- Hero constraint: _pick_lead now runs only within the CLOSEST non-empty section of a
personalized Brief, so a "gentler" wider-region/world story can never be floated into
the hero slot above a local one. Only widens if the closest section is empty.
- Dial gains a visible Clear (alongside Change) so a reader never feels locked into
personalization; "World" stays the keep-home-but-go-global option.
366 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex-approved evolution: the reader controls the "emotional radius" of the landing.
- Census-region "Regional" grain (geo.region_of / region_states). Scope-aware tiering
(queries.home_tiers): closest->widest lead, confidence-gated on state + region, never
a hard filter — blends outward so the set is always full. 'world' = the global brief.
- queries.home_brief takes a scope; /api/brief gains a scope param (nearby|region|
country|world). Country-only / non-US homes collapse to country.
- Homepage dial replaces the 2-button toggle: adaptive stops (4 with a US state, else
Country/World), persisted scope, "Good news closest first" framing. Concrete, soft
section labels (Around New Jersey / Across the Northeast / Across the US / Around the
world) so the reader sees the dial worked.
Backend 366 + frontend tests green. (Latest feed still on v1 local-first; aligning it
to the dial is the immediate follow-up.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per the owner's call (overrides the earlier "Brief sacred" stance): when a home is
set, the homepage opens with local good news first, not global. This is the hook —
you land and see awesome stories from YOUR corner first.
- queries.home_brief: local-first highlights (high/medium-confidence near, blended
out to country then world so it's always a full, strong set), preferring already-
summarized stories so the calm read stays rich. Recent window, ranked within tier.
- /api/brief gains a `home` param: private/no-store when set; over-fetches + caps so
dismissal/boundary filtering never thins it; falls back to global top-up if needed.
- Landing UI: a Local <-> Global toggle ("📍 Near you / 🌍 Everywhere") when a home
is set, the calm picker invite when not (dismissible), and Change. Default leads
local; one tap back to the global brief. No home set => exactly today's behavior.
Backend + frontend tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes "Closer to Home" (Codex UX: obvious once, quiet forever).
- Opt-in home (country + optional US state) in localStorage; empty = default feed.
- Calm inline prompt above the browse feed ("Want good news closer to home?")
with a country/state picker; dismissible and remembered (no nagging). Once set,
a slim "📍 Showing local first · Change · Clear" indicator replaces it.
- Browse feed passes home and pages by next_offset (the near/country lead block
never skews world paging); soft section headers (Near you / Elsewhere in your
country / Around the world) render only for tiers that exist.
- Only affects the default browse lane; Brief, topic lanes, and the shareable
default feed are untouched.
Follow-up nicety: mirror the Home setting inside the Boundaries panel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sharpen the existing daily-game share loop into something measurable (per Codex's
"instrument what you have, then feed people into it" plan), ahead of a Show HN launch.
Analytics:
- Per-game funnel events <game>_{arrival,started,completed,shared} (article_id=0).
arrival = landed via a shared link (utm_source=game_share); started = first move
(guess/find/flip); completed = solved/cleared/Full Bloom; shared = on share success.
- trackVisit() moved into the global layout so direct /play landings count; the
server-rendered /a/ share page now creates a visitor token + sends a daily visit
beacon (first-time /a/-only visitors were previously dropped).
- Admin "Games funnel" panel: arrivals / engaged / completed / shared, per game.
Sharing:
- Memory Match gains a Share button (it was the only game without one).
- All shares deep-link to the exact game+variant with a full https:// URL +
utm_source=game_share (gameShareUrl helper), instead of a bare /play.
- "shared" is counted only after navigator.share()/clipboard.writeText() succeeds.
/play social metadata:
- /play served homepage canonical/OG (static SPA, ssr=false). postbuild script
patches build/play.html's head to /play canonical/title/description/OG; fails the
build if the homepage tags drift. Caddy try_files now serves {path}.html so /play
is served from the patched file (snapshot in deploy/caddy/).
Tests: backend 352, frontend 27.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The deploy pipeline runs from the working tree, so a wave of shipped features
had never been committed. This snapshots git to what's actually running.
