gerbeur

category

v4: playlists have categories of their own — a set apart from the dumps', which admins manage on /manage under "Playlist categories", next to "Dump categories". Each category now has a kind, dump or playlist, its slug and name unique within its kind only; migration 0025 rebuilds categories with the column, every existing one becoming a dump category with its dumps, and adds playlist_categories. A playlist's owner files it under any of them in the create and edit forms, and it shows them as chips on its card and its page, each leading to /playlists/<slug>.

2026-10-09 21:53:16 +00:00

chat

v4: a moderator's or an admin's @everyone in the chat notifies every user — there was no way to reach everyone at once. The new chat:everyone permission, held by moderators and admins, lets a chat message saying @everyone notify every user but its author and those reading the chat, through notifyEveryone, after notifyMentions, so a user also named is told once, by name; the notification is a user_mentioned with everyone set, which the notifications page and the digest word as "mentioned everyone in the chat". chat_messages.mentions_everyone, sent as ChatMessage.mentionsEveryone, is set from the author's role each time the body is written, so a user's @everyone reaches no one, a moderator's edit of a user's message can't make it reach everyone, and a demoted author's next edit loses it. Only an edit that adds @everyone notifies, so fixing an announcement's typo reaches no one new. The client highlights and chimes by the flag, never by the text; Markdown shows @everyone as a mention only in a flagged message, and never links it to a profile. The chat composer offers @everyone first to those who may say it. No account may be named everyone, in any case: migration 0023 adds the column, flags the moderators' and admins' past @everyone messages, renames a user named everyone to everyone_N and drops an alias everyone. 265 backend tests and 681 frontend tests pass, and deno check, tsc, eslint, doc:lint and i18n:compile --strict are clean; checked in screenshots of the chat at 1280 and 390px, with a moderator's and a user's @everyone and the suggestions open.

2026-10-09 12:54:09 +00:00

comment

v4: every inline editor ends in a btn-primary Save and a btn-secondary Cancel — comments drew their own .comment-submit-btn and .comment-cancel-btn, the profile's email its own .profile-email-btn pair, the bio a plain-text form-cancel, and the chat's edit box shrank the shared buttons with a rule of its own; they were four sizes, two orders of chrome, and the comment button's white label sat on Smooth's yellow accent. They all take the shared classes now, and the new .btn-sm is the one compact size, for the comment forms, the chat edit box and the email editor; the bio and the dump title stay full size. .btn-secondary gets a disabled state, as btn-primary has. The bespoke rules are gone, with GeoCities' bevel for the comment buttons, which btn-primary and btn-secondary already have. 670 frontend tests pass, and tsc, eslint and deno fmt are clean; the comment, reply, chat edit, email and bio editors were checked in screenshots in Smooth, Kanagawa, Brutalist and GeoCities at 1100 and 360px.

2026-10-08 21:27:26 +00:00

dump

v4: playlists have categories of their own — a set apart from the dumps', which admins manage on /manage under "Playlist categories", next to "Dump categories". Each category now has a kind, dump or playlist, its slug and name unique within its kind only; migration 0025 rebuilds categories with the column, every existing one becoming a dump category with its dumps, and adds playlist_categories. A playlist's owner files it under any of them in the create and edit forms, and it shows them as chips on its card and its page, each leading to /playlists/<slug>.

2026-10-09 21:53:16 +00:00

editor

v4: users sign in to one gerbeur instance with their account on another — topic instances, each with its own admins, domain and data, had no way to share accounts. Sign-in is federated over a subset of OpenID Connect, the authorization code flow with PKCE: each instance is an identity provider for its own users and a client for the others', and signs what it tells them with an Ed25519 key kept in federation_keys and published at /.well-known/jwks.json, beside its metadata at /.well-known/openid-configuration. Only sign-in is federated: an account from another instance is a local users row linked to (issuer, subject) in user_identities, with no password (password_hash ''), so sessions, roles, permissions, the socket and every foreign key work as before.

