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209 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
d6c0e3e7a6 Show that DeadAir is still working on an episode (#176)
A new download in a show with DeadAir on plays at full length until its
copy is made, and nothing said so. Each file now carries
deadair_pending while DeadAir is on for its show and the copy is still
to come (not for one heard through, which it passes over), and the
episode's line and details say "Cutting dead air…". The maker sends a
deadair_done event when it finishes a file, and the page takes the list
again, so the line becomes how much shorter the episode is without a
reload.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 19:05:18 +00:00
527a90ed2d Keep a file's buttons on one row in the Files pane (#175)
The pane is 245 px wide above 820 px, and a downloaded file's size and
four buttons did not fit, so delete wrapped under the rest. The row no
longer wraps, its gaps and the buttons' padding are tighter, and the
size gives way with an ellipsis if anything still has to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 19:05:18 +00:00
00bc039964 DeadAir's wording: cut the dead air (#172)
The switch, the button's tooltip, the toasts and the time saved now say
what the name already pictures, the dead air cut, instead of explaining
it as silences shortened each time. The caption says the voice keeps its
own pace, which is the part people doubt, and names the shows to leave
out: stories whose pauses are part of the telling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 18:32:16 +00:00
111a0e29a4 DeadAir's icon: the silence open when off, closed up when on (#172)
Outlined bars against solid ones read the wrong way round at 20 px: the
outlines ran together and the off icon looked the heavier. The off icon
now has the gap in its middle, the on icon has it closed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 18:27:42 +00:00
827cc7489f DeadAir in the page: a switch per show, one beside the speed, and the time saved (#172)
A DeadAir switch in each show's settings, and the same switch beside
the speed for the show that is playing, drawn as a waveform with its gap
closed up, outlined when off and solid when on, with aria-pressed. A
file the server gives a copy for plays from /media/{id}/deadair. An
episode's line says how much shorter it is, and Settings says how much
DeadAir has saved you.

Turning it on or off mid-episode saves the place with a request it waits
for, not a beacon, then asks for the entry again from the new
GET /api/entries/{feed}/{guid}, whose position is in the clock of the
version it now plays, and carries on there. A copy not made yet plays
from the next time. Turning a show on wakes the copy maker, so the copy
is there in seconds rather than at its next pass.

The browser test plays a real MP3 with long silences, quiet.mp3, from a
show it adds and removes itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 18:18:41 +00:00
22a99110e8 Show the accent, not words, past the last item when swiping
Asked for: swiping on from the last item in the reader showed "No more items" in faint text beside
it; the pane is now the theme's accent colour and says nothing, the colour saying it is the end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:52:41 +00:00
cb92d5e355 Say nothing in an empty list or an empty reader
Asked for: "Nothing here yet — try Scan now." and "Pick an item to read it." are gone. A search
that finds nothing still says so, as the words typed are the reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:50:22 +00:00
e3f0267814 Box the API tokens in Settings
Asked for: the API tokens section of Settings sits in the same rounded box as a feed's download
settings, set apart from the rest of the dialog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:43:35 +00:00
f4a8ba4ea8 Box the download settings instead of hanging them from a rule (#167)
Asked for after the redesign: the switch and what depends on it sit in one box with rounded
corners, in place of the rule down their left side. Drawn in --line rather than --edge, so it shows
on a phone too, where --edge draws no outlines; the indent the rule needed goes with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:38:26 +00:00
4c1d230044 Put a feed's address at the top of its settings, and drop the shared box (#167)
Asked for after the redesign went out: the box of settings the same for everyone (address, folder,
Directory category) held what a person reading the feed cannot and should not change. The address
moves to the top, under the feed's name, with its copy button, read-only except to an admin, who
can still follow a feed that moved from its failing banner. The folder and the category leave the
dialog.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:32:29 +00:00
ecbc253894 Redesign the feed settings dialog (#167)
One column of label, box and grey paragraph, eight times at the same weight, three screens long on a
phone with Save at the bottom of the third. Approved from the mockups on #167.

