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<title>fix(hub): the transfers panel hung off the side of a phone</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T07:28:49Z</updated>
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<name>Christophe Besson</name>
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<published>2026-08-17T07:28:49Z</published>
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Reported: on mobile you see only the right-hand edge of the panel, without the
content. Measured, before anything was changed:

    320 px viewport -&gt; panel at -138..192, 138 px off the left
    360 px          -&gt;  -98..232
    412 px          -&gt;  -46..284

The panel is 330 px wide and anchored to the right edge of its button — but
that button is not at the right edge of the screen, since the bell and the user
menu come after it. What falls off is the left-hand side, which is where the
file names are, so what stayed on screen was a strip of progress bars belonging
to nothing.

Narrowing it would not have helped: the overflow comes from where the right
edge is pinned, not from the width. Below the existing 768 px breakpoint the
panel is anchored to the viewport instead, full width on a phone and capped at
420 px on a tablet, where stretching two filenames across 750 px would be
silly. Desktop keeps its 330 px against the button.

The interesting part is how it was found. The responsive tests read numbers out
of the stylesheet and said, in their own docstring, that a layout could not be
measured because the suite had no browser. It has one now — Chrome, from the
video work — so layout_probe.py renders the real stylesheet at a given width and
returns rectangles. `width: 330px` was never the thing worth asserting on.

An iframe carries the viewport, because a headless window will not go below
about 500 px, and one browser measures every width: launching one per test put
three minutes on the suite against twenty-six seconds for all of them. Checked
that the new tests fail with the rule removed — three of them do — and that
they pass with it back.
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<title>feat(hub): chat, presence, a Profile page, and downloads that do not freeze</title>
<updated>2026-08-16T13:29:11Z</updated>
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<name>Christophe Besson</name>
<email>cbesson@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-08-16T13:29:11Z</published>
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Chat opens on the newest hundred messages, loads fifty older on demand with the
reading position anchored — the distance from the *bottom*, since everything
above the viewport just grew — and follows new messages only when the reader was
already at the end. Day separators, sender grouping, an unread marker, and a
jump-to-latest pill. Messages are keyed by id: index keys plus prepending makes
Preact reuse the wrong bubbles.

A presence dot per group in the sidebar, three states, each backed by something:
the hub's registry, or a connection this browser made or failed to make. Never
colour alone — red and green are the pair colour-blind readers cannot separate —
so each dot carries a title and an aria-label.

Profile is split out of Settings: identity, node link, pinned node identities and
account deletion. Mixing them put an irreversible button two scrolls under a
theme picker. The create-group page loses its centred 520 px card, which left
190 px of margin either side, and its two button panels become a radio group —
a button conveys no chosen state to a screen reader, and side by side they read
as two independent actions rather than one either/or.

The Files toolbar shows its actions as icon buttons the moment Select is on,
disabled when they do not apply rather than appearing and vanishing. On a phone
the right-hand group could not wrap and ran 130 px off the screen.

Streamed downloads no longer freeze after one chunk. `registration.active` says
a worker exists, not that this page is controlled by it — and an uncontrolled
page's requests never reach its fetch handler, so the worker took the stream and
was never asked for it, leaving `writer.write()` waiting on backpressure that
would never lift. The page now requires control and the worker confirms it
actually served the request before the sink is trusted.

Fixed on the way: `setActionsOpen` outlived the state it belonged to and threw
on every Files action; the chat scrollbar stopped short of the bottom; the
owner's row sat lower than the rest; About showed a version hardcoded two
releases ago.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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