two shells drift                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-30 | Composition and the reader (E30 S6)              | A chapter and a Conformance step: the space is used, one focal point, worst real data, where am I, a click answers at once, zoom and text size first-class; the person page as two columns (facts and bio left, "Known for" right)                                                                                     | Rules for pieces only; the bio in a full-width panel; a narrower panel                                                                                                                                 | The person page passed every piece rule with half its panel empty; the owner reads zoomed in, so zoom is a requirement, not a nicety                                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-30 | Hungarian words (E30 S5)                         | The D3 list: Feed, Shorts, Admin, Token, Port stay; stream, Prio, Job, Audit, Demo, Auto, Info, Frontend/Backend, Backfill, transcode get the Hungarian word; one name per thing (kérelem, behúzás, one "Test connection")                                                                                             | Keep every loanword; translate Feed/Shorts too                                                                                                                                                         | The owner chose the list (D3); the final sweep found the same feature under two names in three places                                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-09-29 | Numbers and order in the UI language (E30 S3)    | Every number through `lib/format.ts` in the UI language (decimal mark, grouping, compact, units); A→Z by the shown name in the UI language's alphabet, client and server alike; the language comes off `useTranslation`, never the singleton                                                                           | `toFixed`, hand-built "1.2K", `localeCompare` in the browser's locale, byte-order server sorts                                                                                                         | A Hungarian reader saw "8.3", "1.2K", "Életrajzi" after "Z"; the singleton read also left values in the old language after a switch (React Compiler)                                                                         |
+| 2026-09-27 | Narrow rows by container                         | The download row, the playlist table and the Channels tag row stack by a container query; a fact line never wraps                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Breakpoints on the window                                                                                                                                                                              | The iPad zoomed in, split screen and a column beside a rail are narrow while the window is not; the zoomed download row broke "18.9 / MB" apart                                                                              |
+| 2026-09-27 | Phones deferred                                  | A phone-only layout (the hamburger nav, a folded feed band) waits for its own epic; E28 stays desktop + tablet                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Fix the phone views inside E28                                                                                                                                                                         | Principle 2; the first phone attempts made the feed worse, and the epic's review grows with every sprint                                                                                                                     |
+| 2026-09-27 | Conformance check (S3g)                          | A four-step check before a UI change is done: primitive at a named rung, the chapter re-read, the rendered page measured by kind and look, every state seen                                                                                                                                                            | A reviewer's eye per sprint                                                                                                                                                                            | The S1 probe found 69 button looks; after S3 every control kind is drawn by its primitive, and the check keeps a new look from arriving unnoticed                                                                            |
+| 2026-09-27 | Segmented rung                                   | `SegmentedToggle` defaults to the toolbar rung (28, `text-xs`); 24 only for a panel's captioned match toggle                                                                                                                                                                                                           | The small default                                                                                                                                                                                      | Two toolbars had inherited 10px type from the default beside 28px buttons                                                                                                                                                    |
+| 2026-09-27 | Copy rule (S3g)                                  | One name per feature (the rail may shorten it); four verbs for four meanings; sentence case with the app's places capitalised; "…" when a command asks first; one-sentence messages without a stop; curly quotes; dates relative in lists with the exact minute on hover, three absolute forms; units from Intl, short | Word-for-word names everywhere; the verbs as they were; all lower case; no "…"; always a stop; always absolute dates; long or compact units                                                            | The copy survey found 7 EN and 6 HU double names, 22 Delete against 27 Remove, five date shapes and three spellings of a minute; the owner picked every recommended option                                                   |
+| 2026-09-27 | One glyph, one meaning (S4)                      | Play only for playback or resuming a paused transfer; Retry = `RefreshCw`; reset / revert = `RotateCcw`                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Retry drawn with Play                                                                                                                                                                                  | The first UI-review run (Downloads) found a failed row whose Retry showed ▷ in the row and its menu                                                                                                                          |
+| 2026-09-27 | Fjord kept                                       | Fjord stays a fifth scheme beside Midnight; the trial wording goes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Fold it into Midnight; remove it                                                                                                                                                                       | The owner lived with it and likes it; the vivid Midnight stays for those who want it. B2's own-hue rule still binds any new scheme                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-27 | Tablet columns                                   | A table hides `tabletHidden` columns below 64rem of its own width; Channels drops Prio, About, Length                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Hide About only; give the name a bigger share                                                                                                                                                          | At 1024 the channel name had 60 px; the owner chose to drop all three there                                                                                                                                                  |
+| 2026-09-27 | Glyph pager                                      | First / previous / next / last as glyph buttons round the page box, names as tooltips                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Words beside the arrows (hidden only on a phone)                                                                                                                                                       | The owner's call: the words widened the row; four arrows are the shared convention                                                                                                                                           |
+| 2026-09-27 | Match switch on the panel                        | `ui/MatchToggle` above the picker from two picks, everywhere; one wording (Any / All)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | The picker's popover footer (Feed, Plex collection)                                                                                                                                                    | A closed picker hid an active "all"; six pickers had drawn it two ways                                                                                                                                                       |
+| 2026-09-27 | Missing picture, bare link                       | A glyph of the kind for no picture; a download with no name is titled by its short link, once                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | An empty box; the URL as title, channel and link                                                                                                                                                       | The owner's picks 4A and 3A: an empty box read as loading, the URL showed three times                                                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-09-27 | Copy on a selection                              | Right-click on selected words keeps the browser's menu; no app Copy row                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | An app menu with Copy first                                                                                                                                                                            | A real browser's menu has copy, search and translate; only the desktop pane's is thin                                                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-10-01 | Zoom target 125–133%                             | Screens are held at 125% and 133% browser zoom (1536 × 729, 1444 × 685 on a 1080p window) and the largest text size                                                                                                                                                                                                    | 200% browser zoom                                                                                                                                                                                      | The owner: 200% was a guess; 125–133% is what they read Siftlode and most sites at, so 200% would be an upper bound nobody uses                                                                                              |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Nav rail at short heights                    | One "Admin" rail item opening a panel of the admin pages                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | A denser rail when short; a visible "+4" hint                                                                                                                                                          | The rail fits at 133–150% without a hidden scroll; the admin pages are rare and admin-only                                                                                                                                   |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Configuration sections                       | A vertical, grouped section list, as Settings has                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      | Group tabs + sub-tabs; one long page with a contents list                                                                                                                                              | Sixteen tabs wrapped to three rows at 133%; one pattern for both settings pages                                                                                                                                              |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Statistics overview                          | Number tiles, and the per-operation counts as horizontal bars                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Three narrow cards; a 30-day chart                                                                                                                                                                     | The label sits by its value; what spends the quota is seen at a glance                                                                                                                                                       |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Channel page header                          | The full banner, folding to one row once the grid scrolls                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | Always compact; no banner                                                                                                                                                                              | The header is fixed and took 40% of a 685px window; the channel keeps its face at first sight                                                                                                                                |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Channel page watch state                     | A fresh channel page shows the unwatched videos; a picked state is remembered                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          | Show all, forgotten on reload                                                                                                                                                                          | The owner: open a channel to see what is new; a choice made there should stick                                                                                                                                               |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Audit log runs                               | A job's successful runs fold into one row that opens, whatever ran between; only that job's failure (never folded, danger colour) breaks it                                                                                                                                                                            | A filter defaulting to admin actions; both                                                                                                                                                             | Nothing hidden, the noise collapsed, the failure seen                                                                                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Users row                                    | Role and state as badges, the actions in the row's one menu                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | An inline role toggle; icon-only buttons                                                                                                                                                               | Action placement: the row shows state, rare and destructive actions live in the menu                                                                                                                                         |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 YouTube player                               | Video beside an info panel at 1280px and wider (the video as large as the height allows); stacked below                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Today's stack with a one-line bar; full-window like Plex                                                                                                                                               | The owner's eyesight: about 1460px of video on 1080p instead of 1008, the actions still visible                                                                                                                              |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Plex info and show pages                     | A second column for the facts, keywords and crew, as the person page; a collection's hero sized to its content                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Full-width text; a larger poster and fanart                                                                                                                                                            | The right ~40% was empty; one composition for every media page                                                                                                                                                               |
+| 2026-10-01 | E31 Nav rail rows are links                      | Each page row is a real link: a middle-click or Ctrl-click opens the page in a new tab                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | A button                                                                                                                                                                                               | The owner: open a page in a tab of its own, as on any site                                                                                                                                                                   |
+| 2026-10-02 | E31 Plex detail second column (refined)          | The facts over the key crew beside the text; the keywords, chips that filter like the genres, under the text; the show page gets all three too                                                                                                                                                                         | All three in the column, as the mockup drew it                                                                                                                                                         | At 20 keywords and 12 crew the column ran to twice the text's height (849 vs ~400 px at 133%): a hole under the text instead of beside it                                                                                    |
+| 2026-10-02 | E31 Plex detail poster and crew                  | The movie and show poster keeps its 2:3 and grows a rung in a wide hero (w-56 at a 64rem panel); the crew shows its first 6 names and "Show N more" (a list of 8 or fewer shows whole)                                                                                                                                 | Poster stretched to the row; a "More" on the keywords                                                                                                                                                  | The row is as tall as the crew column, so the poster drew ~175×590 and cropped; the crew, not the keywords, set the hero's height                                                                                            |
+| 2026-10-04 | E32 `field` focus skips a mode switch            | A form opens on its first field; a control above it that is not a field (the composer's Edit / Preview) is passed over by marking the field `data-initial-focus`                                                                                                                                                       | The first text field everywhere                                                                                                                                                                        | That moved the focus in the download dialog off its profile choice and in the upload dialog off its drop zone; the mark changes only the form that needs it                                                                  |
+| 2026-10-04 | E35 Lint for z-levels and edged labels           | Both rules stay; the two eslint selectors (`Z_RAW`, `EDGED_LABEL`) that refused them go                                                                                                                                                                                                                                | Keep the selectors                                                                                                                                                                                     | 0 hits since the E28 sweep that fixed the sites: a check that never fires costs a probe test and a snapshot each, and the UI review holds both rules                                                                         |
+| 2026-10-06 | `player` focus                                   | A dialog that is a player opens focused on its panel (the YouTube player's rule, now `Modal`'s too); on the media element itself, Space and the arrows stay the element's own                                                                                                                                          | `close`, or the media element                                                                                                                                                                          | On the ✕ Space closed the player; on the element the browser's own controls acted on the same key as the player's (one Space played and paused, measured in Chrome)                                                          |
+| 2026-10-08 | Captions on touch                                | A `Tooltip` opens for a mouse and a key's focus only, never for a finger                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | A caption on tap; a long-press caption                                                                                                                                                                 | On an iPad the tap that showed the caption was taken as a hover and lost its click (every rail button took two taps), and no finger sends the mouseleave that hides it; the rail's labels setting names the buttons on touch |
+| 2026-10-08 | Header search on touch                           | No key cap on a touch screen; the pill grows to 52 px so a ring shows round the 44 px Go; Go drops to its icon by the column's width                                                                                                                                                                                   | Keep the key cap; a 44 px Go overhanging a 40 px pill                                                                                                                                                  | On a tablet the 44 px key cap and Go sat on the pill's edge and cut the placeholder; an overhanging Go breaks the nested radii                                                                                               |
+| 2026-10-08 | Plex subtitles and the control bar               | The player draws the cues itself; while the bar shows they rise above it (200 ms), then settle back                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | The browser's own cues, moved by `line`                                                                                                                                                                | On an iPad the bar covered the text; a native cue cannot be animated or measured, and our layer behaves the same on every engine                                                                                             |
+| 2026-10-08 | Hover on a button over a picture                 | The `media` variant's hover is a 2px accent ring over a darker body (Plex + YT cards, rail arrows; option B)                                                                                                                                                                                                           | An accent fill (reads as "selected"); a white wash (weak on a bright poster)                                                                                                                           | The 60 → 75% black step was invisible, and over a card a rail arrow could not be told from the card's own Play under it                                                                                                      |
+| 2026-10-08 | Plex "Add to collection"                         | A movie or show card's menu row opens a panel beside the card: its library's manual collections tick in place, a name + Enter creates one with the title in it (admin; option A)                                                                                                                                       | An Add submenu with a "New…" dialog; the per-title editor modal from the menu                                                                                                                          | A collection took a trip to the Collections page, a name, a title search, then a second search per title; the panel is the video card's "Add to playlist"                                                                    |
+| 2026-10-08 | YouTube modal chrome                             | No prev/next strips beside the card; Close an icon (the panel's top right; stacked, the title row's end); the description clamped to three lines + More; the panel shuts to a 2.75rem strip of close, expand, prev/next (option D1)                                                                                    | Keep the strips; a "Close" text button; the full description in a scroller; a panel that hides outright                                                                                                | The strips cost the video 7rem of width for a second copy of the panel's buttons; a long description pushed the channel and the actions out of sight; a hidden panel left no way to step the queue without the keyboard      |
+| 2026-10-08 | The wheel over the YouTube modal                 | Over the video: volume. Over a panel with something to scroll: scroll only, never volume, not even at its end. Over a panel with nothing to scroll: volume (owner)                                                                                                                                                     | Volume everywhere; a scroll that hands over to the volume at its end                                                                                                                                   | Reading a long description turned the volume down once it hit the end                                                                                                                                                        |
+| 2026-10-09 | A Plex show card plays                           | Its picture plays the show's next episode everywhere (an episode with a resume point → Continue + Restart, else the first unwatched, else S1·E1), resolved on the click; the preview names it once up; title and ⓘ open the show (option A + hover ask)                                                                | The picture opens the show page (as before); every card carrying `next`                                                                                                                                | A show card on Discover had no Play while Home's had one; carrying `next` costs a grid page up to 180 queries for the few cards anyone plays                                                                                 |

frontend/src/components/AddToPlaylist.tsx

@@ -2,23 +2,19 @@ import { useLayoutEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
-import { ListPlus, Plus } from "lucide-react";
+import { ListPlus } from "lucide-react";
 import { YouTubeIcon } from "../lib/brandIcons";
-import { MenuCheck } from "./ui/MenuCheck";
 import { api, type Playlist } from "../lib/api";
 import { notifyActionError } from "../lib/actionErrors";
-import { useScrollFade } from "../lib/useScrollFade";
 import { playlistName } from "../lib/playlistName";
-import { PopoverItem, PopoverSurface } from "./ui/AnchoredPopover";
+import { PopoverSurface } from "./ui/AnchoredPopover";
 import { useAnchoredPopover } from "./ui/anchoredPopoverHooks";
 import { IconButton } from "./ui/IconButton";
-import { Input } from "./ui/Input";
+import { MembershipMenu } from "./ui/MembershipMenu";
 import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
 
 // A small anchored menu for toggling a video's membership in the user's playlists, with inline
-// "new playlist" creation. Same shape as the channel tag editor (the popover pilot): radio-style
-// toggles plus a free-text creator, so it follows that file's two conventions — typeahead OFF and
-// the input swallowing non-Escape keys, since character and arrow keys belong to the text field.
+// "new playlist" creation. Its body is the shared MembershipMenu (as the channel tag editor's).
 export default function AddToPlaylist({
   videoId,
   variant = "ghost",
@@ -94,9 +90,7 @@ function MembershipPanel({
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const qc = useQueryClient();
-  const { ref: fadeRef, style: fadeStyle } = useScrollFade();
   const open = pop.open;
-  const [newName, setNewName] = useState("");
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
 
   const membership = useQuery({
@@ -115,13 +109,17 @@ function MembershipPanel({
 
   // A failure is said, and the list refreshed either way. With no catch, a playlist deleted on
   // another device (a 404 `not_found/playlist` — still offered, from a cache up to 30 s old) was an
-  // unhandled rejection: the tick did not change, nothing was said, the gone row stayed.
+  // unhandled rejection: the tick did not change, nothing was said, the gone row stayed. A write that
+  // landed flips the tick at once: a second tap before the refetch returned would otherwise repeat it.
   async function toggle(pl: Playlist) {
     if (busy) return;
     setBusy(true);
     try {
       if (pl.has_video) await api.removeFromPlaylist(pl.id, videoId);
       else await api.addToPlaylist(pl.id, videoId);
+      qc.setQueryData<Playlist[]>(qk.playlistMembership(videoId), (old) =>
+        old?.map((p) => (p.id === pl.id ? { ...p, has_video: !p.has_video } : p)),
+      );
     } catch (e) {
       notifyActionError(e, t(pl.has_video ? "playlists.removeFailed" : "playlists.addFailed"));
     }
@@ -129,19 +127,20 @@ function MembershipPanel({
     setBusy(false);
   }
 
-  async function createAndAdd() {
-    const name = newName.trim();
-    if (!name || busy) return;
+  async function createAndAdd(name: string) {
+    if (busy) return false;
     setBusy(true);
+    let made = false;
     try {
       const pl = await api.createPlaylist(name);
       await api.addToPlaylist(pl.id, videoId);
-      setNewName("");
+      made = true;
     } catch (e) {
       notifyActionError(e, t("playlists.addFailed"));
     }
     refresh();
     setBusy(false);
+    return made;
   }
 
   // All of the user's playlists are add targets, including YouTube-linked ones — adding
@@ -149,67 +148,40 @@ function MembershipPanel({
   const lists = membership.data ?? [];
 
   return (
-    <>
-      <PopoverSurface popover={pop} className={`${SURFACE.popover} w-60 p-2`}>
-        {/* A React portal still propagates events up the REACT tree, so a click inside this panel
-            would otherwise reach the feed card that hosts the trigger and start playback. */}
-        <div onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}>
-          <div className="text-xs text-muted px-1.5 pb-1.5">
-            {t("playlists.addToPlaylistTitle")}
-          </div>
-          <div
-            ref={fadeRef}
-            style={fadeStyle}
-            aria-busy={busy}
-            className="max-h-56 overflow-y-auto no-scrollbar"
-          >
-            {lists.length === 0 && !membership.isLoading && (
-              <div className="text-xs text-muted px-1.5 py-2">{t("playlists.noneYet")}</div>
-            )}
-            {lists.map((pl) => (
-              <PopoverItem
-                key={pl.id}
-                // A video can sit in several playlists at once — checkboxes, not one choice.
-                role="menuitemcheckbox"
-                checked={pl.has_video}
-                onSelect={() => toggle(pl)}
-                // NOT `disabled={busy}`: the native disabled attribute would blur the focused item to
-                // <body> mid-request and permanently kill roving focus (useListNavigation listens on
-                // the floating element only). `toggle()` already no-ops while busy, so re-entrancy is
-                // guarded without touching focus; `aria-busy` on the list conveys the pending state.
-                label={playlistName(pl, t)}
-                className="w-full flex items-center gap-2 text-sm px-1.5 py-1.5 rounded-lg text-fg outline-hidden transition"
-              >
-                <MenuCheck kind="many" on={!!pl.has_video} />
-                <span className="truncate flex-1 text-left">{playlistName(pl, t)}</span>
-                {(pl.source === "youtube" || pl.yt_playlist_id) && (
-                  <YouTubeIcon className="w-3 h-3 shrink-0 text-muted" />
-                )}
-              </PopoverItem>
-            ))}
-          </div>
-          <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 border-t border-border mt-1.5 pt-1.5">
-            <Plus className="w-3.5 h-3.5 text-muted shrink-0" />
-            <Input
-              className="flex-1"
-              size="sm"
-              value={newName}
-              onChange={(e) => setNewName(e.target.value)}
-              onKeyDown={(e) => {
-                // Escape bubbles to the popover's dismiss; every other key is text editing here and
-                // must not reach the surrounding menu's list navigation.
-                if (e.key === "Escape") return;
-                e.stopPropagation();
-                if (e.key === "Enter") {
-                  e.preventDefault();
-                  void createAndAdd();
-                }
-              }}
-              placeholder={t("playlists.newPlaylist")}
-            />
-          </div>
-        </div>
-      </PopoverSurface>
-    </>
+    <PopoverSurface
+      popover={pop}
+      className={`${SURFACE.popover} w-60 p-2`}
+      ariaLabel={t("playlists.addToPlaylistTitle")}
+      listInside
+    >
+      <MembershipMenu
+        heading={t("playlists.addToPlaylistTitle")}
+        rows={lists.map((pl) => ({
+          id: pl.id,
+          label: playlistName(pl, t),
+          checked: !!pl.has_video,
+          extra:
+            pl.source === "youtube" || pl.yt_playlist_id ? (
+              <YouTubeIcon className="w-3 h-3 shrink-0 text-muted" />
+            ) : undefined,
+        }))}
+        onToggle={(row) => {
+          const pl = lists.find((p) => p.id === row.id);
+          if (pl) void toggle(pl);
+        }}
+        status={
+          membership.isError && !membership.data
+            ? "error"
+            : membership.isLoading
+              ? "loading"
+              : "ready"
+        }
+        onRetry={() => void membership.refetch()}
+        emptyText={t("playlists.noneYet")}
+        errorText={t("common.loadError")}
+        busy={busy}
+        create={{ placeholder: t("playlists.newPlaylist"), onCreate: createAndAdd }}
+      />
+    </PopoverSurface>
   );
 }

frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.editor.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// The channel tag editor says a failed load of the tag catalog as one, with a retry — not as "no tags
+// yet, create one below", which invited a duplicate of a tag that exists. i18n is key-passthrough.
+import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, beforeAll, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { FloatingTree } from "@floating-ui/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
+  const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key, i18n: { language: "en" } }),
+  };
+});
+
+import { ChannelTagsControl } from "./ChannelTags";
+import { api } from "../lib/api";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  class Stub {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+    takeRecords() {
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+  globalThis.ResizeObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof ResizeObserver;
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+describe("the channel tag editor", () => {
+  it("says a failed load of the tags as one, with a retry — not as no tags yet", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "tags").mockRejectedValue(new Error("down"));
+    const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+    render(
+      <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+        <FloatingTree>
+          <ChannelTagsControl
+            userTags={[]}
+            attachedIds={[]}
+            onToggle={() => {}}
+            onCreate={() => {}}
+          />
+        </FloatingTree>
+      </QueryClientProvider>,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText("channels.row.editTags"));
+    const alert = await screen.findByRole("alert", { hidden: true });
+    expect(alert.textContent).toContain("common.loadError");
+    expect(screen.queryByText("channels.tags.noneYet")).toBeNull();
+    expect(alert.closest("[role=menu]")).toBeNull();
+    expect(await screen.findByText("common.retry")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx

@@ -1,17 +1,15 @@
 import { useRef, useState } from "react";
 import { Plus, Sparkles } from "lucide-react";
-import { MenuCheck } from "./ui/MenuCheck";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { type Tag } from "../lib/api";
-import { PopoverSurface, PopoverItem } from "./ui/AnchoredPopover";
+import { PopoverSurface } from "./ui/AnchoredPopover";
 import { useAnchoredPopover } from "./ui/anchoredPopoverHooks";
-import { useScrollFade } from "../lib/useScrollFade";
 import { fitChipsWithPill } from "../lib/chipOverflow";
 import { chipLaneClass, useChipOverflowFit } from "../lib/useChipOverflowFit";
-import { IconButton } from "./ui/IconButton";
 import { Chip, DismissibleChip } from "./ui/Chip";
 import { chipClass } from "./ui/chipStyles";
-import { Input } from "./ui/Input";
+import { MembershipMenu } from "./ui/MembershipMenu";
+import { useTags } from "../lib/useTags";
 import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
 
 // The channel tag surface, shared by the channel manager (table + cards) and the channel detail
@@ -194,8 +192,9 @@ function SuggestedChipsLane({
 }
 
 /** The editor body: toggle the user's existing tags on/off for this channel, plus an inline
- *  "create + attach" input. Rendered inside an anchored `menu` popover. (Exported for the channel
- *  detail page in Part 2; internal for now.) */
+ *  "create + attach" input. Rendered inside an anchored `menu` popover. The rows are the caller's
+ *  `userTags`; whether that list has loaded is read from the catalog query itself (mounted only while
+ *  the editor is open), so a failed or pending load is said as such, not as "no tags yet". */
 function TagEditorMenu({
   userTags,
   attachedIds,
@@ -208,71 +207,27 @@ function TagEditorMenu({
   onCreate: (name: string) => void;
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
-  const [draft, setDraft] = useState("");
-  const { ref: fadeRef, style: fadeStyle } = useScrollFade();
+  const tags = useTags();
   const attached = new Set(attachedIds);
-  const submit = () => {
-    const name = draft.trim();
-    if (!name) return;
-    onCreate(name);
-    setDraft("");
-  };
   return (
-    <div className="flex flex-col">
-      <div ref={fadeRef} style={fadeStyle} className="max-h-60 overflow-y-auto no-scrollbar">
-        {userTags.map((tg) => {
-          const on = attached.has(tg.id);
-          return (
-            <PopoverItem
-              key={tg.id}
-              // Several tags can be on at once — a checkbox set, not one exclusive choice.
-              role="menuitemcheckbox"
-              checked={on}
-              onSelect={() => onToggle(tg.id)}
-              label={tg.name}
-              className={`w-full flex items-center gap-2 text-left text-xs px-2 py-1.5 rounded-lg outline-hidden transition ${
-                on ? "text-fg" : "text-muted"
-              }`}
-            >
-              <MenuCheck kind="many" on={on} />
-              <span className="truncate">{tg.name}</span>
-            </PopoverItem>
-          );
-        })}
-        {userTags.length === 0 && (
-          <p className="text-2xs text-muted px-2 py-1.5">{t("channels.tags.noneYet")}</p>
-        )}
-      </div>
-      <div className="mt-1 pt-1.5 border-t border-border flex items-center gap-1">
-        <Input
-          className="flex-1"
-          size="sm"
-          value={draft}
-          onChange={(e) => setDraft(e.target.value)}
-          onKeyDown={(e) => {
-            // Escape bubbles to the popover's dismiss (close + refocus the trigger); every other key —
-            // arrows, Home/End, typed characters — is text editing here, so keep it out of the menu's
-            // list-navigation/typeahead handlers on the surrounding surface.
-            if (e.key === "Escape") return;
-            e.stopPropagation();
-            if (e.key === "Enter") {
-              e.preventDefault();
-              submit();
-            }
-          }}
-          maxLength={64}
-          placeholder={t("channels.tags.createPlaceholder")}
-        />
-        <IconButton
-          variant="outline"
-          onClick={submit}
-          disabled={!draft.trim()}
-          label={t("channels.tags.create")}
-        >
-          <Plus />
-        </IconButton>
-      </div>
-    </div>
+    <MembershipMenu
+      dense
+      rows={userTags.map((tg) => ({ id: tg.id, label: tg.name, checked: attached.has(tg.id) }))}
+      onToggle={(row) => onToggle(row.id as number)}
+      status={tags.isError && !tags.data ? "error" : tags.isPending ? "loading" : "ready"}
+      onRetry={() => void tags.refetch()}
+      emptyText={t("channels.tags.noneYet")}
+      errorText={t("common.loadError")}
+      create={{
+        placeholder: t("channels.tags.createPlaceholder"),
+        maxLength: 64,
+        submitLabel: t("channels.tags.create"),
+        onCreate: (name) => {
+          onCreate(name);
+          return true;
+        },
+      }}
+    />
   );
 }
 
@@ -473,6 +428,7 @@ export function ChannelTagsControl({
       <PopoverSurface
         popover={editPop}
         className={`${SURFACE.menu} w-56 animate-[popIn_0.16s_ease]`}
+        listInside
       >
         <TagEditorMenu
           userTags={userTags}

frontend/src/components/Feed.overrides.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// The feed's optimistic layer: a card shows what was just written to it until the server's own answer
+// lands. Which answers count is the rule pinned here: a refetch that LANDS (for what was written
+// before it set out), a filter change; never an append of the next page. A mark made while a refetch
+// was in flight is newer than its answer, and dropping it put a card marked watched back into an
+// Unwatched view. The grid is a stub that shows what Feed hands it.
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeAll, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>()),
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key, i18n: { language: "en" } }),
+}));
+vi.mock("./wizardContext", () => ({ useWizard: () => ({ openWizard: vi.fn() }) }));
+vi.mock("./VirtualFeed", () => ({
+  default: ({
+    items,
+    onState,
+    fetchNextPage,
+  }: {
+    items: { id: string; status: string }[];
+    onState: (id: string, status: string) => void;
+    fetchNextPage: (o: object) => unknown;
+  }) => (
+    <ol aria-label="results">
+      {items.map((v) => (
+        <li key={v.id}>
+          <span>{`${v.id}:${v.status}`}</span>
+          <button onClick={() => onState(v.id, "watched")}>watch {v.id}</button>
+          <button onClick={() => onState(v.id, "hidden")}>hide {v.id}</button>
+        </li>
+      ))}
+      <button onClick={() => void fetchNextPage({})}>more</button>
+    </ol>
+  ),
+}));
+
+import Feed from "./Feed";
+import { api, DEFAULT_TAG_MODES, type FeedFilters, type Video } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  class Stub {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+    takeRecords() {
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+  globalThis.ResizeObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof ResizeObserver;
+  globalThis.IntersectionObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof IntersectionObserver;
+});
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+const FILTERS: FeedFilters = {
+  tags: [],
+  tagModes: DEFAULT_TAG_MODES,
+  channelIds: [],
+  q: "",
+  sort: "newest",
+  scope: "my",
+  includeNormal: true,
+  includeShorts: false,
+  includeLive: false,
+  show: "all",
+};
+
+const video = (id: string) =>
+  ({
+    id,
+    title: id,
+    channel_id: "UCx",
+    channel_title: "Channel",
+    status: "new",
+    position_seconds: 0,
+    duration_seconds: 600,
+    published_at: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+    watch_url: `https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=${id}`,
+  }) as unknown as Video;
+
+// The server never takes the mark in these tests: whatever a list shows as "watched" is the override.
+const page = (ids: string[], next: string | null = null) =>
+  ({ items: ids.map(video), next_cursor: next }) as never;
+
+function mount(feed: ReturnType<typeof vi.fn>, setState?: () => Promise<unknown>) {
+  vi.spyOn(api, "feed").mockImplementation(feed as never);
+  vi.spyOn(api, "feedSummary").mockResolvedValue({ count: 1, facets: {} } as never);
+  if (setState) vi.spyOn(api, "setState").mockImplementation(setState as never);
+  else vi.spyOn(api, "setState").mockResolvedValue({ ok: true } as never);
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  qc.setQueryData(qk.me(), { id: 1, can_write: true, prefs: {} });
+  const ui = (filters: FeedFilters) => (
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <Feed
+        filters={filters}
+        setFilters={() => {}}
+        view="cards"
+        setView={() => {}}
+        canRead
+        ytSearch={null}
+        onYtSearch={() => {}}
+        onExitYtSearch={() => {}}
+      />
+    </QueryClientProvider>
+  );
+  const r = render(ui(FILTERS));
+  return { qc, rerender: (f: FeedFilters) => r.rerender(ui(f)) };
+}
+
+const settle = () => act(() => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20)));
+
+describe("Feed — optimistic overrides", () => {
+  it("give way to a refetch that lands after them", async () => {
+    let answer: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    const feed = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(page(["v1"]))
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+    const { qc } = mount(feed);
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("watch v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1:watched");
+    act(() => void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed() }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
+    await settle();
+    await act(async () => answer(page(["v1"])));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1:new")).toBeTruthy());
+  });
+
+  it("keep a mark made while the refetch was in flight", async () => {
+    let answer: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    const feed = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(page(["v1"]))
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+    const { qc } = mount(feed);
+    await screen.findByText("v1:new");
+    act(() => void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed() }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
+    await settle();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("watch v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1:watched");
+    // The answer the server gave before it heard of the mark.
+    await act(async () => answer(page(["v1"])));
+    await settle();
+    expect(screen.getByText("v1:watched")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("keep a mark sent before the refetch set out but not answered by then", async () => {
+    // The server may read the list before it commits the mark: that answer is older than the mark.
+    let answer: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    let commit: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    const feed = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(page(["v1"]))
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+    const { qc } = mount(feed, () => new Promise((r) => (commit = r)));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("watch v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1:watched");
+    act(() => void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed() }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
+    await settle();
+    await act(async () => answer(page(["v1"])));
+    await settle();
+    expect(screen.getByText("v1:watched")).toBeTruthy();
+    await act(async () => commit({ ok: true }));
+  });
+
+  it("are taken back by a failed write only while no later write stands", async () => {
+    // Marked watched, then hidden before the first answer came back: the refused mark must not take
+    // the hide with it and put the card back in the view.
+    const writes: { resolve: (v: unknown) => void; reject: (e: unknown) => void }[] = [];
+    mount(
+      vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(page(["v1", "v2"])),
+      () => new Promise((resolve, reject) => writes.push({ resolve, reject })),
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("watch v1"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("hide v1"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.queryByText(/^v1:/)).toBeNull());
+    await act(async () => writes[0]?.reject(new Error("refused")));
+    await settle();
+    expect(screen.queryByText(/^v1:/)).toBeNull();
+    await act(async () => writes[1]?.reject(new Error("refused")));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1:new")).toBeTruthy());
+  });
+
+  it("survive an append of the next page", async () => {
+    let answer: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    const feed = vi
+      .fn()
+      .mockResolvedValueOnce(page(["v1"], "c1"))
+      .mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)));
+    mount(feed);
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("watch v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1:watched");
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("more"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
+    await settle();
+    await act(async () => answer(page(["v2"])));
+    await screen.findByText("v2:new");
+    await settle();
+    expect(screen.getByText("v1:watched")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("are dropped by a change of the filters", async () => {
+    const { rerender } = mount(vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(page(["v1"])));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("watch v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1:watched");
+    rerender({ ...FILTERS });
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1:new")).toBeTruthy());
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/Feed.playerSession.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,253 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// A video marked watched in the player (by hand, or by the player at its end) left an Unwatched view
+// at once, then came back as "new" when the player closed, until a reload (owner, on a channel page).
+// The player's closing position patch writes into the cached feed, which bumped `dataUpdatedAt`; the
+// feed took that for fresh server data and dropped its optimistic overrides, and nothing refetched.
+// The grid and the player are stubs that show what Feed hands them.
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeAll, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>()),
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key, i18n: { language: "en" } }),
+}));
+vi.mock("./wizardContext", () => ({ useWizard: () => ({ openWizard: vi.fn() }) }));
+// What the grid was handed for its card menu's channel-filter row.
+const grid: { channelFilter?: { ids: string[]; set: (ids: string[]) => void } } = {};
+vi.mock("./VirtualFeed", () => ({
+  default: ({
+    items,
+    onOpen,
+    channelFilter,
+  }: {
+    items: { id: string }[];
+    onOpen: (v: unknown) => void;
+    channelFilter?: { ids: string[]; set: (ids: string[]) => void };
+  }) => (
+    (grid.channelFilter = channelFilter),
+    (
+      <ol aria-label="results">
+        {items.map((v) => (
+          <li key={v.id}>
+            {v.id}
+            <button onClick={() => onOpen(v)}>open {v.id}</button>
+          </li>
+        ))}
+      </ol>
+    )
+  ),
+}));
+// The player's progress hook marks a clip closed near its end watched from its unmount cleanup:
+// `watchOnUnmount` stands in for that, and `flush` for its closing checkpoint, which it tracks.
+const player = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  watchOnUnmount: false,
+  flush: null as Promise<unknown> | null,
+}));
+vi.mock("./PlayerModal", async () => {
+  const { useEffect } = await import("react");
+  const { trackProgressFlush } = await import("../lib/progressCache");
+  return {
+    default: function Player({
+      video,
+      onState,
+      onClose,
+    }: {
+      video: { id: string };
+      onState: (id: string, status: string) => void;
+      onClose: () => void;
+    }) {
+      useEffect(
+        () => () => {
+          if (player.watchOnUnmount) onState(video.id, "watched");
+          if (player.flush) trackProgressFlush(player.flush);
+        },
+        [video.id, onState],
+      );
+      return (
+        <div>
+          <button onClick={() => onState(video.id, "watched")}>mark</button>
+          <button onClick={onClose}>close</button>
+        </div>
+      );
+    },
+  };
+});
+
+import Feed from "./Feed";
+import { api, DEFAULT_TAG_MODES, type FeedFilters, type Video } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { patchCachedProgress } from "../lib/progressCache";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  class Stub {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+    takeRecords() {
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+  globalThis.ResizeObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof ResizeObserver;
+  globalThis.IntersectionObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof IntersectionObserver;
+});
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  player.watchOnUnmount = false;
+  player.flush = null;
+});
+
+const FILTERS: FeedFilters = {
+  tags: [],
+  tagModes: DEFAULT_TAG_MODES,
+  channelIds: ["UCx"],
+  q: "",
+  sort: "newest",
+  scope: "my",
+  includeNormal: true,
+  includeShorts: false,
+  includeLive: false,
+  show: "unwatched",
+};
+
+const video = (status: string, position = 0) =>
+  ({
+    id: "v1",
+    title: "v1",
+    channel_id: "UCx",
+    channel_title: "Channel",
+    status,
+    position_seconds: position,
+    duration_seconds: 600,
+    published_at: "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+    watch_url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1",
+  }) as unknown as Video;
+
+function mount({
+  channelScoped = true,
+  setFilters = () => {},
+}: { channelScoped?: boolean; setFilters?: (f: FeedFilters) => void } = {}) {
+  const feed = vi
+    .spyOn(api, "feed")
+    .mockResolvedValueOnce({ items: [video("new")], next_cursor: null } as never)
+    // The server after the mark: watched, so an Unwatched view leaves it out.
+    .mockResolvedValue({ items: [], next_cursor: null } as never);
+  const summary = vi.spyOn(api, "feedSummary").mockResolvedValue({ count: 1, facets: {} } as never);
+  vi.spyOn(api, "setState").mockResolvedValue({ ok: true } as never);
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  qc.setQueryData(qk.me(), { id: 1, can_write: true, prefs: {} });
+  render(
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <Feed
+        filters={FILTERS}
+        setFilters={setFilters}
+        view="cards"
+        setView={() => {}}
+        canRead
+        ytSearch={null}
+        onYtSearch={() => {}}
+        onExitYtSearch={() => {}}
+        channelScoped={channelScoped}
+      />
+    </QueryClientProvider>,
+  );
+  return { qc, feed, summary };
+}
+
+describe("Feed — a video marked watched in the player", () => {
+  it("stays out of an Unwatched view when the player writes its position into the cache", async () => {
+    const { qc } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("open v1"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("mark"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.queryByText("open v1")).toBeNull());
+    // What the player does as it closes: the server's stored position, written into the cached list.
+    act(() => patchCachedProgress(qc, new Map([["v1", 10]])));
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));
+    expect(screen.queryByText("open v1")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("refetches the list and its count by the view's filters when the player closes", async () => {
+    const { feed, summary } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("open v1"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("mark"));
+    const before = { feed: feed.mock.calls.length, summary: summary.mock.calls.length };
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("close"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(before.feed));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(summary.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(before.summary));
+    // The refetch is the channel's Unwatched list, and the server's answer keeps the card out.
+    expect(feed.mock.calls[feed.mock.calls.length - 1]?.[0]).toMatchObject({
+      channelIds: ["UCx"],
+      show: "unwatched",
+    });
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20));
+    expect(screen.queryByText("open v1")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("refetches when the player marks the clip watched as it closes", async () => {
+    const { feed } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("open v1"));
+    player.watchOnUnmount = true;
+    const before = feed.mock.calls.length;
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("close"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(before));
+  });
+
+  it("waits for the session's writes to land before it refetches", async () => {
+    const { feed } = mount();
+    let land: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    vi.mocked(api.setState).mockReturnValue(new Promise((r) => (land = r)) as never);
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("open v1"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("mark"));
+    const before = feed.mock.calls.length;
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("close"));
+    await act(() => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30)));
+    // A refetch now would ask a server that has not taken the mark yet.
+    expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBe(before);
+    await act(async () => land({ ok: true }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(before));
+  });
+
+  it("waits for the player's closing checkpoint before it refetches", async () => {
+    // Refetched before that write landed, the list read the older position and, landing after the
+    // player's patch, put it back: a reopen resumed early.
+    const { feed } = mount();
+    let land: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    player.flush = new Promise((r) => (land = r));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("open v1"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("mark"));
+    const before = feed.mock.calls.length;
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("close"));
+    await act(() => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30)));
+    expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBe(before);
+    await act(async () => land(undefined));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(before));
+  });
+
+  it("does not refetch on a close with nothing changed", async () => {
+    const { feed } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("open v1"));
+    const before = feed.mock.calls.length;
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("close"));
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 30));
+    expect(feed.mock.calls.length).toBe(before);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("Feed — the card menu's channel filter", () => {
+  it("is offered on the feed, as its own channel list, and sets it", async () => {
+    const setFilters = vi.fn();
+    mount({ channelScoped: false, setFilters });
+    await screen.findByText("open v1");
+    expect(grid.channelFilter?.ids).toEqual(["UCx"]);
+    grid.channelFilter?.set(["UCx", "UCy"]);
+    expect(setFilters).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ ...FILTERS, channelIds: ["UCx", "UCy"] });
+  });
+
+  it("is not offered on a channel page, whose view is that channel already", async () => {
+    mount({ channelScoped: true });
+    await screen.findByText("open v1");
+    expect(grid.channelFilter).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/Feed.reset.dom.test.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // the next refetch (found in a UAT). The grid is replaced by a list that shows what Feed
 // hands it: each video's position, and a button that fires the reset.
 import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeAll, afterEach } from "vitest";
-import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, waitFor, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 
 vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => ({
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ vi.mock("./VirtualFeed", () => ({
 import Feed from "./Feed";
 import { api, DEFAULT_TAG_MODES, type FeedFilters, type Video } from "../lib/api";
 import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { patchCachedProgress } from "../lib/progressCache";
 