- Download automatically comes first, as a switch; how many, the keywords and explicit, which only
  ever applied to automatic downloads, hang beneath it and fold away when it is off.
- How many is Default, Newest or All, said as a sentence with the number in it, over a strip of the
  feed's own newest items, each as tall as it is long and lit where it downloads; dragging along
  it sets Newest. All is 0, which now means all (#166).
- Keywords and hidden words are chips: Enter or a comma adds one, its x or Backspace removes it.
- The feed's own settings, the same for everyone and an admin's to change, sit apart in a box.
- The body scrolls and Cancel and Save stay at the foot.
- Theme colours only; iOS switches, but checkboxes in Classic. openModal takes a class for a
  dialog with a frame of its own, set whole each time so it never outlives it.

A browser test covers the strip, chips, the fold and a save that holds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:25:57 +00:00
b4c115d79a Show the iPodderX icon in the top bar in the Classic theme
Classic is drawn after the 2004 iPodderX app, so its top bar shows that app's icon (/icon.png) in
place of the iPX logo, on the app and admin pages. The favicon stays the iPX one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:14:54 +00:00
4e417389fe Catch the feed list up when the page comes back into view (#168)
All Subscriptions said 1 unread when the server had none. The badge is the page's own sum of its
feed list, loaded once and patched only by events the server sends when a scan or a download
changes a feed. Reading an item, marking everything read or unsubscribing sends none, so another
device's page kept its old counts, and an iPhone stops the event stream while the app is in the
background, missing everything meanwhile; the reconnect did not catch up.

The page now takes the feed list and the open list again when it comes back into view and when the
stream reconnects after a drop. A browser test reads an item behind the page's back and checks the
badge follows once the page is shown again; it fails without this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 12:13:16 +00:00
c7eef3e516 Make Glass's top bar solid on a phone, so the strip above it matches (#147)
In a home-screen app iOS paints the strip behind the status bar and the Dynamic Island itself, in
one flat colour, from theme-color. Glass's bar is see-through, so theme-color fell back to Glass's
page background, #0b0d14 (#eef1f7 light), above a bar that showed #191e34 on average, bluer at the
left and purple at the right: a near-black band, or a white one in light mode.

No flat strip can match a see-through bar, so on a phone the bar is solid, in what it showed on
average (--glass-bar, measured in Chromium off the bar's top edge), and theme-color carries the
same colour. Everywhere else Glass is as it was. The browser test checks the bar is solid and
theme-color equals it in both modes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 01:10:14 +00:00
a12aa59970 Shadow the feed list on a phone only while it is open (#151)
On a phone the feed list is a drawer slid off the screen to the left, and it kept its shadow
there, which fell back across the page: the left 30px or so of the top bar and everything under
it were darker, in every theme (Glass light 231,233,243 at the edge against 246,247,255). Beside
the flat strip iOS paints above the page it made a seam at the top-left corner (#147).

Hiding the closed drawer instead (visibility) would also have done it, but every phone test
starts by waiting for the feed list to be visible, which off the screen it still counts as.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 01:10:07 +00:00
a553931c76 Run the top bar's colour up behind the Dynamic Island on iOS 26 (#147)
46f9370 set theme-color, but Safari 26 ignores it. iOS 26 paints the strip behind the status bar
and the island in the background colour of a sticky or fixed element at the page's top edge, and
failing that the root's. The top bar was neither, and the root had no colour of its own (only
body did), so iOS used black or white: a band of another colour above the bar.

The bar is sticky now, though nothing scrolls under it, so iOS reads its colour; the root has the
page's background for screens with nothing at the top edge; Classic's metal bar gets a colour
under its gradient, the top of the metal, since iOS reads no gradient. theme-color stays, set to
the bar's colour, for iPhones before iOS 26 and for Android. Glass's bar is see-through, so iOS
frosts what is under it there, as the bar itself does.

Taken from developers' reports of iOS 26, not Apple's documentation, and not yet seen on a phone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-09 00:50:28 +00:00
46f9370018 Paint the bar around the Dynamic Island in the theme's background (#147)
The page named no theme-color, so the status bar iOS draws around the Dynamic Island was its own
black or white, a band across the top of every theme. The page and the admin page now carry one,
set to the page's background whenever the theme or mode changes; Android's toolbar takes it too.
Not seen on a phone yet: the browser test checks the colour matches, not what iOS does with it.