SEO impression recovery (live + verified):
- Duplicate /a/{id} now 301-redirect to their canonical twin instead of 404
(a hard 404 silently dropped already-indexed URLs and tanked impressions).
- Dedup representative selection reworked: accepted/serveable -> established
rep (URL stability) -> quality score, so an accepted page never retires to a
rejected rep and an indexed canonical doesn't churn when a newer twin arrives.
- HEAD /a/{id} returns the same status as GET (api_route GET+HEAD) instead of
falling through to the static mount and 404ing.
- `dedup --force-recluster`: cycle-locked, model-free re-cluster to re-apply the
policy to the existing corpus (shared cycle_lock context manager).
- CLI honors GOODNEWS_DB for its default --db (was silently ignored).
Publishing Desk (admin tool to post highlights to X via Web Intents):
- publishing.py queue/rank/handle-resolution; admin UI; full searchable emoji
picker (bundled data, no CDN) for the blurb editor.
Play games + site:
- Bloom (word-wheel), Memory Match, daily ritual set, Zen Den (dev-gated).
- English-only language gate; source prospecting; paywall + dedup hardening.
Tests: full suite green (349). Ignores tightened (node_modules, data/*.db).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex spotted the one remaining unsigned BRIEF_VIEW_KEY write — in replaceArticle.
Not a safety issue (instant-paint requires cached.sig, so an unsigned entry just
won't instant-paint), but it meant the next load after a Replace fell back to
"Gathering…" until a fresh /api/brief re-saved the signed version. Now every
brief save includes sig: briefSig() (computed after dismissed updates), so an
edited brief still instant-paints. All three save paths verified signed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex caught a trust bug: instant-painting a brief saved under OLD boundaries
could briefly flash content the reader's current settings should hide — and
boundaries are trust-critical for this product. Add a filter signature
(prefs param + sorted dismissals) saved alongside the brief; instant-paint and
the merge-fallback only reuse a saved brief when the signature still matches the
current settings. A mismatch falls through to "Gathering…" + a fresh fetch.
Also closes the same latent leak in the merge's `?? it` fallback. Briefs saved
before this change lack a sig → won't instant-paint until re-saved (fails safe).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex's point: edge-caching /api/brief helps anonymous visitors, but a logged-in
reader with prefs/dismissals makes it a personalized (private, origin-bound)
request — so it won't fix Jay's own "Gathering the good news…" delay. The real
fix isn't more CDN tuning, it's not blocking the first paint on the network.
The brief is already saved locally (BRIEF_VIEW_KEY). Now on the Today view we
render that saved brief immediately and refresh /api/brief in the background;
"Gathering…" only shows on a true first visit with nothing cached. A failed
background refresh stays invisible (loadToday returns if a brief is already
painted; onMount won't blank painted content) so a slow/offline origin never
wipes a good view.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Intermittent blank screens / long "Gathering the good news…" — two fixes:
Origin cache headers (Caddyfile, deployed separately): content-hashed
/_app/immutable/* → max-age=31536000, immutable; everything else (HTML shell,
service worker, version manifest, webmanifest, word lists, icons) → no-cache,
so a deploy can't leave a stale shell/SW pinned. (Cloudflare's 4h Browser Cache
TTL still overrides this until its dashboard setting is switched to "Respect
Existing Headers" — that's the actual root cause.)
App startup hardening:
* getJSON now has a 10s AbortController timeout — a stuck request can never hang
the loading state forever.
* Home onMount loads moods+categories in parallel then the view, with loading
ALWAYS cleared in finally; lanes/families dropped to non-blocking decoration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A calm /play space — "after the brief, a small thing to enjoy." Framework-ready
for more games (Word Search next; zen/coloring later).
* Daily Word (5 letters / 6 guesses) + Long Word (6 / 7) — same Wordle mechanic,
Upbeat Bytes flavor (no "Wordle" in the UI). Hopeful answers; after solving, a
one-line "why this word matters."
* LLM proposes, code disposes: answers are picked deterministically by date-seed
from a hand-curated hopeful pool that's pre-validated ⊆ the guess dictionary
(always typeable), avoiding recent repeats; the LLM only adds the optional
"why" (with fallback). daily_puzzles(date, game, variant, payload) stores them
so everyone gets the same daily; the cycle pre-generates with the "why".