 beforeAll(() => {
   class Stub {
@@ -78,30 +79,69 @@ const halfWatched = {
   watch_url: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1",
 } as unknown as Video;
 
+function mount(clear: () => Promise<unknown>) {
+  vi.spyOn(api, "feed").mockResolvedValue({ items: [halfWatched], next_cursor: null } as never);
+  vi.spyOn(api, "feedSummary").mockResolvedValue({ count: 1, facets: {} } as never);
+  vi.spyOn(api, "clearState").mockImplementation(clear as never);
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  qc.setQueryData(qk.me(), { id: 1, can_write: true, prefs: {} });
+  render(
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <Feed
+        filters={FILTERS}
+        setFilters={() => {}}
+        view="cards"
+        setView={() => {}}
+        canRead
+        ytSearch=""
+        onYtSearch={() => {}}
+        onExitYtSearch={() => {}}
+      />
+    </QueryClientProvider>,
+  );
+  return qc;
+}
+
 describe("Feed — resetting a half-watched video", () => {
   it("clears its resume position at once, not only its status", async () => {
-    vi.spyOn(api, "feed").mockResolvedValue({ items: [halfWatched], next_cursor: null } as never);
-    vi.spyOn(api, "feedSummary").mockResolvedValue({ count: 1, facets: {} } as never);
     // Never settles: what the card shows before the server answers is the optimistic layer alone.
-    vi.spyOn(api, "clearState").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}) as never);
-    const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
-    qc.setQueryData(qk.me(), { id: 1, can_write: true, prefs: {} });
-    render(
-      <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
-        <Feed
-          filters={FILTERS}
-          setFilters={() => {}}
-          view="cards"
-          setView={() => {}}
-          canRead
-          ytSearch=""
-          onYtSearch={() => {}}
-          onExitYtSearch={() => {}}
-        />
-      </QueryClientProvider>,
-    );
+    mount(() => new Promise(() => {}));
     await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1@95")).toBeTruthy());
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("reset v1"));
     await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1@0")).toBeTruthy());
   });
+
+  it("shows the position a replay after it saved, so a reopen resumes there", async () => {
+    // Reset, played to 40 s and closed: the player writes what the server stored into the cache.
+    // A reset mask over the cache kept showing 0, a reopen resumed at 0, and its first checkpoint
+    // wrote over the 40.
+    const qc = mount(() => Promise.resolve({ ok: true }));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("reset v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1@0");
+    act(() => patchCachedProgress(qc, new Map([["v1", 40]])));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1@40")).toBeTruthy());
+  });
+
+  it("keeps the position at 0 through a refetch that set out before the reset", async () => {
+    // That refetch read the row the reset deletes: its answer put the old position back under a
+    // card the reset had made new, and a reopen resumed there.
+    let answer: (v: unknown) => void = () => {};
+    const qc = mount(() => new Promise(() => {}));
+    await screen.findByText("v1@95");
+    vi.mocked(api.feed).mockImplementationOnce(() => new Promise((r) => (answer = r)) as never);
+    act(() => void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed() }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(api.feed).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
+    await act(() => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20)));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("reset v1"));
+    await screen.findByText("v1@0");
+    await act(async () => answer({ items: [halfWatched], next_cursor: null }));
+    await act(() => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 20)));
+    expect(screen.getByText("v1@0")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("puts the position back when the server refuses the reset", async () => {
+    mount(() => Promise.reject(new Error("down")));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("reset v1"));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(screen.getByText("v1@95")).toBeTruthy());
+  });
 });

frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import i18n from "../i18n";
 import { notifyActionError } from "../lib/actionErrors";
 import { notify, resolveVideo } from "../lib/notifications";
 import { useDebounced } from "../lib/useDebounced";
+import { patchCachedProgress, progressFlushes } from "../lib/progressCache";
 import {
   buildSort,
   feedSortOptions,
@@ -102,6 +103,22 @@ function matchesView(status: VideoStatus, show: string): boolean {
   }
 }
 
+// An optimistic value and the write that made it. A refetch that lands is the server's word only on
+// the writes it ANSWERED before that refetch set out: a mark made while it was in flight is newer
+// than its answer, and so is one sent just before it whose answer had not come back (the server may
+// read the list first). Dropping either put a card marked watched back into an Unwatched view.
+type Stamped<T> = { value: T; seq: number };
+type Overrides<T> = Record<string, Stamped<T>>;
+const unconfirmed = <T,>(o: Overrides<T>, answered: ReadonlySet<number>): Overrides<T> =>
+  Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(o).filter(([, s]) => !answered.has(s.seq)));
+// A failed write takes back only its OWN value: a later write for the same video stands.
+const withoutWrite = <T,>(o: Overrides<T>, id: string, seq: number): Overrides<T> => {
+  if (o[id]?.seq !== seq) return o;
+  const next = { ...o };
+  delete next[id];
+  return next;
+};
+
 // How many live-search results one fetch asks for; `Load more` pulls another batch of the same size.
 const YT_COUNTS = [20, 40, 60, 100] as const;
 
@@ -146,26 +163,59 @@ export default function Feed({
   const sortKeys = channelScoped
     ? SORT_KEYS.filter((k) => k !== "subscribers" && k !== "priority")
     : SORT_KEYS;
-  const [overrides, setOverrides] = useState<Record<string, VideoStatus>>({});
-  const [savedOverrides, setSavedOverrides] = useState<Record<string, boolean>>({});
-  // A reset drops the resume position too, which a status override cannot say: without this the card
-  // kept its progress bar and its Continue button until the next refetch.
-  const [resetIds, setResetIds] = useState<Record<string, true>>({});
+  const [overrides, setOverrides] = useState<Overrides<VideoStatus>>({});
+  const [savedOverrides, setSavedOverrides] = useState<Overrides<boolean>>({});
+  // The write order the stamps above count in, the writes the server has answered, and which of
+  // them it had answered when the running refetch set out.
+  const writeSeq = useRef(0);
+  const answered = useRef(new Set<number>());
+  const answeredAtRefetch = useRef<ReadonlySet<number>>(new Set());
+  // A reset's position 0 lives in the cached lists (see onResetState), where a refetch that set out
+  // before the server took the reset puts the old position back: written again on its landing.
+  const resets = useRef(new Map<string, number>());
   // The open player: which video and where to start (null = resume from saved position).
   const [activeVideo, setActiveVideo] = useState<{ video: Video; startAt: number | null } | null>(
     null,
   );
   const qc = useQueryClient();
 
-  const openVideo = useCallback(
-    (video: Video, startAt: number | null = null) => setActiveVideo({ video, startAt }),
-    [],
-  );
+  // What changed state while the player was open, and the writes still in flight: closing it
+  // refetches the list by its filters once those land. Marked watched (by hand, or by the player at
+  // the end) a card leaves an Unwatched view through the override at once, but the list, its count
+  // and the cache stayed the pre-session server's until a reload (owner).
+  const playerSession = useRef({
+    open: false,
+    changed: false,
+    pending: new Set<Promise<unknown>>(),
+  });
+  const openVideo = useCallback((video: Video, startAt: number | null = null) => {
+    playerSession.current.open = true;
+    // Its player writes the next position: a reset no longer speaks for it.
+    resets.current.delete(video.id);
+    setActiveVideo({ video, startAt });
+  }, []);
   // Stable identity, like Playlists' `closePlayer`: PlayerModal's keydown effect
   // depends on `onClose`, so a fresh closure every Feed render re-subscribed those listeners,
   // re-ran focusModal() under the open player, dropped its in-flight timers and flushed the
   // debounced volume write on each pass.
   const closePlayer = useCallback(() => setActiveVideo(null), []);
+  // The session ends once the player has UNMOUNTED, not on the close click: its progress hook's
+  // cleanup marks a clip closed near its end watched, a write that lands after the click. React runs
+  // every unmount cleanup before any effect's setup, so here that write is already in the session,
+  // and so is the player's closing checkpoint (`progressFlushes`): refetched before it lands, the
+  // list read the older position and, landing after the player's patch, put it back.
+  const playerOpen = activeVideo !== null;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const session = playerSession.current;
+    if (playerOpen || !session.open) return;
+    session.open = false;
+    if (!session.changed) return;
+    session.changed = false;
+    void Promise.allSettled([...session.pending, ...progressFlushes()]).then(() => {
+      void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed() });
+      void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feedSummary() });
+    });
+  }, [playerOpen, qc]);
 
   const ytActive = !!ytSearch;
   // How many live-search results to gather (the count selector replaces a manual "load more";
@@ -244,22 +294,31 @@ export default function Feed({
     setOverridesFor(filters);
     setOverrides({});
     setSavedOverrides({});
-    setResetIds({});
   }
-  // ...but NOT on infinite-scroll appends: fetchNextPage also bumps dataUpdatedAt while page 1's
-  // rows are unchanged, so clearing overrides there would make a just-hidden card flash back.
-  // Only a real refetch (page count doesn't grow) is authoritative.
-  const pagesLenRef = useRef(0);
-  const pagesLen = query.data?.pages?.length ?? 0;
+  // ...but only when a refetch LANDS, the server's own answer. Not on an infinite-scroll append (its
+  // page 1 rows are unchanged, so a just-hidden card would flash back), and not on a local write into
+  // the cache: the player's closing position patch bumped `dataUpdatedAt` too, cleared the overrides,
+  // and put a card marked watched back into an Unwatched view as "new", with nothing to refetch it.
+  // And only the overrides whose write it had answered when it set out (`Stamped`).
+  const refetching = query.isFetching && !query.isFetchingNextPage;
+  const wasRefetching = useRef(false);
   useEffect(() => {
-    const appended = pagesLen > pagesLenRef.current;
-    pagesLenRef.current = pagesLen;
-    if (!appended) {
-      setOverrides({});
-      setSavedOverrides({});
-      setResetIds({});
+    const started = !wasRefetching.current && refetching;
+    const landed = wasRefetching.current && !refetching && query.status === "success";
+    wasRefetching.current = refetching;
+    if (started) answeredAtRefetch.current = new Set(answered.current);
+    if (!landed) return;
+    const known = answeredAtRefetch.current;
+    setOverrides((o) => unconfirmed(o, known));
+    setSavedOverrides((o) => unconfirmed(o, known));
+    for (const seq of known) answered.current.delete(seq);
+    const zero = new Map<string, number>();
+    for (const [id, seq] of resets.current) {
+      if (known.has(seq)) resets.current.delete(id);
+      else zero.set(id, 0);
     }
-  }, [query.dataUpdatedAt, pagesLen]);
+    patchCachedProgress(qc, zero);
+  }, [refetching, query.status, qc]);
 
   // One shared query with the sidebar (same key + filters -> React Query dedupes to a single request):
   // the feed reads `.count`, the sidebar reads `.facets` (PERF-13, replaces feedCount + facets).
@@ -282,19 +341,28 @@ export default function Feed({
   const onStateRef = useRef<(id: string, status: VideoStatus) => void>(() => {});
   const onState = useCallback(
     (id: string, status: VideoStatus) => {
-      setOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: status }));
+      const seq = ++writeSeq.current;
+      setOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: { value: status, seq } }));
+      const write = api.setState(id, status);
+      const session = playerSession.current;
+      if (session.open) {
+        session.changed = true;
+        session.pending.add(write);
+        const settled = () => void session.pending.delete(write);
+        write.then(settled, settled);
+      }
       // Refetch once the server has the change so other views (e.g. Hidden) are in sync.
       // Announce the change only AFTER the server confirms it: a "Marked watched"/"Hidden"
       // notice (or resolving a stale one) is a claim of success, so firing it optimistically
       // would falsely report a change that the .catch below is about to roll back (e.g. when
       // the API is unreachable).
-      api
-        .setState(id, status)
+      write
         .then(() => {
           // Mark stale WITHOUT refetching: the optimistic `overrides` layer + the matchesView filter
           // already show the correct state (a hidden/watched card drops out immediately), so refetching
           // every loaded infinite-query page here was pure waste — 10 pages x rapid marks = a refetch
           // storm (PERF-2). The next filter change / remount refetches fresh from the server.
+          answered.current.add(seq);
           qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed(), refetchType: "none" });
           if (status === "hidden") {
             const v = loadedRef.current.find((x) => x.id === id);
@@ -340,11 +408,7 @@ export default function Feed({
           // reverts to the real (unchanged) state instead of staying phantom-hidden, and say so:
           // a card that silently snaps back reads as a misclick.
           notifyActionError(e, i18n.t("errors.writeFailed.videoState"));
-          setOverrides((o) => {
-            const next = { ...o };
-            delete next[id];
-            return next;
-          });
+          setOverrides((o) => withoutWrite(o, id, seq));
         });
     },
     [qc],
@@ -354,24 +418,27 @@ export default function Feed({
     (id: string) => {
       // Reset to pristine (drop the whole VideoState row, incl. resume position) — the
       // un-watch toggle can't clear an in-progress position, this can.
-      setOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: "new" }));
-      setResetIds((r) => ({ ...r, [id]: true }));
+      const seq = ++writeSeq.current;
+      setOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: { value: "new", seq } }));
+      // The position goes into the cached lists, where the player's own closing patch writes the
+      // next one: as a mask over them it outlived a replay, so a reopen resumed at 0 and its first
+      // checkpoint wrote over the progress just made.
+      const before = loadedRef.current.find((v) => v.id === id)?.position_seconds;
+      patchCachedProgress(qc, new Map([[id, 0]]));
+      resets.current.set(id, seq);
       api
         .clearState(id)
         // Stale-mark only (see setState above): the optimistic override already reset the card.
-        .then(() => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed(), refetchType: "none" }))
+        .then(() => {
+          answered.current.add(seq);
+          qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.feed(), refetchType: "none" });
+        })
         .catch((e: unknown) => {
           notifyActionError(e, i18n.t("errors.writeFailed.videoReset"));
-          setOverrides((o) => {
-            const next = { ...o };
-            delete next[id];
-            return next;
-          });
-          setResetIds((r) => {
-            const next = { ...r };
-            delete next[id];
-            return next;
-          });
+          setOverrides((o) => withoutWrite(o, id, seq));
+          if (resets.current.get(id) !== seq) return;
+          resets.current.delete(id);
+          if (before !== undefined) patchCachedProgress(qc, new Map([[id, before]]));
         });
     },
     [qc],
@@ -379,9 +446,11 @@ export default function Feed({
 
   const onToggleSave = useCallback(
     (id: string, saved: boolean) => {
-      setSavedOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: saved }));
+      const seq = ++writeSeq.current;
+      setSavedOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: { value: saved, seq } }));
       (saved ? api.watchLaterAdd(id) : api.watchLaterRemove(id))
         .then(() => {
+          answered.current.add(seq);
           qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlists() });
           qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.playlist() });
         })
@@ -392,7 +461,7 @@ export default function Feed({
               saved ? "errors.writeFailed.watchLaterAdd" : "errors.writeFailed.watchLaterRemove",
             ),
           );
-          setSavedOverrides((o) => ({ ...o, [id]: !saved }));
+          setSavedOverrides((o) => withoutWrite(o, id, seq));
         });
     },
     [qc],
@@ -409,12 +478,11 @@ export default function Feed({
     list
       .map((v) => {
         const status = overrides[v.id]; // read once so the narrowing sticks
-        return status ? { ...v, status } : v;
+        return status ? { ...v, status: status.value } : v;
       })
-      .map((v) => (resetIds[v.id] ? { ...v, position_seconds: 0 } : v))
       .map((v) => {
         const saved = savedOverrides[v.id];
-        return saved !== undefined ? { ...v, saved } : v;
+        return saved ? { ...v, saved: saved.value } : v;
       });
   const merged: Video[] = withOverrides(loaded);
   const items: Video[] = merged.filter((v) => matchesView(v.status, filters.show));
@@ -878,6 +946,15 @@ export default function Feed({
           onToggleSave={onToggleSave}
           onResetState={onResetState}
           onOpen={openVideo}
+          // A channel page's view is the channel already: no row there to narrow it to one.
+          channelFilter={
+            channelScoped
+              ? undefined
+              : {
+                  ids: filters.channelIds,
+                  set: (channelIds) => setFilters({ ...filters, channelIds }),
+                }
+          }
           // A failed next page stops the read-ahead: retry is off, and re-running on every settle would
           // re-request it once a round-trip for as long as the end is in view. The row
           // below says so and retries on a click.

frontend/src/components/Home.dom.test.tsx

@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ describe("Home", () => {
       comfort: [],
     });
     mount();
-    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("A Show"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "A Show" }));
     expect(setJumpTo).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ id: "ep-7", type: "play" }));
   });
 
@@ -678,11 +678,24 @@ describe("Home", () => {
       comfort: [],
     });
     mount();
-    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("A Show"));
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "A Show" }));
     expect(setJumpTo).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ replace: true }));
     expect(setPage).toHaveBeenCalledWith("plex");
   });
 
+  it("a show tile's title opens the show page; its picture plays on", async () => {
+    discover.mockResolvedValue({
+      budget: "any",
+      hero: null,
+      continue_watching: [showCard()],
+      comfort: [],
+    });
+    mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("A Show"), { detail: 1 });
+    expect(setJumpTo).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "show" }));
+    expect(setJumpTo).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "play" }));
+  });
+
   it("sends the ⓘ affordance to the item's page, not to the player", async () => {
     // `onInfo` and `onPlay` differ by one ternary arm, and confusing them is the defect the play
     // test above was written for — but only `onPlay` was pinned, so swapping ⓘ's "movie" for "play"

frontend/src/components/Home.tsx

@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ function useHomeCardMenu({
               .map((it, i) => (i === 0 ? { ...it, separatorBefore: true } : it))
           : target.plex
             ? plexActions
-                .items(target.plex, { play: false, pin: false })
+                .items(target.plex, { play: false, pin: false, anchor: menu.anchor })
                 .map((it, i) => (i === 0 ? { ...it, separatorBefore: true } : it))
             : target.kind === "channel" || target.kind === "playlist"
               ? [{ ...openPage.item(target), separatorBefore: true }]
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ function Rail({
                 onAdd={plexAdd}
                 next={c.next?.plex}
                 onInfo={() => onInfo(c)}
+                onPage={() => onInfo(c)}
                 menuProps={menuFor[i]}
                 menuButtonProps={buttonFor[i]}
                 menuOpen={menu.open && menu.target === c}

frontend/src/components/PaletteLauncher.tsx

@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ function useCap(): string {
 // words matched nothing.
 
 /** The key cap at the end of a search field. A button, so the pointer and a screen reader reach it
- *  too; left out of a phone's narrow header, where there is no keyboard to press it on. */
+ *  too; left out of a phone's narrow header and of every touch screen, where there is (usually) no
+ *  keyboard to press it on — on a tablet it was a 44 px box crowding the field. ⌘K still works. */
 export function PaletteKeycap() {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const cap = useCap();
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ export function PaletteKeycap() {
       onClick={openPalette}
       aria-label={`${t("palette.open")} (${cap})`}
       title={`${t("palette.open")} (${cap})`}
-      className="inline-flex h-6 shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-md border border-border px-1.5 font-mono text-3xs touch-target text-muted transition hover:border-accent/50 hover:text-fg @max-[640px]/appmain:hidden"
+      className="inline-flex h-6 shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-md border border-border px-1.5 font-mono text-3xs touch-target text-muted transition hover:border-accent/50 hover:text-fg pointer-coarse:hidden @max-[640px]/appmain:hidden"
     >
       {cap}
     </Pressable>

frontend/src/components/PlayerModal.dom.test.tsx

@@ -424,23 +424,100 @@ describe("PlayerModal — the description", () => {
   });
 });
 
-// C3: the queue's side arrows sit in a gutter of the card's row, not outside it, so no window cuts
-// them off (outside the card, a 1024 window cut them and a portrait tablet lost them).
-describe("PlayerModal — the side arrows", () => {
-  it("stand inside the row's gutter", () => {
+// The full-height strips beside the card were a second Previous / Next that cost the video 7rem of
+// width (owner): the panel's transport row and Shift+← / → step on their own.
+describe("PlayerModal — no side strips", () => {
+  it("steps from the panel only, and the card keeps no gutter for strips", () => {
     vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
     const A = vid("A", 0);
     const B = vid("B", 0);
     renderModal(
       <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A, B]} startIndex={0} onClose={() => {}} onState={() => {}} />,
     );
-    const arrow = [...document.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>("[aria-label='player.next']")].find(
-      (b) => b.className.includes("w-12"),
-    )!;
-    expect(arrow).toBeTruthy();
-    expect(arrow.className).toMatch(/\bright-0\b/);
-    expect(arrow.className).not.toMatch(/left-full/);
-    expect(arrow.parentElement!.className).toMatch(/sm:px-14/);
+    expect(screen.getAllByRole("button", { name: "player.next" })).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(screen.getAllByRole("button", { name: "player.previous" })).toHaveLength(1);
+    const row = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".player-stage")!.parentElement!.parentElement!;
+    expect(row.className).not.toMatch(/px-14/);
+  });
+
+  it("closes from one icon-only button", () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const onClose = vi.fn();
+    const A = vid("A", 0);
+    renderModal(
+      <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A]} startIndex={0} onClose={onClose} onState={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    const close = screen.getByTestId("player-close");
+    expect(close.getAttribute("aria-label")).toBe("player.close");
+    expect(close.textContent).toBe("");
+    fireEvent.click(close);
+    expect(onClose).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+});
+
+// YouTube's embed keeps its controls at fixed px from the iframe's edges: the seek bar across the bottom
+// 52–96 px up, the fullscreen button above its right end 80–128 px up, the gear and volume along the
+// top. A cutout given only as a share of the height lay over that button on a short player (a small
+// window, a browser zoomed to 150 %): the click paused instead.
+describe("PlayerModal — the click layer over the video", () => {
+  const layers = () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const A = vid("A", 0);
+    renderModal(
+      <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A]} startIndex={0} onClose={() => {}} onState={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    return screen.getAllByTestId("yt-click-layer");
+  };
+  const box = (el: HTMLElement) => {
+    const { left, right, width, top, bottom } = el.style;
+    return { left, right, width, top, bottom };
+  };
+
+  it("clears the seek bar across the width and the fullscreen button in its right-hand column", () => {
+    const [picture, column] = layers();
+    expect(box(picture!)).toEqual({
+      left: "0px",
+      right: "88px",
+      width: "",
+      top: "max(12%, 56px)",
+      bottom: "max(22%, 104px)",
+    });
+    expect(box(column!)).toEqual({
+      left: "",
+      right: "0px",
+      width: "88px",
+      top: "max(12%, 56px)",
+      bottom: "max(22%, 140px)",
+    });
+  });
+
+  // In the big views our docked bar sits under the iframe; YouTube's px are counted from the iframe's
+  // bottom, so a box measured from the stage's would start that bar's height too low again.
+  it.each([
+    ["the windowed card", false, /(^|\s)relative(\s|$)/],
+    ["true fullscreen", true, /(^|\s)bottom-14(\s|$)/],
+  ])("measures those edges against the iframe's own box in %s", (_view, fullscreen, inset) => {
+    const els = layers();
+    const stage = document.querySelector(".player-stage")!;
+    if (fullscreen) {
+      Object.defineProperty(document, "fullscreenElement", {
+        configurable: true,
+        get: () => stage,
+      });
+      act(() => void document.dispatchEvent(new Event("fullscreenchange")));
+    }
+    try {
+      for (const el of screen.getAllByTestId("yt-click-layer")) {
+        const wrapper = el.parentElement!;
+        expect(wrapper).not.toBe(stage);
+        expect(wrapper.parentElement).toBe(stage);
+        expect(wrapper.className).toMatch(inset);
+        expect(wrapper.className).not.toMatch(/(^|\s)p[byt]?-/);
+      }
+      expect(els).toHaveLength(2);
+    } finally {
+      delete (document as { fullscreenElement?: unknown }).fullscreenElement;
+    }
   });
 });
 
@@ -465,9 +542,7 @@ describe("PlayerModal — fits the window's height", () => {
       <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A, B]} startIndex={0} onClose={() => {}} onState={() => {}} />,
     );
     const row = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".player-stage")!.parentElement!.parentElement!;
-    expect(row.style.maxWidth).toBe(
-      "min(63rem, calc(max(36rem, (100dvh - 3rem - 160px) * 16 / 9) + 7rem))",
-    );
+    expect(row.style.maxWidth).toBe("min(56rem, max(36rem, (100dvh - 3rem - 160px) * 16 / 9))");
   });
 });
 
@@ -485,8 +560,19 @@ describe("PlayerModal — the side panel on a wide window", () => {
           removeEventListener: () => {},
         }) as unknown as MediaQueryList,
     );
+  // jsdom has no matchMedia to spy on: a bare one is put in for these tests and taken out after, or
+  // every later test's media query would read that bare stub.
+  let added = false;
   beforeEach(() => {
-    window.matchMedia ??= (() => ({})) as unknown as typeof window.matchMedia;
+    if (typeof window.matchMedia === "function") return;
+    window.matchMedia = (() => ({})) as unknown as typeof window.matchMedia;
+    added = true;
+  });
+  afterEach(() => {
+    // The spy goes first: restoring it later would put the bare stub back.
+    vi.restoreAllMocks();
+    if (added) delete (window as { matchMedia?: unknown }).matchMedia;
+    added = false;
   });
 
   it("puts the details beside the video, the description open, and sizes the card for both", async () => {
@@ -510,13 +596,55 @@ describe("PlayerModal — the side panel on a wide window", () => {
     // The description is shown outright; there is no ⓘ to open it.
     expect(await screen.findByText("A long description")).toBeTruthy();
     expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "player.description" })).toBeNull();
-    // The row's width: the video at the window's height, plus the panel and the side strips.
-    expect(card.parentElement!.style.maxWidth).toBe(
-      "calc((100dvh - 3rem - 0px) * 16 / 9 + 20rem + 7rem)",
-    );
+    // The row's width: the video at the window's height, plus the panel.
+    expect(card.parentElement!.style.maxWidth).toBe("calc((100dvh - 3rem - 0px) * 16 / 9 + 20rem)");
+    // A long channel name is cut on the panel's line, not run past its 20rem into a sideways scroll.
+    const name = within(info).getByText("Channel").closest("button, a")!.parentElement!;
+    expect(name.className).toMatch(/\bmin-w-0\b/);
+    expect(name.className).toMatch(/\bflex-1\b/);
+    expect(name.className).not.toMatch(/\bshrink-0\b/);
+    // The description is cut to three lines, with a More once it is cut.
+    expect((await screen.findByText("A long description")).closest(".line-clamp-3")).toBeTruthy();
   });
 