A browser test at 360px covers this and #146's row of buttons. The stub DOM gains
getComputedStyle, which every browser has.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 13:51:19 +00:00
70c49921ab Keep a feed's and an item's buttons on one row (#146)
A feed's page has seven 44px buttons, which fit a 390px phone with nothing to spare: on a 360px
one, Unsubscribe went onto a second row by itself. Below that width an icon button now narrows
rather than the row breaking. The reader's buttons were items of its meta line itself, so a long
feed name took them onto the next line one at a time; they are one group now, which moves as one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 13:51:11 +00:00
0f93d1bd0d Fill a pinned pin button with the accent (#148)
The reader's pin, a feed page's pin and the toolbar's showed pinned only by turning the glyph
solid, in the same grey as the button around it, and at a glance it read the same as not pinned.
Pinned, they are now filled with the theme's accent and the pin drawn in the ink the theme pairs
with it, the pair a pinned feed's disc and a pinned item's row already use, so no palette changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-08 13:51:05 +00:00
4f4f2e8d95 Try a feed again in minutes when its host could not be looked up for the moment (#143)
205 of the Directory's 208 feeds without a category had never been read: on 2026-10-05 at 03:24
UTC every one failed with "dns error: ... Temporary failure in name resolution" within a minute,
during an outage on Tower that also stopped iPX's log reaching Loki until Tower rebooted at 11:56.
They are working podcasts, NPR's, Megaphone's, Acast's, which resolve now. A feed nobody
subscribes to is read once a day and a failing one backs off up to a day (#99), so each sat
failing, unread and so uncategorised (#117) until the next day, and explain_failure called every
DNS error "This address no longer resolves; the site is gone.", on its page and since #142 on its
Directory page. A forced check of the 208 read 205; each has its items, its description and its
own category now.

A temporary lookup failure, EAI_AGAIN, is not recorded on the feed at all: no last_error, no
error_since to back off from or call it gone by. The daemon notes it in Ctx::retry and the feed
is due again in ten minutes, which the scan's due check and the sleep until the next scan both
honour; a restart forgets it, which only makes the retry sooner. A name that does not exist is
still the feed's error, explained as "may be gone", and the Directory page, like the feed's own,
names a cause only once a feed has been failing a day; before that its last check failed.

The page also drops "Nobody here subscribes yet", which said nothing worth a line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-06 00:18:42 +00:00
2098343621 Say on a feed's Directory page why it is failing, and who subscribes (#142)
daily-quests, one subscriber and no items, showed "Nothing read from it yet. A feed nobody here
subscribes to is checked once a day." on its page in the Directory: the second sentence was
written whatever the count, and the feed had been failing since #119 said so, which the page
never showed, /api/directory/{id} sending no error.

It sends `failing` now, the reason a feed's own page gives (explain_failure), or that the last
check failed, never the error itself, which can name the feed's address, and the Directory names
none. The page shows it under the header in the error colour, and says a feed is checked once a
day only when nobody subscribes and nothing is wrong.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 23:50:15 +00:00
9c2f3eaf1b Search Currently Listening from the search box (#127)
Currently Listening's search box said "Search items…" and did nothing: loadEntries returns early
for a place with its own list. Typing now redraws the list with the search sent along, as
/api/entries already takes one, title and text, and says so when nothing in progress matches.
The keys list says / searches it too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 19:55:21 +00:00
697e907c86 Keep the feed list's icons when it redraws, rather than load each again (#134)
Checking every feed made all the feeds' icons in the feed list flash while it ran. A check sends
each feed's new row as it reads the feed, and renderFeeds, run once a frame while they come in,
emptied the list and built every row anew, every <img> with it: each icon went blank and was
loaded and drawn again, many times a second through a scan of 150 feeds.