* Bundled guess dictionaries (words-5/6.json, ~12.6k/22.4k) for client-side guess
validation — never the LLM. Answer lightly obfuscated (base64) in the payload.
* Private, gentle stats (played/solved/streak, guess distribution); spoiler-free
emoji-grid share. No leaderboard, no timer, no streak-loss drama.
* Play in the bottom nav (replacing Browse, still on the lane rail) + the header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two calm returning-reader features.
Since-last-visit (Highlights companion, not a nav lane — per Codex):
* queries.feed gains a `since` filter; GET /api/since?ts= returns the count +
a few accepted/non-dup/visible articles discovered since the reader's last
visit (boundary-respecting; invalid/future ts → 0, no error).
* Home stores last_seen in localStorage (reads prev, then stamps now); on
Highlights, a gentle "Since you were last here, N new calm reads came in"
note with a "See what's new" reveal of a compact inline section. Dismissible.
No badges, no unread counts, no "missed" language.
PWA:
* Real PNG icons (192/512 + full-bleed maskable) rasterized from favicon.svg;
manifest fixed (azure theme to match the brand, PNG icons); apple-touch-icon.
* Minimal service worker: precache the app shell, always-fresh API + /a/ pages.
* Gentle, dismissible install banner (beforeinstallprompt → Install; iOS → the
Share → Add to Home Screen hint). Never nags.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex: saveLanes() bounced to Highlights if the current view wasn't in the
customizable keys, but Following is a special pinned lane (like today/latest)
that's never in keys. Add it to the special-lanes exclusion so editing the lane
picker while viewing Following no longer navigates away.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex — turn accounts into a real reason to return, without an algorithmic
feed. Durable interests (sources + tags), not moods.
* DB: user_follows (user_id, kind source|tag, value, unique).
* queries.feed gains follow_sources/follow_tags → the Following feed is
"articles from a followed source OR carrying a followed tag", still respecting
calm filters/boundaries.
* API: GET/POST/DELETE /api/follows (sign-in required; source ids validated);
/api/feed?following=true resolves the user's follows (anon → empty, not error).
* Frontend: follows store (followKeys + toggleFollow, mirrors savedIds); a
Follow button on source + tag/topic views; a "Following" lane in the nav with
a tailored empty state; a Following management section in Account (unfollow).
Digest "From what you follow" deferred to v2 (brief stays first).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex polish: if someone taps 'Get tomorrow's brief' then dismisses sign-in
without authing, clear pendingDigestOptIn (guarded by !auth.user so a successful
sign-in still auto-enables via the $effect).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* On-site end-cap now says "You're caught up for now." — honest, since Highlights
refreshes through the day (the email keeps the daily "see you tomorrow").
* Anonymous "Get tomorrow's brief by email" now honors the one-tap promise:
sets a pending flag, opens sign-in, and auto-enables once auth resolves.
* Email compliance (RFC 2369/8058): send_email takes optional headers; the digest
sets List-Unsubscribe + List-Unsubscribe-Post=One-Click, and a POST
/api/digest/unsubscribe handles native one-click (GET still serves the page).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex's remaining caveat: appNavDepth decremented on every popstate, so a
browser Back then Forward undercounted (in-page Back would jump to Highlights
early). Use the navigation's signed delta on popstate (Back -1, Forward +1,
±N for jumps) instead of a flat decrement, so the depth stays accurate through
any back/forward dance. Falls back to -1 if delta is unavailable (safe).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per Codex audit follow-ups:
* Track in-app navigation depth (forward goto/link increments, popstate
unwinds, clamped at 0) and base the in-page Back on it instead of
history.length. A direct deep link (email/social/article) now sends the
in-page Back to Highlights rather than out of the site.
* Apply the same stale-load guard to the Today/Highlights path that feed views
have, and only scroll-to-top when the load is still current — avoids stale
error/scroll state during quick navigation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per audit (user + Codex): the in-page Back and browser Back were two separate
histories, which is confusing — especially for less-technical users. Make the
URL the single source of truth so both traverse one history.
