macOS screen recordings are HEVC inside a .mov container, which Chromium,
Firefox and stock Electron can't decode. The file uploaded fine and a
server-side ffmpeg poster was generated, but inline <video> playback failed
silently — stuck at 0:00 with no error, since AttachmentRenderer had no error
handling. Root cause: the system had no concept of web-playability.
Server detects, client degrades:
- mediaPlayable.ts: classifyVideoPlayable(mimetype, codec) — tri-state
(false = known-undecodable e.g. HEVC/ProRes, true = web codec in web
container, null = unknown/optimistic). Never widens `false` beyond codecs
that fail everywhere, so ffmpeg-less instances keep prior behaviour.
- probeMediaMeta now captures the video codec_name; the upload finish hook
stores the verdict in the new attachments.playable column (migration 0007).
- Flag propagated through every serializer: space messages, DMs, WS, and
federation relay (outbound + inbound) — federation-compatible.
- VideoAttachment component: playable===false renders a download card (poster
+ "Can't play here — download" + name/duration/size) with no dead-player
flash; otherwise plays inline with an onError fallback to the same card.
Specs updated: uploads.md, database.md, federation.md.
The sidebar's visibleChannels filter is keyed on the channelPermissions
Map. Creating a channel raced two state updates: the optimistic create
(added to channels with no permission entry) and the channel_created WS
event (the only thing that set the permission). When the optimistic add
won the race, the WS handler hit its dedup guard, skipped setChannels,
and set the permission by mutating the Map in place — no new reference,
so visibleChannels never recomputed and the channel stayed hidden until
loadSpace rebuilt the maps (i.e. leaving and returning to the space).
Centralize the logic in a new upsertChannel store action that replaces
channels and channelPermissions with fresh references, used by both the
create path and the channel_created handler. Also return the creator's
computed myPermissions (and isPrivate) from POST so the channel renders
immediately from the response, independent of WS timing.
Adds spaceStore.upsertChannel.test.ts covering the reference-identity
regression and the optimistic-reconcile path.
Manual ownership transfers between two federated instances diverged because
`dm_channels.ownerHomeInstance` was stored as a BARE host (`orbit.ddns.net`)
for federated owners — via `transferGroupDmOwnership` copying `users.homeInstance`
verbatim — while `sourceInstance` always arrives as a full URL on the wire.
`processOwnershipTransferEvent` and `processMemberRemoveEvent` then compared the
two with strict equality and rejected legitimate inbound events as
`unauthorized_source`, keeping ownership permanently divergent across peers.
Live DB inspection on the two test instances confirmed both rows (nova + orbit)
had a BARE `owner_home_instance`, matching the bug report exactly.
Three compounding fixes:
1. Receiver authority checks now compare via `normalizeOriginForCompare` so
legacy bare-vs-full rows accept legitimate transfers (and kicks).
2. New `canonicalizeHomeInstance` helper in `federationAuth.ts`; every write
site that persists `ownerHomeInstance` (`transferGroupDmOwnership`, group DM
creation, lazy federation in member-add, `processMemberAddEvent` bootstrap,
`processOwnershipTransferEvent` receiver storage) routes through it. Full URL
is the canonical storage form, matching how `sourceInstance` arrives.
3. `dm_owner_updated` WS event extended with optional `newOwnerHomeUserId` and
`newOwnerHomeInstance` fields. Client `updateDmOwner` writes them when
present and leaves existing values untouched otherwise (legacy-server safe).
Without this, `getOwnerInstanceForDm` returned the previous owner's home
after a successful WS broadcast, routing the next owner-only op to the wrong
instance.
Coverage: new `federation.ownershipTransfer.test.ts` (7 receiver tests including
the headline bare-vs-full regression and the dedup replay guard); new bare-vs-full
case in `federation.kick.test.ts`; two new client-side cases in
`groupDm.ownerRouting.test.ts` covering both the extended-payload write path and
the legacy-server passthrough. Tests: 1053 server + 364 web, all green.
Specs updated: `dm-system.md` historical bugs + frontend handler table + WS
state-change events table; `federation.md` `ownership_transfer` receiver flow;
`websocket.md` event-fields table.
Transferring ownership or kicking a member surfaced "Target user is not a
member of this DM channel" whenever the target was a federated user.
Root cause: the client passed `canonical.id` from `useCanonicalUserView`,
which returns the user's HOME id when the home view is in the userViews
cache. After owner-routing the request to the owner instance, that
instance's `dm_members.userId` (its own local replicated id) never
matched the home id, so `isDmMember` returned false. The same failure
mode applied across any cross-instance scenario where the
channel-serving instance and the owner-serving instance disagree on the
local replicated user id for the same federated user.