The rows are still rebuilt, but the images already drawn go into the new ones in place of the
fresh copies, matched by their markup, so only an icon that has changed is made anew. A browser
test checks the rows are new and the images in them the same elements, and fails without this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 17:37:35 +00:00
ef8e2526f2 Show what a feed says it is on its page in the Directory (#130)
A feed's page in the Directory (#128) had its cover, category and latest items, but not the
feed's own description, which Apple's show page leads with: iPX read every item's description
and threw the channel's away, and the feeds table had nowhere to keep it.

It is parsed now, RSS's <description>, or iTunes' summary when that is empty, or Atom's
subtitle, kept in feeds.description (kept when a later read has none, as title and image are),
and sent, sanitized, with the items from /api/directory/{id}, which is now an object, not a
list. The page shows it as plain text under the header, three lines of it, with More when there
is more. A description that only repeats the title is left out.

feeds.description is the first column added to a table that already exists. create_missing
looks for it with a SELECT and runs the ALTER only when it is missing, since it runs on every
open, the healthcheck's included, and an ALTER's lock is what made that time out before. The
same once-only step forgets every feed's ETag and Last-Modified: a feed is read whole only when
it has changed, so its description would otherwise wait for its next item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 16:46:22 +00:00
5058adc93e Open a Directory category's fan of covers as one smooth motion (#132)
Hovering a category tile turned its outer two covers further out over 0.2s, and it looked
choppy. Traced in Chromium, the covers were given layers of their own only once the transition
began, so the browser drew them again on its first frames and again on the way back, 22 raster
tasks for a hover in and out, and the main thread produced 34 frames for 0.4s of motion.

Each cover now has its layer before the pointer arrives (will-change), all three move, rotate
and translate are animated as properties of their own rather than as one transform list, and
the fan takes 0.45s on an ease that settles. The same hover is 5 raster tasks, and the
compositor presents 116 frames to the main thread's 26.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 16:46:22 +00:00
9e39f2d756 Draw every Directory category tile on the panel, untinted (#131)
Each tile took a faint tint from a hash of its category's name, as an initials tile does, so
neighbours differed. Five of them, Comedy, Government, Kids & Family, Leisure and Music, drew
--good, and green means yours everywhere else on the page, the subscribed tick and a downloaded
file among them: those tiles read as holding something you subscribe to, when the tint meant
nothing. The fanned covers already give each tile its colour.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 16:33:57 +00:00
95acde3046 Lay the Directory out as Apple's is, with the most subscribed in it (#124, #126, #128)
The Directory was one grid of every listed feed, 1,472 in production, under Podcasts and Blogs
tabs, a wall of about 30 category buttons and a sort menu, with a picked category's
subcategories appearing as a second row of buttons that looked like the first. It read as a
list to scroll, and the two rows were hard to tell apart.

It opens now on the ten most subscribed feeds, ranked, and the categories as tiles, each with
three of its shows' covers fanned in its corner on the tint its initials would get, so the
shows colour it and no theme's palette changes. A category has a page of its own: its most
subscribed, its subcategories with how many each holds, and its grid. See all is every feed,
as the grid was. Podcasts or Blogs holds across every page. Popular, the ten most subscribed,
had a place of its own in the feed list; it is the Directory's first section instead, and its
key, g p, is gone. /api/popular stays for scripts.

The search box finds a feed in the Directory by name (#126). It said "Search items…" there and
did nothing, since loadEntries returns early for a place that lists feeds.

A feed you do not subscribe to opens a page of its own (#128): its cover, category (a link to
that category's page), how many here subscribe, a subscribe button and its latest twenty items,
each with its title, linking to the post where it has one, its first lines, date and length.
Before, a click on it did nothing; only its + did. The items come from GET /api/directory/{id},
which answers only for a feed the Directory lists, so a guessed id reaches nothing private, and
carries no file or its address. The feed's own description would belong at the top, but the
database does not keep one.

Every tile and chart row takes the keyboard, as the feed list's rows do. Feed text made plain
keeps a space at a line break or a paragraph's end, which glued "2010)Recorded" together.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 16:19:38 +00:00
00bd58ac9d API tokens a person makes for scripts and agents to act as them (#123)
The API took a session cookie, a proxy's word or the shared admin token, so a script or an
agent working for one person had to sign in with their password and carry the cookie, or be
given the admin token. Settings now makes named tokens, ipx_ and 256 random bits, sent as
Authorization: Bearer. A token is its owner and no more. Only its SHA-256 is kept, in the
new api_tokens table, with when it was made and last used; it is shown once and revoked from
the same list. An unknown or revoked one gets a 401 rather than falling through to a cookie.