* The view derives from the URL (/?view=latest, /?tag=, /?source=, bare / for
Highlights); `selected` is $derived from $page.url.
* All navigation goes through goto(); afterNavigate is the single loader hook,
so in-app clicks AND browser back/forward reload the same way.
* The in-page Back button now just calls history.back() (fallback to Highlights)
— identical to the browser Back. Removed the private navStack.
* Stop stripping ?source= — the URL stays honest, so source/tag views are
shareable and survive reload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Position the in-feed Back button to the right of the view title (inline with
it) instead of stacked above; the accent underline moves under the title text.
* Deep-linking a source feed from an article page (/?source=<id>) now seeds the
back history so the Back button appears (returns to Highlights).
* Strip the ?source= param after consuming it (replaceState) so it can't linger
and make the browser back/forward behave oddly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Back button on feed views: drilling into a tag or source from a card now
remembers where you came from (a small history stack), and a "← Back" appears
in the view header to return there — chains of drill-ins included. Top-level
nav (rail/bottom bar) resets the history.
* Article page: the source name is now a link into that source's in-app feed
(/?source=<id>); the SPA reads the param on load and opens the source view
(label falls back to the loaded feed's source name). Completes the
"cards-only v1" — source is clickable on /a/ too now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Click a source name on any card → a feed of just that source's articles,
newest-first, still accepted / non-duplicate / boundary-filtered (the calm
promise isn't bypassed). A natural way to follow a publication's feel.
* queries.feed + /api/feed: source_id filter; Article output gains source_id.
* Frontend: source label is a button → transient 'source:<id>' view (like
'tag:<slug>'), rendered in the feed grid with Load more, header = source name.
* Ad-hoc, not a pinned lane. Foundation for a future source page (metadata) +
Follow; shareable /source/<slug> route and source_view analytics come then.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Carry the brief's uniform card language (compact photo banner or flat topic-
colored placeholder) onto every feed grid — Latest, topic/tag/mood views, and
the account Saved grid — so the whole site is visually consistent. Same quality
gate and uniform sizing; the brief hero remains the single large image.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per review, mixed photo/no-photo rows read as ragged ("the ones without feel
lacking"). Make every brief rest card carry a banner so the grid is uniform: a
compact 16:9 photo when available, otherwise a calm placeholder tinted by the
card's topic accent color (the same per-topic hue as the accent line) with the
topic word set faint in serif. A failed/blocked image falls back to the same
placeholder, so cards never look broken and heights stay identical. Hero remains
the single large image. Light desaturation on photos; no heavy tint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Restructure the nav around two permanent lanes, then the reader's chosen ones:
"Highlights" (the curated daily brief — formerly "Today") and "Latest" (the
freshest accepted stories, newest-first). Now that the gate is tight, a
chronological "incoming" feed is safe to expose.
* feed(): new sort="latest" (pure recency) alongside the default best-first
rank; /api/feed exposes sort=ranked|latest (validated). Still accepted-only
and boundary-respecting either way.
* lanes.py: two pinned lanes (Highlights + Latest) instead of one.
* Home: "Latest" view + "Load more" pagination for every feed view (offset-
paged, de-duped). Mobile bottom bar gains a Latest tab.
* LanePicker shows both pinned lanes; nav rail renders them first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Date fix: introduce GOODNEWS_TZ (goodnews/localtime.py) so the brief's "today"
rolls over in a pinned zone (Eastern) instead of UTC — robust to host-clock
resets. The home page now formats the brief's date in each VISITOR's local
timezone (from its UTC freshness stamp), so nobody ever sees "tomorrow."
* Admin "Content served": articles live, fresh (7d), ingested (24h), summaries,
active sources, today's brief size — queries.content_stats().
* Admin "Source health": per active source, the failure streak, last error,
accepted contribution, and computed next-poll time (so backoff / "resting
until" is visible), via queries.source_health() reusing the feeds backoff
math. Failing sources sort to the top; times render in the viewer's zone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Readers can now choose which quick-access lanes sit above the feed; "Today"
stays pinned. The pool (goodnews/lanes.py, served at /api/lanes) is one source
of truth over three lane kinds the feed already renders: moods, primary topics,
and high-volume Discovery tags. Selection lives in the existing prefs blob
(localStorage + /api/prefs sync); the filter parser ignores the new `lanes`
field, so it rides along harmlessly. Default = today's moods, unchanged.
