On a phone the menu stayed open over the page after a link was tapped, and only the hamburger closed it. It now closes
on any navigation, on a persona switch, on a tap outside it (a dimmed backdrop) and on Escape; its height is capped at
the screen's (dvh) with its own scroll, and its width follows a narrow screen. The hamburger has a name ("Menu") and says
whether the menu is open. The header's logo is a link home and the persona's picture a 44px link to Settings (it was
30px). From md, the sidebar scrolls on its own when the window is short, as on a phone held sideways.
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Settings has a Notifications section, also at /notifications/filtered: what notifications from people the persona does
not follow, people who do not follow it, new accounts, private mentions it did not ask for and limited accounts become
(accept, filter, drop), and the filtered ones, one request per account, let in (with that account from then on) or
dismissed. The Notifications tab says when requests wait. e2e: a stranger's like waits in a request reached from the
tab and comes back once let in; the policy and the stranger's permission are put back afterwards (Pasture.Mongo).
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Another's profile and posts can be reported from the client (/api/v1/reports): a category, words, and for a remote
account a copy to its server, which PrivaPub sends from its own actor, never naming the persona. Who liked or boosted
a post opens from its card's menu (favourited_by, reblogged_by). e2e: a report from a Mastodon account's profile
reaches PrivaPub's moderators forwarded, and a post's likes and boosts list the persona who gave them; the admin
helper the tests share moves to Support.
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The card marks an edited post with a button that opens its versions, newest first (/statuses/:id/history), each with
its time, warning and words; PrivaPub now has a remote post's earlier versions from Pleroma's formerRepresentations
too. The composer's e2e test opens the history after its edit. The wall test retries smuser's post while Smithereen
has not yet had the persona's Accept.
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PrivaPub hosts what a persona's followers write on its wall (Smithereen's, FEP-400e) and shows posts written on walls
elsewhere to their owners' followers. A card names the wall (privapub.wall, data-wall, linking the profile), and one
written on the persona's own wall is taken off from the card's menu, which PrivaPub tells as a Remove and Smithereen
applies as a deletion. WallTests checks it against Smithereen.
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An Article or a Page with its title, or a titled post longer than a few paragraphs (WriteFreely sends its posts as Notes
with a name), shows its cover, its excerpt and a Read button in a feed, and its whole text on demand; the post opened
in its thread shows whole. A feed of Ghost, WordPress and WriteFreely long reads stays a feed. tests/e2e ArticleTests
checks it with a WriteFreely blog; the render matrix still passes (70).
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A profile shows the posts the account pins above its posts (pinned=true: for an account elsewhere, what it features,
which PrivaPub now keeps); the persona pins and unpins its own public and unlisted posts from the card's menu, and
PrivaPub tells its followers. tests/e2e/Actions/PinTests.cs pins from the card and finds the post first on the profile;
the whole e2e suite passes against the reseeded village (122, 4 skipped).
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PrivaPub now fills `moved` once a move is believed; the profile shows it, linking
the new account's profile. The e2e opens the account SocialPub's moves scenario
moved and finds the new one named.
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A Login section in Settings changes the root's password (the current one
given) and deletes the whole login, every persona with it, after its
password and an explicit "I understand"; the client then signs out. Both
use PrivaPub's existing /clientapi/user routes.
The e2e signs up a login of its own, changes its password and deletes it,
checking each against PrivaPub's login. Signing in now waits for either
the feed or an enabled persona chooser, so a login with one persona (which
goes on by itself) and a new persona's empty feed both sign in.
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The Groups page (/groups, in the menu) is where a persona makes a community
or a circle (with its invitation code and an optional password), joins one
by invitation and leaves one. For the groups it runs it edits them, shows
the invitation, lets in or declines the requests to join, and takes members
out, through PrivaPub's new /clientapi/group/members, reject and remove.
The e2e makes a circle, joins it as another persona with the code, and has
the owner take that member out.
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What other platforms send now shows as they meant it:
- custom emoji (a post's or account's :shortcode:) as their pictures in
posts, names, content warnings, bios and fields: only the shortcodes the
server listed, only http(s) pictures, never inside a tag, the shortcode
kept as alt text;
- a threadiverse post's downvotes next to its favourites;
- blurhash placeholders until a picture loads (wwwroot/js/blurhash.js, a
small decoder that watches the page), and a picture's focal point;
- an event's online link, participants and capacity, and whether it is
tentative or cancelled.
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PrivaPub lets a persona join another server's event (owner decision
2026-10-05). The card of a remote event shows the persona's participation
(pending, accepted, rejected) with Join or Leave, except for events by
invitation or taken on another site. Joining is public on the event's
server, so the first join asks the persona once, as reactions and votes do,
remembered apart from them (PublicAct).
The e2e joins the event SocialPub's Mobilizon scenario keeps, checks the
participant on Mobilizon and PrivaPub's answer, and leaves it.