Fix: both endpoints now accept federated identification, mirroring the
existing pattern on `POST /api/dm/:id/members`:
- `POST /api/dm/:id/transfer` body: `{ newOwnerId? } | { homeUserId, homeInstance }`.
Federated args win when both are supplied (strictly more specific).
- `DELETE /api/dm/:id/members/:targetUserId` reads optional
`?homeInstance=<origin>` query; when present, the URL segment is
treated as a homeUserId and resolved via `resolveOrCreateReplicatedUser`.
Client `api.dm.kickMember` and `api.dm.transferOwnership` gain an
optional `federated` argument; `DmRosterPanel` and `MobileGroupDmInfo`
pass it whenever the target has `homeUserId` + `homeInstance` populated.
Adds 5 server tests (3 transfer + 2 kick) covering federated targets,
the federated-wins-over-local precedence rule, and federated-non-member
rejection. Updates 2 client routing tests and 2 DmRosterPanel test
assertions for the new signature. Updates `docs/systems/dm-system.md`
and `docs/systems/api.md`.
Server: 965 tests pass (was 960). Web: 362 tests pass (was 360).
getProfileReferencedFilenames() didn't include dm_channels.icon, so the
storage janitor deleted group DM icons within ~1 hour:
- Owner instance: PATCH /api/dm/:id leaves an attachments row with
messageId=null and dmMessageId=null. After 1h, getUnlinkedAttachments
flags it and cleanupStorage phase 2 deletes the file because the
filename isn't in profileReferenced.
- Receiver instance: downloadProfileAsset writes the icon directly to
uploadDir with no attachments row. cleanupStorage phase 1 treats it
as orphaned and deletes it.
Fix: include dm_channels.icon (non-null, not soft-deleted, not http://)
in the profile-referenced set. Soft-deleted DMs are excluded so their
files still get reaped by cleanupSoftDeletedDmChannels. Absolute URLs
are skipped because they live on a remote instance.
Also mirror the avatar precedent at the PATCH endpoint by deleting the
new icon's standalone attachment row — the file is now protected via
dm_channels.icon, matching users.ts:473.
Refactors the leave-DM destructive core into a shared `removeDmMember`
helper and adds a kick endpoint that reuses it. Both endpoints write the
`member_removed` system message, delete the dm_members + read_states
rows, broadcast `dm_member_removed`, and queue a federation
`member_remove` event with the appropriate `reason` ('leave' | 'kick').
Branching invariants preserved by the helper:
- Ownership transfer fires only on self-leave when the leaver was the
owner. Kicks cannot orphan a group (the owner is still present), so
the transfer block is skipped.
- Soft-delete on last-member-empty fires only on self-leave. Kicks are
guaranteed to leave the owner behind, so the channel can never be
empty after a kick.
Endpoint validation:
- 1-on-1 DM → 400 'Cannot kick from a 1-on-1 DM'
- Caller not the owner → 403 'Only the group owner can remove members'
- Self-target → 400 'Owners cannot kick themselves; use leave instead'
- Target not a member → 404
- Channel missing or soft-deleted → 404
The kicked user is also evicted from the DM voice room (mirroring the
self-leave path) and receives `dm_channel_closed` so the client closes
the channel locally.
Two follow-on bugs from the initial S2S presence rollout:
(1) New friend stuck offline until they reload: presence_update fires only on
transitions, so a remote user already online when their stub is created
locally never receives a relay event seeding their actual status. The
stub defaulted to 'offline' at creation and stayed there until the next
transition. Fix: extend FederationRelayProfileSnapshot +
FederationUserLookupProfile with status. Sender-side buildProfileSnapshot,
getDmParticipants, and lookup endpoint responses populate it for native
users only (replicated stubs hold stale status owned elsewhere).
resolveOrCreateReplicatedUser uses hints.status to seed the new row's
status column. Threaded through every call site (DM participants, group
bootstrap, friend events, ownership transfer). Stub backfill worker also
heals existing rows whose status was stuck at 'offline' from creation.
(2) 'Online' text updates but green avatar dot stays grey on the same page:
spaceStore.updateMemberPresence patches members[] (which feeds space UIs)
but never patches userViews — the cache useCanonicalUserView reads from.
The Avatar in FriendItem reads canonical.status; the text reads
friend.status (socialStore). Two sources, one stale until full
user_updated arrives. Fix: updateMemberPresence now mirrors status into
matching userViews entries, so canonical-view consumers re-render with
fresh status the moment the WS event lands.