Food/Space stay grouping tags rather than primary topics (per review): `space`
already existed; added `food` to the Mind & Craft family so the classifier
assigns it, and seeded the Food lane by re-tagging the two food sources.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Feedback:
- feedback table; POST /api/feedback (anonymous-ok, optional category/email,
honeypot + per-day flood cap) stores + emails the admin; GET /api/admin/feedback.
- Shared feedback store + FeedbackModal; a speech-bubble opens it from the desktop
header, the mobile top bar (logo moves left), the footer, and /account. Feedback
section in /admin.
Stats (additive, same privacy model — no IP/UA/referrer/raw terms):
- Event vocab: summary_viewed (fired on /a load), full_story (card → source),
not_today/less_like_this/hide_topic, replace_used/replace_none, paywall_replace,
paywalled_source_open. Card title/image opens /a (no double-count); history
records via keepalive so it survives the nav.
- Dashboard: Accounts card (counts only), reading funnel (summary→source rate),
emotional-mix & friction, paywall, returning-visitor buckets. (Health metrics
deferred to a future monitoring dashboard.) 131 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The inline Boundaries/History panels lived on the home page, so opening them while
scrolled left you stranded. Move everything "yours" behind the account icon:
- Home header slims to: Saved (opens a right-side flyout, signed-in) · shield
(Boundaries indicator — filled when active — linking to the Boundaries section) ·
avatar. The inline panels + the home "saved" view are gone.
- /account is now a sectioned hub (left sidebar on desktop, top tabs on mobile),
OPEN TO EVERYONE with each section self-gating: Profile (sign-in), Saved (sign-in),
History (device/account), Boundaries (device/account), Admin (admins). This keeps
Boundaries/History usable without an account (they're device-local) while
consolidating the UI — and every section loads at the top, fixing the scroll bug.
- Lift Calm Filters and History into shared stores (prefs.svelte.js, history.svelte.js)
so the home feed (applies/records) and the account page (edits/manages) share one
source of truth. New SavedFlyout component. Card boundary actions only render when a
handler is provided.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
clearSession only reset the device-local history; for a signed-in user the panel
shows the account history (serverHistory), which was never cleared and never sent
to the server — so it looked like nothing happened. Add DELETE /api/history
(clear all) and have clearSession reset serverHistory + call it when signed in.
- events table (kind, article_id, visitor_hash, day) with a UNIQUE key that dedups
to one row per visitor-day — caps volume and makes counts mean distinct
visitor-days. NO ip/ua/referrer/url. Groupings derived from article_id at query
time, never stored.
- POST /api/events (public): whitelisted kinds (visit/open/share_ub/copy_source/
native_share/source_click); visitor token hashed server-side (never raw).
- Frontend analytics.js: random localStorage visitor token; track() via sendBeacon;
visit once/day; open on article click; share_ub/copy_source/native_share from the
share menu; /a landing pages fire source_click. 127 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Capture the Google profile picture (picture claim) into users.avatar_url; an
Avatar component shows it, falling back to the initial. Used in the desktop
header and the mobile "You" tab (which now shows the user when signed in).
- Move account/settings to its own route /account (robust + scrolls to top),
reached by the desktop avatar and the mobile You tab; drop the inline "You"
sheet. AccountPanel gains a Sign out action; the page links to Saved/History/
Boundaries via home intent params (?view= / ?open=).
- db: users.avatar_url (schema + idempotent migration). 118 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Prefs sync: GET/PUT /api/prefs store Calm Filters/Boundaries on the account.
On sign-in the client adopts the account's prefs if present, else seeds them
from the device; every change PUTs to the account so tuning follows you across
devices. (Login side-effects run under untrack so browsing doesn't re-trigger.)
- Account panel: GET /api/account (email, connected sign-in methods, saved count,
active sessions); Export my data (GET /api/account/export → JSON download);
Sign out everywhere (revoke all sessions); Delete account (cascades to all
account data) with an inline confirm. Reachable from You → Account.