2026-10-09 14:23:00 +00:00

federation

v4: the instance fields ask for a URL — the login page's field read "Its address, like music.example" and /manage's "An instance's address, like music.example", an example that named no instance of the reader's. They now read "Your gerbeur's URL" and "An instance's URL".

2026-10-09 18:23:53 +00:00

feed

v4: the followed feed's two views are pages — "From people" and "From playlists" on a feed's "follow" tab were a state of the page, which a reload, Back or a shared link lost, while a profile's same split is /@name/follow/playlists. They are now /follow and /follow/playlists, and /music/follow/playlists in a category, feedPath taking the view as userPath does (FOLLOW_VIEWS); picking a category keeps it. Their dumps come from GET /api/dumps?follow=users|playlists, signed in, which the feed's word for it names, instead of GET /api/me/feed?from=; an unknown category is a 404 there, as on the rest of the feed, rather than an empty list.

2026-10-09 22:09:12 +00:00

form

v4: the playlist and dump edit forms end in one bar of actions, a panel of its own — the playlist editor drew rules between its fields and its actions, and on a phone its Delete, Cancel and Save wrapped into a staircase, then stacked (a0c8b1d), neither of which held together. Both forms are now built as DumpEdit was: surface panels 3px apart (.form-panel, from .dump-edit-panel), the last a bar (.form-panel--bar, from .dump-edit-footer) holding Delete on the left and Cancel and Save on the right, compact (btn-sm), on one line. The new DeleteButton says "Delete" and names what goes to assistive tech ("Delete playlist", "Delete dump"); in a bar too narrow for the three labels in every face and language (a container query, under 18rem), it shows 🗑 instead. While edited, the playlist's header drops its own card for the form's panels. The phone stacking rule is gone. An auto-sized editor also re-fits when its width changes with its text unchanged: opening the form makes the page tall enough for a scrollbar, which narrowed the description after it was measured, so it overflowed; and it hides its overflow below its max-height, where a scrollbar could only come of rounding, and drops the resize grip, which the next keystroke would undo. 669 frontend tests pass, and tsc, eslint, deno fmt, doc:lint and i18n:compile --strict are clean; checked in screenshots in Kanagawa dark (French, 385 and 360px), Smooth light at 1000px and DumpEdit in Smooth at 390px.

2026-10-08 22:05:43 +00:00

layout

v4: playlists have categories of their own — a set apart from the dumps', which admins manage on /manage under "Playlist categories", next to "Dump categories". Each category now has a kind, dump or playlist, its slug and name unique within its kind only; migration 0025 rebuilds categories with the column, every existing one becoming a dump category with its dumps, and adds playlist_categories. A playlist's owner files it under any of them in the create and edit forms, and it shows them as chips on its card and its page, each leading to /playlists/<slug>.

2026-10-09 21:53:16 +00:00

player

v4: an audio file's waveform is made once by the server, and the player seeks on one accessible scrubber — every player downloaded the whole file a second time and decoded all of it in the browser to draw 150 bars, so a long FLAC cost tens of megabytes of memory per page, and the waveform could only be clicked: no drag, no keyboard, no slider for a screen reader. GET /api/dumps/:id/waveform now answers an audio dump's peaks, which lib/ffmpeg.ts decodes with ffmpeg on first request, mono at 8 kHz and streamed, keeps beside the thumbnails as the response itself, and serves with an ETag (a ten-minute MP3 takes about a second, then a few hundred bytes). The peaks are taken by shared/waveform.ts's peaksOf, scaled to the loudest so a quiet recording fills the track, and the dump form's preview of a file not yet uploaded decodes it with the same function, at 8 kHz in an OfflineAudioContext. Scrubber replaces Waveform and SeekBar: a role="slider" that seeks where a pointer lets go, follows a drag (the clock shows where it is held), takes arrows, Home and End, and draws the bars as one path with the played part clipped by a nested svg, so it moves smoothly and a timeupdate redraws two attributes instead of 150 rects; audio without a waveform, and video, get a plain bar. MediaPlayer reads whether it plays from the element's events alone, so a click no longer reports the change twice, its handles for PlayerProvider are stable callbacks instead of refs to refs, the drag no longer reattaches every listener, and the <source> children that src made dead are gone, with the mime prop. The file, thumbnail and waveform routes resolve their dump, token and caching through lib/dump-media.ts, and what is generated from an upload is named and removed in lib/ffmpeg.ts, the custom thumbnail by dump-service's customThumbnailPath, instead of paths spelled out in each. The test setup's play() and pause() fire their events as a browser does. 277 backend tests and 684 frontend tests pass, and deno check, tsc, eslint, doc:lint and i18n:compile --strict are clean; checked in the app with a real FLAC on its dump page and in the global player at 1280 and 390px, seeking by keyboard.