-  it("lets the wheel scroll the panel while it can, and turn the volume everywhere else", async () => {
+  it("shuts the panel to a strip for a bigger video, and keeps it shut as the queue steps on", () => {
+    wideWindow(true);
+    vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const A = vid("A", 0);
+    const B = vid("B", 0);
+    renderModal(
+      <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A, B]} startIndex={0} onClose={() => {}} onState={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    const row = () =>
+      document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".player-stage")!.parentElement!.parentElement!;
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "player.collapsePanel" }));
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("player-info")).toBeNull();
+    const strip = screen.getByTestId("player-strip");
+    // The pressed toggle is gone: focus is on its counterpart, not on <body>.
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(
+      within(strip).getByRole("button", { name: "player.expandPanel" }),
+    );
+    expect(row().style.maxWidth).toBe("calc((100dvh - 3rem - 0px) * 16 / 9 + 2.75rem)");
+    // The strip keeps the way out and the stepping.
+    expect(within(strip).getByTestId("player-close")).toBeTruthy();
+    // The dialog keeps its name with the title out of sight: it is named by that heading's id.
+    expect(screen.getByRole("dialog", { name: "Video A" })).toBeTruthy();
+    fireEvent.click(within(strip).getByRole("button", { name: "player.next" }));
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("player-strip")).toBeTruthy(); // still shut on the next video
+    expect(screen.getByRole("dialog", { name: "Video B" })).toBeTruthy();
+    fireEvent.click(
+      within(screen.getByTestId("player-strip")).getByRole("button", {
+        name: "player.expandPanel",
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("player-info")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(
+      screen.getByRole("button", { name: "player.collapsePanel" }),
+    );
+    expect(row().style.maxWidth).toBe("calc((100dvh - 3rem - 0px) * 16 / 9 + 20rem)");
+  });
+
+  it("gives a panel with something to scroll the wheel for that alone, the volume elsewhere", async () => {
     wideWindow(true);
     vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockResolvedValue({
       description: "A long description",
@@ -537,11 +665,33 @@ describe("PlayerModal — the side panel on a wide window", () => {
       return e.defaultPrevented; // prevented = the wheel went to the volume
     };
     expect(spin(text, 100)).toBe(false); // room below: the panel scrolls
-    expect(spin(text, -100)).toBe(true); // at its top: nothing to scroll up, so the volume
+    expect(spin(text, -100)).toBe(false); // at its top too: one gesture, one meaning (owner)
     top = 400;
-    expect(spin(text, 100)).toBe(true); // at its end: the volume
-    expect(spin(text, -100)).toBe(false);
+    expect(spin(text, 100)).toBe(false); // and at its end, where it once fell through to the volume
     expect(spin(document.querySelector(".player-stage")!, 100)).toBe(true); // over the video
+    // A panel that fits has nothing to scroll: the wheel is the volume there.
+    Object.defineProperty(panel, "scrollHeight", { value: 500, configurable: true });
+    expect(spin(text, 100)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("stacked: the card scrolls under the wheel, the video in it is still the volume", () => {
+    wideWindow(false);
+    vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const A = vid("A", 0);
+    renderModal(
+      <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A]} startIndex={0} onClose={() => {}} onState={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    const stage = document.querySelector<HTMLElement>(".player-stage")!;
+    const card = stage.parentElement!;
+    Object.defineProperty(card, "scrollHeight", { value: 900, configurable: true });
+    Object.defineProperty(card, "clientHeight", { value: 500, configurable: true });
+    const spin = (el: Element) => {
+      const e = new WheelEvent("wheel", { deltaY: 100, bubbles: true, cancelable: true });
+      el.dispatchEvent(e);
+      return e.defaultPrevented;
+    };
+    expect(spin(screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "Video A" }))).toBe(false);
+    expect(spin(stage)).toBe(true);
   });
 
   // A failed load read "No description." in the always-open panel — an error drawn as empty.
@@ -591,3 +741,40 @@ describe("PlayerModal — the side panel on a wide window", () => {
     expect(screen.queryByTestId("player-description")).toBeNull();
   });
 });
+
+// Brave on an iPad cannot fullscreen an element (it fakes `fullscreenEnabled`): the docked bar's
+// true-fullscreen button did nothing there. The window-filling view is then the biggest one.
+describe("PlayerModal — the docked bar's fullscreen", () => {
+  const maximised = (api_: boolean) => {
+    if (api_)
+      Object.defineProperty(Element.prototype, "requestFullscreen", {
+        configurable: true,
+        value: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      });
+    // Brave's stand-in otherwise: a <video>-only requestFullscreen on HTMLElement.prototype.
+    else
+      Object.defineProperty(HTMLElement.prototype, "requestFullscreen", {
+        configurable: true,
+        value: () => true,
+      });
+    vi.spyOn(api, "videoDetail").mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
+    const A = vid("A", 0);
+    renderModal(
+      <PlayerModal video={A} queue={[A]} startIndex={0} onClose={() => {}} onState={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText("player.fullscreen"));
+    return screen.getAllByLabelText("player.fullscreen").length;
+  };
+  afterEach(() => {
+    delete (Element.prototype as { requestFullscreen?: unknown }).requestFullscreen;
+    delete (HTMLElement.prototype as { requestFullscreen?: unknown }).requestFullscreen;
+  });
+
+  it("is offered where the browser can fullscreen an element", () => {
+    expect(maximised(true)).toBe(2);
+  });
+
+  it("is left out where it cannot", () => {
+    expect(maximised(false)).toBe(1);
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/PlayerModal.tsx

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   useLayoutEffect,
   useRef,
   useState,
+  type CSSProperties,
 } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { createPortal } from "react-dom";
@@ -20,14 +21,16 @@ import {
   ArrowLeft,
   Check,
   CheckCheck,
-  ChevronLeft,
-  ChevronRight,
   ExternalLink,
   Info,
   Maximize,
   Minimize,
   Minimize2,
+  PanelRightClose,
+  PanelRightOpen,
   Settings,
+  SkipBack,
+  SkipForward,
   Trash2,
   Volume2,
   VolumeX,
@@ -56,7 +59,7 @@ import {
   formatCompact,
   relativeTime,
 } from "../lib/format";
-import { fullscreenElement } from "../lib/fullscreen";
+import { canFullscreenElements, fullscreenElement } from "../lib/fullscreen";
 import { dispatch, isActivationTarget, useKeyScope } from "../lib/keymap";
 import { useBackToClose } from "../lib/history";
 import ChannelNameLink from "./ChannelNameLink";
@@ -73,7 +76,6 @@ import {
 import { useScrollFade } from "../lib/useScrollFade";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
 import { IconButton } from "./ui/IconButton";
-import { Pressable } from "./ui/Pressable";
 import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
 import { IconLink, LinkButton } from "./ui/LinkButton";
 import { SectionLabel } from "./ui/Headings";
@@ -104,8 +106,39 @@ function canScrollBy(el: HTMLElement | null, dir: -1 | 1): boolean {
 // a rem width, so it grows with the text size; the video takes what is left.
 const WIDE_PLAYER_PX = 1280;
 const SIDE_PANEL = "20rem";
+// The side panel shut to a strip: one icon button wide, close / open / previous / next in a column.
+const PANEL_STRIP = "2.75rem";
 // The narrowest the stacked video gets to make room for the chrome under it (see the card's maxWidth).
 const MIN_VIDEO = "36rem";
+// YouTube's embed draws its controls at fixed CSS px from the iframe's edges, whatever its size
+// (measured 576×324 up to 2460×1384): the channel avatar, volume, captions and gear in a row along the
+// top (48 px), the seek bar across the full width 52–96 px up from the bottom, and the fullscreen button
+// above its right end, 80–128 px up and 24–72 px in from the right. The click layer's cutouts never
+// shrink below those, else on a short player (a small window, a browser zoomed to 150 % or more) the
+// layer lies over that button and a click on it pauses instead. Only the right-hand column needs the
+// fullscreen button's height: a full-width band that tall would hand the clicks on the picture to the
+// iframe, which takes the keyboard focus and with it our shortcuts. On a player too short for any
+// centre (under ~200 px, a phone) the layer is gone and YouTube's own touch controls take every tap.
+// Px, not rem: the text-size slider does not grow YouTube's controls.
+const YT_TOP_CONTROLS_PX = 56;
+const YT_SEEK_BAR_PX = 104;
+const YT_FULLSCREEN_BUTTON_PX = { above: 140, fromRight: 88 };
+// The layer is these two boxes: the picture left of the fullscreen button down to the seek bar, and the
+// column above that button.
+const YT_CLICK_LAYER: CSSProperties[] = [
+  {
+    left: 0,
+    right: YT_FULLSCREEN_BUTTON_PX.fromRight,
+    top: `max(12%, ${YT_TOP_CONTROLS_PX}px)`,
+    bottom: `max(22%, ${YT_SEEK_BAR_PX}px)`,
+  },
+  {
+    right: 0,
+    width: YT_FULLSCREEN_BUTTON_PX.fromRight,
+    top: `max(12%, ${YT_TOP_CONTROLS_PX}px)`,
+    bottom: `max(22%, ${YT_FULLSCREEN_BUTTON_PX.above}px)`,
+  },
+];
 
 // The meta line's items each lead with a "·" that parts them from what stands before: the channel name
 // on its line. In the wide panel the meta has a line of its own, where the first "·" would lead nothing.
@@ -115,6 +148,9 @@ const metaSep = (
   </span>
 );
 const META_OWN_LINE = "w-full [&>span:first-child>[data-meta-sep]]:hidden";
+// Beside the channel name the meta takes what is left of the line, but never less than this: under it
+// the line wraps and the meta, or the actions after it, move down instead of squeezing.
+const META_MIN = "min-w-48 flex-1";
 
 export default function PlayerModal({
   video,
@@ -215,6 +251,23 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
   // move into a side panel beside the video, so the video takes the window's whole height — at
   // 1920×911 it was capped at ~1008 px wide with empty space all round. Narrower, they stay under it.
   const wide = useMediaQuery(`(min-width: ${WIDE_PLAYER_PX}px)`, false);
+  // The wide panel shut to a strip, for a bigger video. This player's own state: it holds while the
+  // queue steps on (a next video plays in this same modal), and a video opened from a card mounts a
+  // fresh player, which starts with the panel open (owner).
+  const [panelShut, setPanelShut] = useState(false);
+  // The toggle that was pressed is gone after the switch (shut → the strip's "open", and back): focus
+  // goes to its counterpart, not to <body>, where the player's keys would no longer reach it.
+  const panelToggleRef = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null);
+  const refocusToggle = useRef(false);
+  const togglePanel = (shut: boolean) => {
+    refocusToggle.current = true;
+    setPanelShut(shut);
+  };
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!refocusToggle.current) return;
+    refocusToggle.current = false;
+    panelToggleRef.current?.focus();
+  }, [panelShut]);
   useLayoutEffect(() => {
     const card = cardRef.current;
     const stage = stageRef.current;
@@ -271,6 +324,8 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
   const navigated = currentVideoId !== active.id;
   // Title/author of a navigated-to video, read from the player (free, no API call).
   const [liveData, setLiveData] = useState<{ title?: string; author?: string } | null>(null);
+  // What is playing, by name: the panel's title, and the dialog's name (`titleId`) in either layout.
+  const heading = navigated ? (liveData?.title ?? t("player.loading")) : active.title;
   // IFrame Player API error code, when the current video can't play in the embed (e.g. an
   // auto-generated Topic "Art Track" with embedding disabled → 101/150, or removed/private →
   // 100). We overlay a friendly message + "Open on YouTube" instead of YouTube's bare error.
@@ -613,9 +668,22 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
     onLoadVideo: loadVideo,
   };
 
-  // The card's width budget (its maxWidth, below): the video's, and the side strips' gutters.
+  // The card's width budget (its maxWidth, below): the video's, and the side panel's when wide.
   const fitWidth = `(100dvh - 3rem - ${below}px) * 16 / 9`;
-  const gutters = hasQueue ? " + 7rem" : "";
+  const panelWidth = panelShut ? PANEL_STRIP : SIDE_PANEL;
+  // One Close, icon only: at the top right of the wide panel's head (or its strip), at the end of the
+  // stacked card's title row under the video.
+  const closeButton = (
+    <IconButton
+      variant="ghost"
+      data-testid="player-close"
+      onClick={onClose}
+      label={t("player.close")}
+      title={t("player.closeEsc")}
+    >
+      <X />
+    </IconButton>
+  );
 
   // Portaled to <body>, like every other full-screen overlay here. A fixed, full-viewport modal
   // must not render inside the page scroller: once that scroller is a stacking context (its
@@ -632,15 +700,13 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
       aria-modal="true"
       aria-labelledby={titleId}
     >
-      {/* The card, flanked by full-height glassy strips that step through the feed's order (or a
-          playlist). Each strip sits in a gutter of the card's row, spans its full height, and fades
-          out at the ends; the gutter keeps it on the screen (C3: outside the card, a 1024 window cut
-          it and a portrait tablet lost it). stopPropagation so a click steps instead of closing.
-          Hidden on narrow screens where there's no room beside the card. */}
+      {/* The card. Previous / next live in the panel (its transport row, or the shut panel's strip) and
+          on Shift+← / →: the full-height strips that once flanked the card cost the video 7rem of width
+          for a second copy of the same two buttons (owner). */}
       <div
-        className={`relative flex w-full max-h-full ${hasQueue ? "sm:px-14" : ""}`}
-        // The design width (63rem with the side strips, else 56rem), narrowed so the 16:9 video plus the
-        // chrome under it fits the window's height less the backdrop's padding (`p-6` = 3rem).
+        className="relative flex w-full max-h-full"
+        // The design width (56rem), narrowed so the 16:9 video plus the chrome under it fits the
+        // window's height less the backdrop's padding (`p-6` = 3rem).
         // Wide: no design cap — the video is as wide as the window's height allows, plus the side panel,
         // whose content sits beside the video (`below` is ~0), so the fit is exact and the card, which
         // does not scroll there, always holds the whole video.
@@ -649,27 +715,15 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
         // (a laptop at 100%, a 1080p screen at 175%). Past the floor the stacked card scrolls instead.
         style={{
           maxWidth: wide
-            ? `calc(${fitWidth} + ${SIDE_PANEL}${gutters})`
-            : `min(${hasQueue ? "63rem" : "56rem"}, calc(max(${MIN_VIDEO}, ${fitWidth})${gutters}))`,
+            ? `calc(${fitWidth} + ${panelWidth})`
+            : `min(56rem, max(${MIN_VIDEO}, ${fitWidth}))`,
         }}
       >
-        {hasQueue && (
-          <Pressable
-            onClick={(e) => {
-              e.stopPropagation();
-              goPrev();
-            }}
-            disabled={index === 0}
-            aria-label={t("player.previous")}
-            title={`${t("player.previous")} · Shift+←`}
-            className="absolute left-0 top-0 bottom-0 hidden w-12 place-items-center rounded-2xl bg-white/5 text-white/40 backdrop-blur-xs transition hover:bg-white/15 hover:text-white disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-0 sm:grid"
-          >
-            <ChevronLeft className="h-8 w-8" />
-          </Pressable>
-        )}
         <div
           ref={cardRef}
           tabIndex={-1}
+          // Stacked, the card is what scrolls (its details under the video): the wheel's, while it can.
+          data-wheel-scrolls={wide ? undefined : ""}
           className={`${SURFACE.panel} relative flex-1 min-w-0 max-h-full outline-hidden ${
             wide ? "flex overflow-hidden" : "overflow-y-auto"
           }`}
@@ -677,6 +731,8 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
         >
           <div
             ref={stageRef}
+            // The wheel over the video is its volume, even inside a stacked card that scrolls.
+            data-wheel-volume=""
             className={`player-stage relative aspect-video w-full bg-black overflow-hidden ${
               wide ? "flex-1 min-w-0 self-start rounded-l-2xl" : "rounded-t-2xl"
             } ${maximized ? "player-stage--max" : ""}`}
@@ -689,39 +745,48 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
               which would drop any class on mountRef itself — the iframe then sizes to this wrapper. */}
             <div
               className={
-                maximized || isFullscreen ? "absolute inset-x-0 top-0 bottom-14" : "w-full h-full"
+                maximized || isFullscreen
+                  ? "absolute inset-x-0 top-0 bottom-14"
+                  : "relative w-full h-full"
               }
             >
               <div
                 ref={mountRef}
                 className={`w-full h-full ${playerError != null ? "invisible" : ""}`}
               />
+              {/* Interaction layer over the CENTRE of the video: catches click (play/pause) + wheel
+                volume (the wheel event bubbles from here to the modal's listener — over the bare
+                cross-origin iframe it would be swallowed) and stops the iframe stealing keyboard focus.
+                It leaves the top AND bottom edges uncovered so YouTube's edge controls stay reachable,
+                measured against the iframe it sits in (in the big views that excludes our docked bar)
+                and never thinner than those controls (see YT_CLICK_LAYER). A mouse surface only, so hidden
+                from assistive tech: the keyboard has the shortcuts it stands for.
+                Armed in the big views too (that is what keeps wheel volume working after F, the reported
+                gap) — it only yields to `nativeControls`, i.e. once the user opens YouTube's own
+                settings menu (focus moves into the iframe), so that menu is navigable end to end.
+                Hidden on error so the "Open on YouTube" CTA is clickable. */}
+              {playerError == null &&
+                YT_CLICK_LAYER.map((box, i) => (
+                  <div
+                    key={i}
+                    data-testid="yt-click-layer"
+                    onClick={() => {
+                      focusModal();
+                      togglePlay();
+                    }}
+                    title={t("player.shortcutsHint")}
+                    aria-hidden="true"
+                    style={box}
+                    className={`absolute z-base cursor-pointer ${
+                      nativeControls ? "pointer-events-none" : ""
+                    }`}
+                  />
+                ))}
             </div>
-            {/* Interaction layer over the CENTRE of the video: catches click (play/pause) + wheel
-              volume (the wheel event bubbles from here to the modal's listener — over the bare
-              cross-origin iframe it would be swallowed) and stops the iframe stealing keyboard focus.
-              It leaves the top AND bottom edges uncovered so YouTube's edge controls stay reachable.
-              Armed in the big views too (that is what keeps wheel volume working after F, the reported
-              gap) — it only yields to `nativeControls`, i.e. once the user opens YouTube's own
-              settings menu (focus moves into the iframe), so that menu is navigable end to end.
-              Hidden on error so the "Open on YouTube" CTA is clickable. */}
-            {playerError == null && (
-              <div
-                onClick={() => {
-                  focusModal();
-                  togglePlay();
-                }}
-                title={t("player.shortcutsHint")}
-                aria-label={t("player.shortcutsHint")}
-                className={`absolute inset-x-0 top-[12%] bottom-[22%] z-base cursor-pointer ${
-                  nativeControls ? "pointer-events-none" : ""
-                }`}
-              />
-            )}
             {/* Our own control bar for the big views (maximise / our fullscreen), where the card's
               controls are off-screen. It's IN the stage (so it survives true fullscreen, where a
               <body> portal would not) and DOCKED in its own strip: the video area above is inset by
-              this bar's height (see mountRef's `bottom-14`), so the bar NEVER overlaps YouTube's seek
+              this bar's height (see the iframe wrapper's `bottom-14`), so the bar NEVER overlaps YouTube's seek
               bar — that stays reachable by hovering the video's bottom edge, just above ours. Always
               visible (no auto-hide) so there's no guessing whether it will appear and no fight with the
               seek bar over the same pixels. stopPropagation so a click here doesn't toggle playback;
@@ -771,13 +836,18 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
                   </Button>
                 )}
                 <span className="h-4 w-px bg-white/20" />
-                <IconButton
-                  variant="overlay"
-                  onClick={toggleTrueFullscreen}
-                  label={isFullscreen ? t("player.exitFullscreen") : t("player.fullscreen")}
-                >
-                  {isFullscreen ? <Minimize /> : <Maximize />}
-                </IconButton>
+                {/* Absent where the browser cannot fullscreen an element (Brave on an iPad): there
+                    the window-filling view is the biggest, and YouTube's own button opens the
+                    system player. */}
+                {canFullscreenElements() && (
+                  <IconButton
+                    variant="overlay"
+                    onClick={toggleTrueFullscreen}
+                    label={isFullscreen ? t("player.exitFullscreen") : t("player.fullscreen")}
+                  >
+                    {isFullscreen ? <Minimize /> : <Maximize />}
+                  </IconButton>
+                )}
                 <Button
                   variant="overlay"
                   size="sm"
@@ -844,275 +914,319 @@ export default function PlayerModal({
             description never makes the card taller than the video. */}
           <div
             className={wide ? "relative shrink-0 border-l border-border" : undefined}
-            style={wide ? { width: SIDE_PANEL } : undefined}
+            style={wide ? { width: panelWidth } : undefined}
           >
-            <div
-              className={wide ? "absolute inset-0 overflow-y-auto" : undefined}
-              data-testid="player-info"
-              // The wheel scrolls this panel while it can (lib/playerModalHooks), the volume elsewhere.
-              data-wheel-scrolls={wide ? "" : undefined}
-            >
-              {hasQueue && (
-                <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-x-4 gap-y-1.5 px-4 py-2 border-b border-border text-sm">
-                  <PlayerTransportControls
-                    variant="modal"
-                    index={index}
-                    queueLength={queue!.length}
-                    autoMode={autoMode}
-                    loopMode={loopMode}
-                    onPrev={goPrev}
-                    onNext={goNext}
-                    onCycleAuto={cycleAuto}
-                    onCycleLoop={cycleLoop}
-                  />
-                </div>
-              )}
-
-              <div className="p-4 sm:p-5">
-                {/* Title row — the title and its ⓘ (the description) on the left, Close on the right. */}
-                <div className="flex items-start gap-3">
-                  <h2 id={titleId} className="min-w-0 flex-1 text-lg font-semibold leading-snug">
-                    {navigated ? (liveData?.title ?? t("player.loading")) : active.title}
-                  </h2>
-                  {!wide && (
+            {wide && panelShut ? (
+              <div
+                data-testid="player-strip"
+                className="absolute inset-0 flex flex-col items-center gap-1 py-2"
+              >
+                {/* The dialog is named by this heading's id: the panel's own one is not rendered. */}
+                <h2 id={titleId} className="sr-only">
+                  {heading}
+                </h2>
+                {closeButton}
+                <IconButton
+                  ref={panelToggleRef}
+                  variant="ghost"
+                  onClick={() => togglePanel(false)}
+                  label={t("player.expandPanel")}
+                  aria-expanded={false}
+                >
+                  <PanelRightOpen />
+                </IconButton>
+                {hasQueue && (
+                  <>
+                    <span className="flex-1" />
                     <IconButton
-                      ref={setDescAnchor}
-                      {...descPop.getReferenceProps()}
                       variant="ghost"
-                      aria-expanded={showDesc}
-                      label={t("player.description")}
+                      onClick={goPrev}
+                      disabled={index === 0}
+                      label={t("player.previous")}
+                      title={`${t("player.previous")} · Shift+←`}
                     >
-                      <Info />
+                      <SkipBack />
                     </IconButton>
-                  )}
-                  {navigated && (
-                    <Button
+                    <IconButton
                       variant="ghost"
-                      size="sm"
-                      onClick={() => loadVideo(active.id, null)}
-                      title={t("player.backToOriginal")}
-                      icon={<ArrowLeft />}
+                      onClick={goNext}
+                      disabled={index >= queue!.length - 1}
+                      label={t("player.next")}
+                      title={`${t("player.next")} · Shift+→`}
                     >
-                      {t("player.back")}
-                    </Button>
-                  )}
-                  <PopoverSurface
-                    popover={descPop}
-                    className={`${SURFACE.popover} w-[min(35rem,calc(100vw-2rem))] p-4`}
-                  >
-                    <SectionLabel level={3} className="mb-2">
-                      {t("player.description")}
-                    </SectionLabel>
-                    <PlayerDescription
-                      ref={descFadeRef}
-                      style={descFadeStyle}
-                      className="text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap wrap-break-word max-h-64 overflow-y-auto no-scrollbar leading-relaxed"
-                      {...descriptionProps}
+                      <SkipForward />
+                    </IconButton>
+                  </>
+                )}
+              </div>
+            ) : (
+              <div
+                className={wide ? "absolute inset-0 overflow-y-auto" : undefined}
+                data-testid="player-info"
+                // A panel with something to scroll takes the wheel for that alone (lib/playerModalHooks).
+                data-wheel-scrolls={wide ? "" : undefined}
+              >
+                {wide && (
+                  <div className="flex items-center justify-between px-2 pt-2">
+                    <IconButton
+                      ref={panelToggleRef}
+                      variant="ghost"
+                      onClick={() => togglePanel(true)}
+                      label={t("player.collapsePanel")}
+                      aria-expanded
+                    >
+                      <PanelRightClose />
+                    </IconButton>
+                    {closeButton}
+                  </div>
+                )}
+                {hasQueue && (
+                  <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center justify-center gap-x-4 gap-y-1.5 px-4 py-2 border-b border-border text-sm">
+                    <PlayerTransportControls
+                      variant="modal"
+                      index={index}
+                      queueLength={queue!.length}
+                      autoMode={autoMode}
+                      loopMode={loopMode}
+                      onPrev={goPrev}
+                      onNext={goNext}
+                      onCycleAuto={cycleAuto}
+                      onCycleLoop={cycleLoop}
                     />
-                  </PopoverSurface>
-                  <Button
-                    variant="ghost"
-                    size="sm"
-                    data-testid="player-close"
-                    onClick={onClose}
-                    title={t("player.closeEsc")}
-                  >
-                    {t("player.close")}
-                    <X />
-                  </Button>
-                </div>
+                  </div>
+                )}
 
-                {/* Channel + meta on one line, with the watched toggle pushed to the right.
-              When navigated to a linked video we only have its author (from the player),
-              so we show that as plain text and hide feed-video-specific bits. */}
-                <div className={`flex items-center gap-3 mt-3 ${wide ? "flex-wrap" : ""}`}>
-                  {!navigated && (
-                    <Avatar
-                      src={active.channel_thumbnail}
-                      fallback={active.channel_title ?? ""}
-                      className="w-9 h-9 rounded-full shrink-0"
-                    />
-                  )}
-                  {navigated ? (
-                    detail.data?.channel_id ? (
-                      <a
-                        href={channelYouTubeUrl(detail.data.channel_id)}
-                        target="_blank"
-                        rel="noreferrer"
-                        className="font-medium hover:text-accent shrink-0"
+                <div className="p-4 sm:p-5">
+                  {/* Title row — the title and its ⓘ (the description) on the left; stacked, Close on the
+                    right (wide, it heads the panel). */}
+                  <div className="flex items-start gap-3">
+                    <h2 id={titleId} className="min-w-0 flex-1 text-lg font-semibold leading-snug">
+                      {heading}
+                    </h2>
+                    {!wide && (
+                      <IconButton
+                        ref={setDescAnchor}
+                        {...descPop.getReferenceProps()}
+                        variant="ghost"
+                        aria-expanded={showDesc}
+                        label={t("player.description")}
                       >
-                        {liveData?.author ?? detail.data.channel_title ?? t("player.channel")}
-                      </a>
-                    ) : (
-                      <span className="font-medium shrink-0">{liveData?.author ?? ""}</span>
-                    )
-                  ) : (
-                    <div className="flex items-center gap-1.5 shrink-0 min-w-0">
-                      <ChannelNameLink
-                        channelId={active.channel_id}
-                        title={active.channel_title}
-                        onOpenInApp={() => {
-                          // openChannel closes this player first and pushes only once its
-                          // Back-to-close entry is reclaimed — otherwise that reclaim undoes the push
-                          // and clicking the name merely closes the player
-                          // (lib/history.closeOverlaysThenNavigate).
-                          openChannel(active.channel_id, active.channel_title ?? undefined);
-                        }}
-                        className="font-medium hover:text-accent truncate text-left"
+                        <Info />
+                      </IconButton>
+                    )}
+                    {navigated && (
+                      <Button
+                        variant="ghost"
+                        size="sm"
+                        onClick={() => loadVideo(active.id, null)}
+                        title={t("player.backToOriginal")}
+                        icon={<ArrowLeft />}
+                      >
+                        {t("player.back")}
+                      </Button>
+                    )}
+                    <PopoverSurface
+                      popover={descPop}
+                      className={`${SURFACE.popover} w-[min(35rem,calc(100vw-2rem))] p-4`}
+                    >
+                      <SectionLabel level={3} className="mb-2">
+                        {t("player.description")}
+                      </SectionLabel>
+                      <PlayerDescription
+                        ref={descFadeRef}
+                        style={descFadeStyle}
+                        className="text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap wrap-break-word max-h-64 overflow-y-auto no-scrollbar leading-relaxed"
+                        {...descriptionProps}
                       />
-                      <IconLink
-                        href={active.channel_url}
-                        target="_blank"
-                        rel="noreferrer"
-                        label={t("channels.row.openOnYouTube")}
-                        className="shrink-0"
-                      >
-                        <ExternalLink />
-                      </IconLink>
-                    </div>
-                  )}
-                  {!navigated ? (
-                    <div
-                      className={`flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 gap-y-0.5 text-sm text-muted min-w-0 ${wide ? META_OWN_LINE : ""}`}
-                    >
-                      {active.view_count != null && (
-                        <span>
-                          {metaSep}
-                          {t("player.views", {
-                            count: active.view_count,
-                            formattedCount: formatCompact(active.view_count, lang),
-                          })}
-                        </span>
-                      )}
-                      <span>
-                        {metaSep}
-                        {relativeTime(active.published_at, lang, t)}
-                        {active.published_at && ` · ${fullDate(active.published_at)}`}
-                      </span>
-                      {active.duration_seconds != null && (
-                        <span>
-                          {metaSep}
-                          {formatDuration(active.duration_seconds)}
-                        </span>
-                      )}
-                      {active.live_status === "was_live" && (
-                        <span className="bg-accent text-accent-fg text-3xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded-sm">
-                          {t("player.stream")}
-                        </span>
-                      )}
-                    </div>
-                  ) : (
-                    // Linked video's stats come from the (already-fetched) video detail.
-                    <div
-                      className={`flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 gap-y-0.5 text-sm text-muted min-w-0 ${wide ? META_OWN_LINE : ""}`}
-                    >
-                      {detail.data?.view_count != null && (
-                        <span>
-                          {metaSep}
-                          {t("player.views", {
-                            count: detail.data.view_count,
-                            formattedCount: formatCompact(detail.data.view_count, lang),
-                          })}
-                        </span>
-                      )}
-                      {detail.data?.published_at && (
-                        <span>
-                          {metaSep}
-                          {relativeTime(detail.data.published_at, lang, t)} ·{" "}
-                          {fullDate(detail.data.published_at)}
-                        </span>
-                      )}
-                      {detail.data?.duration_seconds != null && (
-                        <span>
-                          {metaSep}
-                          {formatDuration(detail.data.duration_seconds)}
-                        </span>
-                      )}
-                    </div>
-                  )}
+                    </PopoverSurface>
+                    {!wide && closeButton}
+                  </div>
 