Cloudflare Access still stands in front of the tunnel, so from outside a token needs an
Access service token beside it; docs/sso.md says how.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 00:15:17 +00:00
cc17b1ddab Sort the Directory by name either way or by subscribers (#122)
The Directory always listed A to Z, as the server sends it. A menu beside its filters now
sorts it A to Z, Z to A or by most subscribers (then by name), in the page, without asking
the server again, and the choice stays while the pane is redrawn, as the filters do. The
blurb no longer says A to Z, since it may not be.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 22:54:32 +00:00
119336a20d Give a pinned item the pinned feed's disc (#121)
A pinned feed has a disc in the theme's accent, its pin in the ink the theme pairs with it;
a pinned item only turned its pin solid in the text colour. The item's pin button now draws
the same disc, as a background inside its 22px button so the row does not move when an
item is pinned. The colours are the ones .fpin already uses; no palette changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 22:50:48 +00:00
02a46bb500 Browse the Directory by category, then subcategory, as Apple does (#118)
The Directory had one row of chips holding whatever each feed's category was, a category
(Technology) or a subcategory (Tech News, Video Games) side by side: a podcast's own
<itunes:category> is stored as its subcategory, and Jev's answers (#117) are often
subcategories too, so after the first forced scan the row held 22 chips. /api/directory now
gives each feed's Apple category and subcategory, worked out from Apple's list, and the
page shows the categories, then a picked one's subcategories on a line of their own. A
category that is not Apple's, one an admin typed, stands as a category of its own.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-04 22:33:26 +00:00
d238681ec1 Name an item without a title from its own text, not "(untitled)" (#116)
RSS 2.0 makes an item's title optional, and some blogs leave it out on purpose: Scripting News
titles almost none of its posts. Fifty rows of "(untitled)" said nothing about any of them.

entryName gives an item its title, or the opening of its text (HTML read through DOMParser, an
inert document that loads nothing; cut at a word near 120 characters), or its file's name, or
its show and date, with a flag for a name that is not a title. The list sets that one in the
regular weight, as the text it is rather than a heading; the reader leaves out the heading so
the post starts with itself; the player, the lock screen, Currently Listening, the native shell,
Share and the queued toast use the same name.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 20:46:47 +00:00
a387012c69 Count as queued only what a scan will download on its own (#113)
Every file in state 'pending' counted as waiting to download: 4420 in production, across 12
shows. Since #97 a scan only downloads among a feed's newest max_new_per_check items, so those
were back-catalogue episodes no scan would take; the real queue was 0.

A new state, 'held': listed and downloadable by hand, but outside the feed's newest items, or of
a feed nothing downloads automatically. Db::hold_back moves a feed's waiting files between
'pending' and 'held' each time the feed is due, changed or not, and again after its items are
stored, so a new episode, a raised limit or auto-download turned on or off moves them. A held
file keeps its item's place among the newest, as a downloaded one does. 'pending' now means
queued, so ipx status, /api/status and the dashboard read true without changing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 19:47:52 +00:00
a00516687a Keep artwork on disk and serve every image from iPX (#111)
The page loaded artwork from each publisher's server, or through /api/art, fetched every time,
for http-only hosts. Nothing was kept, every visit asked every publisher, and artwork went when
a publisher's server did.