2026-10-09 13:34:22 +00:00

playlist

v4: playlists have categories of their own — a set apart from the dumps', which admins manage on /manage under "Playlist categories", next to "Dump categories". Each category now has a kind, dump or playlist, its slug and name unique within its kind only; migration 0025 rebuilds categories with the column, every existing one becoming a dump category with its dumps, and adds playlist_categories. A playlist's owner files it under any of them in the create and edit forms, and it shows them as chips on its card and its page, each leading to /playlists/<slug>.

2026-10-09 21:53:16 +00:00

profile

v4: every request about a user, and the dump editor's path, come from one builder each — fourteen places wrote /api/users/<key>/… by hand, some encoding a handle (@alice%40music.example) and some not, a slug never; userApiUrl (src/utils/shared/urls.ts) now writes them all, by the user's id or by @ and the handle a page's path gives, each segment encoded. The editor's path was the dump's page's with /edit added in two places; dumpPath takes the view, as userPath and feedPath do.

2026-10-09 22:18:13 +00:00

shared

v4: every request about a user, and the dump editor's path, come from one builder each — fourteen places wrote /api/users/<key>/… by hand, some encoding a handle (@alice%40music.example) and some not, a slug never; userApiUrl (src/utils/shared/urls.ts) now writes them all, by the user's id or by @ and the handle a page's path gives, each segment encoded. The editor's path was the dump's page's with /edit added in two places; dumpPath takes the view, as userPath and feedPath do.

2026-10-09 22:18:13 +00:00

social

v4: a /community page shows the site's week and month, from the same figures as the digests, and every recurring server task is a job of one scheduler — the digests' top dumps and community section (who joined, the new public playlists, the chat and the totals) existed only in emails. community-service.ts now gathers them for a period from listTopDumps, listNewUsers and listNewPublicPlaylists, each in its own service and returning the API's Dump, PublicUser and Playlist; the digest builds its sections from the same call, its email-only DumpRow and DUMP_COLS replaced by one Dump mapper that networkOf uses too, and links its community section to the page. The page, /community for the last week and /community/monthly for the month, signed in only and linked from the avatar menu, reads GET /api/community?period=, which serves figures kept in memory and recomputed every GERBEUR_COMMUNITY_REFRESH_MINUTES (15 by default). It shows the four figures, the top dumps and the new playlists as live cards, and the new members as UserCards, the follow tab's user row made shared. Its words are the emails' own: the messages both use are renamed from email.digest.* to digest.*, as digest.weekly.off was. api/lib/scheduler.ts's startJobs runs the digests, the community refresh, the WebSocket ping, the typing expiry and the rate-limit sweep, which main.ts starts, so none of them runs on import any more. PERIOD_MS moves to shared/settings.ts. community is reserved as a category slug, and migration 0022 renames a category that had it, with renameReservedCategories moved out of 0021 into reserved-slugs.ts. A group's dump or playlist cards now fill its column. 262 backend tests and 678 frontend tests pass, and deno check, tsc, eslint, doc:lint and i18n:compile --strict are clean; checked in screenshots in Smooth light at 1280 and 390px, Smooth dark with mocked playlists, Brutalist dark at 390px and Kanagawa dark at 1280px.

2026-10-09 11:42:01 +00:00