-                  {/* Reliable, discoverable path into our big view straight from the windowed player —
+                  {/* Channel + meta on one line, with the actions pushed to the right.
+              When navigated to a linked video we only have its author (from the player),
+              so we show that as plain text and hide feed-video-specific bits.
+              It wraps: the meta never gets narrower than META_MIN, and the actions move down as one
+              group. Unwrapped, a narrow card (a tablet, a zoomed window) squeezed the meta into a
+              one-word column between the name and the buttons. */}
+                  <div className="flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-3 gap-y-2 mt-3">
+                    {!navigated && (
+                      <Avatar
+                        src={active.channel_thumbnail}
+                        fallback={active.channel_title ?? ""}
+                        className="w-9 h-9 rounded-full shrink-0"
+                      />
+                    )}
+                    {navigated ? (
+                      detail.data?.channel_id ? (
+                        <a
+                          href={channelYouTubeUrl(detail.data.channel_id)}
+                          target="_blank"
+                          rel="noreferrer"
+                          className={`font-medium hover:text-accent ${wide ? "min-w-0 truncate" : "shrink-0"}`}
+                        >
+                          {liveData?.author ?? detail.data.channel_title ?? t("player.channel")}
+                        </a>
+                      ) : (
+                        <span className={`font-medium ${wide ? "min-w-0 truncate" : "shrink-0"}`}>
+                          {liveData?.author ?? ""}
+                        </span>
+                      )
+                    ) : (
+                      // Wide, the name takes what the avatar leaves of the panel's line and is cut
+                      // there: unshrinkable, a long one ran the 20rem panel into a sideways scroll.
+                      <div
+                        className={`flex items-center gap-1.5 min-w-0 ${wide ? "flex-1" : "shrink-0"}`}
+                      >
+                        <ChannelNameLink
+                          channelId={active.channel_id}
+                          title={active.channel_title}
+                          onOpenInApp={() => {
+                            // openChannel closes this player first and pushes only once its
+                            // Back-to-close entry is reclaimed — otherwise that reclaim undoes the push
+                            // and clicking the name merely closes the player
+                            // (lib/history.closeOverlaysThenNavigate).
+                            openChannel(active.channel_id, active.channel_title ?? undefined);
+                          }}
+                          className="font-medium hover:text-accent truncate text-left"
+                        />
+                        <IconLink
+                          href={active.channel_url}
+                          target="_blank"
+                          rel="noreferrer"
+                          label={t("channels.row.openOnYouTube")}
+                          className="shrink-0"
+                        >
+                          <ExternalLink />
+                        </IconLink>
+                      </div>
+                    )}
+                    {!navigated ? (
+                      <div
+                        className={`flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 gap-y-0.5 text-sm text-muted ${wide ? META_OWN_LINE : META_MIN}`}
+                      >
+                        {active.view_count != null && (
+                          <span>
+                            {metaSep}
+                            {t("player.views", {
+                              count: active.view_count,
+                              formattedCount: formatCompact(active.view_count, lang),
+                            })}
+                          </span>
+                        )}
+                        <span>
+                          {metaSep}
+                          {relativeTime(active.published_at, lang, t)}
+                          {active.published_at && ` · ${fullDate(active.published_at)}`}
+                        </span>
+                        {active.duration_seconds != null && (
+                          <span>
+                            {metaSep}
+                            {formatDuration(active.duration_seconds)}
+                          </span>
+                        )}
+                        {active.live_status === "was_live" && (
+                          <span className="bg-accent text-accent-fg text-3xs font-semibold uppercase tracking-wide px-1.5 py-0.5 rounded-sm">
+                            {t("player.stream")}
+                          </span>
+                        )}
+                      </div>
+                    ) : (
+                      // Linked video's stats come from the (already-fetched) video detail.
+                      <div
+                        className={`flex flex-wrap items-center gap-x-2 gap-y-0.5 text-sm text-muted ${wide ? META_OWN_LINE : META_MIN}`}
+                      >
+                        {detail.data?.view_count != null && (
+                          <span>
+                            {metaSep}
+                            {t("player.views", {
+                              count: detail.data.view_count,
+                              formattedCount: formatCompact(detail.data.view_count, lang),
+                            })}
+                          </span>
+                        )}
+                        {detail.data?.published_at && (
+                          <span>
+                            {metaSep}
+                            {relativeTime(detail.data.published_at, lang, t)} ·{" "}
+                            {fullDate(detail.data.published_at)}
+                          </span>
+                        )}
+                        {detail.data?.duration_seconds != null && (
+                          <span>
+                            {metaSep}
+                            {formatDuration(detail.data.duration_seconds)}
+                          </span>
+                        )}
+                      </div>
+                    )}
+
+                    {/* Reliable, discoverable path into our big view straight from the windowed player —
                 the docked bar's controls (incl. our own true-fullscreen ⛶) are off-screen here, and
                 the only fullscreen button previously reachable in the windowed video was YouTube's
                 own (which hides our chrome). Mirrors the F key (maximise, a CSS big view); from there
                 the docked bar offers OUR true fullscreen. */}
-                  {!navigated && (
-                    <IconButton
-                      variant="outline"
-                      size="md"
-                      onClick={toggleFullscreen}
-                      label={t("player.fullscreen")}
-                      title={`${t("player.fullscreen")} · F`}
+                    {!navigated && (
                       // Narrow: the actions end the channel line. Wide: their own line in the panel.
-                      className={wide ? undefined : "ml-auto"}
-                    >
-                      <Maximize />
-                    </IconButton>
-                  )}
-                  {!navigated && <AddToPlaylist videoId={active.id} variant="outline" size="md" />}
-                  {!navigated && (
-                    <DownloadButton
-                      videoId={active.id}
-                      title={active.title}
-                      variant="outline"
-                      size="md"
-                    />
-                  )}
-                  {!navigated && onRemoveFromList && (
-                    <IconButton
-                      variant="outline-danger"
-                      size="md"
-                      onClick={() => void removeFromList()}
-                      // Named with its object, like the list's menu row: a bare "Remove" among Fullscreen /
-                      // Download / Mark watched reads as "delete this video".
-                      label={t("playlists.removeItemOf", { title: active.title })}
-                      title={t("playlists.removeItem")}
-                    >
-                      <Trash2 />
-                    </IconButton>
-                  )}
-                  {!navigated && (
-                    <Button
-                      variant="outline"
-                      size="sm"
-                      pressed={watched}
-                      onClick={() => setWatched(!watched)}
-                      title={watched ? t("player.watchedUnmark") : t("player.markWatched")}
-                      icon={watched ? <CheckCheck /> : <Check />}
-                    >
-                      {watched ? t("player.watched") : t("player.markWatched")}
-                    </Button>
+                      <div className={`flex items-center gap-3 ${wide ? "flex-wrap" : "ml-auto"}`}>
+                        <IconButton
+                          variant="outline"
+                          size="md"
+                          onClick={toggleFullscreen}
+                          label={t("player.fullscreen")}
+                          title={`${t("player.fullscreen")} · F`}
+                        >
+                          <Maximize />
+                        </IconButton>
+                        <AddToPlaylist videoId={active.id} variant="outline" size="md" />
+                        <DownloadButton
+                          videoId={active.id}
+                          title={active.title}
+                          variant="outline"
+                          size="md"
+                        />
+                        {onRemoveFromList && (
+                          <IconButton
+                            variant="outline-danger"
+                            size="md"
+                            onClick={() => void removeFromList()}
+                            // Named with its object, like the list's menu row: a bare "Remove" among Fullscreen /
+                            // Download / Mark watched reads as "delete this video".
+                            label={t("playlists.removeItemOf", { title: active.title })}
+                            title={t("playlists.removeItem")}
+                          >
+                            <Trash2 />
+                          </IconButton>
+                        )}
+                        <Button
+                          variant="outline"
+                          size="sm"
+                          pressed={watched}
+                          onClick={() => setWatched(!watched)}
+                          title={watched ? t("player.watchedUnmark") : t("player.markWatched")}
+                          icon={watched ? <CheckCheck /> : <Check />}
+                        >
+                          {watched ? t("player.watched") : t("player.markWatched")}
+                        </Button>
+                      </div>
+                    )}
+                  </div>
+                  {wide && (
+                    <section className="mt-5" data-testid="player-description">
+                      <SectionLabel level={3} className="mb-2">
+                        {t("player.description")}
+                      </SectionLabel>
+                      <PlayerDescription
+                        className="text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap wrap-break-word leading-relaxed"
+                        clamp
+                        {...descriptionProps}
+                      />
+                    </section>
                   )}
                 </div>
-                {wide && (
-                  <section className="mt-5" data-testid="player-description">
-                    <SectionLabel level={3} className="mb-2">
-                      {t("player.description")}
-                    </SectionLabel>
-                    <PlayerDescription
-                      className="text-sm whitespace-pre-wrap wrap-break-word leading-relaxed"
-                      {...descriptionProps}
-                    />
-                  </section>
-                )}
               </div>
-            </div>
+            )}
           </div>
         </div>
-        {hasQueue && (
-          <Pressable
-            onClick={(e) => {
-              e.stopPropagation();
-              goNext();
-            }}
-            disabled={index >= queue!.length - 1}
-            aria-label={t("player.next")}
-            title={`${t("player.next")} · Shift+→`}
-            className="absolute right-0 top-0 bottom-0 hidden w-12 place-items-center rounded-2xl bg-white/5 text-white/40 backdrop-blur-xs transition hover:bg-white/15 hover:text-white disabled:pointer-events-none disabled:opacity-0 sm:grid"
-          >
-            <ChevronRight className="h-8 w-8" />
-          </Pressable>
-        )}
       </div>
       {/* Toasts raised while the player is open (a failed Remove, a lost connection) — the app's own
           Toaster is underneath this scrim. See ui/Toaster. In true fullscreen it moves into the

frontend/src/components/PlaylistEditFailures.dom.test.tsx

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ vi.mock("../lib/notifications", async (importOriginal) => ({
 }));
 
 import PlexPlaylistView from "./PlexPlaylistView";
-import AddToPlaylist from "./AddToPlaylist";
+import AddToPlaylist, { AddToPlaylistAt } from "./AddToPlaylist";
 import PlexPlaylistAdd from "./PlexPlaylistAdd";
 import TagManager from "./TagManager";
 import { api, HttpError, type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
@@ -157,6 +157,64 @@ describe("the add-to-playlist popover", () => {
     await waitFor(() => expect(lists.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(1));
   });
 
+  it("says a failed load of the playlists as one, not as 'no playlists yet'", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "playlists").mockRejectedValue(new Error("down"));
+    render(
+      <QueryClientProvider client={client()}>
+        <AddToPlaylist videoId="v1" />
+      </QueryClientProvider>,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText("playlists.addToPlaylist"));
+    const alert = await screen.findByRole("alert", { hidden: true });
+    expect(alert.textContent).toContain("common.loadError");
+    expect(screen.queryByText("playlists.noneYet")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("opened from a card's menu, is a menu named for itself, its lines beside the list", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "playlists").mockRejectedValue(new Error("down"));
+    const anchor = document.createElement("button");
+    document.body.append(anchor);
+    render(
+      <QueryClientProvider client={client()}>
+        <AddToPlaylistAt videoId="v1" anchor={anchor} onClose={() => {}} />
+      </QueryClientProvider>,
+    );
+    // The menu row that opened it is gone: its own name, not a label pointing at that row. jsdom
+    // computes no name for the unpositioned surface, so read what names it.
+    const menu = await waitFor(() => {
+      const found = document.querySelector(
+        '[role="menu"][aria-label="playlists.addToPlaylistTitle"]',
+      );
+      expect(found).not.toBeNull();
+      return found!;
+    });
+    expect(menu.hasAttribute("aria-labelledby")).toBe(false);
+    const alert = await screen.findByRole("alert", { hidden: true });
+    expect(alert.closest("[role=menu]")).toBeNull();
+    anchor.remove();
+  });
+
+  it("flips the tick as soon as an add lands, so the next tap takes it out again", async () => {
+    const lists = vi.spyOn(api, "playlists");
+    lists.mockResolvedValueOnce([{ id: 3, name: "Mix", kind: "user", has_video: false }] as never);
+    // The refetch after the write never answers: the tick must not wait for it.
+    lists.mockImplementation(() => new Promise(() => {}));
+    const add = vi.spyOn(api, "addToPlaylist").mockResolvedValue({} as never);
+    const remove = vi.spyOn(api, "removeFromPlaylist").mockResolvedValue({} as never);
+    render(
+      <QueryClientProvider client={client()}>
+        <AddToPlaylist videoId="v1" />
+      </QueryClientProvider>,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText("playlists.addToPlaylist"));
+    const row = await screen.findByRole("menuitemcheckbox", { hidden: true });
+    fireEvent.click(row);
+    await waitFor(() => expect(row.getAttribute("aria-checked")).toBe("true"));
+    fireEvent.click(row);
+    await waitFor(() => expect(remove).toHaveBeenCalledWith(3, "v1"));
+    expect(add).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
   it("says so on the PLEX side too, where the same sweep had missed the dialog", async () => {
     // Same shape, same 404, same silence — `req` leaves 403/404/429 to the caller, and this one had
     // no catch: the tick did not flip, nothing was said, the gone row stayed, and the floating

frontend/src/components/PlexBrowse.playShow.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// A show's card in the Browse grid plays (the owner, 2026-10-09): its picture asks the server which
+// episode and opens the player on it; a started show's Restart opens it from the start; its title
+// opens the show's page. The hook is tested on its own (usePlayShow); this is the grid wiring it.
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, beforeAll, beforeEach, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen, fireEvent, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>()),
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key, i18n: { language: "en" } }),
+}));
+vi.mock("./PlexPlayer", () => ({
+  default: ({ itemId, fromStart }: { itemId: string; fromStart?: boolean }) => (
+    <div>
+      player {itemId} {fromStart ? "from the start" : "resumed"}
+    </div>
+  ),
+}));
+vi.mock("./plexViews", async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import("./plexViews")>()),
+  PlexShowView: ({ showId }: { showId: string }) => <div>show page {showId}</div>,
+  PlexInfoView: ({ id }: { id: string }) => <div>info page {id}</div>,
+}));
+
+import PlexBrowse from "./PlexBrowse";
+import { api, type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  class Stub {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+    takeRecords() {
+      return [];
+    }
+  }
+  globalThis.ResizeObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof ResizeObserver;
+  globalThis.IntersectionObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof IntersectionObserver;
+});
+beforeEach(() => window.history.replaceState({ _sub: { kind: "grid" } }, ""));
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+const show: PlexCard = {
+  id: "sh",
+  type: "show",
+  title: "Grimm",
+  thumb: "",
+  status: "in_progress",
+  resumable: true,
+};
+
+function mount(episodes: PlexCard[] = []) {
+  vi.spyOn(api, "plexLibrary").mockResolvedValue({
+    items: [show],
+    total: 1,
+    offset: 0,
+    episodes,
+  } as never);
+  const next = vi.spyOn(api, "plexShowNext").mockResolvedValue({
+    next: { id: "e7", type: "episode", title: "Ep 7", thumb: "" },
+  });
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  render(
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+      <PlexBrowse />
+    </QueryClientProvider>,
+  );
+  return { next };
+}
+
+describe("PlexBrowse — a show's card in the grid", () => {
+  it("plays the episode the server names", async () => {
+    const { next } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "card.continue" }));
+    expect(await screen.findByText("player e7 resumed")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(next).toHaveBeenCalledWith("sh", "en");
+  });
+
+  it("starts that episode over from its Restart", async () => {
+    mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "card.restart" }));
+    expect(await screen.findByText("player e7 from the start")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("opens the show's page from its title, asking nothing", async () => {
+    const { next } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("Grimm"), { detail: 1 });
+    expect(await screen.findByText("show page sh")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(next).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  // A matched episode's title opens its page, a pointer's door: its menu offers the same to the keyboard.
+  it("opens a matched episode's page from its menu, as its title does", async () => {
+    mount([{ id: "ep1", type: "episode", title: "Pilot", thumb: "", show_title: "Grimm" }]);
+    const section = (await screen.findByText("plex.unified.episodes")).parentElement!;
+    fireEvent.click(section.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>("button[aria-haspopup]")!);
+    const rows = await screen.findAllByRole("menuitem", { hidden: true });
+    fireEvent.click(rows.find((r) => r.textContent === "plex.info.title")!);
+    expect(await screen.findByText("info page ep1")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("opens the show's page from its ⓘ, asking nothing", async () => {
+    const { next } = mount();
+    fireEvent.click(await screen.findByRole("button", { name: "plex.openShow" }));
+    expect(await screen.findByText("show page sh")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(next).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/PlexBrowse.tsx

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import { useDebounced } from "../lib/useDebounced";
 import { useHistorySubview } from "../lib/history";
 import { PLEX_SUB_URL, type Sub } from "./plexSubUrl";
 import { toggleWatchState } from "../lib/plexWatch";
+import { usePlayShow } from "./usePlayShow";
 import SortControl from "./ui/SortControl";
 import FilterSelect from "./ui/FilterSelect";
 import PlexDiscover from "./PlexDiscover";
@@ -328,18 +329,32 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
     return () => io.disconnect();
   }, [sentinelEl, hasNextPage, isFetching, fetchNextPage]);
 
+  const resolveShow = usePlayShow(
+    (id, fromStart) => sub.open({ kind: "player", id, fromStart }),
+    (id) => sub.open({ kind: "show", id }),
+    sub.view,
+  );
+  // A show's card plays the episode it resolves to (usePlayShow); the grid's place is kept first.
+  function playShow(card: PlexCard, fromStart: boolean) {
+    scrollRef.current = scroller()?.scrollTop ?? 0;
+    void resolveShow(card, fromStart);
+  }
   function onCard(card: PlexCard) {
+    if (card.type === "show") return playShow(card, false);
     scrollRef.current = scroller()?.scrollTop ?? 0; // remember grid position for the trip back
-    if (card.type === "show") sub.open({ kind: "show", id: card.id });
-    else sub.open({ kind: "player", id: card.id });
+    sub.open({ kind: "player", id: card.id });
   }
   // The started card's Restart (C5): the same trip, from 0 instead of the resume point.
   function onRestartCard(card: PlexCard) {
+    if (card.type === "show") return playShow(card, true);
     scrollRef.current = scroller()?.scrollTop ?? 0;
     sub.open({ kind: "player", id: card.id, fromStart: true });
   }
+  // A card's page: a show's own page, a movie's or an episode's info page (the card menu's "Details",
+  // and a card title's link).
   function onInfo(card: PlexCard) {
     scrollRef.current = scroller()?.scrollTop ?? 0;
+    if (card.type === "show") return void sub.open({ kind: "show", id: card.id });
     rememberInfoScroll(0); // fresh info page starts at the top
     sub.open({ kind: "info", id: card.id });
   }
@@ -377,8 +392,9 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
     { onOpen: onCard, onRestart: onRestartCard, onInfo, onToggleWatched: toggleWatched },
     menu.open,
   );
+  // Details too: an episode's title opens its page, and the menu is that door for the keyboard.
   const epActions = usePlexCardActions(
-    { onOpen: onCard, onRestart: onRestartCard, onToggleWatched: toggleWatched },
+    { onOpen: onCard, onRestart: onRestartCard, onInfo, onToggleWatched: toggleWatched },
     epMenu.open,
   );
   // Apply a metadata filter (clicked on an info page / show hero / cast) then show the unified grid.
@@ -461,6 +477,20 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
         onPlayItem={(id, fromStart) => sub.open({ kind: "player", id, fromStart })}
         onFilter={applyFilter}
         onOpenPerson={onOpenPerson}
+        // Up to the show or season: Back returns to this page where it was (as from a cast row).
+        onOpenShow={(showId) => {
+          rememberInfoScroll(scroller()?.scrollTop ?? 0);
+          sub.open({ kind: "show", id: showId });
+        }}
+        onOpenSeason={(showId, seasonId) => {
+          rememberInfoScroll(scroller()?.scrollTop ?? 0);
+          sub.open({ kind: "season", showId, seasonId });
+        }}
+        // A collection strip's title: another info page, from its top.
+        onOpenInfo={(id) => {
+          rememberInfoScroll(0);
+          sub.open({ kind: "info", id });
+        }}
       />
     );
   }
@@ -492,6 +522,7 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
         }
         onOpenSeason={(seasonId) => sub.open({ kind: "season", showId, seasonId })}
         onOpenShow={(id) => sub.open({ kind: "show", id })}
+        onPlayShow={playShow}
         onFilter={applyFilter}
         onOpenPerson={onOpenPerson}
       />
@@ -504,6 +535,7 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
         showId={showId}
         seasonId={seasonId}
         onBack={sub.back}
+        onInfoCard={onInfo}
         onPlay={(epRk, queue, fromStart) =>
           sub.open({ kind: "player", id: epRk, queue, fromStart })
         }
@@ -707,6 +739,7 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
                     navIndex={i}
                     card={c}
                     onOpen={() => onCard(c)}
+                    onPage={onInfo}
                     onRestart={() => onRestartCard(c)}
                     onToggleWatched={toggleWatched}
                     onAdd={actions.add}
@@ -730,6 +763,7 @@ export default function PlexBrowse() {
                     ep={ep}
                     withShowTitle
                     onPlay={() => onCard(ep)}
+                    onPage={() => onInfo(ep)}
                     onRestart={() => onRestartCard(ep)}
                     onToggleWatched={() => toggleWatched(ep)}
                     onAdd={() => epActions.add(ep)}

frontend/src/components/PlexCollectionAdd.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+import { useLayoutEffect, useState } from "react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { api, HttpError, type PlexCollection } from "../lib/api";
+import { notifyActionError } from "../lib/actionErrors";
+import { PopoverSurface } from "./ui/AnchoredPopover";
+import { useAnchoredPopover } from "./ui/anchoredPopoverHooks";
+import { MembershipMenu } from "./ui/MembershipMenu";
+import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
+
+// "Add to collection…" from a movie or show card's menu: a panel beside the card that ticks the title
+// into or out of its library's manual collections, and names a new one — created with this title in
+// it, in one step (a collection cannot be empty on Plex). It was a trip to the Collections page, a new
+// collection, its name, a search for the title, then another search to add the next one. Its body is
+// the same MembershipMenu as the video card's "Add to playlist".
+
+export interface PlexCollectionTarget {
+  ratingKey: string;
+  anchor: Element;
+}
+
+export default function PlexCollectionAddAt({
+  target,
+  onClose,
+}: {
+  target: PlexCollectionTarget;
+  onClose: () => void;
+}) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const qc = useQueryClient();
+  const pop = useAnchoredPopover({
+    open: true,
+    onOpenChange: (next) => {
+      if (!next) onClose();
+    },
+    offset: 6,
+    hostsInput: true,
+  });
+  const { setPositionReference } = pop.refs;
+  useLayoutEffect(() => setPositionReference(target.anchor), [target.anchor, setPositionReference]);
+  const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
+  const { ratingKey } = target;
+  const forKey = qk.plexCollections("for", ratingKey);
+
+  const list = useQuery({
+    queryKey: forKey,
+    queryFn: () => api.plexCollectionsFor(ratingKey),
+  });
+
+  // The title's own page (a movie's item, a show's show), the collections' pages and the library grid
+  // all show membership.
+  function refresh() {
+    void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexCollections() });
+    void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexItem(ratingKey) });
+    void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexShow(ratingKey) });
+    void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexLibrary() });
+  }
+
+  // A write that landed flips the tick at once: the row's state comes from the list, and a second tap
+  // before its refetch returned would otherwise repeat the write instead of undoing it.
+  async function toggle(c: PlexCollection & { contains: boolean }) {
+    if (busy) return;
+    setBusy(true);
+    try {
+      if (c.contains) await api.plexCollectionRemoveItem(c.id, ratingKey);
+      else await api.plexCollectionAddItem(c.id, ratingKey);
+      qc.setQueryData<typeof list.data>(forKey, (old) => flipContains(old, c.id));
+    } catch (e) {
+      notifyActionError(e, t("plex.collection.editFailed"));
+    }
+    refresh();
+    setBusy(false);
+  }
+
+  async function create(name: string) {
+    if (busy) return false;
+    setBusy(true);
+    let made = false;
+    try {
+      // No library: the server takes the seed title's own.
+      await api.plexCreateCollection("", name, ratingKey);
+      made = true;
+    } catch (e) {
+      made = madeOnPlex(e);
+      notifyActionError(e, t("plex.collection.editFailed"));
+    }
+    refresh();
+    setBusy(false);
+    return made;
+  }
+
+  const collections = list.data?.collections ?? [];
+  return (
+    <PopoverSurface
+      popover={pop}
+      className={`${SURFACE.popover} w-64 p-2`}
+      ariaLabel={t("plex.collectionAdd.title")}
+      listInside
+    >
+      <MembershipMenu
+        heading={t("plex.collectionAdd.title")}
+        rows={collections.map((c) => ({ id: c.id, label: c.title, checked: c.contains }))}
+        onToggle={(row) => {
+          const c = collections.find((x) => x.id === row.id);
+          if (c) void toggle(c);
+        }}
+        status={list.isError && !list.data ? "error" : list.isLoading ? "loading" : "ready"}
+        onRetry={() => void list.refetch()}
+        emptyText={t("plex.collectionAdd.none")}
+        errorText={t("plex.collectionAdd.loadFailed")}
+        busy={busy}
+        create={{
+          placeholder: t("plex.collection.newCollection"),
+          ariaLabel: t("plex.collection.namePlaceholder"),
+          onCreate: create,
+        }}
+      />
+    </PopoverSurface>
+  );
+}
+
+/** A create refused only because the read after it failed: the collection is on Plex, with this
+ *  title in it, and its row is kept — the name is taken now, so the field clears as on success. */
+function madeOnPlex(e: unknown): boolean {
+  const d = e instanceof HttpError ? (e.detailData as { reason?: string } | undefined) : undefined;
+  return d?.reason === "collection_pending_sync";
+}
+
+function flipContains<T extends { collections: { id: string; contains: boolean }[] }>(
+  old: T | undefined,
+  id: string,
+): T | undefined {
+  if (!old) return old;
+  return {
+    ...old,
+    collections: old.collections.map((c) => (c.id === id ? { ...c, contains: !c.contains } : c)),
+  };
+}

frontend/src/components/PlexCollectionView.tsx

@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ export default function PlexCollectionView({
                     card={c}
                     navIndex={i}
                     onOpen={() => onOpenCard(c)}
+                    onPage={onInfoCard}
                     onRestart={() => onRestartCard(c)}
                     onToggleWatched={toggleWatched}
                     onAdd={actions.add}

frontend/src/components/PlexDiscover.dom.test.tsx

@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ vi.mock("../lib/api", () => ({
 }));
 
 import PlexDiscover from "./PlexDiscover";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import type { PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
 
 afterEach(() => {
   cleanup();
@@ -157,7 +159,8 @@ describe("PlexDiscover", () => {
       expect.objectContaining({ genres: [] }),
     ]);
     expect(keys).toContainEqual([
-      "plex-surprise",
+      "plex-discover",
+      "surprise",
       "both",
       "en",
       expect.objectContaining({ genres: [] }),
@@ -218,6 +221,103 @@ describe("PlexDiscover", () => {
     fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "plex.discover.reshuffle" }));
     await waitFor(() => expect(plexSurprise).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2));
     expect(plexDiscover).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1); // the whole surface was NOT refetched
+    // The first draw asks for anything; the redraw hands over the one on screen to deal it last.
+    expect(plexSurprise.mock.calls[0]?.[4]).toEqual({ exclude: [] });
+    expect(plexSurprise.mock.calls[1]?.[4]).toEqual({ exclude: ["sp1"] });
+  });
+
+  // Back from a card's player or page remounts the surface: the draw it left must still be there, with
+  // its cards' watch state as it is now. A refetch reads the same titles again; only ↻ deals.
+  it("keeps its draw across a remount, a refresh and a long absence; only ↻ redraws", async () => {
+    plexDiscover.mockResolvedValue(fullPayload);
+    let status: PlexCard["status"] = "new";
+    plexSurprise.mockImplementation(
+      (_s: string, _l: unknown, _f: unknown, _lang: string, o: { keep?: string[] }) =>
+        Promise.resolve({
+          scope: "both",
+          items: o.keep?.length
+            ? [{ ...card("sp1", "Random Pick"), status }]
+            : [card(plexSurprise.mock.calls.length > 1 ? "sp2" : "sp1", "Pick")],
+        }),
+    );
+    const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+    const ui = (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+        <PlexDiscover
+          scope="both"
+          onOpenCard={noop}
+          onRestartCard={() => {}}
+          onInfoCard={noop}
+          onGenre={noop}
+          onSeeAllRecent={noop}
+        />
+      </QueryClientProvider>
+    );
+    const first = render(ui);
+    await screen.findByText("Pick");
+    first.unmount();
+    render(ui);
+    await screen.findByText("Random Pick");
+    // Watched from somewhere else: whatever refreshes the rails refreshes the draw's cards too.
+    status = "watched";
+    await act(() => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexDiscover() }));
+    const [entry] = qc.getQueryCache().findAll({ queryKey: qk.plexSurprise() });
+    expect(entry?.state.data).toMatchObject({ items: [{ id: "sp1", status: "watched" }] });
+    // No draw is ever dealt behind the viewer's back: every call after the first reads it again.
+    for (const call of plexSurprise.mock.calls.slice(1)) expect(call[4]).toEqual({ keep: ["sp1"] });
+    // Unobserved past the default five minutes (a film watched from the rail) it is still kept.
+    expect(entry?.options.gcTime).toBe(Infinity);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "plex.discover.reshuffle" }));
+    await screen.findByText("Pick");
+    expect(plexSurprise.mock.calls[plexSurprise.mock.calls.length - 1]?.[4]).toEqual({
+      exclude: ["sp1"],
+    });
+  });
+
+  // A watched toggle's resync refreshes every rail, the Surprise draw included. Landing while a ↻
+  // deal was in flight, it cancelled that fetch and re-ran it as a re-read: the old titles came back
+  // and the ↻ did nothing. And the ↻ spins for a deal only, never for a re-read of the same titles.
+  it("a refresh landing mid-deal deals again; only a deal spins the ↻", async () => {
+    plexDiscover.mockResolvedValue(fullPayload);
+    const answers: ((v: unknown) => void)[] = [];
+    const rereads: ((v: unknown) => void)[] = [];
+    plexSurprise.mockImplementation(
+      (_s: string, _l: unknown, _f: unknown, _lang: string, o: { keep?: string[] }) =>
+        plexSurprise.mock.calls.length === 1
+          ? Promise.resolve({ scope: "both", items: [card("sp1", "Old Pick")] })
+          : new Promise((r) => (o.keep ? rereads : answers).push(r)),
+    );
+    const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+    render(
+      <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
+        <PlexDiscover
+          scope="both"
+          onOpenCard={noop}
+          onRestartCard={() => {}}
+          onInfoCard={noop}
+          onGenre={noop}
+          onSeeAllRecent={noop}
+        />
+      </QueryClientProvider>,
+    );
+    await screen.findByText("Old Pick");
+    const button = () => screen.getByRole("button", { name: "plex.discover.reshuffle" });
+    act(() => void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexDiscover() }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(rereads).toHaveLength(1));
+    expect(button().getAttribute("aria-busy")).toBeNull();
+    await act(async () => rereads[0]?.({ scope: "both", items: [card("sp1", "Old Pick")] }));
+    fireEvent.click(button());
+    expect(button().getAttribute("aria-busy")).toBe("true");
+    act(() => void qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexDiscover() }));
+    await waitFor(() => expect(answers).toHaveLength(2));
+    const last = plexSurprise.mock.calls[plexSurprise.mock.calls.length - 1];
+    expect(last?.[4]).toEqual({ exclude: ["sp1"] });
+    // The cancelled deal's late answer neither lands nor stops the spinner of the one replacing it.
+    await act(async () => answers[0]?.({ scope: "both", items: [card("sp9", "Stale Pick")] }));
+    expect(button().getAttribute("aria-busy")).toBe("true");
+    await act(async () => answers[1]?.({ scope: "both", items: [card("sp2", "New Pick")] }));
+    await screen.findByText("New Pick");
+    expect(button().getAttribute("aria-busy")).toBeNull();
   });
 
   it("shows the empty message when every rail is empty", async () => {
@@ -244,8 +344,8 @@ describe("PlexDiscover", () => {
   });
 
   it("puts a Surprise card back when its watched toggle fails", async () => {
-    // The resync refetches the rails but not the Surprise draw (that would reshuffle it), so a
-    // refused toggle stayed flipped there — the sibling of the collection page's fix.
+    // The resync re-reads the Surprise draw too, but a refused toggle is put back at once rather than
+    // left flipped until that read lands — the sibling of the collection page's fix.
     plexDiscover.mockResolvedValue({
       ...fullPayload,
       continue_watching: [],

frontend/src/components/PlexDiscover.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { type ReactNode } from "react";
+import { useRef, useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { useQuery, useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 import { RotateCcw } from "lucide-react";
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ function CardRail({
               card={c}
               navIndex={i}
               onOpen={() => onOpenCard(c)}
+              onPage={onInfoCard}
               onRestart={() => onRestartCard(c)}
               onToggleWatched={onToggleWatched}
               onAdd={actions.add}
@@ -119,11 +120,46 @@ export default function PlexDiscover({
     queryFn: () => api.plexDiscover(scope, lang, filters),
   });
   // Surprise-me is its own query so the ↻ button can redraw it without refetching the whole surface.
+  // A draw stands until the ↻ (or another scope, language or filter) asks for a new one: redrawn on
+  // every refetch, the card just looked at was gone from its rail on Back from the player or a show
+  // page. So a refetch reads the draw on screen again (`keep`: fresh watch state, same titles), and
+  // only the ↻ deals — handing over that draw, so a small filtered pool deals its other titles first.
+  const surpriseKey = qk.plexSurprise(scope, lang, filters);
+  // The ↻ stands until ITS deal answers, not until the fetch sets out: a refresh of the rails landing
+  // mid-deal (a watched toggle's resync) cancels that fetch and runs this one again, which read the
+  // spent flag and handed back the old draw. Only the latest deal ends it, so the cancelled one's late
+  // answer does not stop the spinner of the deal that replaced it.
+  const redraw = useRef(false);
+  const lastDeal = useRef<Promise<unknown> | null>(null);
+  const [dealing, setDealing] = useState(false);
   const surpriseQ = useQuery({
-    queryKey: qk.plexSurprise(scope, lang, filters),
-    queryFn: () => api.plexSurprise(scope, undefined, filters, lang),
-    staleTime: 0,
+    queryKey: surpriseKey,
+    queryFn: () => {
+      const shown = (qc.getQueryData<{ items: PlexCard[] }>(surpriseKey)?.items ?? []).map(
+        (c) => c.id,
+      );
+      if (!redraw.current && shown.length > 0) {
+        return api.plexSurprise(scope, undefined, filters, lang, { keep: shown });
+      }
+      const deal = api.plexSurprise(scope, undefined, filters, lang, { exclude: shown });
+      lastDeal.current = deal;
+      const done = () => {
+        if (lastDeal.current !== deal) return;
+        redraw.current = false;
+        setDealing(false);
+      };
+      void deal.then(done, done);
+      return deal;
+    },
+    // Kept past the default five minutes unobserved: a film watched from the rail outlasts that, and
+    // a collected draw is a new one.
+    gcTime: Infinity,
   });
+  const reshuffle = () => {
+    redraw.current = true;
+    setDealing(true);
+    void surpriseQ.refetch();
+  };
 
