ipodderx-rs/TODO.md

To do

Errors in the log

• Westenberg. The only failing feed anyone subscribes to. The Hacker News stars list still gives joanwestenberg.com/rss, which is a 404; the feed is now joanwestenberg.com/feed. Nothing for ipx to fix; subscribe to the new URL directly.

Icons

• Audit the icon set for consistency. Checked every glyph in ICON (web/index.html) against its source, weight, sizing, and every place it's used — both the ${ICON.x} template calls and the data-icon="x" lookups the startup loop wires up (web/index.html:713). Found one real problem: minus, a bare uncircled minus glyph, was defined but never referenced anywhere; circleMinus already covers the one place a minus-shaped icon is used (Unsubscribe). Removed it. Everything else checked out: flag's regular weight against flagOn's solid is the standard outline/filled toggle idiom, not a mismatch; icon sizing is one shared 16px base rule with three narrowly-scoped overrides; caret is deliberately reused (not duplicated) for both the folder triangle and the sort arrow, rotated correctly per context; play/pause swapping is symmetric. (web/index.html)

Directory Overhaul

• Give feeds a real category, from the feed itself. ParsedFeed only carries per-episode categories (src/feed.rs:24); nothing at the channel level survives parsing today, so there is nothing to browse the directory by. Parse <itunes:category> (and its <itunes:subcategory> if present) off the channel the same way entry categories already are, keep the first one a feed reports rather than building a multi-tag facet, and add it to FeedSummary and the feeds table via a migration. Most feeds will not carry one; a feed with none counts only under "All". (src/feed.rs, src/db.rs)
• Expose category on /api/popular and /api/directory. PopularRow (src/web.rs) is id, title, image, subscribers, subscribed today; add category: Option<String> once a feed carries one, so the client can group and filter without a second request.
• Replace the flat alphabetical list with a category rail over an artwork grid. Today Directory is a single-column list of rows: a thumbnail, a title, a subscriber count, a subscribe button (renderListed/listFeeds, web/index.html:1649). Put a horizontal row of category chips above it — "All" plus whatever categories actually occur in the catalogue, never an empty one — and turn the list itself into a grid of square cover-art tiles with the title underneath: podcast art is designed to be recognized at a glance, the way the app's own iPod-screen styling already leans on imagery over text. Keep the subscriber count as a small corner badge (the same treatment unread counts already get in the feed list) and move the subscribe button to appear on hover/focus instead of sitting on every row permanently. Selecting a chip filters the grid in place; the active chip gets the EQ-amber underline (--accent2) the level meter already uses, rather than a new color. No new palette and no new typeface — reuse --bg/--fg/--accent/ --accent2 and the existing Lucida Grande stack so Directory still looks like the rest of ipx, not a bolted-on card kit: no border, shadow or radius beyond what the app already uses elsewhere. On phone width the chip row scrolls horizontally in place rather than wrapping, so it never pushes the grid down. Popular can stay a plain top-ten list for now, or get the same tile treatment later — worth deciding separately rather than folding into this. (web/index.html)