Deferred to a follow-up: link/unlink a provider (OAuth link-mode) and per-session
revoke. 118 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
History was logging every article merely displayed, which made it noise. Split
the two concepts cleanly:
- "displayed" (seenIds) still tracks everything shown, but only to stop Replace
recycling stories — it no longer feeds history.
- "history" now records only deliberate events: articles the user OPENED (card
click) or ones they REPLACED away (recoverable accidental swaps).
Also: per-item removal (× in the History panel; DELETE /api/history/{id}), and
when signed in the panel shows the account (cross-device) history. First-sign-in
import now folds the meaningful history (not everything shown). Copy updated.
115 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- API (auth-required): GET/POST/DELETE /api/saved (+/api/saved/ids), GET/POST
/api/history, POST /api/import — all FK-safe (skip ids that no longer exist).
queries.saved/saved_ids/history reuse the feed article shape.
- Frontend: reactive savedIds store (SvelteSet) + optimistic toggleSave; a Save
control on cards for signed-in users; a "Saved" view (You sheet) with its own
empty state; newly-seen items mirror to account history (cross-device); and a
one-time import folds this device's anonymous history into the account on first
sign-in. Anonymous browsing unchanged. 115 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Shared reactive auth store (auth.user) + postJSON helper (sends the cookie).
- SignIn modal: email -> "check your inbox" (calm, no password); Google slots in
here in Phase 2.
- /auth/verify route exchanges the magic-link token for a session, then home.
- Header shows "Sign in" or an account avatar; the You sheet gains "Signed in as
…" + Sign out (or a Sign in row). Anonymous browsing is unchanged.
Root cause (Codex audit): the client pins the brief by generated_at, but image
enrichment populates image_url AFTER the brief is built without bumping
generated_at — so a verbatim pinned copy stays imageless even once the server
has the image. The reclassify rebuilt the brief and the early pin stuck.
- Frontend: when reusing a pinned brief (same generated_at), refresh server-owned
metadata by article id (esp. image_url) while preserving the user's order and
replacements. Re-saves the merged view so it stays current.
- enrich_brief_images: default limit 5 -> 7 (any brief item can become the hero
via the client fallback or a replace, so cover the whole brief).
- Don't cache image failures forever: retry brief items still missing an image
after a TTL (retry_days=2) instead of stamping them imageless permanently.
Pairs with the hero image fallback (dd0087b). 99 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Some sources hotlink-protect their images (e.g. Guardian's i.guim.co.uk → 401),
so a perfectly-enriched lead could still render an imageless hero. The browser is
the only true judge of loadability, so on a hero image error, promote the next
brief item that has an image into the hero slot; the failed lead becomes a text
tile. Resets to the lead on each fresh brief.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "wander" layer for the multi-tag model, sitting beneath the brief:
- Cards show up to 3 tappable grouping pills (the article's tags), falling back
to the primary topic for articles the re-tag hasn't reached. Tap a pill →
that tag's lane. Tags read as little doorways, not metadata confetti.
- New tag-lane view (select 'tag:<slug>' → /api/feed?tag=) with a calm heading
and the parent family's description as subtitle.
- Replace the flat "Explore by topic" strip with four calm family bands
(Discovery & Wonder / People & Kindness / Solutions & Progress / Mind & Craft)
from /api/families; zero-count tags hide until tagging fills them in.
- Mood nav stays the primary emotional layer; the brief stays the front door.
- /api/families fetch is non-fatal so the page degrades gracefully when the B1
backend isn't deployed yet.
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- Add the real Upbeat Bytes lockup (logo.svg) and use it in the header,
replacing the placeholder inline mark + text wordmark.
- New square favicon: the logo's rising sun (bright gold) on azure.
- Recolor the design system around the logo's #0083ad azure: rename the
--sage* accent vars to --accent*, with deep/soft azure tints; navy ink
(#16263a) echoing the logo's "Bytes"; cool slate muted text; a deep gold
for text-weight accents plus --gold-bright for decorative fills; warm
sand paper background. No urgency colors.
- Retint the hero image overlay and the no-image card gradients to match.
- theme-color → azure.
Built clean; frontend tests/build pass.