   // Watched toggle over BOTH this surface's cache (so a rail card flips instantly) and the surprise
   // list, then persist + resync via the shared helper — invalidating the grid too so it agrees.
@@ -154,8 +190,8 @@ export default function PlexDiscover({
         );
         setSurpriseStatus(card, next);
       },
-      // The resync below leaves the Surprise rail alone (a refetch would reshuffle it), so a failed
-      // toggle was left flipped there — put back in place instead.
+      // The resync below re-reads the Surprise draw too, but only once the write has answered: a
+      // refused toggle is put back at once rather than left flipped until that read lands.
       revert: () => setSurpriseStatus(card, card.status),
       resync: () => {
         qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexDiscover() });
@@ -228,8 +264,10 @@ export default function PlexDiscover({
           cards={surprise}
           action={
             <IconButton
-              onClick={() => surpriseQ.refetch()}
-              loading={surpriseQ.isFetching}
+              onClick={reshuffle}
+              // A deal, not any fetch: a refresh re-reads the same titles, and a spinning ↻ promised a
+              // new draw that never came.
+              loading={dealing}
               label={t("plex.discover.reshuffle")}
             >
               <RotateCcw />

frontend/src/components/PlexInfo.dom.test.tsx

@@ -173,6 +173,55 @@ describe("PlexInfo enriched detail (page)", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("an episode page links up to its show and season", () => {
+  const episode: PlexItemDetail = {
+    ...detail,
+    id: "e1",
+    kind: "episode",
+    title: "Pilot",
+    show_title: "A Show",
+    show_id: "s1",
+    season_id: "se1",
+    season_number: 1,
+    episode_number: 25,
+    tmdb: null,
+  };
+
+  it("the show title opens the show, the episode number its season", () => {
+    const onOpenShow = vi.fn();
+    const onOpenSeason = vi.fn();
+    wrap(
+      <PlexInfo
+        onPlayItem={noop}
+        detail={episode}
+        variant="page"
+        onOpenShow={onOpenShow}
+        onOpenSeason={onOpenSeason}
+      />,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "A Show" }));
+    expect(onOpenShow).toHaveBeenCalledWith("s1");
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "S1·E25" }));
+    expect(onOpenSeason).toHaveBeenCalledWith("s1", "se1");
+    expect(screen.getByText(/— Pilot/)).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  it("over the running player the header stays plain text", () => {
+    wrap(
+      <PlexInfo
+        onPlayItem={noop}
+        detail={episode}
+        variant="overlay"
+        onOpenShow={noop}
+        onOpenSeason={noop}
+      />,
+    );
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "A Show" })).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "S1·E25" })).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByText("S1·E25 — Pilot")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});
+
 // The owner's layout: a main column (collection strips → crew → cast) beside a sidebar of
 // facts (details, keywords); a column with nothing in it is not rendered and the other takes the width.
 // The owner's pick: the hero's text stopped at ~55% of the panel. The facts and the key crew are
@@ -362,4 +411,18 @@ describe("a collection strip's card", () => {
     fireEvent.click(restart.find((r) => r.textContent === "card.restartTitle")!);
     await vi.waitFor(() => expect(onPlayItem).toHaveBeenCalledWith("m2", true));
   });
+
+  // Its title opens the member's page, a pointer's door: the menu offers the same to the keyboard.
+  it("opens the member's page from its menu, as its title does", async () => {
+    const onOpenInfo = vi.fn();
+    wrap(
+      <PlexInfo detail={withColl} variant="page" onPlayItem={vi.fn()} onOpenInfo={onOpenInfo} />,
+    );
+    const strip = screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "The Collection" }).parentElement!
+      .parentElement!;
+    fireEvent.click(strip.querySelector<HTMLButtonElement>("button[aria-haspopup]")!);
+    const rows = await screen.findAllByRole("menuitem", { hidden: true });
+    fireEvent.click(rows.find((r) => r.textContent === "plex.info.title")!);
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(onOpenInfo).toHaveBeenCalledWith("m2"));
+  });
 });

frontend/src/components/PlexInfo.tsx

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import { DetailAside, DetailAsideToggles, DetailKeywords } from "./plexDetailAsi
 import {
   DETAIL_POSTER,
   episodeLine,
+  episodeName,
+  episodeNumbers,
   tmdbBackdropUrl,
   useCrossfadeBackdrop,
   useDetailAside,
@@ -186,6 +188,11 @@ type Props = {
   onPlayItem: (id: string, fromStart?: boolean) => void;
   // The item's library key — enables the admin "Manage collections" editor (page variant, movies).
   library?: string;
+  // Page variant, an episode: its show title opens the show page, its "S1·E25" the season page.
+  onOpenShow?: (showId: string) => void;
+  onOpenSeason?: (showId: string, seasonId: string) => void;
+  // Page variant: a collection strip's title opens that title's info page (its picture plays it).
+  onOpenInfo?: (id: string) => void;
 };
 
 export default function PlexInfo({
@@ -198,6 +205,9 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
   onOpenPerson,
   onPlayItem,
   library,
+  onOpenShow,
+  onOpenSeason,
+  onOpenInfo,
 }: Props) {
   const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
   const lang = i18n.language;
@@ -275,10 +285,13 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
         qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: qk.plexLibrary() });
       },
     });
+  // Details wherever the member's title opens its page (not in the overlay): the menu is that door
+  // for the keyboard.
   const colActions = usePlexCardActions(
     {
       onOpen: (c) => onPlayItem(c.id),
       onRestart: (c) => onPlayItem(c.id, true),
+      onInfo: variant !== "overlay" && onOpenInfo ? (c) => onOpenInfo(c.id) : undefined,
       onToggleWatched: toggleColWatched,
     },
     colMenu.open,
@@ -299,6 +312,12 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
   const asideShown = !overlay && aside.column;
   const infoTitle =
     detail.kind === "episode" && detail.show_title ? detail.show_title : detail.title;
+  // Up from an episode: the show's title and the episode's season are links on the page (not over
+  // the running player, where leaving would stop it).
+  const showId = detail.kind === "episode" && !overlay ? detail.show_id : null;
+  const seasonId = detail.season_id;
+  const numbers = episodeNumbers(detail);
+  const upLink = "hover:text-accent hover:underline";
 
   return (
     <div className={overlay ? "relative w-full max-w-3xl" : "relative glass-media"}>
@@ -312,11 +331,32 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
               {overlay ? (
                 <h2 className="text-lg font-bold text-white">{infoTitle}</h2>
               ) : (
-                <PageHeading className="text-2xl font-bold">{infoTitle}</PageHeading>
+                <PageHeading className="text-2xl font-bold">
+                  {showId && onOpenShow && detail.show_title ? (
+                    <Pressable selectable className={upLink} onClick={() => onOpenShow(showId)}>
+                      {infoTitle}
+                    </Pressable>
+                  ) : (
+                    infoTitle
+                  )}
+                </PageHeading>
               )}
               {detail.kind === "episode" && (
                 <p className={`text-sm ${overlay ? "text-white/70" : "text-muted"}`}>
-                  {episodeLine(detail)}
+                  {showId && seasonId && onOpenSeason && numbers ? (
+                    <>
+                      <Pressable
+                        selectable
+                        className={upLink}
+                        onClick={() => onOpenSeason(showId, seasonId)}
+                      >
+                        {episodeName(detail)}
+                      </Pressable>
+                      {` — ${detail.title}`}
+                    </>
+                  ) : (
+                    episodeLine(detail)
+                  )}
                 </p>
               )}
             </div>
@@ -468,7 +508,7 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
 
                 {detail.summary && (
                   <p
-                    className={`measure mt-3 text-sm leading-relaxed ${overlay ? "text-white/85 line-clamp-5" : ""}`}
+                    className={`measure mt-3 whitespace-pre-line text-sm leading-relaxed ${overlay ? "text-white/85 line-clamp-5" : ""}`}
                   >
                     {detail.summary}
                   </p>
@@ -576,6 +616,7 @@ export default function PlexInfo({
                       shelf
                       navIndex={i}
                       onOpen={() => onPlayItem(m.id)}
+                      onPage={!overlay && onOpenInfo ? (c) => onOpenInfo(c.id) : undefined}
                       onRestart={() => onPlayItem(m.id, true)}
                       onToggleWatched={toggleColWatched}
                       onAdd={colActions.add}

frontend/src/components/PlexMenu.dom.test.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import { cleanup, fireEvent, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { FloatingTree } from "@floating-ui/react";
 import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
 
-import type { PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+import { api, HttpError, type PlexCard, type PlexCollection } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
 
 vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
   const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
@@ -101,21 +102,27 @@ function Grid({
   );
 }
 
-function setup(c: PlexCard, opts: Omit<Parameters<typeof Grid>[0], "c" | "handlers"> = {}) {
+function setup(
+  c: PlexCard,
+  opts: Omit<Parameters<typeof Grid>[0], "c" | "handlers"> = {},
+  { admin = false }: { admin?: boolean } = {},
+) {
   const handlers = {
     onOpen: vi.fn(),
     onInfo: vi.fn(),
     onToggleWatched: vi.fn(),
     onRestart: vi.fn(),
   };
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  if (admin) qc.setQueryData(qk.me(), { role: "admin" });
   render(
-    <QueryClientProvider client={new QueryClient()}>
+    <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>
       <FloatingTree>
         <Grid c={c} handlers={handlers} {...opts} />
       </FloatingTree>
     </QueryClientProvider>,
   );
-  return { handlers };
+  return { handlers, qc };
 }
 // The card root holds the menu's trigger props (right-click anywhere on it).
 const rightClick = () =>
@@ -154,10 +161,34 @@ describe("a Plex title's menu", () => {
     expect(labels()).not.toContain("card.restartTitle");
   });
 
-  it("a show opens its page and has no watched, add or details rows", () => {
-    setup(card({ type: "show" }));
+  // A show plays like any title (the surface resolves the episode); its page is a row of its own.
+  // The watched toggle and the add belong to an episode, so a show has none.
+  it("a show plays, opens its page from a row of its own, and has no watched or add rows", async () => {
+    const { handlers } = setup(card({ type: "show" }));
     rightClick();
-    expect(labels()).toEqual(["plex.openShow", "common.copy.title", "home.pin.add"]);
+    expect(labels()).toEqual(["plex.play", "plex.openShow", "common.copy.title", "home.pin.add"]);
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.play"));
+    await vi.waitFor(() =>
+      expect(handlers.onOpen).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "show" })),
+    );
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.openShow"));
+    await vi.waitFor(() =>
+      expect(handlers.onInfo).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "show" })),
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("a started show continues, and starts its episode over from the next row", () => {
+    setup(card({ type: "show", status: "in_progress", resumable: true }));
+    rightClick();
+    expect(labels().slice(0, 2)).toEqual(["card.continue", "card.restartTitle"]);
+  });
+
+  it("a part-watched show with no episode to resume plays, with nothing to start over", () => {
+    setup(card({ type: "show", status: "in_progress", resumable: false }));
+    rightClick();
+    expect(labels()[0]).toBe("plex.play");
+    expect(labels()).not.toContain("card.restartTitle");
   });
 
   it("the card's '…' opens the same menu, and says so", () => {
@@ -223,3 +254,189 @@ describe("a Plex title's menu", () => {
     await vi.waitFor(() => expect(remove).toHaveBeenCalledWith("m1"));
   });
 });
+
+// Adding a title to a collection was a trip to the Collections page, a new collection, its name and a
+// search for the title. From the card's menu it is a tick, or a name and Enter.
+describe("a Plex title's menu — Add to collection", () => {
+  const coll = (id: string, title: string, contains: boolean) =>
+    ({ id, title, contains }) as PlexCollection & { contains: boolean };
+
+  it("an admin gets the row on a movie and a show; an episode and a viewer do not", () => {
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    expect(labels()).toContain("plex.collectionAdd.row");
+    cleanup();
+    setup(card({ type: "show" }), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    expect(labels()).toContain("plex.collectionAdd.row");
+    cleanup();
+    setup(card({ type: "episode" }), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    expect(labels()).not.toContain("plex.collectionAdd.row");
+    cleanup();
+    setup(card({}));
+    rightClick();
+    expect(labels()).not.toContain("plex.collectionAdd.row");
+  });
+
+  it("ticks the title into a collection, out of one, and names a new one with it inside", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor").mockResolvedValue({
+      collections: [coll("cA", "Alpha", true), coll("cB", "Beta", false)],
+    });
+    const add = vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionAddItem").mockResolvedValue({} as PlexCollection);
+    const remove = vi
+      .spyOn(api, "plexCollectionRemoveItem")
+      .mockResolvedValue({} as PlexCollection);
+    const create = vi.spyOn(api, "plexCreateCollection").mockResolvedValue({} as PlexCollection);
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    const row = async (name: string) =>
+      vi.waitFor(() => {
+        const found = screen
+          .queryAllByRole("menuitemcheckbox", { hidden: true })
+          .find((b) => b.textContent === name);
+        expect(found).toBeDefined();
+        return found!;
+      });
+    fireEvent.click(await row("Beta"));
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(add).toHaveBeenCalledWith("cB", "m1"));
+    // One write at a time: the next tick waits for this one to settle.
+    await vi.waitFor(() =>
+      expect(document.querySelector("[aria-busy]")?.getAttribute("aria-busy")).toBe("false"),
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(await row("Alpha"));
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(remove).toHaveBeenCalledWith("cA", "m1"));
+    const name = screen.getByLabelText("plex.collection.namePlaceholder");
+    fireEvent.change(name, { target: { value: "  Rainy days " } });
+    fireEvent.keyDown(name, { key: "Enter" });
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(create).toHaveBeenCalledWith("", "Rainy days", "m1"));
+  });
+
+  const checkRow = async (name: string) =>
+    vi.waitFor(() => {
+      const found = screen
+        .queryAllByRole("menuitemcheckbox", { hidden: true })
+        .find((b) => b.textContent === name);
+      expect(found).toBeDefined();
+      return found!;
+    });
+  const idle = () =>
+    vi.waitFor(() =>
+      expect(document.querySelector("[aria-busy]")?.getAttribute("aria-busy")).toBe("false"),
+    );
+
+  it("flips the tick as soon as a write lands, so the next tap undoes it before the list refetches", async () => {
+    const list = vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor");
+    list.mockResolvedValueOnce({ collections: [coll("cB", "Beta", false)] });
+    // The refetch after the write never answers: the tick must not wait for it.
+    list.mockImplementation(() => new Promise(() => {}));
+    const add = vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionAddItem").mockResolvedValue({} as PlexCollection);
+    const remove = vi
+      .spyOn(api, "plexCollectionRemoveItem")
+      .mockResolvedValue({} as PlexCollection);
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    fireEvent.click(await checkRow("Beta"));
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(add).toHaveBeenCalledWith("cB", "m1"));
+    await idle();
+    expect((await checkRow("Beta")).getAttribute("aria-checked")).toBe("true");
+    fireEvent.click(await checkRow("Beta"));
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(remove).toHaveBeenCalledWith("cB", "m1"));
+    expect(add).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("refreshes a show's own page too, whose collections come with the show", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor").mockResolvedValue({
+      collections: [coll("cB", "Beta", false)],
+    });
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionAddItem").mockResolvedValue({} as PlexCollection);
+    const { qc } = setup(card({ type: "show" }), {}, { admin: true });
+    const invalidate = vi.spyOn(qc, "invalidateQueries");
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    fireEvent.click(await checkRow("Beta"));
+    await idle();
+    expect(invalidate).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ queryKey: qk.plexShow("m1") });
+  });
+
+  it("is a named menu that says it is loading, not that there are no collections", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor").mockImplementation(() => new Promise(() => {}));
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    // jsdom computes no name for the unpositioned (visibility: hidden) surface: read what names it.
+    const menu = await vi.waitFor(() => {
+      const found = document.querySelector('[role="menu"][aria-label="plex.collectionAdd.title"]');
+      expect(found).not.toBeNull();
+      return found!;
+    });
+    expect(menu.hasAttribute("aria-labelledby")).toBe(false);
+    expect(screen.getByText("common.loading")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.queryByText("plex.collectionAdd.none")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("says a failed load as one, with a retry — not as no collections", async () => {
+    const list = vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor").mockRejectedValue(new Error("down"));
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    const alert = await screen.findByRole("alert", { hidden: true });
+    expect(alert.textContent).toContain("plex.collectionAdd.loadFailed");
+    expect(screen.queryByText("plex.collectionAdd.none")).toBeNull();
+    // A menu owns its items only: the line about the list sits beside it, not in it.
+    expect(document.querySelector("[role=menu]")).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(alert.closest("[role=menu]")).toBeNull();
+    list.mockResolvedValue({
+      collections: [coll("cB", "Beta", false), coll("cC", "Gamma", false)],
+    });
+    // Retry from the keyboard: the focused button goes as the list loads, and focus must not be left
+    // on <body> with the menu open — it lands on the first row that came back.
+    const retry = (await screen.findByText("common.retry")).closest("button")!;
+    retry.focus();
+    fireEvent.click(retry);
+    const beta = await checkRow("Beta");
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(document.activeElement).toBe(beta));
+    // …and the menu's own arrows carry on from there.
+    fireEvent.keyDown(beta, { key: "ArrowDown" });
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(await checkRow("Gamma"));
+  });
+
+  it("clears the name when Plex made the collection and only the read after it failed", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor").mockResolvedValue({ collections: [] });
+    const create = vi
+      .spyOn(api, "plexCreateCollection")
+      .mockRejectedValue(
+        new HttpError(422, "pending", { code: "refused", reason: "collection_pending_sync" }),
+      );
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    const name = await screen.findByLabelText<HTMLInputElement>("plex.collection.namePlaceholder");
+    fireEvent.change(name, { target: { value: "Noir" } });
+    fireEvent.keyDown(name, { key: "Enter" });
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(create).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1));
+    // It exists now: a second Enter on the kept name could only be refused as taken.
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(name.value).toBe(""));
+  });
+
+  it("steps from the name field into the rows with the arrows — rows that arrived after it opened", async () => {
+    let answer: (v: { collections: (PlexCollection & { contains: boolean })[] }) => void = () => {};
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexCollectionsFor").mockImplementation(
+      () => new Promise((resolve) => (answer = resolve)),
+    );
+    setup(card({}), {}, { admin: true });
+    rightClick();
+    fireEvent.click(item("plex.collectionAdd.row"));
+    const name = await screen.findByLabelText("plex.collection.namePlaceholder");
+    name.focus();
+    answer({ collections: [coll("cA", "Alpha", true), coll("cB", "Beta", false)] });
+    const alpha = await checkRow("Alpha");
+    fireEvent.keyDown(name, { key: "ArrowDown" });
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(alpha);
+    name.focus();
+    fireEvent.keyDown(name, { key: "ArrowUp" });
+    expect(document.activeElement).toBe(await checkRow("Beta"));
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/PlexMenu.tsx

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ export function PlexMenu({
       <ContextMenu
         menu={menu}
         ariaLabel={t("plex.menu")}
-        items={c ? [...actions.items(c, { pin }), ...(extra?.(c) ?? [])] : []}
+        items={c ? [...actions.items(c, { pin, anchor: menu.anchor }), ...(extra?.(c) ?? [])] : []}
       />
       {actions.panel}
     </>

frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.controls.dom.test.tsx

@@ -857,3 +857,73 @@ describe("the seek bar (C3)", () => {
     expect(head?.className).toContain("[@media(hover:none)]:opacity-100");
   });
 });
+
+describe("the time in the row", () => {
+  it("reads the position and the length, and the clock it ends at — no countdown", async () => {
+    mount({ details: { A: item("A") } });
+    await playingAt("/media/A", 100);
+    const row = screen.getByText(/1:40 \/ 50:00/).closest("div")!;
+    expect(row.textContent).not.toMatch(/-\s*48:20/);
+    expect(row.textContent).toMatch(/\(.+\)/);
+  });
+});
+
+// On an iPad a drag on the video moved the page behind it, and the strip it moved showed the page's
+// own background under the player.
+describe("the page under the player", () => {
+  it("is locked, without overscroll, on black, while the player is open — and given back after", async () => {
+    const root = document.documentElement.style;
+    mount({ details: { A: item("A") } });
+    await playingAt("/media/A", 100);
+    expect(document.body.style.overflow).toBe("hidden");
+    expect(root.overscrollBehavior).toBe("none");
+    expect(root.backgroundColor).toBe("black");
+    cleanup();
+    expect(document.body.style.overflow).toBe("");
+    expect(root.overscrollBehavior).toBe("");
+    expect(root.backgroundColor).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it("is covered by a player sized from its fixed box, not from dvh", async () => {
+    mount({ details: { A: item("A") } });
+    await playingAt("/media/A", 100);
+    const wrap = video().closest<HTMLElement>("[class*='fixed']")!;
+    expect([wrap.style.width, wrap.style.height]).toEqual(["80%", "80%"]);
+  });
+});
+
+// Brave on an iPad cannot fullscreen an element (it fakes `fullscreenEnabled`), and the button did
+// nothing there. It is shown only where the browser has the API on Element.prototype.
+describe("the fullscreen button", () => {
+  const withApi = (on: boolean) => {
+    if (on)
+      Object.defineProperty(Element.prototype, "requestFullscreen", {
+        configurable: true,
+        value: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      });
+    else delete (Element.prototype as { requestFullscreen?: unknown }).requestFullscreen;
+  };
+  afterEach(() => withApi(false));
+
+  it("is there where the browser can fullscreen an element", async () => {
+    withApi(true);
+    mount({ details: { A: item("A") } });
+    await playingAt("/media/A", 100);
+    expect(screen.queryByLabelText("plex.player.fullscreen")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("is left out where it cannot, whatever Brave's stand-ins claim", async () => {
+    withApi(false);
+    // Brave's: a <video>-only requestFullscreen on HTMLElement.prototype, and fullscreenEnabled true.
+    Object.defineProperty(HTMLElement.prototype, "requestFullscreen", {
+      configurable: true,
+      value: () => true,
+    });
+    Object.defineProperty(document, "fullscreenEnabled", { configurable: true, value: true });
+    mount({ details: { A: item("A") } });
+    await playingAt("/media/A", 100);
+    expect(screen.queryByLabelText("plex.player.fullscreen")).toBeNull();
+    delete (document as { fullscreenEnabled?: unknown }).fullscreenEnabled;
+    delete (HTMLElement.prototype as { requestFullscreen?: unknown }).requestFullscreen;
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.session.dom.test.tsx

@@ -232,6 +232,20 @@ it("closing the player detaches the <video> it was playing", async () => {
   expect(v.getAttribute("src")).toBeNull();
 });
 
+it("closing the player refreshes every surface that shows watch state, the Discover rails too", async () => {
+  const { unmount, qc } = mount({
+    details: { A: item("A") },
+    sessions: { A: () => Promise.resolve(direct("A")) },
+  });
+  await waitFor(() => expect(video()?.getAttribute("src")).toBe("/media/A"));
+  const refreshed = vi.spyOn(qc, "invalidateQueries");
+  unmount();
+  const keys = refreshed.mock.calls.map(([f]) => f?.queryKey);
+  expect(keys).toEqual(
+    expect.arrayContaining([qk.plexLibrary(), qk.plexShow(), qk.plexDiscover()]),
+  );
+});
+
 describe("the subtitle poll and notice", () => {
   it("asks about where a resumed session was asked to start, before playback has ticked", async () => {
     const { status } = mount({

frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tabtrap.dom.test.tsx

@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ import { api, type PlexItemDetail } from "../lib/api";
 import { pushLayer, removeLayer } from "../lib/layerStack";
 
 beforeAll(() => {
+  // A browser that can fullscreen an element, as every desktop one can: the row's last control is
+  // the fullscreen button there (jsdom has no Fullscreen API, so the button would be left out).
+  Object.defineProperty(Element.prototype, "requestFullscreen", {
+    configurable: true,
+    value: () => Promise.resolve(),
+  });
   class Stub {
     observe() {}
     unobserve() {}

frontend/src/components/PlexPlayer.tsx

@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import {
   DEFAULT_PREFS,
   fmt,
   subOrdForLang,
-  subShadowCss,
   type PlexPlayerPrefs,
 } from "../lib/plexPlayerPrefs";
 import { Ctrl, PanelHead } from "./plexPlayerControls";
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ import {
   usePlexTracks,
   useWallClock,
 } from "../lib/plexPlayerHooks";
-import { fullscreenElement } from "../lib/fullscreen";
+import { canFullscreenElements, fullscreenElement } from "../lib/fullscreen";
 import {
   dispatch,
   isActivationTarget,
@@ -84,7 +83,8 @@ import { LS, useAccountPersistedObject } from "../lib/storage";
 import { useDismiss } from "../lib/useDismiss";
 import { useScrollFade } from "../lib/useScrollFade";
 import { useBackToClose } from "../lib/history";
-import { trapTab } from "./ui/dialogFocus";
+import PlexSubtitles from "./PlexSubtitles";
+import { lockBodyScroll, trapTab } from "./ui/dialogFocus";
 import {
   pushLayer,
   removeLayer,
@@ -150,10 +150,27 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
 
   const videoRef = useRef<HTMLVideoElement | null>(null);
   const wrapRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  // The bottom band, which the subtitles keep above while it shows.
+  const bottomBarRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   // A control that goes while it holds the focus — Next onto the last item or a series finale —
   // hands it to its neighbour instead of <body>. The player is portaled outside the
   // page scroller, whose keeper does not watch it.
   useFocusKeeper(wrapRef);
+  // The page stays put under the player: on an iPad a drag on the video scrolled (or rubber-banded) the
+  // document behind it, and the strip it moved showed the page's own background under the player.
+  // Locked, with no overscroll, and the root painted black so a sub-pixel gap reads as the player's.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const unlock = lockBodyScroll();
+    const root = document.documentElement.style;
+    const before = { background: root.backgroundColor, overscroll: root.overscrollBehavior };
+    root.backgroundColor = "black";
+    root.overscrollBehavior = "none";
+    return () => {
+      unlock();
+      root.backgroundColor = before.background;
+      root.overscrollBehavior = before.overscroll;
+    };
+  }, []);
   // The key of the last press that landed on faded bands, while it is held (see onKey).
   const blindKeyRef = useRef<string | null>(null);
   const durationRef = useLatest(duration);
@@ -403,7 +420,6 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
     detail,
     sessionK,
     subOffset: prefs.subOffset,
-    subPos: prefs.subPos,
     restartSession,
     setAudioTrack: (track: number) => engine.setAudioTrack(track),
     patchPrefs,
@@ -1089,36 +1105,32 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
       onClick={wake}
       onWheel={onWheel}
       // Windowed (pseudo-fullscreen): everything is 25% larger for lean-back / HTPC legibility. Laid
-      // out at 80vw×80dvh and scaled ×1.25 from the top-left so it fills the viewport exactly (no
-      // overflow, controls stay on-screen; `dvh` so a tablet's toolbar does not push the bar off it). We use `transform: scale` rather than `zoom` deliberately:
+      // out at 80%×80% and scaled ×1.25 from the top-left so it fills the viewport exactly (no
+      // overflow, controls stay on-screen). The size is a share of the fixed box's own containing block,
+      // the layout viewport, not `dvh`: in an iPad browser built on its own web view (Brave) `dvh` did
+      // not follow the toolbar, the player came out a few px short and the page showed under it. We use `transform: scale` rather than `zoom` deliberately:
       // under `zoom`, event clientX stays in CSS pixels while getBoundingClientRect returns zoomed
       // pixels, so the seek/volume/hover math (clientX − rect.left)/rect.width breaks; with `transform`
       // both are in the same viewport space, so that ratio stays correct. Skip buttons ride this too.
       //
-      // In NATIVE fullscreen we must NOT carry the ×1.25 transform: with the element at 80vw×80dvh, the
+      // In NATIVE fullscreen we must NOT carry the ×1.25 transform: with the element at 80%×80%, the
       // scaled layer is composited letterboxed and the video never grows past its windowed size (the UA
       // does NOT force this fixed, explicitly-sized element to fill). So in `fs` we size the wrapper to
-      // the full screen (100vw×100dvh) with NO transform — the flex box then centres the video and its
+      // the full screen (the whole containing block) with NO transform — the flex box then centres the video and its
       // `max-h-full`/`max-w-full` aspect-fit fills the available height. The % seek-bar left and the
       // clientX/rect math stay correct under the identity transform.
       style={{
         cursor: uiVisible ? "default" : "none",
         ...(fs
-          ? { width: "100vw", height: "100dvh" }
+          ? { width: "100%", height: "100%" }
           : {
-              width: "80vw",
-              height: "80dvh",
+              width: "80%",
+              height: "80%",
               transform: "scale(1.25)",
               transformOrigin: "top left",
             }),
       }}
     >
-      {/* Per-user subtitle appearance (font size / colour / background). ::cue is global, but this
-          player owns the only <video> on screen. */}
-      <style>{`video::cue{font-size:${prefs.subSize}%;color:${prefs.subColor};background-color:${prefs.subBg};${subShadowCss(
-        prefs.subShadow,
-        prefs.subShadowColor,
-      )}}`}</style>
       <video
         ref={(el) => {
           videoRef.current = el;
@@ -1134,8 +1146,8 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
         onClick={onPictureClick}
         playsInline
       >
-        {/* Text subtitles as native tracks (same-origin → sent with the session cookie). The effect
-            above flips modes; the browser fetches a track's VTT the first time it's shown. */}
+        {/* Text subtitles as a native track (same-origin → sent with the session cookie), kept
+            `hidden`: the browser fetches and parses the VTT, PlexSubtitles below draws the cues. */}
         {selectedSub && subShowable && (
           <track
             // One track = the selected sub only (no multi-track overlap). The key (see usePlexTracks)
@@ -1151,6 +1163,17 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
           />
         )}
       </video>
+      <PlexSubtitles
+        video={videoEl}
+        pos={prefs.subPos}
+        size={prefs.subSize}
+        color={prefs.subColor}
+        background={prefs.subBg}
+        shadowPx={prefs.subShadow}
+        shadowColor={prefs.subShadowColor}
+        avoid={uiVisible}
+        avoidRef={bottomBarRef}
+      />
 
       {/* Loading / buffering / error overlay. `!ready` = initial session load; `buffering` = a
           mid-playback stall or in-flight seek (see the state); `loadError` surfaces a fatal failure so
@@ -1314,6 +1337,7 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
 
       {/* Bottom controls */}
       <div
+        ref={bottomBarRef}
         {...holdWhileHovered}
         className={`absolute bottom-0 inset-x-0 px-4 pb-3 pt-3 bg-linear-to-t from-black/80 to-transparent transition-opacity ${
           uiVisible
@@ -1462,7 +1486,6 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
 
           <div className="min-w-0 truncate text-xs tabular-nums text-white/90">
             {fmt(abs)} / {fmt(duration)}
-            <span className="ml-1.5 text-white/55">-{fmt(Math.max(0, duration - abs))}</span>
             {/* Projected finish time (wall clock now + time remaining), in the clock's own format —
                 pushes later while paused, since the remaining time then rides the advancing clock. */}
             {duration > 0 && (
@@ -1616,9 +1639,13 @@ export default function PlexPlayer({ itemId, onClose, queue, fromStart = false }
                 />
               )}
             </div>
-            <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.fullscreen")} onClick={toggleFs} align="end">
-              {fs ? <Minimize className="w-5 h-5" /> : <Maximize className="w-5 h-5" />}
-            </Ctrl>
+            {/* Absent where the browser cannot fullscreen an element (Brave on an iPad): the button
+                did nothing there, and the windowed player already fills the window. */}
+            {canFullscreenElements() && (
+              <Ctrl label={t("plex.player.fullscreen")} onClick={toggleFs} align="end">
+                {fs ? <Minimize className="w-5 h-5" /> : <Maximize className="w-5 h-5" />}
+              </Ctrl>
+            )}
           </div>
         </div>
       </div>

frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.menu.dom.test.tsx

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ vi.mock("./confirmContext", () => ({ useConfirm: () => h.confirm }));
 
 import PlexPlaylistView from "./PlexPlaylistView";
 import { api, type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
 
 beforeAll(() => {
   class Stub {
@@ -63,15 +64,15 @@ const ep = (id: string, season: number, n: number) =>
     thumb: "",
   }) as unknown as PlexCard;
 
-function mount(items: PlexCard[], onInfoCard?: (c: PlexCard) => void) {
+function mount(items: PlexCard[], onInfoCard?: (c: PlexCard) => void, { admin = false } = {}) {
   vi.spyOn(api, "plexPlaylist").mockResolvedValue({ id: 5, title: "Films", items } as never);
   vi.spyOn(api, "comfortPins").mockResolvedValue([] as never);
   const onPlay = vi.fn();
   const onBack = vi.fn();
+  const client = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  if (admin) client.setQueryData(qk.me(), { role: "admin" });
   render(
-    <QueryClientProvider
-      client={new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } })}
-    >
+    <QueryClientProvider client={client}>
       <PlexPlaylistView playlistId={5} onBack={onBack} onPlay={onPlay} onInfoCard={onInfoCard} />
     </QueryClientProvider>,
   );
@@ -112,6 +113,13 @@ const pressKey = (key: string) =>
   });
 
 describe("PlexPlaylistView · a row's menu", () => {
+  it("offers an admin a movie's 'Add to collection…', as its card's menu does", async () => {
+    mount([movie("1")], undefined, { admin: true });
+    await screen.findByText("Movie 1");
+    await openMenu(() => fireEvent.click(moreOf("Movie 1")));
+    expect(menuRows()).toContain("plex.collectionAdd.row");
+  });
+
   it("has no X at rest: each title ends in its '…', which hides until hover or focus", async () => {
     mount([movie("1"), ep("e1", 1, 1)]);
     await screen.findByText("Movie 1");

frontend/src/components/PlexPlaylistView.tsx

@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ export default function PlexPlaylistView({
     ? []
     : menuTarget.kind === "item"
       ? [
-          ...titleActions.items(menuTarget.item),
+          ...titleActions.items(menuTarget.item, { anchor: rowMenu.anchor }),
           ...orderRows(menuTarget),
           removeRow(menuTarget, t("plex.playlist.removeFromPlaylist")),
         ]