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GoToSocial lets an author approve replies, likes and boosts first. PrivaPub now asks that author and marks the
persona's reply or boost privapub.approval: pending until the answer, or rejected; the card shows which, with an
hourglass or a cross. One the policy shuts out is refused (422) and shown as the error it is.
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Settings, which held only the theme, now belong to the persona too:
- its profile (update_credentials, a new PATCH in IHttpService): pictures,
name, biography and fields as written, locked, bot, discoverable,
indexable, and how its posts start (visibility, language, sensitive
media, who may quote them); the composer starts at that visibility;
- the root's personas, each used in turn, and a new one made;
- the accounts it muted or blocked and the servers it blocked, each undone
there, a server blocked from a pasted address or handle;
- its follows, lists, blocks, mutes, blocked servers and bookmarks exported
and imported as the CSV files Mastodon writes (PortabilityService): an
import resolves each row through PrivaPub, one at a time, and can stop.
Administration opens to moderators: reports, resolved there; and for
administrators the servers blocked for everyone and the federation
statistics (traffic by server, delivery success and latency, the crawler).
The Direct tab pages conversations, badges the unread ones, and a card
marks one read or takes it off the list; opening one reads it.
A remote thread is read again 4 and 15 seconds after it opens, since
PrivaPub then fetches the replies its servers hold. A thread its
community locked shows a lock instead of a reply button, reactions stay
visible below a content warning, and a searched handle opens its
account's profile whatever else matched.
The e2e tests cover each: the profile saved and read back, a persona made,
servers blocked and imported, follows exported, an instance block and the
statistics as the pasture's admin, a conversation read and removed, and a
reply only Mastodon held appearing in its thread.
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The composer can hold a poll instead of media (two to four choices, a
length, one choice or several), quote a post (offered on a card when the
server says the persona may quote it), and edit the persona's own post: its
words and warning come from /source, and saving keeps its media,
visibility and poll. A card's menu offers Edit and Quote, and now opens
sideways: upwards, the first card's menu was cut off by the top of the
feed. The e2e tests publish a poll, edit a post and quote it, each checked
on PrivaPub.
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The Notifications tab reads grouped notifications (/api/v2/notifications):
likes and boosts of one post, or follows of one hour, are one card naming
both accounts of a pair, or the newest and how many others, with their
avatars. A notification the stream tells joins its group and waits on top.
The tab's badge counts what is unread; opening the tab moves the
notifications marker to the newest shown, which reads it on PrivaPub.
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decePub opens PrivaPub's streaming API (one WebSocket for the persona, its
token given as the socket's protocol, never in a URL) and subscribes to the
stream of the feed in view: home, a list, local, federated, a hashtag or
notifications. New posts wait behind the "new" button as polled ones did;
a deletion or an edit applies at once. Polling stays for the feeds PrivaPub
does not stream and for any feed while the socket is down, which opens again
after a pause growing to a minute. The e2e test sees a post made elsewhere
in seconds and its deletion take the card away.
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The composer's clock button gives a post a time (scheduled_at, at least five
minutes ahead; located and group posts have none), and /scheduled moves or
drops what waits. A hashtag's feed tab shows its week and follows it, so its
public posts come home. Explore (/explore) shows what PrivaPub says is
trending, hashtags, posts and links from public posts it holds, the
directory by activity or by joining, and the hashtags the persona follows.
DiscoveryService does the calls; the e2e tests check each against PrivaPub's
own answer.
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The persona's filters (PrivaPub's /api/v2/filters): made, given words and
whole-word rules, contexts, an action and an expiry on /filters (linked from
Settings), and deleted; posts filtered one by one can be taken out. Every
status says which filters it matches; each page tells its cards where they
are (home and lists, notifications, public feeds, the thread around the
opened post, profiles), and a card leaves its post out (hide), folds it
behind the filter's title with a way to show it anyway (warn), or blurs its
media (blur). The e2e test folds and then hides a post of the persona's own.
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A persona's lists (PrivaPub's /api/v1/lists): made, renamed, given a
replies policy and made exclusive on /lists, filled from the accounts it
follows (accounts/search?following=true), and read as the feed's Lists tab.
A followed account's profile has a Lists menu to put it in or take it out.
ListService does the calls; the e2e tests check each step against
PrivaPub's own answer.
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tests/e2e (Playwright for .NET 1.61.0 on xunit v3, the Chromium 1228 already
cached, never downloaded, never in CI) runs the published app against
SocialPub's pasture and its town: run.sh publishes it with the Pasture
environment (wwwroot/appsettings.Pasture.json, published only then; the
deploy fails if it ever ships) and serves it as https://decepub.test. The
tests sign in through the real login page and persona chooser, check that
every request goes only to decepub.test and privapub.test with the right
credential on the right API, render one post of each kind from each
platform as its author wrote it, and check every action on the other
side of the wire (town.sh stored): favourites, boosts and replies with
their undoing, follows from a profile, votes, reactions. Each test is also
a cell of the town's report (out/client.jsonl). They found two PrivaPub
bugs fixed there (a blocked author's status answered null; sensitive
remote media invented a content warning) and a reply addressed to nobody.
