A reader who swaps a story away should keep that swap after a refresh; before,
the server re-served the original brief.
- localStorage now persists seen / dismissed / history (loadJSON/saveJSON).
- /api/brief accepts an exclude list; dismissed (replaced-away) ids are dropped
and the highlights refill around them, so swaps stick and stay full.
- Replace records the swap to dismissed+seen and persists; the seen-set
(persisted) keeps Replace from recycling across refreshes too.
- History panel survives refresh and gains 'Clear what I've seen (start fresh)'
so it never feels suffocating. Saved history/favorites still come with sign-in.
Tests: brief exclude + refill (90 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a reader's boundary (avoid-term, muted topic/flavor, pause) removes a brief
item, top the highlights back up with other readable, boundary-respecting good
news instead of showing fewer cards — so 'Highlights from Today' stays full and
still honors what they don't want to see. (Reverses the earlier filter-down-only
MVP, now that the count is fixed at seven.)
- /api/brief: after filtering by prefs, refill from the accepted pool (same
categorical SQL filters + avoid-terms) excluding already-shown items.
- Shared _prefs_sql_kw helper for feed/replacement/brief filters.
- Tests: refill stays full and respects mute + avoid-terms (89 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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