Rebrand. The product name is now Resenhacord everywhere a person reads it:
window title, tray, notifications, About panel, PWA manifest, page title,
recovery and instance-picker screens, and the four i18n strings that named
the app. Code identifiers (BackspaceElectronAPI, @backspace/* workspace
names, the federation protocol) are unchanged — they are not a brand, and
renaming them buys nothing but churn. AGPL notices and upstream attribution
stay as they were.
Two rename details that would each have hurt real users:
- electron-builder's productName changed but appId did not. NSIS keys the
installation on appId, so the updater replaces the Backspace install in
place instead of leaving a second app beside it.
- userData is keyed on app name, so the rename would have moved every
install to an empty profile — logged out, instance URL gone. main.ts now
walks a migration chain ("@backspace/desktop" → "Backspace" →
"Resenhacord"), each step a no-op once its source is gone, and one whose
target already holds data leaves it alone. Autostart lookups accept the
old registry entry name too.
Logo. Two speech bubbles in conversation, violet behind, rose in front with
three dots — the front one is talking. Sources are hand-written SVG in
assets/brand (square viewBox; the gap between bubbles is a mask, not paint,
so the alpha-only macOS template keeps the silhouette). PNG sources are
rendered from the icon SVG and the whole set — .icns, .ico, Linux PNGs, tray
variants, favicons, PWA, maskable — comes from the existing gen-icons
pipeline unchanged.
Pin notice. Pinning a message now posts "X pinned a message to this channel.
See all pinned messages." into the channel, the way Discord does, with two
links: the message itself (jumps to it) and the pins panel. Space messages
had no `type` column — only DM messages carried system events — so this adds
one (migration 0018, default 'user', verified against a copy of the
production database: 88 rows, all 'user'). The route inserts a type='system'
row alongside the pin and broadcasts it as message_created, so the client
renders it with the SystemMessage renderer it already has. Unpinning posts
nothing; it is housekeeping, not news. System notices are excluded from the
notification toast and the message sound — they are not from anyone.
The pins panel and jump target are local state in MainContent; a notice deep
in the timeline reaches them through two small uiStore requests (a counter
and an id), neither persisted.
Verified: web build, 506 web tests (2 new), server typecheck, 804 server
tests, desktop typecheck.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The flat app-icon.svg's gradient B mark has a bright (#fff) sheen that runs
to the badge perimeter with no dark separation. At favicon sizes (16/32px)
that edge anti-aliases into a white halo that reads as a border around the
icon — visible in Safari browser tabs, and the same defect in the small
Windows .ico / Linux launcher reps that also rendered from the flat SVG.
The committed 3D raster masters (used by every >=128px output already) frame
the mark in a dark surround and stay clean down to 16px. Set RASTER_THRESHOLD
0 so all app-icon sizes route through the raster path; the flat SVG is kept
as a gated source, re-enablable only with a corrected flat mark. Regenerated
favicons + small desktop reps; output remains byte-deterministic. Updated the
generator header/comments, README source matrix, and the dated icon spec.
Replaces desktop and web icon binaries with the new brand mark, ships
PNG raster exports under assets/brand/ alongside the existing SVG
sources, adds Alternative Styles artwork variants, and updates the
icon generation script and System Prompt doc. deploy.sh excludes
the new local-only artifacts (*.rtfd, assets/brand, electronbuild.sh,
multi-platform-roadmap.md) so they don't get rsync'd to the live
boxes. Drops ARCHITECTURE_AUDIT.md (obsolete).
Replaces the full-bleed black-bg logo badge in the top-left @me tile with a
white logo mark on the primary purple (matching toggle switches) when active
or hovered, and `--interactive-muted` grey when idle. Logo bumped to 25px.
Iterating-by-paint-over wasn't working. Going back to first
principles: the brand IS the badge — full Element 1 mass, mark with
its own internal padding, dark frame around it. That's what reads as
"Backspace" on every other surface (dock, taskbar, favicon, apple-
touch). The sidebar home tile should look the same.
The earlier "ugly grey" complaint about Element 1 in the sidebar
came down to one specific colour mismatch: the source SVG's
#1d1d1b (warm near-black) sat next to the sidebar's #1a1a23 (cool
near-black) and read as an off-grey rectangle. Fix: in the generator,
do a string-replace `#1d1d1b → #000000` on app-icon.svg before
rendering logo.png only — every other output (.icns, .ico, favicons,
PWA) keeps the original brand `#1d1d1b`. Pure black against the
sidebar's #1a1a23 reads as a deliberately darker tile, not a hue
mismatch.
Reverts the SpaceSidebar lavender-tile workaround: with the badge
filling the tile via object-cover, the button's overflow-hidden +
rounded-[20px → 13px] morph already animates the badge cleanly.
backgroundStyle for type === 'dm' returns undefined again; deps trim
back to what they were.
Determinism gate verified — only logo.png changed (other 21 outputs
byte-identical across two regen runs).
The previous Element-1 (full badge) approach produced a visible
warm-grey #1d1d1b square inside the cool-dark #1a1a23 sidebar — the
two near-blacks differ enough in hue to read as a foreign rectangle
in the slot.
The right answer (third time lucky): the SpaceSidebar's 40×40
rounded-[20px] tile already IS the dark squircle frame. logo.png now
composites the bare gradient mark at 75% on a transparent canvas:
the sidebar's tile bg shows through, the 25% padding keeps the mark
off the squircle edges and clear of the active-state ring, and there
is no foreign-bg colour conflict.
Refactored writeMaskablePng → writeCenteredMarkPng to share one code
path between the maskable PWA (opaque #1d1d1b background, 60% mark)
and the in-app logo (transparent background, 75% mark). Both use the
same composition pipeline; only canvas / scale / bg differ.
Only logo.png regenerated; other 21 outputs byte-identical
(determinism gate verified twice).
The SpaceSidebar's home tile is a 40×40 rounded-[20px] squircle with
object-cover. The original spec assumed the sidebar provides "the
colour-circle frame," so logo.png shipped as the bare gradient B on
transparent. In practice the tile is a transparent slot — the bare
mark touched the squircle edges (no internal padding), conflicted
with the active-state ring, and read as poorly-integrated.
Switching to the full badge (Element 1 / app-icon.svg): the badge's
own dark squircle bg fills the tile, its internal padding around the
mark keeps the gradient off the edges, and the result reads as a
clean Discord-style "home space" tile alongside the user's other
spaces.
Only logo.png regenerated; remaining 21 outputs byte-identical
(determinism gate verified). Spec output matrix and generator README
updated to reflect the corrected source mapping.
First run of pnpm gen-icons against the new artwork. All 22 outputs
generated deterministically (verified by hashing twice). Replaces the
dated raster set everywhere — desktop app icons, tray, web favicons,
PWA, in-app logo.
Regenerate all web icons (favicon, PWA, apple-touch) from master 1024x1024
icon.png. Add BrowserWindow icon property for Windows/Linux taskbar icon
in Electron dev mode.
devsyncwrldandClaude Fable 5.1