frontend/src/components/PlexSubtitles.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// The Plex player draws its subtitles itself. With the browser drawing them, the control bar covered
+// the text on an iPad whenever it was up: a native cue is placed by `line`, which nothing animates.
+import { afterEach, beforeAll, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { act, cleanup, render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { createRef } from "react";
+import PlexSubtitles from "./PlexSubtitles";
+
+beforeAll(() => {
+  class Stub {
+    observe() {}
+    unobserve() {}
+    disconnect() {}
+  }
+  globalThis.ResizeObserver ??= Stub as unknown as typeof ResizeObserver;
+});
+afterEach(() => {
+  cleanup();
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+});
+
+type FakeTrack = EventTarget & { kind: string; mode: TextTrackMode; activeCues: unknown[] };
+
+/** A <video> 1000 px tall with one hidden track of the player's own <track>, whose active cues the
+ *  test sets; `addTrack` adds another as a browser would — the player's own, or one of the media's. */
+function fakeVideo() {
+  const video = document.createElement("video");
+  const list: FakeTrack[] = [];
+  const tracks = Object.assign(new EventTarget(), {
+    get length() {
+      return list.length;
+    },
+    [Symbol.iterator]: () => list[Symbol.iterator](),
+  });
+  Object.defineProperty(video, "textTracks", { value: tracks });
+  Object.defineProperty(video, "clientHeight", { value: 1000 });
+  const make = (own: boolean) => {
+    const track: FakeTrack = Object.assign(new EventTarget(), {
+      kind: "subtitles",
+      mode: "hidden" as TextTrackMode,
+      activeCues: [] as unknown[],
+    });
+    if (own) {
+      const el = document.createElement("track");
+      Object.defineProperty(el, "track", { value: track });
+      video.appendChild(el);
+    }
+    list.push(track);
+    return track;
+  };
+  const cuesOn = (track: FakeTrack, texts: string[]) =>
+    act(() => {
+      track.activeCues = texts.map((text, i) => ({ startTime: i, text }));
+      track.dispatchEvent(new Event("cuechange"));
+    });
+  const track = make(true);
+  const show = (...texts: string[]) => cuesOn(track, texts);
+  const addTrack = (own: boolean) => {
+    const added = make(own);
+    act(() => {
+      tracks.dispatchEvent(new Event("addtrack"));
+    });
+    return (...texts: string[]) => cuesOn(added, texts);
+  };
+  return { video, show, addTrack };
+}
+
+/** Lay the boxes out: the text's box ends at `textBottom`, the bar starts at `barTop`. With a `scale`,
+ *  the player is drawn that much larger than its own pixels, as the windowed player is. */
+function layout(
+  video: HTMLVideoElement,
+  bar: HTMLElement,
+  textBottom: number,
+  barTop: number,
+  scale = 1,
+) {
+  const rect = (top: number, bottom: number) =>
+    ({ top, bottom, left: 0, right: 0, width: 0, height: bottom - top }) as DOMRect;
+  const isBox = (el: Element) => (el as HTMLElement).dataset?.testid === "plex-subtitles";
+  vi.spyOn(Element.prototype, "getBoundingClientRect").mockImplementation(function (this: Element) {
+    if (this === video) return rect(0, 1000);
+    if (this === bar) return rect(barTop, 1000);
+    // The outer box: the lift moves only the text inside it.
+    if (isBox(this)) return rect(textBottom - 80, textBottom);
+    return rect(0, 0);
+  });
+  vi.spyOn(HTMLElement.prototype, "offsetHeight", "get").mockImplementation(function (
+    this: HTMLElement,
+  ) {
+    return isBox(this) ? 80 / scale : 0;
+  });
+}
+
+const lifted = () => screen.getByTestId("plex-subtitles-text");
+
+function mount(video: HTMLVideoElement, avoid: boolean) {
+  const bar = document.createElement("div");
+  const barRef = createRef<HTMLElement>() as { current: HTMLElement | null };
+  barRef.current = bar;
+  const props = {
+    video,
+    pos: 88,
+    size: 100,
+    color: "#ffffff",
+    background: "transparent",
+    shadowPx: 0,
+    shadowColor: "#000000",
+    avoidRef: barRef,
+  };
+  const view = render(<PlexSubtitles {...props} avoid={avoid} />);
+  return { bar, rerender: (a: boolean) => view.rerender(<PlexSubtitles {...props} avoid={a} />) };
+}
+
+describe("PlexSubtitles", () => {
+  it("shows the cues the browser reports active, at the cue type size of the video box", () => {
+    const { video, show } = fakeVideo();
+    mount(video, false);
+    show("Half full", "or half empty?");
+    const box = screen.getByTestId("plex-subtitles");
+    expect(box.textContent).toBe("Half fullor half empty?");
+    expect(box.style.fontSize).toBe("50px");
+    expect(box.style.top).toBe("88%");
+  });
+
+  it("rises above the control bar while it shows, and settles back when it hides", () => {
+    const { video, show } = fakeVideo();
+    const { bar, rerender } = mount(video, false);
+    layout(video, bar, 950, 900);
+    show("Half full");
+    expect(lifted().style.transform).toBe("translateY(0px)");
+    rerender(true);
+    // 950 − (900 − 8): the text's bottom clears the bar's top by the 8 px of air.
+    expect(lifted().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-58px)");
+    rerender(false);
+    expect(lifted().style.transform).toBe("translateY(0px)");
+  });
+
+  it("lifts in the player's own pixels when the player is drawn scaled", () => {
+    const { video, show } = fakeVideo();
+    const { bar } = mount(video, true);
+    layout(video, bar, 950, 900, 1.25);
+    show("Half full");
+    // 58 screen pixels are 46.4 of the player's own, which the browser then draws ×1.25.
+    expect(lifted().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-46px)");
+  });
+
+  it("places a cue that just appeared, and slides only one already on screen", () => {
+    const { video, show } = fakeVideo();
+    const { bar, rerender } = mount(video, true);
+    layout(video, bar, 950, 900);
+    show("Half full");
+    expect(lifted().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-58px)");
+    expect(lifted().className).not.toContain("transition-transform");
+    rerender(false);
+    expect(lifted().className).toContain("transition-transform");
+    // The bar comes back while no cue is up: the next one is placed above it, not slid there.
+    show();
+    rerender(true);
+    show("or half empty?");
+    expect(lifted().style.transform).toBe("translateY(-58px)");
+    expect(lifted().className).not.toContain("transition-transform");
+  });
+
+  it("draws the cues of a track the player mounts later — a remounted <track> is a new one", () => {
+    const { video, addTrack } = fakeVideo();
+    mount(video, false);
+    const showOnNew = addTrack(true);
+    showOnNew("After the seek");
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("plex-subtitles").textContent).toBe("After the seek");
+  });
+
+  it("never draws a track that is not the player's own, such as a direct-played file's", () => {
+    const { video, addTrack } = fakeVideo();
+    mount(video, false);
+    const showInBand = addTrack(false);
+    showInBand("Embedded");
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("plex-subtitles")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("draws nothing while no cue is active", () => {
+    const { video } = fakeVideo();
+    mount(video, true);
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("plex-subtitles")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/PlexSubtitles.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+import { useEffect, useLayoutEffect, useRef, useState, type RefObject } from "react";
+import { subShadow } from "../lib/plexPlayerPrefs";
+import { ownTextTracks } from "../lib/plexSubTracks";
+
+// The Plex player's subtitles, drawn by us instead of the browser. The track stays mounted (hls.js and
+// the VTT fetch need it) but `hidden`: the browser parses the cues and reports the active ones, and
+// this layer shows them. The browser's own rendering could not move out of the way of the control
+// bar — a cue is placed by `line`, which neither WebKit nor Chromium animates, and on an iPad the bar
+// covered the text whenever it was up. Here the text rises above the bar while it shows and slides
+// back when it hides, the same on every engine, and the viewer's size / colour / background / outline
+// settings style it directly.
+
+type Cue = TextTrackCue & { text?: string; getCueAsHTML?: () => DocumentFragment };
+
+// A cue's default type size, as both engines draw it: 5 % of the video box's height.
+const CUE_EM_OF_HEIGHT = 0.05;
+// The air left between the text and what it avoids (the bar's top, or the video's bottom edge).
+const CLEARANCE_PX = 8;
+
+/** The cues showing now, from the player's own track(s) of `video` that are not switched off. */
+function useActiveCues(video: HTMLVideoElement | null): Cue[] {
+  const [cues, setCues] = useState<Cue[]>([]);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!video) return;
+    const tracks = video.textTracks;
+    const read = () => {
+      const now: Cue[] = [];
+      const own = ownTextTracks(video);
+      for (const tr of Array.from(tracks)) {
+        if (!own.has(tr) || tr.mode === "disabled") continue;
+        for (const c of Array.from(tr.activeCues ?? [])) now.push(c as Cue);
+      }
+      setCues((prev) =>
+        prev.length === now.length && prev.every((c, i) => c === now[i]) ? prev : now,
+      );
+    };
+    const bound = new Set<TextTrack>();
+    const bind = (tr: TextTrack) => {
+      if (bound.has(tr)) return;
+      bound.add(tr);
+      tr.addEventListener("cuechange", read);
+    };
+    const onAdd = () => {
+      for (const tr of Array.from(tracks)) bind(tr);
+      read();
+    };
+    for (const tr of Array.from(tracks)) bind(tr);
+    tracks.addEventListener("addtrack", onAdd);
+    tracks.addEventListener("removetrack", read);
+    read();
+    return () => {
+      tracks.removeEventListener("addtrack", onAdd);
+      tracks.removeEventListener("removetrack", read);
+      for (const tr of bound) tr.removeEventListener("cuechange", read);
+    };
+  }, [video]);
+  return cues;
+}
+
+/** The video box's height, followed as the window or fullscreen changes it. */
+function useHeight(el: HTMLElement | null): number {
+  const [height, setHeight] = useState(0);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!el) return;
+    const measure = () => setHeight(el.clientHeight);
+    measure();
+    const ro = new ResizeObserver(measure);
+    ro.observe(el);
+    return () => ro.disconnect();
+  }, [el]);
+  return height;
+}
+
+/** One cue's text. `getCueAsHTML` keeps its <i>/<b>; it builds DOM nodes from the parsed cue, never
+ *  markup from a string, so nothing in a subtitle file can run. */
+function CueText({ cue, style }: { cue: Cue; style: React.CSSProperties }) {
+  const ref = useRef<HTMLSpanElement>(null);
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    const el = ref.current;
+    if (!el) return;
+    if (typeof cue.getCueAsHTML === "function") el.replaceChildren(cue.getCueAsHTML());
+    else el.textContent = cue.text ?? "";
+  }, [cue]);
+  return (
+    <span
+      ref={ref}
+      style={style}
+      className="whitespace-pre-line px-[0.25em] leading-[1.3] box-decoration-clone"
+    />
+  );
+}
+
+export default function PlexSubtitles({
+  video,
+  pos,
+  size,
+  color,
+  background,
+  shadowPx,
+  shadowColor,
+  avoid,
+  avoidRef,
+}: {
+  video: HTMLVideoElement | null;
+  /** Where the text's top sits, in % of the video box's height (the setting's "cue line"). */
+  pos: number;
+  size: number;
+  color: string;
+  background: string;
+  shadowPx: number;
+  shadowColor: string;
+  /** True while the control bar shows: the text then keeps above `avoidRef`'s top. */
+  avoid: boolean;
+  avoidRef: RefObject<HTMLElement | null>;
+}) {
+  const cues = useActiveCues(video);
+  const height = useHeight(video);
+  const boxRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  // `slide` is false for the first placement of a box that just appeared: it is put where it belongs,
+  // not slid there from where the previous cue was left.
+  const [lift, setLift] = useState({ px: 0, slide: false });
+  const shownRef = useRef(false);
+
+  // How far up the text has to move to clear the bar (or, without it, the video's bottom edge). The
+  // outer box is never transformed — the lift moves the inner one — so its rect is where the text sits
+  // with no lift, even mid-slide. The rects are screen pixels and the windowed player is scaled
+  // (PlexPlayer's wrapper), while the lift applies in the box's own pixels: the distance is divided
+  // by that scale.
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    const box = boxRef.current;
+    if (!box || !video || cues.length === 0) {
+      shownRef.current = false;
+      return;
+    }
+    const rect = box.getBoundingClientRect();
+    const scale = box.offsetHeight > 0 ? rect.height / box.offsetHeight : 1;
+    const bar = avoid ? avoidRef.current?.getBoundingClientRect().top : undefined;
+    const limit = (bar ?? video.getBoundingClientRect().bottom) - CLEARANCE_PX;
+    const px = Math.max(0, Math.round((rect.bottom - limit) / scale));
+    setLift({ px, slide: shownRef.current });
+    shownRef.current = true;
+  }, [avoid, avoidRef, cues, height, pos, size, video]);
+
+  if (cues.length === 0 || height === 0) return null;
+  const text: React.CSSProperties = {
+    color,
+    backgroundColor: background,
+    textShadow: subShadow(shadowPx, shadowColor),
+  };
+  return (
+    <div
+      ref={boxRef}
+      data-testid="plex-subtitles"
+      aria-hidden="true"
+      className="pointer-events-none absolute inset-x-0 px-[5%] text-center"
+      style={{ top: `${pos}%`, fontSize: `${(height * CUE_EM_OF_HEIGHT * size) / 100}px` }}
+    >
+      <div
+        data-testid="plex-subtitles-text"
+        className={`flex flex-col items-center gap-[0.15em] ${lift.slide ? "transition-transform duration-200 ease-out motion-reduce:transition-none" : ""}`}
+        style={{ transform: `translateY(${-lift.px}px)` }}
+      >
+        {cues.map((cue, i) => (
+          <CueText key={`${cue.startTime}-${i}`} cue={cue} style={text} />
+        ))}
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/SearchBar.dom.test.tsx

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 // collapse — the box must WRAP to its own line (not shrink the input to ~0) when the content column
 // (@container/appmain) is narrow. jsdom does no layout, but the class presence is the contract these
 // rules depend on, so a refactor that drops them fails here instead of only on a hand-resized window.
-import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { render } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { cleanup, render } from "@testing-library/react";
 import SearchBar from "./SearchBar";
 
 vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
@@ -13,14 +13,46 @@ vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
   return { ...actual, useTranslation: () => ({ t: (key: string) => key }) };
 });
 
+afterEach(cleanup);
+
 describe("SearchBar responsive wrapper", () => {
   it("carries the container-query classes that make it wrap instead of collapsing", () => {
     const { container } = render(<SearchBar value="" onChange={() => {}} placeholder="Search…" />);
     const cls = (container.firstElementChild as HTMLElement).className;
     // A usable min-width floor once the column has room → the box wraps via flex-wrap, never ~0:
-    expect(cls).toContain("@min-[420px]/appmain:min-w-[15rem]");
+    expect(cls).toContain("@min-[420px]/appmain:min-w-[18rem]");
     // On a narrow column it takes a full line of its own and sorts last (small pills share the row above):
     expect(cls).toContain("@max-[640px]/appmain:basis-full");
     expect(cls).toContain("@max-[640px]/appmain:order-last");
   });
 });
+
+// On a tablet the 44 px key cap and Go sat on the edge of a 44 px pill and crowded the text out.
+describe("SearchBar on a touch screen", () => {
+  it("drops the key cap, and grows the pill past the 44 px Go so a ring shows round it", () => {
+    const { container, getByRole } = render(
+      <SearchBar value="" onChange={() => {}} placeholder="Search…" onGo={() => {}} />,
+    );
+    expect(getByRole("button", { name: /palette.open/ }).className).toContain(
+      "pointer-coarse:hidden",
+    );
+    const pill = container.querySelector("input")!.closest<HTMLElement>("[class*='h-10']")!;
+    expect(pill.className).toContain("pointer-coarse:h-13");
+  });
+
+  it("shortens Go to its icon by the column's width, not the screen's", () => {
+    const { getByText } = render(
+      <SearchBar
+        value=""
+        onChange={() => {}}
+        placeholder="Search…"
+        onGo={() => {}}
+        goIcon={<svg />}
+        goLabel="Go far"
+      />,
+    );
+    const label = getByText("Go far");
+    expect(label.className).toContain("@min-[900px]/appmain:inline");
+    expect(label.className).not.toMatch(/(^|\s)md:inline/);
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/SearchBar.tsx

@@ -72,14 +72,18 @@ export default function SearchBar({
   // overflow on a truly tiny column; once the column has room (≥420px) a `min-w-[15rem]` floor makes
   // the box WRAP to its own line via the header's flex-wrap instead of shrinking the input to ~0; on
   // a narrow column (≤640px) it also takes a full line of its own (basis-full) and sorts LAST, so the
-  // small pills (module name + Plex scope toggle / feed sync chip) share the line above it.
+  // small pills (module name + Plex scope toggle / feed sync chip) share the line above it. The floor
+  // is the input's room plus what sits beside it (the icon, the key cap, Go): at 15rem the box kept
+  // only ~8rem for the text and a tablet cut the placeholder ("Search your subscriptior").
   return (
-    <div className="pointer-events-auto relative flex-1 min-w-0 max-w-xl @min-[420px]/appmain:min-w-[15rem] @max-[640px]/appmain:order-last @max-[640px]/appmain:basis-full">
-      {/* `free` + its own padding: the Go button sits 6px in from the pill's end, not a field's 12. */}
+    <div className="pointer-events-auto relative flex-1 min-w-0 max-w-xl @min-[420px]/appmain:min-w-[18rem] @max-[640px]/appmain:order-last @max-[640px]/appmain:basis-full">
+      {/* `free` + its own padding: the Go button sits 6px in from the pill's end, not a field's 12.
+          On touch the pill grows past the 44 px Go so a ring of the pill shows round it — a 44 Go in a
+          44 pill sat on its edge. */}
       <div
         className={clsx(
           fieldClass({ size: "free", pill: true, floating: true }),
-          "flex h-10 items-center gap-2 pr-1.5 pl-3 text-sm pointer-coarse:text-base",
+          "flex h-10 items-center gap-2 pr-1.5 pl-3 text-sm pointer-coarse:h-13 pointer-coarse:pr-1 pointer-coarse:text-base",
         )}
       >
         {leading ?? <Search className="w-4 h-4 shrink-0 text-muted" />}
@@ -116,7 +120,8 @@ export default function SearchBar({
             title={goTitle ?? goLabel ?? t("header.goTip")}
           >
             {goIcon}
-            <span className={goIcon ? "hidden md:inline" : undefined}>
+            {/* By the column, not the screen: a tablet's 768–1024 px window has a tight column. */}
+            <span className={goIcon ? "hidden @min-[900px]/appmain:inline" : undefined}>
               {goLabel ?? t("header.go")}
             </span>
           </Button>

frontend/src/components/VideoCard.tsx

@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ function Thumb({
           </span>
         )}
         {/* Hover overlay: Play everywhere; Continue + Restart once the video is in progress. Mouse-only:
-          reveal on hover AND on keyboard focus-within (else a Tab-focused button is invisible), and
+          reveal on hover AND on keyboard focus (else a Tab-focused button is invisible), and
           `reveal-hover` drops it entirely on touch — the card tap already plays/resumes there, so a
           permanent dark scrim over every mobile thumbnail (and an invisible tap target) is not wanted. */}
         {onOpen && (

frontend/src/components/VirtualFeed.tsx

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { FEED_VIEW_SPEC, type FeedView } from "../lib/feedView";
 import type { NEXT_PAGE } from "../lib/nextPage";
 import VideoCard from "./VideoCard";
 import { VideoMenu } from "./VideoMenu";
+import type { VideoActionHandlers } from "./useVideoActions";
 import { useContextMenu } from "./ui/useContextMenu";
 import VirtualGrid from "./ui/VirtualGrid";
 
@@ -28,6 +29,8 @@ export interface VirtualFeedProps {
   onToggleSave: (id: string, saved: boolean) => void;
   onResetState: (id: string) => void;
   onOpen: (v: Video, startAt?: number | null) => void;
+  /** The card menu's channel-filter row (see `useVideoActions`); omitted where it has no place. */
+  channelFilter?: VideoActionHandlers["channelFilter"];
   hasNextPage: boolean;
   isFetching: boolean;
   fetchNextPage: (options: typeof NEXT_PAGE) => unknown;
@@ -43,6 +46,7 @@ export default function VirtualFeed({
   onToggleSave,
   onResetState,
   onOpen,
+  channelFilter,
   hasNextPage,
   isFetching,
   fetchNextPage,
@@ -86,7 +90,10 @@ export default function VirtualFeed({
           />
         )}
       />
-      <VideoMenu menu={menu} handlers={{ onState, onToggleSave, onResetState, onOpen }} />
+      <VideoMenu
+        menu={menu}
+        handlers={{ onState, onToggleSave, onResetState, onOpen, channelFilter }}
+      />
     </>
   );
 }

frontend/src/components/mediaPicture.contract.test.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
 
 import videoCard from "./VideoCard.tsx?raw";
+import { HOVER_REVEAL, HOVER_YIELD } from "./ui/reveal";
 
 import {
   MEDIA_BAR,
@@ -38,3 +40,28 @@ describe("a media picture", () => {
       expect(layer).not.toMatch(/pic:pb-\d/);
   });
 });
+
+const indexCss = readFileSync(new URL("../index.css", import.meta.url), "utf8");
+
+// Back from a channel page hands the card its focus again, after a mouse trip: with `focus-within`
+// its hover row stayed up under no pointer until a reload (owner). The chrome answers the pointer and
+// KEYBOARD focus only (`:focus-visible` on the card or inside it); jsdom cannot evaluate either, so
+// the classes are the contract, and the global `.reveal` rule says the same.
+describe("a card's hover chrome", () => {
+  it.each([
+    ["the hover row", HOVER_REVEAL],
+    ["what yields to it", HOVER_YIELD],
+    ["the Play layer", MEDIA_HOVER_LAYER],
+    ["the Continue + Restart layer", MEDIA_RESUME_LAYER],
+  ])("shows on keyboard focus, never on a focus handed back: %s", (_, cls) => {
+    const parts = cls.split(" ");
+    expect(parts.some((c) => c.startsWith("group-focus-within:"))).toBe(false);
+    expect(parts.some((c) => c.startsWith("group-focus-visible:"))).toBe(true);
+    expect(parts.some((c) => c.startsWith("group-has-focus-visible:"))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("is the same in the global .reveal rule", () => {
+    expect(indexCss).not.toMatch(/\.group:focus-within \.reveal/);
+    expect(indexCss).toMatch(/\.group:has\(:focus-visible\) \.reveal/);
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/playerModalControls.tsx

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import type { VideoDetail } from "../lib/api";
 import type { AutoMode, LoopMode } from "../lib/playerModes";
 import { Button } from "./ui/Button";
 import { StateMessage } from "./ui/QueryState";
+import { ClampedText } from "./ui/ClampedText";
 import { renderDescription } from "./descriptionLinks";
 
 // Presentational controls for the YouTube modal player (PlayerModal), split out of the god component —
@@ -109,7 +110,8 @@ export function PlayerTransportControls({
 /** The description, said the same way in its two places (the popover under 1280 px, the panel beside
  *  the video above it): loading, failed with a retry, the text in the caller's box, or none. One
  *  ladder, so the two cannot drift (the failed state was once tested in the panel only).
- *  `ref` / `style` / `className` dress the text's box only. */
+ *  `ref` / `style` / `className` dress the text's box only. `clamp` cuts it to three lines with a
+ *  More / Less (the panel, where the description sits under the actions and is rarely read whole). */
 export function PlayerDescription({
   detail,
   currentId,
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ export function PlayerDescription({
   className,
   style,
   ref,
+  clamp = false,
 }: {
   detail: { isLoading: boolean; isError: boolean; data?: VideoDetail; refetch: () => unknown };
   currentId: string;
@@ -126,6 +129,7 @@ export function PlayerDescription({
   className: string;
   style?: CSSProperties;
   ref?: Ref<HTMLDivElement>;
+  clamp?: boolean;
 }) {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   if (detail.isLoading) return <div className="text-sm text-muted">{t("player.loading")}</div>;
@@ -137,6 +141,18 @@ export function PlayerDescription({
     );
   const text = detail.data?.description;
   if (!text) return <div className="text-sm text-muted">{t("player.noDescription")}</div>;
+  if (clamp)
+    return (
+      <ClampedText
+        text={text}
+        lines={3}
+        moreLabel={t("player.descriptionMore")}
+        lessLabel={t("player.descriptionLess")}
+        textClassName={className}
+      >
+        {renderDescription(text, { currentId, onSeek, onLoadVideo, t })}
+      </ClampedText>
+    );
   return (
     <div ref={ref} style={style} className={className}>
       {renderDescription(text, { currentId, onSeek, onLoadVideo, t })}

frontend/src/components/plexCards.dom.test.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 // aria-label — a dropped label silently reintroduces an unnamed button for screen-reader users. i18n is
 // key-passthrough, so the asserted names are the i18n keys.
 import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
-import { render, screen, cleanup, fireEvent, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { render as rtlRender, screen, cleanup, fireEvent, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import type { ReactElement } from "react";
 
 vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
   const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
@@ -21,7 +23,15 @@ vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
 
 import { PlexPosterCard, SeasonCard, EpisodeCard } from "./plexCards";
 import { iconButtonClass } from "./ui/buttonStyles";
-import type { PlexCard, PlexSeasonDetail } from "../lib/api";
+import { api, type PlexCard, type PlexSeasonDetail } from "../lib/api";
+
+// A show card asks the server which episode it would play once its preview is up: a query client.
+const render = (ui: ReactElement) =>
+  rtlRender(ui, {
+    wrapper: ({ children }) => (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={new QueryClient()}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+    ),
+  });
 
 const movie = (status?: string): PlexCard => ({
   id: "1",
@@ -169,14 +179,70 @@ describe("PlexPosterCard with a next episode", () => {
     expect(onInfo).toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
-  it("stays a plain show card without one: no Play, no toggles, no ⓘ", () => {
+  // Every show card plays (the owner, 2026-10-09): without its episode in hand the surface's onOpen
+  // asks which one. The toggles act on an episode, so they wait for one; the ⓘ is the show's page.
+  it("plays without one too, opens its page from the ⓘ, and offers no toggles", () => {
+    const onOpen = vi.fn();
+    const onPage = vi.fn();
     const { container } = render(
-      <PlexPosterCard card={show} onOpen={vi.fn()} onToggleWatched={vi.fn()} onInfo={vi.fn()} />,
+      <PlexPosterCard card={show} onOpen={onOpen} onPage={onPage} onToggleWatched={vi.fn()} />,
     );
-    expect(playGlyph(container)).toBeNull();
-    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "plex.openShow" })).toBeNull();
+    expect(playGlyph(container)).not.toBeNull();
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Show" }));
+    expect(onOpen).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "plex.openShow" }));
+    expect(onPage).toHaveBeenCalledWith(show);
     expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "plex.markWatched" })).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  it("continues a started show and starts its episode over, as a started movie does", () => {
+    const onOpen = vi.fn();
+    const onRestart = vi.fn();
+    render(
+      <PlexPosterCard
+        card={{ ...show, status: "in_progress", resumable: true }}
+        onOpen={onOpen}
+        onRestart={onRestart}
+      />,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "card.restart" }));
+    expect(onRestart).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "card.continue" }));
+    expect(onOpen).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("plays a part-watched show with no episode to resume, with no Restart beside it", () => {
+    // Its next episode is untouched: Continue and Restart would both play it from its start.
+    render(
+      <PlexPosterCard
+        card={{ ...show, status: "in_progress", resumable: false }}
+        onOpen={vi.fn()}
+        onRestart={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "card.restart" })).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("button", { name: "card.continue" })).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("names the episode it would play once its preview is up, and not asked before", async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    const ask = vi
+      .spyOn(api, "plexShowNext")
+      .mockResolvedValue({ next: { ...next, title: "Pilot" } });
+    render(<PlexPosterCard card={show} onOpen={vi.fn()} />);
+    fireEvent.mouseEnter(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Show" }).closest(".cv-poster")!);
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(600);
+    });
+    expect(ask).not.toHaveBeenCalled(); // a sweep across a grid asks nothing
+    await act(async () => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(400);
+    });
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+    expect(ask).toHaveBeenCalledWith("sh", "en");
+    expect(await screen.findByText("plex.nextUp:S6·E16 — Pilot")).toBeTruthy();
+    ask.mockRestore();
+  });
 });
 
 // C5: a started item's picture offers Continue and Restart (the video card's pair) instead of a Play;
@@ -313,7 +379,7 @@ describe("Plex cards in a keyboard-walkable list", () => {
 describe("a Plex card's title stays selectable", () => {
   it("opens from its caption, but not on the click that ends selecting the title", () => {
     const onOpen = vi.fn();
-    render(<PlexPosterCard card={movie()} onOpen={onOpen} />);
+    render(<PlexPosterCard card={movie()} onOpen={vi.fn()} onPage={onOpen} />);
     const title = screen.getByText("M");
     const range = document.createRange();
     range.selectNodeContents(title);
@@ -327,10 +393,47 @@ describe("a Plex card's title stays selectable", () => {
   });
 });
 
+// The picture plays; the title, lit like a link, opens the page of what it names (owner).
+describe("a Plex card's title is a link to its page", () => {
+  it("a movie's title opens its page and never plays it", () => {
+    const onOpen = vi.fn();
+    const onPage = vi.fn();
+    render(<PlexPosterCard card={movie()} onOpen={onOpen} onPage={onPage} />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("M"), { detail: 1 });
+    expect(onPage).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ id: "1", type: "movie" }));
+    expect(onOpen).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("an episode standing as its show opens the show", () => {
+    const onPage = vi.fn();
+    const ep: PlexCard = { ...episode(), show_id: "s9", show_title: "The Show" };
+    render(<PlexPosterCard card={ep} onOpen={vi.fn()} onPage={onPage} />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("The Show"), { detail: 1 });
+    expect(onPage).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ id: "s9", type: "show" }));
+  });
+
+  it("an episode card's title opens the episode's page, its picture plays", () => {
+    const onPlay = vi.fn();
+    const onPage = vi.fn();
+    render(<EpisodeCard ep={episode()} onPlay={onPlay} onPage={onPage} />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText(episode().title), { detail: 1 });
+    expect(onPage).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(onPlay).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("without a page the title is plain text: a click does nothing", () => {
+    const onOpen = vi.fn();
+    render(<PlexPosterCard card={movie()} onOpen={onOpen} />);
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByText("M"), { detail: 1 });
+    expect(onOpen).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(screen.getByText("M").className).not.toContain("cursor-pointer");
+  });
+});
+
 describe("a Plex card's caption and a drag", () => {
   it("does not open on a press dragged past the slop", () => {
     const onOpen = vi.fn();
-    render(<PlexPosterCard card={movie()} onOpen={onOpen} />);
+    render(<PlexPosterCard card={movie()} onOpen={vi.fn()} onPage={onOpen} />);
     const title = screen.getByText("M");
     fireEvent.mouseDown(title, { clientX: 10, clientY: 10 });
     fireEvent.click(title, { detail: 1, clientX: 60, clientY: 10 });

frontend/src/components/plexCards.lang.dom.test.tsx

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@
 // ("Season 1", "Specials") is named from its number instead. i18n here echoes the key AND its values,
 // so an assertion can see which words went into the line.
 import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
-import { render, screen, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { render as rtlRender, screen, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import type { ReactElement } from "react";
 
 vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
   const actual = await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>();
@@ -17,6 +19,14 @@ vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => {
 import { PlexPosterCard, SeasonCard } from "./plexCards";
 import type { PlexCard, PlexSeasonDetail } from "../lib/api";
 
+// A show card asks the server which episode it would play once its preview is up: a query client.
+const render = (ui: ReactElement) =>
+  rtlRender(ui, {
+    wrapper: ({ children }) => (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={new QueryClient()}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+    ),
+  });
+
 afterEach(cleanup);
 
 const watchedEpisode: PlexCard = {

frontend/src/components/plexCards.langSwitch.dom.test.tsx

@@ -4,11 +4,21 @@
 // React Compiler memoizes a call on its ARGUMENTS — `formatRuntime(card.duration_seconds)` stayed
 // "2 hr 4 min" after switching to Hungarian while the hero beside it said "2 ó 16 p". Real catalog.
 import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from "vitest";
-import { render, screen, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { render as rtlRender, screen, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import type { ReactElement } from "react";
 import { setLanguage } from "../i18n";
 import { PlexPosterCard } from "./plexCards";
 import type { PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
 
+// A show card asks the server which episode it would play once its preview is up: a query client.
+const render = (ui: ReactElement) =>
+  rtlRender(ui, {
+    wrapper: ({ children }) => (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={new QueryClient()}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+    ),
+  });
+
 afterEach(() => {
   cleanup();
   setLanguage("en");

frontend/src/components/plexCards.tsx

@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { CheckCircle2, Circle, Info, ListPlus, Star } from "lucide-react";
 import clsx from "clsx";
 import { type ReactNode, useRef } from "react";
+import { useQuery } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { api } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { plexLang } from "../i18n";
 import { formatDecimal, formatRuntime } from "../lib/format";
 import { Carousel } from "./ui/Carousel";
 import type { PlexCard, PlexCastMember, PlexFilters, PlexSeasonDetail } from "../lib/api";
-import { episodeName, episodeNumbers, seasonTitle } from "../lib/plexDetail";
+import { episodeLine, episodeName, episodeNumbers, seasonTitle } from "../lib/plexDetail";
 import { navItemAttrs } from "../lib/listNav";
 import { endsTextSelection, movedPastSlop } from "../lib/textSelection";
 import { plexAddLabelKey, plexStarted } from "./usePlexCardActions";
@@ -30,8 +34,9 @@ import { useMediaPreview } from "./ui/useMediaPreview";
 import { SURFACE } from "./ui/surfaces";
 import { cardImage } from "../lib/plexImage";
 
-// Presentational Plex cards + strips, split out of PlexBrowse (all purely prop-driven, no shared
-// state). Rendered by the browse grid, the person page, and the series show/season views.
+// Presentational Plex cards + strips, split out of PlexBrowse (prop-driven, no shared state; the one
+// read is a show card asking which episode it would play, once its preview is up). Rendered by the
+// browse grid, the person page, and the series show/season views.
 //
 // docs/DESIGN.md C1 ("Action placement"): a card shows its state (watched, progress) at rest;
 // on hover its picture carries the everyday toggles (watched, add to playlist) and the "…" that
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ function HoverBar({
   onToggleWatched?: () => void;
   addLabel: string;
   onAdd?: () => void;
-  /** The item's own page, when the click does something else (a show on Home plays its next episode). */
+  /** A show's own page: its picture plays an episode, so the page has a button of its own. */
   onInfo?: () => void;
   more: More;
 }) {
@@ -139,9 +144,11 @@ export function PlexHoverBar({
   );
 }
 
