A click on a feed, All Subscriptions or a filter fetched the list and only then drew it, so
nothing answered the click until the server did. The page now keeps the first page of each list
(the newest 40, by view, filter, sort and search), draws a kept one at once and refreshes it
behind, drawing again only if it changed. It fetches ahead: All Subscriptions and the twenty
feeds with the most unread once the page is idle, two at a time, and a feed or filter when the
pointer or a finger reaches it. A feed_row or a read forgets that feed's lists and All
Subscriptions'; the forgotten are fetched again behind. A list with nothing kept shows a
spinner if its answer takes more than 120 ms.
list_shown (#246) is reported when the list first shows, so a kept one reports its few ms.
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#241: on production, All Subscriptions' query runs in 31 ms, unread oldest-first in 30, the
feed list's count in 5, generic plans included (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, BUFFERS, read only), against
0.3-1.6 s in ipx. A new Postgres connection takes 80-330 ms to open, and a page load asks for
more than are idle: four of six slow loads came as the pool grew (3 to 6, 2 to 6, 3 to 5, 6 to
8), and 20 requests at once took a median 414 ms while the pool grew from 8 to 20. The daemon
and the directory's server now keep their whole pool open (min = max); a command such as `ipx
status`, and the tests, which share the server's 100 connections, open as they need.
#246: the page reports list_shown, the ms from asking for a list to drawing it, with the view
and filter, under the click's trace; background refreshes are not timed. Timings skip report()'s
once-a-minute limit, which is for errors in a loop. A dashboard panel and table, and the prod
check, read it.
#245: the load test's browse scenario subscribes by OPML and leaves the Directory, which is
ipx-directory's since #204, to it.
CLAUDE.md records the owner's leave to EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) any query on production,
read only.
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Measured on 2026-10-15: the feed list and item lists went out uncompressed at over 100 KB; ipx
read 2.6 GB of feed bodies a day and the directory 3.9 GB.
- ipx-web compresses with zstd or gzip, leaving out /api/events, which a compressor would hold
back, and /media (#239).
- A body identical to the last one (SHA-256 in feeds.body_hash) is taken as a 304, unless
something is missing a read would fill or the check is forced; and a feed without a schedule
of its own whose body has been the same waits a twelfth of that, up to four hours, beside the
failure backoff (#242). 35 Patreon show feeds sent ~300 KB each hourly, about 250 MB a day.
- The directory checks each feed every twelve hours, not six (#243).
- reqwest accepts brotli and zstd too (#244).
#240 (cache the feed list's counts) is left open: at production's size on the test Postgres
that count takes 12 ms and All Subscriptions 32 ms, against 366 and 300 ms in production, so
the cause is production's database, not the query (#241).
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The buttons followed the feeds being checked, so they stopped between one feed and the next;
7ecbe82 held them for 600 ms over each gap. Now pressing one starts it, and scan_done stops
it only when it is the end of the scan asked for: scan_done carries `only` and `forced`, so a
scheduled scan finishing first does not stop a button whose scan is queued behind it. An
error event, a job that failed without a scan_done, stops them all.
A row's spinner stood in for its unread count from the moment its feed was checked; most
checks take milliseconds, so each count blinked as the scan went by. It now waits 300 ms.
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A scan checks its feeds one at a time; in the gap between two the body class came off, the
icon snapped back upright and the spin restarted, many times a second with fetches ahead.
The class now comes off only after 600 ms with nothing being checked.
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The page reported NetworkError rejections from the live update's list refresh and the first
feed load, which had no catch, whenever the network was gone (a laptop asleep). A Cloudflare
502 page became a request's error message, since api() used whatever body came back. And
the trace id lived until the next tap, so background requests nine hours apart shared one
trace. The id now ends after a minute without a request; a play's position saves, every ten
seconds, keep it going.
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Each release is now a Gitea release as well as an image: scripts/release.sh takes the binary (or
the page's files) out of the deployed image, checks its version, and attaches it as a tarball with
the changelog section as the notes.
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A Directory feed's page offers Check now and Remove to an admin whose token is rwa (the page
learns it from can_admin on the feed's page, asked of the directory only for admins). Admin,
Directory lists the servers sharing, from a new GET /v1/instances, and the blocked feeds by
title: a feed is often blocked because its address carries a key, so the address stays in the
directory. Unblocking or dropping a snapshot sends this server's snapshot again at once; since
directory's 403 reaches the page as 403, not 502.
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The workspace stops holding one version. ipx keeps 0.12.1-dev and its vX.Y.Z tags; the directory
starts at 0.1.0-dev, tagged directory-vX.Y.Z, and the page at 0.1.0-dev in package.json, tagged
web-vX.Y.Z, which web/build.mjs gives the script for the logo's tooltip beside ipx's. crates/feed
is a library, not released. CLAUDE.md's release steps are for one service at a time.
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CHANGELOG.md moves to crates/ipx/CHANGELOG.md with its history, which until 0.12.0 was all of
ipx's; web/CHANGELOG.md and crates/directory/CHANGELOG.md start with this release's lines for the
page and the directory. The dashboard's lines go: monitoring is not a service anyone uses.
CLAUDE.md says which file a change goes in, and that a release covers each.
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