After read access is granted the wizard now imports the user's YouTube
subscriptions automatically (with a "Building your feed…" progress state), so a
new user lands on a populated feed — channels already in the shared catalog show
up instantly, new ones backfill in the background. The empty feed now prompts
users without read access to set up via the wizard instead of a bare message.
Three low-risk wins for large filtered feeds:
- content-visibility:auto on cards (.cv-card/.cv-row) so the browser skips
layout/paint for off-screen cards; contain-intrinsic-size keeps the scrollbar
stable and is remembered per card after first render.
- memo(VideoCard) + stable onState/onChannelFilter callbacks (onState reads the
loaded list via a ref) so appending a page only renders the ~60 new cards
instead of reconciling every card already on screen.
- Prefetch the next page earlier (sentinel rootMargin 800px → 1500px) so the
'Loading more…' flash is far less likely during fast scrolling.
The feed kept per-video optimistic status overrides until filters changed, so a
status reverted elsewhere (e.g. Unwatch from the notification center) was masked
by the stale override and stayed filtered out of the current view. Also clear
overrides when fresh feed data arrives — the server is then authoritative.
Mirror the hide flow for watched: marking a video watched (card, modal toggle,
or auto-watch) raises a toast and a bell-history entry with an Unwatch action —
no Find-in-feed, just revert. NotifMeta becomes a discriminated union
(video-hidden | video-watched); unhide/unwatch share one revert-to-new helper.
- Watched: an explicit toggle in the modal (Mark watched / Watched→unmark) plus
auto-mark when playback reaches the end (within 10s, or on the ended event).
- Compact layout: drop the header bar and the redundant 'Open on YouTube' button
(the embed's own YouTube logo already jumps out); Close moves to the title row,
channel + meta share one line — fits without a scrollbar at higher zoom.
- Card actions reflect status: watched shows a double-check, saved a filled
bookmark, with matching tooltips.
- Description: new GET /api/videos/{id} exposes the already-stored description,
shown in a popover when hovering the modal title (fetched lazily).
Left-clicking a feed card (Ctrl/Cmd/middle still open youtube.com in a new tab)
opens a modal that plays the video in-app via the YouTube IFrame Player API
instead of leaving the app. Using the JS API (not a bare embed) lets us read the
playback position: it's checkpointed per-video in localStorage and on close, and
restored via the 'start' param when the video is reopened. The modal closes via
a header button, the backdrop, or ESC (ESC only while focus is on our page — a
cross-origin iframe owns its own key events).
- NotificationCenter closes on outside click (document listener, not an overlay
that the blurred header trapped) and no longer needs a second bell click.
- Toasts show a level-colored countdown bar and auto-dismiss faster (6s default).
- Hidden-video notifications carry structured meta so the center offers an in-app
'Find in feed' (jump to that channel's hidden videos) and a one-click 'Unhide',
working even after a reload when the live Undo callback is gone.
- Replace the toast store with a notification store: levels (info/success/
warning/error/fatal), requiresInteraction, and a persisted history.
- Move toasts to the top-right, styled per level, with manual dismiss.
- Add a bell in the header opening a Notification Center (history, unread badge,
'needs attention' vs info, clear all).
- Capture network failures and 5xx responses (api layer) and render crashes
(ErrorBoundary) as notifications.
- Sound + server-sourced events + per-account settings remain for 6b.
- Header shows a live sync status (total videos + channels still backfilling, or
"paused"), polled every 30s
- Admins can pause/resume the background sync; a paused flag in app_state makes
scheduled jobs skip (migration 0006)
- GET /api/feed/count returns the number of videos matching the current filters;
shared filter builder keeps it in sync with /api/feed; shown above the feed
- /api/sync/status reports backfill progress, pending enrichment and paused state
- Content type is now three independent toggles (Normal / Shorts / Live·Upcoming);
the feed is the union of enabled types (backend show_normal + include_shorts +
include_live)
- Per-channel filter: a button on each card scopes the feed to that channel, shown
as a removable chip in the sidebar
- Hide now refetches the feed once the change is persisted, so a hidden video shows
up in the Hidden view immediately (no refresh needed); optimistic updates respect
the current view
- Grid cards are now distinct panels (card background, border, shadow) that lift on
hover; clickable channel name in list view too
- Shorts: confirm via youtube.com/shorts/<id> probe (SOCS cookie bypasses the
consent redirect) instead of a 60s heuristic; concurrent probing, shorts_probed
flag, scheduled refinement (migration 0005)
- Search: match title + channel name only (descriptions caused noisy results)
- Faceted tag filtering: AND across categories (language AND topic narrows),
OR within a category; any/all toggle applies to topics
- Language detection: majority vote over individual titles (fixes misdetections
like multipoleguy -> English; drops bogus Polish/Romanian)
- Login: drop forced consent so returning sign-in is quick (select_account)
- Feed cards: clickable channel name (opens channel), persistent saved badge,
undo toast on hide, Hidden view to restore; tag chips show counts in tooltip
- Vite + React + TS + Tailwind SPA served by FastAPI (multi-stage Docker build)
- Four color schemes (Midnight default, Forest, Slate, YouTube) x dark/light,
adjustable text size; persisted to user preferences and localStorage
- Header search, grid/list toggle, theme menu; sidebar filters (show state,
sort, include Shorts/live, language + topic tag chips with any/all matching)
- Infinite-scroll feed of video cards; click opens youtube.com in a new tab;
per-video watched / saved / hidden actions with optimistic updates
- SPA fallback routing; login screen for unauthenticated users