-/** A Plex card's title: it opens the card like its picture does, except for the click that ends
- *  selecting its words, or a press dragged past the slop (DESIGN "Text stays selectable"); a div's
- *  text selects on its own, so only the click needs the guard. */
+/** A Plex card's title: a link to the page of what it names (a movie's or an episode's info page, a
+ *  show's page), while the picture plays it — a title lit like a link that started playback surprised
+ *  (owner). Not for the click that ends selecting its words, or a press dragged past the slop (DESIGN
+ *  "Text stays selectable"); a div's text selects on its own, so only the click needs the guard.
+ *  Without a page to open it is plain text. */
 function CardTitle({
   onClick,
   shelf = false,
@@ -267,10 +274,14 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
   next,
   onInfo,
   onRestart,
+  onPage,
 }: {
   card: PlexCard;
   onOpen: () => void;
-  /** Play the item (or the `next` episode) from its start, not its resume point (C5). */
+  /** Open a card's page (a show's, or a movie's or an episode's info page): the title's link. It is
+   *  handed the card the title NAMES — the show, for an episode standing as its show. */
+  onPage?: (target: PlexCard) => void;
+  /** Play the item (or the episode a show plays) from its start, not its resume point (C5). */
   onRestart?: () => void;
   onToggleWatched?: (c: PlexCard) => void;
   /** Add a movie or an episode to a playlist (the list's `usePlexCardActions().add`). */
@@ -290,11 +301,12 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
   wide?: boolean;
   /** On a shelf (a horizontal strip): a one-line title (ui/mediaCardStyles). */
   shelf?: boolean;
-  /** A SHOW whose click plays this episode (Home's shelves: a pinned or started show plays on). The
-   *  picture then draws its Play, the watched toggle and the add act on the episode, the meta line
-   *  names it, and an ⓘ (`onInfo`) opens the show. */
+  /** A SHOW's episode, resolved by the surface (Home's shelves carry it): the watched toggle and the
+   *  add act on it and the meta line names it. Without it a show still plays — the surface's `onOpen`
+   *  asks the server which episode (`/show/{id}/next`) — and the preview names that episode once the
+   *  pointer has rested on the card. */
   next?: PlexCard | null;
-  /** The show's page, beside a `next` episode. */
+  /** The show's page, on the ⓘ (`onPage` where a surface has no other). */
   onInfo?: () => void;
 }) {
   const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
@@ -306,9 +318,24 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
   const asShow = card.type === "episode" && !wide && !!card.show_id && !!card.show_title;
   const landscape = wide || (card.type === "episode" && !asShow);
   const name = asShow ? `${card.show_title} · ${card.title}` : card.title;
-  const ep = card.type === "show" ? (next ?? null) : null;
-  // movies/episodes play; a show opens its drill-down — unless it plays on (`next`)
-  const isPlayable = card.type !== "show" || !!ep;
+  const titled: PlexCard = asShow
+    ? { ...card, type: "show", id: card.show_id!, title: card.show_title! }
+    : card;
+  const isShow = card.type === "show";
+  const ep = isShow ? (next ?? null) : null;
+  // Every picture plays: a show its next episode. The hover toggles act on a leaf, so a show offers
+  // them only with its episode in hand.
+  const isPlayable = !isShow || !!ep;
+  const plang = plexLang(lang);
+  // Which episode a show would play, for the preview: asked once the pointer rests on the card, and
+  // fresh every time (staleTime 0), since a watch anywhere moves it.
+  const upNextQ = useQuery({
+    queryKey: qk.plexShowNext(card.id, plang),
+    queryFn: () => api.plexShowNext(card.id, plang),
+    enabled: isShow && !ep && preview.open,
+    staleTime: 0,
+  });
+  const upNext = ep ?? upNextQ.data?.next ?? null;
   // What the hover row acts on: the episode a show would play, else the card itself.
   const acted = ep ?? card;
   const watched = card.status === "watched";
@@ -320,6 +347,8 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
   const add = isPlayable && onAdd ? () => onAdd(acted) : undefined;
   // The next episode by name: its numbers, or its title when Plex has none for it.
   const nextName = ep && episodeName(ep);
+  const started = plexStarted(ep ?? card);
+  const showPage = ep ? onInfo : isShow && onPage ? () => onPage(card) : undefined;
   // A show has no length: its corner says how many seasons it has instead, so the corner alone tells
   // a movie from a show (the film/TV glyph it replaces said the same thing a second time).
   const corner =
@@ -354,10 +383,10 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
             label={name}
             onOpen={onOpen}
             onRestart={onRestart}
-            plays={isPlayable}
+            plays
             small={shelf && landscape}
             pct={pct}
-            started={plexStarted(acted)}
+            started={started}
             bar={
               <HoverBar
                 watched={actedWatched}
@@ -373,7 +402,7 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
                 onToggleWatched={toggle}
                 addLabel={t(plexAddLabelKey(acted))}
                 onAdd={add}
-                onInfo={ep ? onInfo : undefined}
+                onInfo={showPage}
                 more={m}
               />
             }
@@ -385,7 +414,7 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
           </PlexPicture>
         }
         title={
-          <CardTitle onClick={onOpen} shelf={shelf}>
+          <CardTitle onClick={onPage && (() => onPage(titled))} shelf={shelf}>
             {asShow ? card.show_title : card.title}
           </CardTitle>
         }
@@ -423,6 +452,7 @@ export function PlexPosterCard({
             {rating}
           </span>
         }
+        note={upNext && t("plex.nextUp", { name: episodeLine(upNext) })}
         summary={card.summary}
       />
     </>
@@ -628,12 +658,18 @@ export function CastRow({
 export function RelatedStrip({
   related,
   onOpen,
+  onPlay,
+  onRestart,
   menuProps,
   menuButtonProps,
   openId = null,
 }: {
   related: PlexCard[];
+  /** A related show's page (its title and its ⓘ). */
   onOpen: (c: PlexCard) => void;
+  /** Its picture: the episode it would play, as on every show card. */
+  onPlay: (c: PlexCard) => void;
+  onRestart: (c: PlexCard) => void;
   /** The page's Plex menu (a related show is a Plex card like any other: DESIGN.md C1). */
   menuProps?: (c: PlexCard) => Record<string, unknown>;
   menuButtonProps?: (c: PlexCard) => Record<string, unknown>;
@@ -654,7 +690,9 @@ export function RelatedStrip({
               card={r}
               shelf
               navIndex={i}
-              onOpen={() => onOpen(r)}
+              onOpen={() => onPlay(r)}
+              onRestart={() => onRestart(r)}
+              onPage={onOpen}
               menuProps={menuProps}
               menuButtonProps={menuButtonProps}
               menuOpen={openId === r.id}
@@ -677,9 +715,12 @@ export function EpisodeCard({
   menuButtonProps,
   menuOpen = false,
   navIndex,
+  onPage,
 }: {
   ep: PlexCard;
   onPlay: () => void;
+  /** The episode's info page: the title's link (the picture plays). */
+  onPage?: () => void;
   /** Play the episode from its start, not its resume point (C5). */
   onRestart?: () => void;
   onAdd?: () => void;
@@ -732,7 +773,7 @@ export function EpisodeCard({
         </PlexPicture>
       }
       title={
-        <CardTitle onClick={onPlay}>
+        <CardTitle onClick={onPage}>
           {!withShowTitle && ep.episode_number != null && (
             <span className="text-muted mr-1">{ep.episode_number}.</span>
           )}

frontend/src/components/plexShow.aside.dom.test.tsx

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ function renderShow(onFilter = vi.fn(), onOpenPerson = vi.fn()) {
         onPlay={() => {}}
         onOpenSeason={() => {}}
         onOpenShow={() => {}}
+        onPlayShow={() => {}}
         onFilter={onFilter}
         onOpenPerson={onOpenPerson}
       />

frontend/src/components/plexViews.restart.dom.test.tsx

@@ -108,7 +108,15 @@ const ALL = ["e11", "e12", "e21", "e22"];
 describe("the restart button on a show and a season", () => {
   it("a season's names the season and its first episode, and starts that episode at 0", async () => {
     const onPlay = vi.fn();
-    wrap(<PlexSeasonView showId="show" seasonId="s2" onBack={() => {}} onPlay={onPlay} />);
+    wrap(
+      <PlexSeasonView
+        showId="show"
+        seasonId="s2"
+        onBack={() => {}}
+        onPlay={onPlay}
+        onInfoCard={() => {}}
+      />,
+    );
     const btn = await screen.findByRole("button", { name: /plex\.series\.seasonFromStart/ });
     expect(btn.textContent).toContain("S2 · E1");
     fireEvent.click(btn);
@@ -124,6 +132,7 @@ describe("the restart button on a show and a season", () => {
         onPlay={onPlay}
         onOpenSeason={() => {}}
         onOpenShow={() => {}}
+        onPlayShow={() => {}}
       />,
     );
     const btn = await screen.findByRole("button", { name: /plex\.series\.showFromStart/ });
@@ -146,6 +155,7 @@ describe("the show page's summary", () => {
           onPlay={() => {}}
           onOpenSeason={() => {}}
           onOpenShow={() => {}}
+          onPlayShow={() => {}}
         />,
       );
       fireEvent.click(await screen.findByText("plex.textMore"));

frontend/src/components/plexViews.tsx

@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ export function PlexInfoView({
   onPlayItem,
   onFilter,
   onOpenPerson,
+  onOpenShow,
+  onOpenSeason,
+  onOpenInfo,
 }: {
   id: string;
   onBack: () => void;
@@ -85,6 +88,9 @@ export function PlexInfoView({
   onPlayItem: (id: string, fromStart?: boolean) => void;
   onFilter: (patch: Partial<PlexFilters>) => void;
   onOpenPerson: (name: string) => void;
+  onOpenShow: (showId: string) => void;
+  onOpenSeason: (showId: string, seasonId: string) => void;
+  onOpenInfo: (id: string) => void;
 }) {
   const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
   const lang = plexLang(i18n.language);
@@ -113,6 +119,9 @@ export function PlexInfoView({
             onPlayItem={onPlayItem}
             onFilter={onFilter}
             onOpenPerson={onOpenPerson}
+            onOpenShow={onOpenShow}
+            onOpenSeason={onOpenSeason}
+            onOpenInfo={onOpenInfo}
             // No onStateChange: PlexInfo.setState already invalidates qk.plexItem(id) (this very
             // query), so q refetches automatically — a manual refetch here just double-fetched.
           />
@@ -238,6 +247,7 @@ export function PlexPersonView({
               navIndex={i}
               card={c}
               onOpen={() => onOpenCard(c)}
+              onPage={onInfoCard}
               onToggleWatched={toggle}
               {...cardMenu(c)}
             />
@@ -372,6 +382,7 @@ export function PlexPersonView({
                           card={c}
                           navIndex={i}
                           onOpen={() => onOpenCard(c)}
+                          onPage={onInfoCard}
                           onToggleWatched={toggle}
                           {...cardMenu(c)}
                         />
@@ -411,6 +422,7 @@ export function PlexShowView({
   onPlay,
   onOpenSeason,
   onOpenShow,
+  onPlayShow,
   onFilter,
   onOpenPerson,
 }: {
@@ -419,6 +431,8 @@ export function PlexShowView({
   onPlay: (epRk: string, queue: string[], fromStart?: boolean) => void;
   onOpenSeason: (seasonId: string) => void;
   onOpenShow: (id: string) => void;
+  /** A related show's picture: the episode it would play, as on every show card. */
+  onPlayShow: (show: PlexCard, fromStart: boolean) => void;
   onFilter?: (patch: Partial<PlexFilters>) => void;
   onOpenPerson?: (name: string) => void;
 }) {
@@ -435,7 +449,14 @@ export function PlexShowView({
   const [collOpen, setCollOpen] = useState(false);
   const [busy, setBusy] = useState(false);
   const relatedMenu = useContextMenu<PlexCard>();
-  const related = usePlexCardActions({ onOpen: (c) => onOpenShow(c.id) }, relatedMenu.open);
+  const related = usePlexCardActions(
+    {
+      onOpen: (c) => onPlayShow(c, false),
+      onRestart: (c) => onPlayShow(c, true),
+      onInfo: (c) => onOpenShow(c.id),
+    },
+    relatedMenu.open,
+  );
   const seasonMenu = useContextMenu<PlexSeasonDetail>();
   const copy = useCopyItems();
 
@@ -732,6 +753,8 @@ export function PlexShowView({
             <RelatedStrip
               related={d.related}
               onOpen={(c) => onOpenShow(c.id)}
+              onPlay={(c) => onPlayShow(c, false)}
+              onRestart={(c) => onPlayShow(c, true)}
               menuProps={relatedMenu.triggerProps}
               menuButtonProps={relatedMenu.buttonProps}
               openId={relatedMenu.open ? (relatedMenu.target?.id ?? null) : null}
@@ -765,11 +788,13 @@ export function PlexSeasonView({
   seasonId,
   onBack,
   onPlay,
+  onInfoCard,
 }: {
   showId: string;
   seasonId: string;
   onBack: () => void;
   onPlay: (epRk: string, queue: string[], fromStart?: boolean) => void;
+  onInfoCard: (card: PlexCard) => void;
 }) {
   const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
   const qc = useQueryClient();
@@ -822,6 +847,7 @@ export function PlexSeasonView({
     {
       onOpen: (ep) => onPlay(ep.id, allKeys),
       onRestart: (ep) => onPlay(ep.id, allKeys, true),
+      onInfo: onInfoCard,
       onToggleWatched: (ep) => void markEpisode(ep),
     },
     epMenu.open,
@@ -918,6 +944,7 @@ export function PlexSeasonView({
                 navIndex={i}
                 ep={ep}
                 onPlay={() => onPlay(ep.id, allKeys)}
+                onPage={() => onInfoCard(ep)}
                 onRestart={() => onPlay(ep.id, allKeys, true)}
                 onAdd={() => episodes.add(ep)}
                 onToggleWatched={() => markEpisode(ep)}

frontend/src/components/ui/ClampedText.dom.test.tsx

@@ -45,6 +45,39 @@ describe("ClampedText", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("opens when focus reaches a link the cut hides, and not for one in sight", () => {
+    const tall = vi.spyOn(HTMLElement.prototype, "scrollHeight", "get").mockReturnValue(400);
+    const box = vi.spyOn(HTMLElement.prototype, "clientHeight", "get").mockReturnValue(60);
+    const rect = (top: number, bottom: number) => ({ top, bottom }) as DOMRect;
+    try {
+      render(
+        <ClampedText text="t" lines={3} moreLabel="More" lessLabel="Less">
+          <a href="#a">seen</a>
+          <a href="#b">cut</a>
+        </ClampedText>,
+      );
+      const clamp = screen.getByText("seen").parentElement!;
+      vi.spyOn(clamp, "getBoundingClientRect").mockReturnValue(rect(100, 160));
+      vi.spyOn(screen.getByText("seen"), "getBoundingClientRect").mockReturnValue(rect(100, 120));
+      act(() => screen.getByText("seen").focus());
+      expect(screen.getByText("More")).toBeTruthy();
+      // A Tab onto a link below the cut. The browser scrolls the clamped box to show it (measured in
+      // Chrome: 45 px), so on screen the link sits inside the box: only the text's own top tells.
+      clamp.scrollTop = 240;
+      vi.spyOn(screen.getByText("cut"), "getBoundingClientRect").mockReturnValue(rect(130, 150));
+      // Opened, the link drops back to its place in the text, as far as the box had scrolled: in a
+      // scrolling panel that is out of sight, so it is brought back into view.
+      const reveal = vi.fn();
+      screen.getByText("cut").scrollIntoView = reveal;
+      act(() => screen.getByText("cut").focus());
+      expect(screen.getByText("Less").getAttribute("aria-expanded")).toBe("true");
+      expect(reveal).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ block: "nearest" });
+    } finally {
+      tall.mockRestore();
+      box.mockRestore();
+    }
+  });
+
   it("starts another text collapsed: a reused view opening the next item", () => {
     const tall = vi.spyOn(HTMLElement.prototype, "scrollHeight", "get").mockReturnValue(400);
     const box = vi.spyOn(HTMLElement.prototype, "clientHeight", "get").mockReturnValue(60);

frontend/src/components/ui/ClampedText.tsx

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { useLayoutEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { useLayoutEffect, useRef, useState, type FocusEvent, type ReactNode } from "react";
 import { Button } from "./Button";
 
 // Static class names, so Tailwind sees them.
@@ -8,19 +8,27 @@ const CLAMP = { 3: "line-clamp-3", 5: "line-clamp-5", 8: "line-clamp-8" } as con
  *  when the text is actually cut — measured, so a short text carries no dead button. Re-measured on a
  *  resize: the window and the text-size slider both move where the cut falls. Another text starts
  *  collapsed: a view reused for the next item (a show page opening another show) must not open its
- *  text already expanded. */
+ *  text already expanded. `children` draws the text in a richer form (a description's links and
+ *  timestamps); `text` still names it, so another text is still another text. A link the cut hides
+ *  stays in the tab order (it is still text), so reaching it opens the text: focus never sits on
+ *  something out of sight. */
 export function ClampedText({
   text,
   lines,
   moreLabel,
   lessLabel,
   className,
+  textClassName = "measure whitespace-pre-line text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted",
+  children,
 }: {
   text: string;
   lines: keyof typeof CLAMP;
   moreLabel: string;
   lessLabel: string;
   className?: string;
+  /** The text box's own dress (the default: a summary's muted paragraph). */
+  textClassName?: string;
+  children?: ReactNode;
 }) {
   const [expanded, setExpanded] = useState(false);
   const [clipped, setClipped] = useState(false);
@@ -29,7 +37,7 @@ export function ClampedText({
     setShown(text);
     setExpanded(false);
   }
-  const ref = useRef<HTMLParagraphElement>(null);
+  const ref = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   useLayoutEffect(() => {
     const el = ref.current;
     if (!el || expanded) return;
@@ -39,14 +47,33 @@ export function ClampedText({
     ro.observe(el);
     return () => ro.disconnect();
   }, [text, expanded]);
+  // Measured from the text's top, not against the box on screen: focus scrolls the clamped box itself
+  // to bring the link into view (overflow:hidden still scrolls), so on screen it looked "in sight".
+  const revealing = useRef<Element | null>(null);
+  const revealFocused = (e: FocusEvent<HTMLDivElement>) => {
+    const box = e.currentTarget;
+    if (expanded || e.target === box) return;
+    const top = box.getBoundingClientRect().top - box.scrollTop;
+    if (e.target.getBoundingClientRect().bottom - top <= box.clientHeight + 1) return;
+    revealing.current = e.target;
+    setExpanded(true);
+  };
+  // That scroll was the box's own: opened, the link drops back to its place in the text, as far below
+  // as the box had scrolled, and out of a scrolling panel's sight. Brought back into view.
+  useLayoutEffect(() => {
+    const el = revealing.current;
+    revealing.current = null;
+    if (expanded && el?.isConnected) el.scrollIntoView({ block: "nearest" });
+  }, [expanded]);
   return (
     <div className={className}>
-      <p
+      <div
         ref={ref}
-        className={`measure whitespace-pre-line text-sm leading-relaxed text-muted ${expanded ? "" : CLAMP[lines]}`}
+        className={`${textClassName} ${expanded ? "" : CLAMP[lines]}`}
+        onFocus={revealFocused}
       >
-        {text}
-      </p>
+        {children ?? text}
+      </div>
       {(clipped || expanded) && (
         <Button
           variant="link"

frontend/src/components/ui/MediaPreview.tsx

@@ -18,12 +18,15 @@ export function MediaPreview({
   preview,
   title,
   facts,
+  note,
   summary,
 }: {
   preview: ReturnType<typeof useMediaPreview>;
   title: string;
   /** One line under the title: year, length, score. */
   facts?: ReactNode;
+  /** A line of its own under the facts (a show's "Next: S6·E16 — Title"). */
+  note?: ReactNode;
   summary?: string | null;
 }) {
   return (
@@ -36,7 +39,12 @@ export function MediaPreview({
     >
       <p className="text-sm font-semibold leading-snug text-fg">{title}</p>
       {facts && <div className="mt-0.5 text-xs text-muted">{facts}</div>}
-      {summary && <p className="mt-2 line-clamp-8 text-xs leading-relaxed text-fg">{summary}</p>}
+      {note && <p className="mt-1 text-xs font-medium text-fg">{note}</p>}
+      {summary && (
+        <p className="mt-2 line-clamp-8 whitespace-pre-line text-xs leading-relaxed text-fg">
+          {summary}
+        </p>
+      )}
     </PopoverSurface>
   );
 }

frontend/src/components/ui/MembershipMenu.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef, useState, type ReactNode } from "react";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { Plus } from "lucide-react";
+import { useScrollFade } from "../../lib/useScrollFade";
+import { PopoverItem, PopoverList } from "./AnchoredPopover";
+import { IconButton } from "./IconButton";
+import { Input } from "./Input";
+import { MenuCheck } from "./MenuCheck";
+import { StateMessage } from "./QueryState";
+
+// The body of a "which of these is it in" menu: a checkbox row per set (a playlist, a collection, a
+// tag), and a field that names a new one. Rendered inside an anchored `menu` surface — the video
+// card's "Add to playlist", a Plex title's "Add to collection", a channel's tags. One body, so a fix
+// to its states or keys reaches all three: the copies had drifted (one said a failed load as "none").
+//
+// The surface around it is opened with `hostsInput: true` (no typeahead, no focus on hover), and the
+// name field keeps its keys to itself — except Escape, which closes the menu, and the up/down arrows,
+// which step from the field into the rows: the rows may arrive after the surface opened, when the
+// popover's own first-row focus has already given up and left the focus in the field.
+//
+// The surface is opened with `listInside` too: the menu role sits on the rows' own box, and the lines
+// about them (loading, a failed load with its Retry, none yet), the heading and the field sit beside
+// it — a menu may own its items only. And when the state line swaps for the rows (or back), focus that
+// was on its Retry would be left on <body> with the panel still open, the arrows dead: it is put back
+// in the panel — on the first row, else the field, else the new Retry. A spot it was put on only
+// because the rows were not there yet (the field, while a retry loads) hands on to the first row.
+
+export interface MembershipRow {
+  id: string | number;
+  label: string;
+  checked: boolean;
+  /** A mark after the label (the YouTube glyph on a linked playlist). */
+  extra?: ReactNode;
+}
+
+export function MembershipMenu({
+  heading,
+  rows,
+  onToggle,
+  status = "ready",
+  onRetry,
+  emptyText,
+  errorText,
+  busy = false,
+  create,
+  dense = false,
+}: {
+  heading?: string;
+  rows: MembershipRow[];
+  onToggle: (row: MembershipRow) => void;
+  /** The rows' load: `loading` and `error` say so instead of an empty list. */
+  status?: "loading" | "error" | "ready";
+  onRetry?: () => void;
+  emptyText: string;
+  errorText: string;
+  /** A write is in flight: said on the list (`aria-busy`). The rows stay enabled — a disabled button
+   *  blurs the focused row to <body> mid-request and ends roving focus; the caller no-ops instead. */
+  busy?: boolean;
+  create?: {
+    placeholder: string;
+    ariaLabel?: string;
+    maxLength?: number;
+    /** With a label, a trailing button submits too; without, a leading + marks the field. */
+    submitLabel?: string;
+    /** Resolves true when the field should clear (the new set was made). */
+    onCreate: (name: string) => boolean | Promise<boolean>;
+  };
+  /** The smaller rows of a menu inside a table cell (a channel's tags). */
+  dense?: boolean;
+}) {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const { ref: fadeRef, style: fadeStyle } = useScrollFade();
+  const listRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+  const rootRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
+  const [draft, setDraft] = useState("");
+
+  const shownStatus = useRef(status);
+  const placed = useRef<HTMLElement | null>(null);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (shownStatus.current === status) return;
+    shownStatus.current = status;
+    // A frame later: rows that just mounted join the menu's list a render after this effect, and a
+    // row focused before that is not known to it — the arrows then did nothing from it.
+    const frame = requestAnimationFrame(() => {
+      const root = rootRef.current;
+      const at = document.activeElement;
+      // …unless a name is being typed into it meanwhile.
+      const parked = at === placed.current && !(at instanceof HTMLInputElement && at.value);
+      const lost = at == null || at === document.body || parked;
+      if (!root || !lost) return;
+      const target =
+        root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("[role=menuitemcheckbox]") ??
+        root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("input") ??
+        root.querySelector<HTMLElement>("button");
+      target?.focus();
+      placed.current = target;
+    });
+    return () => cancelAnimationFrame(frame);
+  }, [status]);
+
+  async function submit() {
+    const name = draft.trim();
+    if (!name) return;
+    if (await create?.onCreate(name)) setDraft("");
+  }
+
+  function intoRows(key: string) {
+    const items = listRef.current?.querySelectorAll<HTMLElement>("[role=menuitemcheckbox]");
+    const row = key === "ArrowDown" ? items?.[0] : items?.[items.length - 1];
+    row?.focus();
+  }
+
+  const setList = (node: HTMLDivElement | null) => {
+    listRef.current = node;
+    fadeRef(node);
+  };
+
+  const rowText = dense ? "text-xs px-2" : "text-sm px-1.5";
+  return (
+    // A portal still bubbles through the React tree: keep a click here off the card that opened it.
+    <div ref={rootRef} className="flex flex-col" onClick={(e) => e.stopPropagation()}>
+      {heading && <div className="text-xs text-muted px-1.5 pb-1.5">{heading}</div>}
+      <div
+        ref={setList}
+        style={fadeStyle}
+        aria-busy={busy || status === "loading"}
+        className={`${dense ? "max-h-60" : "max-h-56"} overflow-y-auto no-scrollbar`}
+      >
+        {status === "loading" ? (
+          <StateMessage compact>{t("common.loading")}</StateMessage>
+        ) : status === "error" ? (
+          <StateMessage compact tone="error" onRetry={onRetry}>
+            {errorText}
+          </StateMessage>
+        ) : rows.length === 0 ? (
+          <p className={`text-xs text-muted py-2 ${dense ? "px-2" : "px-1.5"}`}>{emptyText}</p>
+        ) : null}
+        <PopoverList>
+          {status === "ready" &&
+            rows.map((row) => (
+              <PopoverItem
+                key={row.id}
+                // A thing can sit in several sets at once — checkboxes, not one choice.
+                role="menuitemcheckbox"
+                checked={row.checked}
+                onSelect={() => onToggle(row)}
+                label={row.label}
+                className={`w-full flex items-center gap-2 ${rowText} py-1.5 rounded-lg outline-hidden transition ${
+                  dense && !row.checked ? "text-muted" : "text-fg"
+                }`}
+              >
+                <MenuCheck kind="many" on={row.checked} />
+                <span className="truncate flex-1 text-left">{row.label}</span>
+                {row.extra}
+              </PopoverItem>
+            ))}
+        </PopoverList>
+      </div>
+      {create && (
+        <div
+          className={`flex items-center border-t border-border ${dense ? "gap-1 mt-1" : "gap-1.5 mt-1.5"} pt-1.5`}
+        >
+          {!create.submitLabel && <Plus className="w-3.5 h-3.5 text-muted shrink-0" />}
+          <Input
+            className="flex-1"
+            size="sm"
+            value={draft}
+            onChange={(e) => setDraft(e.target.value)}
+            onKeyDown={(e) => {
+              if (e.key === "Escape") return;
+              e.stopPropagation();
+              if (e.key === "ArrowDown" || e.key === "ArrowUp") {
+                e.preventDefault();
+                intoRows(e.key);
+              } else if (e.key === "Enter") {
+                e.preventDefault();
+                void submit();
+              }
+            }}
+            maxLength={create.maxLength}
+            placeholder={create.placeholder}
+            aria-label={create.ariaLabel}
+          />
+          {create.submitLabel && (
+            <IconButton
+              variant="outline"
+              onClick={() => void submit()}
+              disabled={!draft.trim()}
+              label={create.submitLabel}
+            >
+              <Plus />
+            </IconButton>
+          )}
+        </div>
+      )}
+    </div>
+  );
+}

frontend/src/components/ui/README.md

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Counter-examples, deliberately NOT here: `PosterTile` (knows about Plex montage
 
 | area                   | components                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
 | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| overlays & anchoring   | `AnchoredPopover` + `anchoredPopoverHooks` (the popover engine: arrows, typeahead, Escape, anchor-flip), `ActionMenu`, `ContextMenu` + `useContextMenu` (the SAME menu, opened by right-click / long-press / Shift+F10 / a row's `MoreButton` "…" via `buttonProps`; `anchor` for a panel a row opens; `PageMenu` for a page's background menu), `Modal` (+ `ModalFooter`; `initialFocus` by purpose, C4), `Overlay`, `SidePanel`, `Tooltip`, `Toaster` (+ `toastLevels`, `overlayOrder`; `lib/toastDock` docks one control under the stack, in every host), `CommandPalette`, `KeyboardHelp`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
+| overlays & anchoring   | `AnchoredPopover` + `anchoredPopoverHooks` (the popover engine: arrows, typeahead, Escape, anchor-flip), `ActionMenu`, `MembershipMenu` (the body of a "which sets is it in" menu: checkbox rows + a field naming a new set), `ContextMenu` + `useContextMenu` (the SAME menu, opened by right-click / long-press / Shift+F10 / a row's `MoreButton` "…" via `buttonProps`; `anchor` for a panel a row opens; `PageMenu` for a page's background menu), `Modal` (+ `ModalFooter`; `initialFocus` by purpose, C4), `Overlay`, `SidePanel`, `Tooltip`, `Toaster` (+ `toastLevels`, `overlayOrder`; `lib/toastDock` docks one control under the stack, in every host), `CommandPalette`, `KeyboardHelp`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
 | actions & inputs       | `Button`, `IconButton`, `Pressable` (`selectable` when its text is a title or a name), `Chip` + `chipStyles`, `DragHandle` + `OrderButtons` / `useOrderItems` (the non-drag reorder, WCAG 2.5.7) (one per button family, docs/DESIGN.md; a raw `<button>` or a bare `FocusSafeButton` outside the control primitives — eslint `BUTTON_PRIMITIVES` — is a lint error), `Input` + `fieldStyles`, `NativeControls`, `MenuCheck` (the drawn check of a menu row or a whole-row checkbox button), `SelectTrigger` (the field family; a raw `<input>` is a lint error), `useReturnFocus`, `surfaces` (the B5 glass roles; a bare glass class is a lint error), `Badge` (a static label), `LinkButton` / `IconLink` (a link wearing the button face) over `buttonStyles`, `Skeleton` (B8 first loads, through `LoadingState shape`), `NavRail` (B7; `NavRailGroup` folds a set of rare pages into one row with a panel), `form`, `DraftSaveBar`, `Combobox`, `FilterSelect`, `SegmentedToggle`, `SortControl`, `ColumnSortControl`, `PriorityStepper`, `UndoToolbar` |
 | data display           | `DataTable` (+ `progressiveRows`: a long page mounts in steps), `tableHeader` + `tableAlign`, `HiddenFilterCue` (names a filter whose column is off screen), `Pager` + `pagerContent`, `VirtualGrid` + `gridColumns` (the column/width maths, incl. the ultrawide `maxCols` cap), `readAhead`, `Carousel`, `MediaCard` + `mediaCardStyles` (the one media card, docs/DESIGN.md "Media card") + `MediaPreview` / `useMediaPreview` (its mouse-rest preview), `NavGrid` (a plain grid, list or table body the keyboard walks — `DataTable`, `VirtualGrid` and `Carousel` take `keyboardNav`), `Avatar`, `CountBadge`, `ItemCount`, `FilterChipGroup`, `RelativeTime` ("3d ago" with the exact minute on hover, docs/DESIGN.md "Copy"), `ClampedText` (a long text clamped to a few lines; More / Less only when it is cut), `StatTiles` + `StatTile` / `StatBars` (number tiles, a breakdown as horizontal bars)                                                                                                                                                |
 | page & panel structure | `PageShell` + `pageToolbarSlot` + `pageHeading`, `PageScroller`, `Headings` (`PageHeading`, `SectionLabel`), `SkipLink` + `landmarks`, `FilterFold` (B4), `scrollFold` (`useScrollFold`: a fixed header that folds once its content scrolls), `PanelGroup`, `PanelGroups`, `Tabs`, `BackToTop`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |

frontend/src/components/ui/Tooltip.layer.dom.test.tsx

@@ -64,3 +64,41 @@ describe("an open tooltip", () => {
     await waitFor(() => expect(screen.queryByRole("tooltip")).toBeNull());
   });
 });
+
+// On an iPad a tap's synthetic mouseenter showed the caption; WebKit then took the tap as a hover and
+// swallowed its click (every rail button needed two taps), and with no mouseleave the caption stayed.
+describe("a tooltip under a finger", () => {
+  class PointerEventStub extends MouseEvent {
+    pointerType: string;
+    constructor(type: string, init: PointerEventInit = {}) {
+      super(type, init);
+      this.pointerType = init.pointerType ?? "";
+    }
+  }
+  const hover = (trigger: HTMLElement, pointerType: string) =>
+    act(() => {
+      trigger.dispatchEvent(new PointerEventStub("pointerdown", { bubbles: true, pointerType }));
+      trigger.dispatchEvent(new PointerEventStub("pointerenter", { pointerType }));
+      fireEvent.mouseEnter(trigger);
+      fireEvent.mouseMove(trigger);
+    });
+  const mount = () => {
+    render(
+      <Tooltip hint="A hint" always>
+        <button>icon</button>
+      </Tooltip>,
+    );
+    return screen.getByText("icon").parentElement as HTMLElement;
+  };
+
+  it("does not open from a tap", async () => {
+    hover(mount(), "touch");
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 50));
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("tooltip")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("still opens under a mouse", async () => {
+    hover(mount(), "mouse");
+    expect(await screen.findByRole("tooltip")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/ui/Tooltip.tsx

@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ export default function Tooltip({
     // Show/hide on contact by default (as the pre-platform tooltip did); `openDelay` adds a
     // rest-before-show for labels that shouldn't flash on a fast sweep across an icon row.
     hoverDelay: { open: openDelay, close: 0 },
+    // A caption is for a mouse (and a key's focus). Opened by a tap it cost touch the tap itself.
+    mouseHoverOnly: true,
   });
   const { setReference } = pop.refs;
 

frontend/src/components/ui/anchoredPopoverHooks.ts

@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ export interface AnchoredPopoverOptions {
    *  preview (ui/MediaPreview): a keyboard walk down a grid would otherwise pop a panel at every stop,
    *  and a tap is the card's play. */
   pointerOnly?: boolean;
+  /** Hover mode only: never opened by a finger, still by a mouse and a key's focus. A caption over a
+   *  control (ui/Tooltip): on an iPad the tap's synthetic mouseenter showed it, WebKit then took that
+   *  first tap as a hover and swallowed its click (every rail button needed two taps), and with no
+   *  mouseleave from a finger the caption stayed up. */
+  mouseHoverOnly?: boolean;
   /** Index of the item that is currently CHOSEN, for a single-choice menu/listbox. Opening then
    *  lands the roving focus on it instead of the first item — the behaviour a "pick one of these
    *  modes" menu needs. Leave unset for action menus and multi-select toggle lists. */
@@ -166,7 +171,7 @@ export function useAnchoredPopover(opts: AnchoredPopoverOptions) {
     move: false,
     // A hover-card is a pointer affordance either way; a hover-ALSO menu must ignore touch, or the
     // synthetic mouseenter a tap emits would race the click toggle (open, then immediately shut).
-    mouseOnly: !isHover || !!opts.pointerOnly,
+    mouseOnly: !isHover || !!opts.pointerOnly || !!opts.mouseHoverOnly,
     // A submenu wants a shorter intent delay than a hover card: the pointer is already inside a
     // menu, so the "did they mean it" question is mostly answered.
     delay: opts.hoverDelay ?? (isHover ? { open: 120, close: 140 } : { open: 90, close: 120 }),

frontend/src/components/ui/buttonStyles.ts

@@ -46,7 +46,10 @@ const BUTTON_VARIANTS: Record<ButtonVariant, string> = {
   glass: "font-medium glass-card glass-hover act:hover:text-accent",
   // The player chrome is dark in the light theme too: a theme-fg state layer would be a dark wash.
   overlay: "font-medium text-white/80 act:hover:text-white act:hover:bg-white/15",
-  media: "font-medium bg-black/60 text-white act:hover:bg-black/75",
+  // On a picture a layer is lost in the picture's own light and dark: the hover is the accent edge
+  // (B3's edged-pill rule), a 2px ring over a darker body (owner pick B).
+  media:
+    "font-medium bg-black/60 text-white act:hover:bg-black/80 act:hover:ring-2 act:hover:ring-accent",
   "danger-soft":
     "font-medium border border-danger/60 text-danger state-layer act:hover:border-danger",
   link: "font-semibold text-accent act:hover:underline",
@@ -112,7 +115,7 @@ const ICON_VARIANTS: Record<IconButtonVariant, string> = {
   glass: "glass-card glass-hover act:hover:text-accent",
   // The player chrome and a thumbnail are dark in the light theme too, so these two paint with
   // white and black, not with the theme's fg (whose state layer would be a dark wash on a dark video).
-  media: "bg-black/60 text-white act:hover:bg-black/75",
+  media: "bg-black/60 text-white act:hover:bg-black/80 act:hover:ring-2 act:hover:ring-accent",
   overlay: "text-white/80 act:hover:text-white act:hover:bg-white/15",
 };
 

frontend/src/components/ui/dialogFocus.ts

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ export function trapTab(
 // second copy of the lock is gone.
 let scrollLocks = 0;
 let unlockedOverflow = "";
-function lockBodyScroll(): () => void {
+export function lockBodyScroll(): () => void {
   if (scrollLocks++ === 0) {
     unlockedOverflow = document.body.style.overflow;
     document.body.style.overflow = "hidden";

frontend/src/components/ui/mediaCardStyles.ts

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export const MEDIA_PICTURE_CONTAINER = "@container/pic has-[.media-bar]:[--bar-r
  *  (measured). The cut is in rem, so it moves with the text size too: a picture under 14rem wide.
  *  Only where a row is there to clear (`--bar-room`, MEDIA_PICTURE_CONTAINER). */
 export const MEDIA_HOVER_LAYER =
-  "reveal-hover absolute inset-0 flex items-center justify-center gap-2 bg-black/45 opacity-0 transition-opacity group-hover:opacity-100 group-focus-within:opacity-100 @max-[14rem]/pic:pb-(--bar-room)";
+  "reveal-hover absolute inset-0 flex items-center justify-center gap-2 bg-black/45 opacity-0 transition-opacity group-hover:opacity-100 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 group-has-focus-visible:opacity-100 @max-[14rem]/pic:pb-(--bar-room)";
 