- The page draws every image a feed or item names from /api/art. The first time, iPX fetches
  it (only an address a feed or item names, only an image, up to 5 MB, within the feed timeout)
  and keeps it in art/ beside the database, under a hash of its address with its type beside
  it (src/art.rs). Later it comes from disk, which marks it as used.
- art_cache_mb, a server setting on the admin page, 500 by default, caps what is kept: the
  sweep before each scan drops the least recently shown until it fits. 0 keeps nothing, and
  artwork is fetched through iPX each time. Settings saved before it get the default.
- Served from iPX's own address, someone else's image must stay an image: nosniff, and a CSP
  with sandbox, so an SVG opened on its own runs no script as iPX.
- The fixture server sends .jpg as image/jpeg, which /api/art requires.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 13:50:46 +00:00
e2593eaa50 Put a pinned feed's pin on the corner of its artwork
The pin was a small accent-coloured icon before the feed's name. It is now a disc on the
artwork's corner, where a failing feed's mark is, in the accent and the ink the theme already
pairs with it for primary buttons (checked by tests/contrast.js), so no palette changes. A feed
both pinned and failing keeps the error mark at the bottom corner and the pin at the top.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 21:23:40 +00:00
c7f13eea2f Send a changed feed's row to the page instead of it reloading the list (#105)
After a feed was checked, failed or downloaded a file, and after every item read, the page
fetched /api/feeds whole, about 60 ms for 160 rows, though one row had changed. The live event
stream now knows who is connected and, after an event that changes a feed, sends that person
its row (feed_row), built by the same code as the list (feed_rows, with Db::feed_list asked for
one feed). Marking an item read answers with the feed's row. The page puts the row in place
and redraws once a frame. A routine skip of a feed not due sends nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 20:41:43 +00:00
7a134b810f Fetch feeds six ahead in a scan; reload the list only after a scan that checked something (#103, #104)
Fetching was 65-90% of a scan, each feed waiting for the one before: 13 s of fetches in a 20 s
refresh of 32 feeds. The scan now works out which feeds are due, fetches their bodies up to six
ahead in tasks of their own, and handles each in order as before, so database writes,
downloads and OPML syncs stay one at a time. A Patreon creator still fetches in scan_one.

The page reloaded /api/feeds, and /api/settings with it, on every scan_done: the scheduler
scans every minute, so each open page reloaded the list once a minute, 169 times an hour. It
now reloads only when the scan checked a feed, and asks for settings once, on first load.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 20:27:51 +00:00
527777efdf A download limit means a show's newest episodes, not a pace (#97)
pending() took the newest files still pending, up to the limit, so once a show's latest three
were down, each full read of its feed took the three before them, working back through its
whole history. In production 4420 files (about 310 GB) were queued this way across 12 shows,
all on the default limit of 3, which is meant as "the latest three". It now takes only from the
feed's newest `limit` items with a file. 0, unlimited, still takes the whole back catalogue:
that is how the shows kept as an archive are set, along with limits of 100 and 10000.

The settings' wording followed the old behaviour ("The rest wait for the next scan"); the field
is now "Newest episodes to download", and says what 0 does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 18:50:11 +00:00
36b16c7f5d Fetch artwork offered only over http for the https page (#90)
Through ipodderx.sdf1.net the page is https, the browser upgrades an http:// image to https,
and a host with no https, such as The Secret Cabal's CDN, answers nothing, so no artwork. On an
https page, the page now asks /api/art for those, and ipx fetches them. It only fetches an
address some feed or entry names as its artwork, and only an image, up to 5 MB, so the route
cannot be pointed at anything else on the network.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 16:19:06 +00:00
e9f2832e1e Show a failing feed on its artwork, in words, and grey (#93)
The mark was a 12px "!" in the sidebar's margin, told apart by --bad alone; a dark theme's --bad
is a pale pink, and at that size it vanished. It is now a solid disc on the artwork's corner, the
subtitle says what is wrong in place of the counts, and a feed failing for a day or more has its
artwork greyed out. Lightness and words carry it, so no theme's palette changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 15:17:46 +00:00
00f6293b95 The refresh button turns while its feed is checked (#78)
The feed events already put a spinner on the sidebar row, which a phone
hides. The same state now sets scan-this (the open feed, or a feed in the
open folder) and scan-any (any of your feeds) on <body>, and the refresh
icons turn under them. On <body> because the feed page is redrawn as items
come in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 23:50:41 +00:00
7d55d99fac A feed's refresh button looks like its neighbours (#76)
The check-now button on a feed's page, a folder's page and All
Subscriptions was class primary, drawn filled in the accent colour among
plain buttons. Primary stays for a dialog's confirm button; the rules
that only the feed pages used go with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 23:42:58 +00:00
a5de4ae06c Toggle state in the icon's shape, not the theme's colours (#74)
4ed2d59 drew a pressed toggle in each theme's accent colour; the themes'
colours were not to change. Back as they were, pinned rows included. The
read button carries its state in its shape instead, as the pin does with
outline and solid: a tick when read, the envelope when not, where before
it showed the action (the envelope on a read item).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 23:38:59 +00:00
4ed2d59311 Toggles show their state the same way everywhere (#74, #75)
A sweep of all 24 theme palettes, measuring each icon's drawn colour,
found pinned in three colours: accent in the feed list, the text colour
on an item's row, and uncoloured on the toolbar, beside the title and on
the feed page. The read button showed the action (an envelope on a read
item) beside a pin showing the state. Now each toggle shows what is, with
aria-pressed, and a pressed one is the accent colour; Classic needs its
own rule, as its buttons set their colour at higher specificity. The
contrast test checks the accent on the button grounds, where it now draws.

