Owner decision 2026-10-06: the globe tells its numbers where they belong instead of in a table. instruments.js adds
one three.js group to globe.gl's scene and a DOM overlay of chips:
- the Sun: a ray and a bead over the subsolar point (with the irradiance), the day/night line, the golden hour and
the three twilights, the declination, the noon and midnight meridian, and the analemma at this hour, its stretch to
the next equinox or solstice brighter;
- a focused post's place: its horizon, its Sun's line and height, and its day lit on its latitude, with one chip for
the place, the phase, the solar time, the elevation and the day's length;
- the tropics and polar circles (the axial tilt), the CDN ring, the view's centre and spread, and rings around the
posts in view;
- a small orrery in the top left corner, re-anchored to the camera before each render, with the Earth–Sun distance,
the seasons, the next equinox or solstice and the next perihelion or aphelion stacked under it;
- the frame rate as a ring around the globe; the rest (points, textures, countries, renderer) as a legend.
The chips are placed after each frame globe.gl draws, clear of each other, the moment's caption, the orrery and the
legend, and slide back inside the canvas at its edge; country names keep clear of them. Geometry changes only inside
a wake globe.js already made, so an idle globe still draws nothing. three.js's classes come from globe.gl's own
objects, looked for before each render until its globe is in the scene. A phone's banner draws the day/night line
and the subsolar point; full screen draws everything, and a globe built in the banner now moves its camera back when
opened full screen.
GlobePanel loses both tooltips and the one-second poll that read every post into a table; the Sun's rows stay as
screen-reader text, and a failed start says so. Seven keys only the tooltips used are gone.
GlobeTests (desktop with a located post written from Milano and pinned, in both themes and turned to the subsolar
point; a phone's banner, full screen and back; an idle globe drawing no frame) pass. Under SwiftShader the instruments
cost 1–3 ms of a ~50 ms frame and under 0.1 ms of script; FeedPerfTests' heaps are unchanged.
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On a phone the Back button left the page under an open menu, sheet or dialog. An open overlay now says so (new
IDOverlayHost, cascaded by MainLayout; OverlayService keeps them newest last): DModal and DDropdown through the
cascade, so the D components stay free of app services, and the nav menu, PhoneSheet and the full-screen globe through
the service. MainLayout's location-changing handler lets Back close the newest overlay instead of leaving the page; a
link followed or the app's own navigation (signing out after its question, say) closes them all and goes on. Blazor
can't tell Back from the app's navigation, so a capture-phase popstate listener in main.js marks Back
(AppStatusService.TookBack). No history entries are pushed. Phone flow: Back closes the menu, a card's More sheet, the
composer and the full-screen globe one after another without leaving the feed, and with nothing open goes back.
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On a phone the only way into a post's thread was a small Expand button (and now an entry in More), while a tap on the
post pinned it to a globe that is usually hidden there, outlining the card. Where the pointer can't hover, a tap on a
post that isn't on its links, controls or menus and doesn't end a text selection opens its thread through the card's
own thread link (main.js, data-thread on the card); cards are pinned to the globe with a mouse only. The globe's corner
stats have 12px text on touch. Phone flow: a tap in a post's margin opens its thread and pins nothing.
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Below xl every feed tab but the selected one was a lone icon with no name, for a screen reader or a finger. DTab takes
an AccessibleName, which DTabs renders as the tab's label and tooltip, and FeedTabs names each tab; on a phone every
tab shows its name too. The strip is marked as one that scrolls sideways (data-scroll-x), says it holds the feeds, and
on a phone fades at the edge where more tabs wait (edge-fade-x, a scroll-driven animation where the browser has one);
the selected tab is brought into view when it changes (window.revealActive). Explore's tabs get the same.
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On a phone the globe is a banner above the feed; a tap on it now opens it full screen over everything, with a close
button (Escape closes it too), the focus moving to that button and back, and the feed underneath kept as it was but out
of reach (inert). The camera refits the new shape. Held sideways, a phone (a window at most 30rem tall, the new short:
variant) has no room for the banner: the banner and its toggle give way to a button that opens the globe full screen.
isMobileMedia, which picks the first visit's default, agrees with Tailwind's md now (it was off by one) and counts a
phone held sideways. GlobePanel tells its state (data-globe-state). Phone flows: the globe opens full screen and
closes, and a sideways phone keeps a feed at least 180px tall with no sideways scroll.
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On a phone the composer opened at the top of the feed whether or not the feed was scrolled there, and a reply, quote
or edit opened inside its card's 228px column. New PhoneSheet shows them as a sheet from the bottom of the screen below
md, over a dimmed page, with a heading and a close button (a tap outside or Escape closes it too); from md they stay in
place as before. On a phone a new post starts from a round button under the thumb (the feed keeps room for it at the
bottom), and the tabs' Post button shows from md. Opening the composer scrolls the feed to its top, and the composer's
words take the focus (DTextarea.Element). Picking a suggested mention or hashtag keeps the focus, and the phone's
keyboard, in the words (DButton.KeepFocus, and the words are focused again). The character count sits under the words
instead of over their last line, and the visibility menu names each choice.
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GlobePanel built a string of every located post's place on each of its renders, the stats overlay's once a second
included: with two thousand posts loaded, a hundred kilobytes of formatting every second while the page sat idle. It
now looks at the posts only when the feed hands them over, and compares a hash. The feed perf test (Category=Perf)
loads 2000 posts as before (49 s, against 55.6 s for 1740 in the baseline run).
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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 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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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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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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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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