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- Logo mark: SVG rising-dots wave (sage dots + warm gold peak = 'upbeat bytes'),
used as favicon/PWA icon and in the header.
- Header: full-width app bar — mark + mixed-type wordmark (Upbeat serif ink /
Bytes sans sage) on the left, housed Boundaries/History utility cluster on the
right (desktop). No more floating text links.
- Mobile: fixed bottom tab bar (Today / Browse / You); utilities move into a
'You' sheet. One-handed, modern, calm.
- Browse: moods stay the primary front door; added a quiet 'Explore by topic'
section (existing topics) below the content — selecting a topic loads its feed.
- Layout trimmed (header now in-page, full width); footer keeps clearance for the
bottom bar.
Phase A of the consensus pass; Phase B (add technology + learning topics and
reclassify) is next. Live site untouched until publish.sh.
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dismissed.size is read in the template (the History 'Clear' control), so the Set
must be $state for Svelte 5 to track .add()/reassignment. Build is warning-clean
again. Frontend only — rebuild + refresh.
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Per the agreed model: the brief is server-authoritative and a client Replace is
a soft override that yields when genuinely new data arrives.
- build_daily_brief is now idempotent: if the composed selection is unchanged it
leaves the brief (and its created_at) alone, so the timer's 15-min rebuilds are
no-ops when no new data landed.
- /api/brief exposes generated_at (the brief's created_at = a content-change
stamp). The client pins its view against generated_at and keeps it across plain
refreshes, but drops it and shows the fresh server brief when generated_at
advances. Missed stories remain in the mood feeds.
Tests: idempotent rebuild (no-op vs content change) — 93 total.
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Persisting only 'dismissed' kept swapped-away stories out but let the brief
recompose on refresh — so a chosen replacement (and the hero) could change
unexpectedly. Now the reader's actual brief view is persisted per day:
- loadToday keeps the saved view for the same brief_date (swaps and hero hold
steady); re-fetches fresh on a new day or when forced.
- A boundary change forces a fresh re-fetch (and re-pins); Replace pins the new
view; Clear-session drops the pin so it re-composes fresh.
Frontend only — rebuild + refresh (no server restart needed).
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Mood feeds now honor the same dismissed list as the brief: /api/feed accepts an
exclude param (over-fetching to stay full), and the client passes the persisted
dismissed set. Swapping a story away now keeps it gone everywhere — brief and
browse — not just on the home view. Also simplified the feed filter path to the
shared _prefs_sql_kw helper.
Tests: feed exclude (91 total).
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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).
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- Hero blur fix: brief enrichment now prefers a page's og:image even when a
feed thumbnail exists (feed thumbs are often tiny; the hero is shown large).
Verified: BBC hero upgrades to the 1024px share image, ScienceDaily to 1920px.
- Today is now 'Highlights from Today' — hero + 6 (brief size 7), which also
makes the secondary grid a balanced 3+3 instead of an orphaned 3+1.
- Replace now excludes every article seen this session (a client-side seen-set),
so it never cycles back to something already shown.
- New session History panel (this tab only, no account): lists everything seen,
including swapped-away stories, so they stay recoverable. Persistent
history/favorites are tabled for sign-in later.
Tests: og:image upgrade of an existing feed image (86 total).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- paywall.py: conservative domain-level paywall detection (New Scientist,
Nature, and common hard/soft paywalls). Never fetches pages — an honest hint.
- API: Article gains a 'paywalled' flag; the brief now leads with a gentle AND
readable story (paywalled/charged stories stay in the five, just not first).
- New GET /api/replacement returns the next-best readable, unshown article
(honors mood+prefs via the merged prefs param; gentle=true for hero swaps).
- UI: paywalled cards show 'May need a subscription'; a Replace / 'Find one I
can read' action (always visible, while tuning actions stay tucked) swaps the
card for a readable alternative, with a gentle notice when none remain.
- Tests: paywall detection + replacement behavior (77 total).
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- Today is just the day's five highlights (hero + four) — the preview lanes are
gone; other categories appear only when their mood is selected.
- Each view leads with a large serif heading (Today / Wonder / ...) and a
subtitle, with a quiet sage rule — switching moods retitles the page.
- Drop the now-unused Lane usage from the home.
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