Directory's Subscribe button carried the Subscribed tick; it is a plus.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 23:36:23 +00:00
f57f824535 Each browser keeps its own theme, in a cookie (#69)
The theme was kept on the account, so every browser signed in as the
same person got the same one: no Glass on the phone with Dracula on the
desktop. It is now the ipx_theme cookie (<theme>.<mode>), written by
theme.ts, and read by the server to draw the page in it from the first
frame as before. /api/me no longer reports or takes a theme, and
set_theme is gone.

A browser with no cookie yet is sent the theme the account kept, and
takes it as its cookie on that first load, so nobody loses their choice
in the move. users.theme and theme_mode are only read now, for that.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 20:27:20 +00:00
7490a3a9ac A spinner after pulling to refresh (#68)
Letting go of a pull removed its note at once and showed nothing else;
the sidebar's scanning spinner is hidden on a phone. With no sign the
check had started, people pulled again, and again. A "Checking for new
items" pill with a spinner now sits under the top bar until the request
is sent and two seconds have passed, and a pull meanwhile does nothing.
It lives outside #list, which a feed's render rebuilds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 20:23:31 +00:00
bf785299b0 No logo in the phone's top bar (#66)
The logo moved into the top bar beside the add-feed button (#60). On a
phone that bar is tight: the logo squeezed the search box down to a few
letters, and with no hover there its version tooltip showed nothing.
Below the phone breakpoint it is left out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 18:53:34 +00:00
d8db785681 The tab's icon follows light and dark mode (#64)
The logo on the page switched with the mode (#63), but the tab's icon
was always favicon.png, the light logo. web/favicon-dark.png is
logo-dark.svg at 128px, served beside it, and the theme script points
the icon link at whichever matches data-mode, so it follows the theme
the account chose, not only the system. The sign-in page, with no
account, picks by the system's with two media-bound links.
/favicon.ico, which a browser asks for on its own, stays the light one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 18:12:11 +00:00
f9c9c2b7cc Modern in the logo's colours, and the logo in the page's mode (#63)
Modern's palette was sampled from the 2004 iPodderX icon: a neutral navy,
its screen blue and amber EQ bars. It now takes the new logo's colours,
the dark half from logo-dark.svg (navy ground, #8fc2ea scale, #ff6a1a
needle) and the light half from logo.svg (sky ground, #2f6aa0 scale, the
needle taken down to #c43e00 so white on it clears AA). The pending amber
and the error red moved apart from the needle's orange, and the sign-in
page's copy of the palette follows.

The pages always showed logo.svg, the light variant, even in a dark
theme; logo-dark.svg was never served. It is now, and the app and admin
pages show whichever matches data-mode, dark until the script says light,
as the palette is. The sign-in page, which has no account's theme, picks
by the system's with <picture>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 18:05:44 +00:00
65b5eacdb4 Settings no longer shows the server's download folder (#61)
The Settings dialog ended with the server's download_dir, read-only and
the same for everyone: it is set in config.toml, so nobody can act on it
from there. The admin page still shows it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 17:49:54 +00:00