 /** The layer that holds a started title's Continue + Restart pair over the picture: a sibling of the
  *  picture's button, never inside it (C5). Narrow, it leaves the hover row its band as the Play does. */

frontend/src/components/ui/pressableSelectable.contract.test.ts

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ const PLAIN: Record<string, [number, string]> = {
   "LanguageSwitcher.tsx": [1, "an option row"],
   "NavSidebar.tsx": [4, "the account trigger and its menu rows"],
   "PaletteLauncher.tsx": [2, "launcher controls"],
-  "PlayerModal.tsx": [2, "previous / next arrows"],
   "PlaylistsRail.tsx": [1, "the load-error retry"],
   "PlexCollectionEditor.tsx": [1, "a checkbox row in a picker"],
   "PlexInfo.tsx": [1, "the rating filter (a number)"],

frontend/src/components/ui/reveal.ts

@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-// A card's hover chrome: shown when the card is hovered or holds keyboard focus on a mouse,
+// A card's hover chrome: shown when the card is hovered or holds KEYBOARD focus on a mouse,
 // removed on touch (`.reveal-hover`, index.css), where the card offers the same actions through its
 // "…" beside the title. One string, so the video card and the Plex cards reveal the same way.
+// Keyboard focus is `:focus-visible` on the card or inside it, not any focus: Back from a channel
+// page hands the card its focus back, and with `:focus-within` the row stayed up under no pointer
+// until a reload (owner).
 export const HOVER_REVEAL =
-  "reveal-hover opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100 group-focus-within:opacity-100 transition-opacity";
+  "reveal-hover opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 group-has-focus-visible:opacity-100 transition-opacity";
 
 /** What sits under that chrome at rest (a duration, a watched pill) steps aside while it shows. */
-export const HOVER_YIELD = "transition-opacity group-hover:opacity-0 group-focus-within:opacity-0";
+export const HOVER_YIELD =
+  "transition-opacity group-hover:opacity-0 group-focus-visible:opacity-0 group-has-focus-visible:opacity-0";

frontend/src/components/ui/useMediaPreview.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ export function useMediaPreview(enabled = true) {
   });
   return {
     popover: pop,
+    /** The preview is up: the pointer has rested on the card (what a card may fetch for it waits on). */
+    open: open && enabled,
     /** The card root's props: the anchor, the hover wiring, and a close on any press — merged with
      *  the root's own (its menu's right-click and long-press). */
     rootProps: (own: HTMLAttributes<HTMLDivElement> & Record<string, unknown> = {}) => ({

frontend/src/components/usePlayShow.dom.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+//
+// A show's card plays (the owner, 2026-10-09): the click asks the server which episode, every time —
+// a preview answer from before a watch elsewhere must not decide it.
+import { describe, it, expect, vi, afterEach } from "vitest";
+import { renderHook, act } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { QueryClient, QueryClientProvider } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import type { ReactNode } from "react";
+
+const notified = vi.hoisted(() => vi.fn());
+vi.mock("../lib/actionErrors", () => ({ notifyActionError: notified }));
+vi.mock("react-i18next", async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<typeof import("react-i18next")>()),
+  useTranslation: () => ({ t: (k: string) => k, i18n: { language: "hu" } }),
+}));
+
+import { api, type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { usePlayShow } from "./usePlayShow";
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  notified.mockReset();
+});
+
+const show: PlexCard = { id: "sh", type: "show", title: "Show", thumb: "" };
+const ep = (id: string): PlexCard => ({ id, type: "episode", title: id, thumb: "" });
+
+function mount() {
+  const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+  const play = vi.fn();
+  const openShow = vi.fn();
+  const { result, rerender, unmount } = renderHook(
+    ({ here }: { here: unknown }) => usePlayShow(play, openShow, here),
+    {
+      initialProps: { here: "grid" as unknown },
+      wrapper: ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => (
+        <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+      ),
+    },
+  );
+  return { qc, play, openShow, playShow: result.current, rerender, unmount };
+}
+
+/** Answers the test hands out one by one, in the order it chooses. */
+function answers() {
+  const pending: ((v: { next: PlexCard | null }) => void)[] = [];
+  vi.spyOn(api, "plexShowNext").mockImplementation(() => new Promise((r) => void pending.push(r)));
+  return pending;
+}
+
+describe("usePlayShow", () => {
+  it("plays the episode the server names, from the start when asked to", async () => {
+    const ask = vi.spyOn(api, "plexShowNext").mockResolvedValue({ next: ep("e7") });
+    const { play, openShow, playShow } = mount();
+    await act(() => playShow(show, true));
+    expect(ask).toHaveBeenCalledWith("sh", "hu");
+    expect(play).toHaveBeenCalledWith("e7", true);
+    expect(openShow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("asks again rather than play what the preview cached before a watch", async () => {
+    const ask = vi.spyOn(api, "plexShowNext").mockResolvedValue({ next: ep("e8") });
+    const { qc, play, playShow } = mount();
+    qc.setQueryData(qk.plexShowNext("sh", "hu"), { next: ep("e7") });
+    await act(() => playShow(show, false));
+    expect(ask).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(play).toHaveBeenCalledWith("e8", false);
+  });
+
+  it("opens the page of a show with nothing to play", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexShowNext").mockResolvedValue({ next: null });
+    const { play, openShow, playShow } = mount();
+    await act(() => playShow(show, false));
+    expect(openShow).toHaveBeenCalledWith("sh");
+    expect(play).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("acts on the last click only: an earlier, slower answer is dropped", async () => {
+    const pending = answers();
+    const { play, playShow } = mount();
+    const first = playShow({ ...show, id: "a" }, false);
+    const second = playShow({ ...show, id: "b" }, false);
+    await act(async () => pending[1]!({ next: ep("b1") }));
+    await act(async () => pending[0]!({ next: ep("a1") }));
+    await act(() => Promise.all([first, second]));
+    expect(play.mock.calls).toEqual([["b1", false]]);
+  });
+
+  it("drops an answer that lands after the viewer has moved on, or left", async () => {
+    const pending = answers();
+    const { play, openShow, playShow, rerender, unmount } = mount();
+    const moved = playShow(show, false);
+    rerender({ here: "info" });
+    await act(async () => pending[0]!({ next: ep("e1") }));
+    await act(() => moved);
+    expect(play).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    const left = playShow(show, false);
+    unmount();
+    await act(async () => pending[1]!({ next: null }));
+    await act(() => left);
+    expect(openShow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("says so when the question fails, and opens nothing", async () => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "plexShowNext").mockRejectedValue(new Error("down"));
+    const { play, openShow, playShow } = mount();
+    await act(() => playShow(show, false));
+    expect(notified).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.any(Error), "plex.playShowFailed");
+    expect(play).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(openShow).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/usePlayShow.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { useEffect, useRef } from "react";
+import { useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { api, type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import { notifyActionError } from "../lib/actionErrors";
+import { plexLang } from "../i18n";
+import { useLatest } from "../lib/useLatest";
+
+/** A show's card plays like any card: the episode in progress, else the first unwatched, else the
+ *  first (`/show/{id}/next`). Asked fresh on the click, since the card's preview may hold an answer
+ *  from before a watch somewhere else. A show with no episodes has nothing to play, so its page opens
+ *  (`openShow`) and says so; a failed question is a toast, and nothing opens.
+ *
+ *  The answer acts only for the LAST click, and only where it was made (`here`, the caller's view): a
+ *  slow answer to a click the viewer has since moved on from (another card, Back, another module)
+ *  would otherwise pull them into a player they no longer asked for. */
+export function usePlayShow(
+  play: (episodeId: string, fromStart: boolean) => void,
+  openShow: (showId: string) => void,
+  here: unknown,
+) {
+  const qc = useQueryClient();
+  const at = useLatest(here);
+  const asked = useRef(0);
+  // Unmounted, nothing of it may navigate any more.
+  useEffect(() => () => void ++asked.current, []);
+  const { t, i18n } = useTranslation();
+  const lang = plexLang(i18n.language);
+  // `undefined` when the question failed (said in the toast).
+  const next = (id: string) =>
+    qc
+      .fetchQuery({
+        queryKey: qk.plexShowNext(id, lang),
+        queryFn: () => api.plexShowNext(id, lang),
+        staleTime: 0,
+      })
+      .then(
+        (r) => r.next,
+        (e: unknown) => void notifyActionError(e, t("plex.playShowFailed")),
+      );
+  return async (show: PlexCard, fromStart: boolean) => {
+    const ask = ++asked.current;
+    const from = at.current;
+    const ep = await next(show.id);
+    if (ask !== asked.current || at.current !== from || ep === undefined) return;
+    if (ep) play(ep.id, fromStart);
+    else openShow(show.id);
+  };
+}

frontend/src/components/usePlexCardActions.tsx

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 import { useState } from "react";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
-import { Check, Info, ListPlus, Play, SkipBack, Tv2, Undo2 } from "lucide-react";
+import { useQueryClient } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+import { Check, Info, Layers, ListPlus, Play, SkipBack, Tv2, Undo2 } from "lucide-react";
 
 import { type PlexCard } from "../lib/api";
+import { qk } from "../lib/queryKeys";
+import PlexCollectionAddAt, { type PlexCollectionTarget } from "./PlexCollectionAdd";
 import { pinPlex, useComfortPin } from "./comfortPin";
 import { useCopyItems } from "./copyItems";
 import PlexPlaylistAdd, { type PlexAddTarget } from "./PlexPlaylistAdd";
@@ -14,8 +17,10 @@ import { type ActionMenuItem } from "./ui/ActionMenu";
 // the everyday toggles (watched, add to playlist) on hover; details, copy and the pin live here.
 
 export interface PlexActionHandlers {
+  /** Play it: a show, the episode it would play (the surface resolves it). */
   onOpen: (c: PlexCard) => void;
-  /** The media-info page. Omitted where a surface has none (the episode lists). */
+  /** The media-info page, or a show's own page. Omitted where a surface has none (the episode
+   *  lists). */
   onInfo?: (c: PlexCard) => void;
   onToggleWatched?: (c: PlexCard) => void;
   /** Play from the start instead of the resume point (C5). Where given, a started title lists it
@@ -29,13 +34,18 @@ const icon = "w-4 h-4";
 export const plexAddLabelKey = (c: PlexCard): string =>
   c.type === "episode" ? "plex.playlist.addEpisode" : "plex.playlistAdd.manage";
 
-/** A show opens its drill-down; a movie or an episode plays. */
+/** A leaf: a movie or an episode, what the watched toggle, the playlist add and a resume point
+ *  belong to. A show plays too, through the episode it resolves to. */
 const isPlexPlayable = (c: PlexCard): boolean => c.type !== "show";
 
 /** Has a resume point: the click continues it, and "from the start" is a choice. A watched item is
- *  stored at 0, so it never counts. */
+ *  stored at 0, so it never counts. A show has one when an episode does (`resumable`, the episode its
+ *  click plays): part watched with its next episode untouched, Continue and Restart would be the same
+ *  thing, so it is not "started" here — its in-progress badge says how far it has got. */
 export const plexStarted = (c: PlexCard): boolean =>
-  isPlexPlayable(c) && c.status !== "watched" && (c.position_seconds ?? 0) > 0;
+  isPlexPlayable(c)
+    ? c.status !== "watched" && (c.position_seconds ?? 0) > 0
+    : c.resumable === true;
 
 /** `open` is the host menu's own flag (the shelf is fetched only once a menu opened). Returns the
  *  item builder, `add` for the card's own hover button, and the dialog to render beside the menu
@@ -46,18 +56,31 @@ export function usePlexCardActions(handlers: PlexActionHandlers, open: boolean)
   const copy = useCopyItems();
   const addLabel = (c: PlexCard) => t(plexAddLabelKey(c));
   const [adding, setAdding] = useState<PlexAddTarget | null>(null);
+  const [collecting, setCollecting] = useState<PlexCollectionTarget | null>(null);
+  // Collections are shared and written to Plex itself, so only an admin edits them (as on the title's
+  // own page).
+  const qc = useQueryClient();
+  const isAdmin = qc.getQueryData<{ role?: string }>(qk.me())?.role === "admin";
   // A whole show needs its episode keys, which only the show page has ("Add whole show" there), so
   // only a leaf is added from a card.
   const add = (c: PlexCard) => setAdding({ kind: "single", ratingKey: c.id, title: c.title });
 
   /** `play: false` where the host menu leads with its own Play row (Home's shelf resolves `next`);
-   *  `pin: false` where the host carries its own shelf rows or the object is not a pin kind. */
+   *  `pin: false` where the host carries its own shelf rows or the object is not a pin kind;
+   *  `anchor`: the element the menu came from, which "Add to collection…" opens its panel beside —
+   *  without one the row is left out rather than opening the panel at a corner. Required, so every
+   *  host menu decides: an optional one let a menu that has an anchor drop the row silently. */
   const items = (
     c: PlexCard,
-    { play = true, pin: withPin = true }: { play?: boolean; pin?: boolean } = {},
+    {
+      play = true,
+      pin: withPin = true,
+      anchor,
+    }: { play?: boolean; pin?: boolean; anchor: Element | null },
   ): ActionMenuItem[] => {
     const { onOpen, onInfo, onToggleWatched, onRestart } = handlers;
     const playable = isPlexPlayable(c);
+    const isShow = c.type === "show";
     const watched = c.status === "watched";
     const started = plexStarted(c);
     return [
@@ -65,8 +88,8 @@ export function usePlexCardActions(handlers: PlexActionHandlers, open: boolean)
         ? [
             {
               id: "play",
-              label: !playable ? t("plex.openShow") : started ? t("card.continue") : t("plex.play"),
-              icon: playable ? <Play className={icon} /> : <Tv2 className={icon} />,
+              label: started ? t("card.continue") : t("plex.play"),
+              icon: <Play className={icon} />,
               onSelect: () => onOpen(c),
             },
             // The same words and glyph as the video card's menu (useVideoActions).
@@ -104,23 +127,42 @@ export function usePlexCardActions(handlers: PlexActionHandlers, open: boolean)
             },
           ]
         : []),
-      ...(playable && onInfo
+      // A movie or a show can be a collection member; an episode cannot.
+      ...(isAdmin && anchor && c.type !== "episode"
+        ? [
+            {
+              id: "collection",
+              label: t("plex.collectionAdd.row"),
+              icon: <Layers className={icon} />,
+              separatorBefore: !playable,
+              onSelect: () => setCollecting({ ratingKey: c.id, anchor }),
+            },
+          ]
+        : []),
+      ...(onInfo
         ? [
             {
               id: "details",
-              label: t("plex.info.title"),
-              icon: <Info className={icon} />,
+              label: isShow ? t("plex.openShow") : t("plex.info.title"),
+              icon: isShow ? <Tv2 className={icon} /> : <Info className={icon} />,
               separatorBefore: true,
               onSelect: () => onInfo(c),
             },
           ]
         : []),
-      ...copy(c.title, null).map((it) => ({ ...it, separatorBefore: !(playable && onInfo) })),
+      ...copy(c.title, null).map((it) => ({ ...it, separatorBefore: !onInfo })),
       ...(withPin ? pin.item(pinPlex(c), c.title) : []),
     ];
   };
 
-  const panel = adding && <PlexPlaylistAdd target={adding} onClose={() => setAdding(null)} />;
+  const panel = (
+    <>
+      {adding && <PlexPlaylistAdd target={adding} onClose={() => setAdding(null)} />}
+      {collecting && (
+        <PlexCollectionAddAt target={collecting} onClose={() => setCollecting(null)} />
+      )}
+    </>
+  );
   return { items, add, panel };
 }
 

frontend/src/components/useVideoActions.dom.test.tsx

@@ -55,3 +55,52 @@ describe("the video menu's download row", () => {
     expect(none().note).toBeUndefined();
   });
 });
+
+// The feed's channel filter from a card (owner): under "Open the channel", a row that adds the card's
+// channel to the filter, or takes it out again when it is already in.
+describe("the video menu's channel-filter row", () => {
+  const menu = (ids: string[] | null) => {
+    vi.spyOn(api, "downloadIndex").mockResolvedValue({});
+    const set = vi.fn();
+    const qc = new QueryClient({ defaultOptions: { queries: { retry: false } } });
+    const wrapper = ({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) => (
+      <QueryClientProvider client={qc}>{children}</QueryClientProvider>
+    );
+    const { result } = renderHook(
+      () =>
+        useVideoActions(
+          {
+            onState: vi.fn(),
+            onToggleSave: vi.fn(),
+            channelFilter: ids ? { ids, set } : undefined,
+          },
+          true,
+        ),
+      { wrapper },
+    );
+    const items = result.current.items({ ...video, channel_id: "UCa" }, null);
+    return { items, set };
+  };
+
+  it("adds the channel to a filter that names others, right under Open the channel", () => {
+    const { items, set } = menu(["UCz"]);
+    const at = items.findIndex((i) => i.id === "channel");
+    const row = items[at + 1]!;
+    expect(row.id).toBe("channel-filter");
+    expect(row.label).toBe("card.menu.channelFilterAdd");
+    row.onSelect?.();
+    expect(set).toHaveBeenCalledWith(["UCz", "UCa"]);
+  });
+
+  it("takes it out again when it is in", () => {
+    const { items, set } = menu(["UCz", "UCa"]);
+    const row = items.find((i) => i.id === "channel-filter")!;
+    expect(row.label).toBe("card.menu.channelFilterRemove");
+    row.onSelect?.();
+    expect(set).toHaveBeenCalledWith(["UCz"]);
+  });
+
+  it("is absent where the host gives no filter (a channel page, Home, a live search)", () => {
+    expect(menu(null).items.some((i) => i.id === "channel-filter")).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

frontend/src/components/useVideoActions.tsx

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import {
   Download,
   Eye,
   EyeOff,
+  Filter,
+  FilterX,
   Info,
   ListPlus,
   Play,
@@ -39,6 +41,9 @@ export interface VideoActionHandlers {
   onResetState?: (id: string) => void;
   /** Omitted where the host menu leads with its own Play row (Home's shelf card resolves `next`). */
   onOpen?: (v: Video, startAt?: number | null) => void;
+  /** The feed's channel filter, where the menu can narrow it: the library feed. Omitted on a channel
+   *  page (the view is that channel already), in a live YouTube search and on Home. */
+  channelFilter?: { ids: string[]; set: (ids: string[]) => void };
 }
 
 const icon = "w-4 h-4";
@@ -65,7 +70,7 @@ export function useVideoActions(handlers: VideoActionHandlers, open: boolean) {
     anchor: Element | null,
     { pin: withPin = true }: { pin?: boolean } = {},
   ): ActionMenuItem[] => {
-    const { onState, onToggleSave, onResetState, onOpen } = handlers;
+    const { onState, onToggleSave, onResetState, onOpen, channelFilter } = handlers;
     const watched = v.status === "watched";
     const hidden = v.status === "hidden";
     const inProgress = v.position_seconds > 0 && !watched;
@@ -112,6 +117,26 @@ export function useVideoActions(handlers: VideoActionHandlers, open: boolean) {
         icon: <Tv className={icon} />,
         onSelect: () => openChannel(v.channel_id, v.channel_title ?? t("card.thisChannel")),
       },
+      // The channel's videos in this feed, or the channel out of the filter again: channels OR
+      // together, so adding one widens a filter that already names others (as "Show in feed" does).
+      ...(channelFilter
+        ? [
+            channelFilter.ids.includes(v.channel_id)
+              ? {
+                  id: "channel-filter",
+                  label: t("card.menu.channelFilterRemove"),
+                  icon: <FilterX className={icon} />,
+                  onSelect: () =>
+                    channelFilter.set(channelFilter.ids.filter((id) => id !== v.channel_id)),
+                }
+              : {
+                  id: "channel-filter",
+                  label: t("card.menu.channelFilterAdd"),
+                  icon: <Filter className={icon} />,
+                  onSelect: () => channelFilter.set([...channelFilter.ids, v.channel_id]),
+                },
+          ]
+        : []),
       {
         id: "watched",
         label: watched ? t("card.menu.unmarkWatched") : t("card.markWatched"),

frontend/src/content/release-notes/en.json

@@ -1,4 +1,27 @@
 [
+  {
+    "version": "0.104.0",
+    "date": "2026-10-10",
+    "new": [
+      "YouTube: a card's menu filters the feed to its channel and back, and the player gives the video more room — its side panel shuts on demand.",
+      "Plex: a card's picture plays it and its title opens its page; a show card puts on the episode it would continue or start, and an episode links up to its show."
+    ],
+    "fixed": [
+      "Plex: summaries written as HTML read as clean text, and a Surprise draw stays put until you reshuffle. A video marked watched in the player stays out of an Unwatched feed. Plus smaller keyboard and focus fixes."
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.103.0",
+    "date": "2026-10-08",
+    "new": [
+      "Plex: “Add to collection…” in a movie's or show's menu ticks the title into or out of your collections, or names a new one with it inside — one step instead of a trip to the Collections page."
+    ],
+    "fixed": [
+      "Plex player: subtitles rise above the control bar while it shows and slide back when it hides, so the bar never covers them — on an iPad too.",
+      "iPad: the header search fits the touch screen, tooltips no longer stick, the Plex player page no longer scrolls or shows a blue band, and the fullscreen button stays hidden where the browser cannot really go fullscreen.",
+      "The playlist, collection and tag menus say when their list is loading or failed to load (with a retry) instead of showing it as empty, and work from the keyboard. Plus smaller fixes in the YouTube player's title line."
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "version": "0.102.0",
     "date": "2026-10-08",

frontend/src/content/release-notes/hu.json

@@ -1,4 +1,27 @@
 [
+  {
+    "version": "0.104.0",
+    "date": "2026-10-10",
+    "new": [
+      "YouTube: a kártya menüje a csatornájára szűri a hírfolyamot, majd vissza, a lejátszó pedig több helyet ad a videónak — az oldalpanel igény szerint becsukható.",
+      "Plex: a kártya képe lejátssza a címet, a címe megnyitja az oldalát; a sorozatkártya azt a részt indítja, amelyet folytatna vagy kezdene, egy epizódról pedig a sorozatára lehet lépni."
+    ],
+    "fixed": [
+      "Plex: a HTML-ként írt leírások tiszta szövegként jelennek meg, a Meglepetés-húzás pedig marad, amíg újra nem keversz. A lejátszóban megnézettnek jelölt videó kimarad a Nem nézett hírfolyamból. Továbbá kisebb billentyűzet- és fókuszjavítások."
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "version": "0.103.0",
+    "date": "2026-10-08",
+    "new": [
+      "Plex: egy film vagy sorozat menüjében a „Hozzáadás gyűjteményhez…” bepipálja a címet a gyűjteményeidbe vagy kiveszi belőlük, illetve új gyűjteményt hoz létre vele — egy lépésben, a Gyűjtemények oldal megkerülése nélkül."
+    ],
+    "fixed": [
+      "Plex-lejátszó: a felirat felemelkedik a vezérlősáv fölé, amíg az látszik, és visszacsúszik, amikor eltűnik, így a sáv sosem takarja el — iPaden sem.",
+      "iPad: a fejléc keresője illik az érintőképernyőhöz, a súgók nem ragadnak be, a Plex-lejátszó oldala nem görget és nincs kék sáv, a teljes képernyő gombja pedig rejtve marad, ahol a böngésző nem tud valódi teljes képernyőt.",
+      "A lejátszási lista, gyűjtemény és címke menük kiírják, ha a lista töltődik vagy nem töltődött be (újrapróbálással), nem mutatják üresnek, és billentyűzettel is kezelhetők. Továbbá kisebb javítások a YouTube-lejátszó címsorában."
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "version": "0.102.0",
     "date": "2026-10-08",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/card.json

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
     "unmarkWatched": "Mark unwatched",
     "unsave": "Remove from saved",
     "more": "More actions",
-    "openChannel": "Open the channel"
+    "openChannel": "Open the channel",
+    "channelFilterAdd": "Filter by this channel",
+    "channelFilterRemove": "Remove the channel from the filter"
   }
 }

frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/player.json

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
   "description": "Description",
   "noDescription": "No description.",
   "descriptionFailed": "Couldn't load the description",
+  "descriptionMore": "More",
+  "descriptionLess": "Less",
+  "collapsePanel": "Hide the details",
+  "expandPanel": "Show the details",
   "channel": "Channel",
   "views": "{{formattedCount}} views",
   "stream": "stream",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/en/plex.json

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
   "episodeLine": "S{{season}}·E{{episode}} · {{title}}",
   "seasonTitle": "Season {{n}}",
   "specials": "Specials",
+  "playShowFailed": "Couldn't find the episode to play — please try again",
   "watchedFailed": "Couldn't update the watched state — please try again",
   "seasons_one": "{{count}} season",
   "seasons_other": "{{count}} seasons",
@@ -384,5 +385,11 @@
     "byGenre": "Browse by genre",
     "becauseWatched": "Because you watched {{title}}",
     "empty": "Nothing to discover yet — run a Plex sync from the admin Config page."
+  },
+  "collectionAdd": {
+    "row": "Add to collection…",
+    "title": "Add to collection",
+    "none": "No collection to add to yet — name one below.",
+    "loadFailed": "Couldn't load the collections"
   }
 }

frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/card.json

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
     "unmarkWatched": "Megnézés visszavonása",
     "unsave": "Eltávolítás a mentettek közül",
     "more": "További műveletek",
-    "openChannel": "Csatorna megnyitása"
+    "openChannel": "Csatorna megnyitása",
+    "channelFilterAdd": "Szűrés erre a csatornára",
+    "channelFilterRemove": "A csatorna ki a szűrőből"
   }
 }

frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/player.json

@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
   "description": "Leírás",
   "noDescription": "Nincs leírás.",
   "descriptionFailed": "Nem sikerült betölteni a leírást",
+  "descriptionMore": "Több",
+  "descriptionLess": "Kevesebb",
+  "collapsePanel": "Részletek elrejtése",
+  "expandPanel": "Részletek megjelenítése",
   "channel": "Csatorna",
   "views": "{{formattedCount}} megtekintés",
   "stream": "élő adás",

frontend/src/i18n/locales/hu/plex.json

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@
   "episodeLine": "S{{season}}·E{{episode}} · {{title}}",
   "seasonTitle": "{{n}}. évad",
   "specials": "Különkiadások",
+  "playShowFailed": "Nem sikerült megtalálni a lejátszandó epizódot — próbáld újra",
   "watchedFailed": "Nem sikerült frissíteni a megnézett állapotot — próbáld újra",
   "seasons_one": "{{count}} évad",
   "seasons_other": "{{count}} évad",
@@ -384,5 +385,11 @@
     "byGenre": "Böngészés műfaj szerint",
     "becauseWatched": "Mert megnézted: {{title}}",
     "empty": "Még nincs mit felfedezni — futtass egy Plex-szinkront az admin Konfiguráció oldalról."
+  },
+  "collectionAdd": {
+    "row": "Kollekcióhoz adás…",
+    "title": "Kollekcióhoz adás",
+    "none": "Még nincs kollekció, amihez adhatnád – adj meg egy nevet lent.",
+    "loadFailed": "Nem sikerült betölteni a kollekciókat"
   }
 }

frontend/src/index.css

@@ -787,7 +787,8 @@ body {
    `opacity-0 group-hover:opacity-100`: fine on a mouse (the enclosing `.group` reveals it on hover),
    but on a touch device — which never hovers — it is invisible AND still tappable. So the reveal is
    gated on `@media (hover: hover)`: only a hover-capable pointer hides it until the group is hovered
-   or focused (keyboard too, via `:focus-within`); a touch device keeps the default opacity:1 and the
+   or keyboard-focused (`:focus-visible` on it or inside it — not any focus: a card handed its focus
+   back after a mouse trip kept its row up); a touch device keeps the default opacity:1 and the
    control is always shown. Requires a `.group` ancestor (Tailwind's group marker). */
 @media (hover: hover) {
   .reveal {
@@ -795,7 +796,8 @@ body {
     transition: opacity 150ms ease;
   }
   .group:hover .reveal,
-  .group:focus-within .reveal,
+  .group:focus-visible .reveal,
+  .group:has(:focus-visible) .reveal,
   .reveal:focus-visible {
     opacity: 1;
   }
@@ -810,7 +812,7 @@ body {
 @media (hover: none) {
   /* Sibling of `.reveal` for a MOUSE-ONLY hover-reveal: unlike `.reveal` (shown at rest on touch),
      a `.reveal-hover` control is removed entirely on a device that can't hover, so it is never an
-     invisible tap/Tab target. Pair it with the site's own `opacity-0 group-hover:… group-focus-within:…`
+     invisible tap/Tab target. Pair it with the site's own `opacity-0 group-hover:… group-focus-visible:…`
      (which still governs the hover + keyboard case). For a full-card/edge affordance whose action is
      already reachable on touch another way — a card's hover row (its "…" beside the title opens the
      same actions: `ui/reveal.ts`), VideoCard's play overlay (tapping the card plays/resumes)

frontend/src/lib/api/plex.ts

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ export interface PlexCard {
   status?: string; // new | watched | hidden
   position_seconds?: number;
   season_count?: number | null; // show
+  // show: an unwatched episode holds a resume point (Continue resumes it, Restart replays it)
+  resumable?: boolean;
   season_number?: number | null; // episode
   episode_number?: number | null; // episode
   show_title?: string | null; // episode (in a mixed playlist)
@@ -180,6 +182,8 @@ export interface PlexItemDetail {
   status: string;
   position_seconds: number;
   show_title?: string | null;
+  show_id?: string | null; // an episode's show and season rating keys (its page links up to them)
+  season_id?: string | null;
   season_number?: number | null;
   episode_number?: number | null;
   prev_id?: string | null;
@@ -508,6 +512,12 @@ export const plexApi = {
     const qs = u.toString();
     return req(`/api/plex/collections${qs ? `?${qs}` : ""}`);
   },
+  // A movie or show card's "Add to collection": its library's manual collections, each saying whether
+  // the title is in it already.
+  plexCollectionsFor: (
+    itemRk: string,
+  ): Promise<{ collections: (PlexCollection & { contains: boolean })[] }> =>
+    req(`/api/plex/collections/for/${encodeURIComponent(itemRk)}`),
   // One collection's hero + its members in the requested order (the Collection info page). The sort
   // vocabulary is the browse grid's, so the same Sort control means the same thing on both.
   plexCollection: (rk: string, sort?: SortState, lang?: string): Promise<PlexCollectionDetail> => {
@@ -618,22 +628,30 @@ export const plexApi = {
     if (filters) appendPlexFilters(u, filters);
     return req(`/api/plex/discover?${u.toString()}`);
   },
-  // A fresh random sample for the Surprise-me rail — a new draw every call (the ↻ refetch), narrowed by
-  // the active filters like the other rails.
+  // A fresh random sample for the Surprise-me rail — a new draw every call (the ↻), narrowed by the
+  // active filters like the other rails. `exclude` is the previous draw: dealt last, not first. `keep`
+  // asks for no draw at all: those titles again, in that order, with their watch state as it is now.
   plexSurprise: (
     scope: string,
     limit?: number,
     filters?: PlexFilters,
     lang?: string,
+    { exclude = [], keep = [] }: { exclude?: string[]; keep?: string[] } = {},
   ): Promise<{ scope: string; items: PlexCard[] }> => {
     const u = new URLSearchParams({ scope });
     if (limit) u.set("limit", String(limit));
+    for (const id of exclude) u.append("exclude", id);
+    for (const id of keep) u.append("keep", id);
     if (lang === "hu") u.set("lang", "hu");
     if (filters) appendPlexFilters(u, filters);
     return req(`/api/plex/surprise?${u.toString()}`);
   },
   plexShow: (id: string, lang?: string): Promise<PlexShowDetail> =>
     req(`/api/plex/show/${encodeURIComponent(id)}${lang === "hu" ? "?lang=hu" : ""}`),
+  // The episode a show's card plays: in progress, else the first unwatched, else the first (null:
+  // no episodes). Asked per show, as a card is hovered or played (the route says why).
+  plexShowNext: (id: string, lang?: string): Promise<{ next: PlexCard | null }> =>
+    req(`/api/plex/show/${encodeURIComponent(id)}/next${lang === "hu" ? "?lang=hu" : ""}`),
   // Mark a whole show / season watched or unwatched (all its episodes) for the current user.
   plexShowState: (rk: string, watched: boolean): Promise<{ changed: number; watched: boolean }> =>
     req(`/api/plex/show/${encodeURIComponent(rk)}/state`, {

frontend/src/lib/fullscreen.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
 
 // The browser's Fullscreen API, WebKit included.
 //
-// Safari and iPadOS still ship only the prefixed spelling: no `fullscreenchange`, no
+// Safari and iPadOS before 16.4 ship only the prefixed spelling: no `fullscreenchange`, no
 // `fullscreenElement`, no `requestFullscreen` on a plain element. Reading only the unprefixed names
 // there means the page believes it is NEVER fullscreen — which silently breaks whatever the
 // fullscreen state drives (an overlay that must yield, a focus reclaim, an Esc branch that would
@@ -29,11 +29,26 @@ export function fullscreenElement(): Element | null {
   return d.fullscreenElement ?? d.webkitFullscreenElement ?? null;
 }
 
+/** Can this browser put a plain element in fullscreen at all? Read off `Element.prototype`, never
+ * `document.fullscreenEnabled`: Brave on iPadOS switches element fullscreen off in its web view, then
+ * patches `HTMLElement.prototype.requestFullscreen` with a stand-in that only fullscreens a <video>
+ * and forces `fullscreenEnabled` to true — both claim a support that is not there, and the players'
+ * fullscreen buttons did nothing. A button that cannot work is not shown (owner). */
+export function canFullscreenElements(): boolean {
+  if (typeof Element === "undefined") return false;
+  const proto = Element.prototype as Partial<WebkitElement>;
+  return (
+    typeof proto.requestFullscreen === "function" ||
+    typeof proto.webkitRequestFullscreen === "function"
+  );
+}
+
 /** Ask for fullscreen on `el`. Errors are swallowed on purpose: a refused request (no user
  * activation, an iOS device that only fullscreens <video>) is not something a caller can fix. */
 export function requestFullscreen(el: HTMLElement): void {
   const e = el as WebkitElement;
-  if (e.requestFullscreen) void e.requestFullscreen().catch(() => {});
+  // Wrapped: a patched stand-in (Brave's, above) may return a boolean, not a promise.
+  if (e.requestFullscreen) void Promise.resolve(e.requestFullscreen()).catch(() => {});
   else e.webkitRequestFullscreen?.();
 }