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.
Channel/account avatars come from Google's image CDNs (yt3.ggpht.com,
lh3.googleusercontent.com). On a feed page dozens load at once; the CDN
rate-limits the referrer-bearing burst (429), so a random subset rendered the
browser's broken-image icon (the URLs themselves are valid — verified 200).
Add a shared <Avatar> that sets referrerPolicy="no-referrer" (which the CDNs
serve without throttling) and falls back to a neutral initial placeholder on
error instead of the broken-image icon. Use it for video-card, player, channel
manager, header and settings avatars.
- 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).
- Add a theme-aware glass surface system (.glass/.glass-card + ambient backdrop,
performance-mode opt-out) and apply it across panels, popovers, toasts, cards,
sidebar widgets, channel rows, video cards and login.
- SettingsPanel: slide in/out animation, glass styling, wrapping pill tabs (no
horizontal scrollbar) with a prominent active state.
- Notifications: auto-dismiss can be switched off (stays until closed); the test
notification now also triggers the alert sound; resume a suspended AudioContext.
- Add an app-wide, toggleable hint/tooltip system (lib/hints + Tooltip) and wire
hints across the settings and channel-manager surfaces; persisted per account.
- Hidden view shows an Unhide action (eye icon) instead of Hide
- Upload-date filter: From/To date range (inclusive); feed shows only videos
published in that window (backend published_after / published_before)
- New sort options: Name (A-Z) and Channel subscribers, alongside date/views/
duration/shuffle
- Native controls follow the theme via color-scheme (dark date picker)
- 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
- Language detection: classify one cleaned+concatenated blob (strip emoji,
@mentions, #tags, numbers, punctuation); fixes caps/emoji-heavy channels
(e.g. Nessaj -> Hungarian, no more bogus Chinese/Korean)
- Feed now joins the user's subscriptions, so unsubscribing on YouTube removes a
channel from the feed; periodic subscription re-sync job picks up changes
- Watched/Saved/Hidden views ignore the Shorts/live default-hiding so the full
set is visible (fixes hidden videos missing from the Hidden view)
- Persist feed filters + search across reloads (localStorage)
- 3D polish: cards lift with shadow on hover; chips/buttons get depth and a
press effect; undo toast lasts longer
- 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