New in the app, all checked by those tests:
- profiles at /account/{id}: header, bio, fields, counts, the account's
posts as posts, posts and replies, or media, and follow, unfollow,
cancel a request, mute and block (AccountService); post authors and
notifications open them in the app;
- search at /search: accounts, posts and hashtags, a handle or an address
resolved by PrivaPub;
- poll voting on the card, and emoji reactions shown and given with one
tap; before a persona's first reaction or vote it is told once that
both are public (PublicNoticeService, the owner's decision);
- follow requests answered from their notification.
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The Sun lights the globe where it really is (wwwroot/js/sun.js, the Astronomical Almanac's low-precision solar
coordinates): the day map shaded by the Sun's height and the Earth–Sun distance, warm city lights on the night side,
and a twilight blend about 13° wide between them. It shows now, refreshed every 30 s, or the moment of the hovered,
focused or pinned post: a click on a card pins it, and the subsolar point travels there the shorter way round. The
panel's top corner shows that moment, the phase of the day and solar time at the post's place, and the season in its
hemisphere (or in both, for a post without a place). Its tooltip shows the subsolar point, declination, axial tilt,
distance, irradiance, day length and the next equinox or solstice.
Land borders are thin paths. Country names are in the reader's language and appear as the camera comes closer:
largest countries first, away from the globe's edge, never overlapping. They come from world-atlas 2.0.2 (Natural
Earth 1:50m), prepared by tools/globe/prepare-countries.py, and are vendored with their hashes in SOURCES.md.
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The globe is a UV sphere: towards the poles its triangles narrow to
slivers, and texture coordinates interpolated across them pinched the
map into a star around each pole. Each pixel now computes its own
coordinates from its exact point on the sphere, with seam-safe mipmap
gradients; the map wraps horizontally and gets 8x anisotropic
filtering.
That showed a flaw in the day texture: NASA's mosaic has a lighter
strip at its east edge near the poles, a line from each pole once drawn
exactly. The day texture is now built from NASA's original Blue Marble
(December 2004) by tools/globe/prepare-day-texture.py, which blends
that strip into the map where both sides of the seam agree; same
4096x2048 size, provenance and hashes in SOURCES.md.
globe.gl redrew 60 times a second even when nothing moved; it now draws
only during camera flights, hover pulses, auto-rotation and the
reader's drags, so an idle globe costs no GPU time.
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A post whose server is behind a CDN has no place of its own: the globe
groups such posts per CDN in labels on a ring above the Arctic, and
hovering one draws its arc to the CDN's group and a ring where the
server was before the CDN. The card's CDN chip names the CDN, its
domain, how PrivaPub found it (published ranges, response headers or
network), the place before the CDN and the CDN's servers week by week
(/api/privapub/v1/cdns/:domain); the author's tooltip lists the server's
changes of place and CDN week by week (/instances/:host/history). Both
are read on the first hover and kept for the session.
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One sign-in for both of PrivaPub's APIs: the root logs in on /clientapi,
picks a persona, and each persona gets its own Mastodon token in
exchange for the JWT (PersonaExchange). HttpService picks credentials
and JSON by route (JWT and camelCase for /clientapi, the persona token
and snake_case for /api, nothing for /oauth), retries a refused persona
token once, and records every request for the nerd stats.
The feed page is three columns: navigation with a persona switcher, the
feed with a tab per kind (home, local, federated, nearby, communities
and circles, direct, notifications, favourites, bookmarks, hashtags),
and a 3D globe that looks at the spherical mean of the posts in view
and draws a pulse and an arc to a hovered one. Posts sit at their own
place, their event's venue, the reader (located posts) or their
author's server as PrivaPub publishes it. Cards favourite, boost,
bookmark, reply, mute, block and delete; the composer posts with a
content warning, visibility, media and alt text, or as a located post.
Older pages load as the end nears; newer ones are polled while visible.
Nerd stats in tooltips: provenance, author and server, place, media,
counts, paging, the globe's camera and frame rate.
The mock (Faker, MessagesService, the Message models and store) and the
OIDC template leftovers are gone. Strings in English and Italian.
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AllStrings.resx was empty, so all 74 UI keys rendered as their own text. It now
holds every key the app uses, with English values. That includes:
- the members of the enums shown through Localizer[value.ToString()], such as
FollowersOnly and PlainText;
- the new toast, HttpService, ErrorViewer and Settings strings.
AllStrings.it.resx has the same keys in Italian.
ErrorMessages.resx gains MaxLength, with its Designer property, and an Italian
sibling. MessageForm's [StringLength] referenced that key, which didn't exist,
so failing that validation threw at runtime.
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