Six WS sites that previously broadcast presence_update to spaces only now use
collectProfileBroadcastTargetIds (the same recipient set as user_updated):
- ws/handler.ts finalizeDisconnect (offline)
- ws/handler.ts auth path (online)
- ws/events.ts handlePresenceUpdate (manual idle/dnd/online)
- ws/events.ts handleActivityUpdate (rich activity changes)
- routes/users.ts showActivity-toggle clear
- routes/users.ts status PATCH
Friends with no shared space + DM-only co-members now see each other's
online/offline transitions live, matching user_updated semantics. Federated
stub presence broadcasts (Task B3) use the same helper, so cross-instance
recipients are uniform.
Updates one assertion in social.federated.test.ts that asserted the old
snowflake-style stub username (now realname-based per A1).
processPresenceUpdateEvent updates the local stub's status and broadcasts a
WS presence_update to friends + DM members + space co-members of that stub
via collectProfileBroadcastTargetIds. Closes the doc/code drift in
activity-presence.md:147 — federated stubs now have their status projected
by the home instance as documented.
Strict attribution: payload.homeInstance domain must equal source peer
domain. Silently no-ops when no local replica exists (peer broadcast fanout
covers all peers, not all hold a stub).
New FederationPresenceUpdatePayload + queuePresenceRelay() helper. Five WS
sites now project the native user's status (and optional activities) to all
active peers via the outbox: WS auth-success, finalizeDisconnect,
manual presence_update, activity_update, showActivity-toggle clear.
Outbox-only (no mutation-log entry) — presence is ephemeral; the upcoming
peer-activation hook re-emits a fresh snapshot so peers recovering from
unreachable converge without history replay. No-op for replicated users.
HMAC-authenticated, rate-limited (60/min/peer) endpoint that resolves a
homeUserId on this instance to its canonical username + profile snapshot.
Native non-deleted users only. Mirrors /users/lookup's auth shape.
Adds lookupRemoteUserByHomeId to federationLookup.ts as the client-side
helper. Used by the upcoming stub-backfill worker on peers that hold legacy
snowflake-named replicas of users now visible by their real handle.
FederationProfileUpdatePayload gains `username`: the home user's canonical
handle. Receiver applies displayName ?? username so stubs whose home user has
no displayName show the real handle instead of getting clobbered to null.
Mirrors the existing fallback in hydrateReplicatedUserProfile. Username itself
is immutable on the home instance, so the receiver does not rewrite the stub's
username column on profile_update.
When friend_request_create / friend_add / DM relay carries a profile snapshot,
the canonical-username hint is now used as the stub's local-part. Stubs created
purely from S2S (no client-federation) now display the human-readable handle,
not the homeUserId snowflake. Falls back to the snowflake-id scheme only when
no hint is available.
hydrateReplicatedUserProfile now calls downloadProfileAsset and stores bare local filenames, falling back to absolute URLs only on download failure. It also fills empty fields only — no longer clobbering local files written by processProfileUpdateEvent. Adds an idempotent startup backfill that converts existing http-prefixed avatar/banner rows on replicated users into local files, so federated profile pictures keep rendering when the home instance is offline.
Adds an admin-driven sweep on top of the existing 24h auto-expire so
operators can see and reap abandoned `.tus/` sessions without waiting.
- storageJanitor: extract `walkTusDir(predicate)` helper, add
`getStaleTusInfo` + `cleanupStaleTusSessions(thresholdMs, dryRun)`;
refactor `cleanupTusStragglers` to delegate while preserving its
janitor-tick `{ removed }` contract.
- StorageStats gains `staleTusSessions` + `staleTusSize` (fixed 1h
display threshold).
- New `POST /api/admin/storage/cleanup-tus` route with
`maxAgeHours` validation (positive finite number, default 1) and
`dryRun` support; admin-gated.
- StoragePanel: 6th overview card "Stale Uploads" + new cleanup
subsection mirroring the media-cleanup pattern (preview-then-clean
with shared result panel styling).
- Tests: 8 new janitor tests covering empty dir, threshold filtering,
dry-run vs live, oldest-mtime tracking, subdir skipping, and the
override path on the existing straggler sweep. New
`routes/admin.test.ts` covers auth/admin gates, validation (zero,
negative, NaN), default `maxAgeHours`, dry-run vs live unlink.
- Docs: `uploads.md` §Janitor expanded to the full lifecycle (cancel
DELETE, discard DELETE, auto-expire, straggler sweep, admin route);
`admin.md` Storage Management updated with the new endpoint and
StorageStats fields.
Migrates the remaining 5 profile/space upload sites (CreateSpace, AccountPanel
avatar+banner, OverviewPanel icon+banner) to transferStore.startUpload with
tray:false. Space sites pass _instanceOrigin so uploads route to the space's
home instance.
Removes upload/uploadWithProgress from api.uploads (and their private
uploadFile/uploadFileWithProgress helpers); api.uploads.url is preserved for
GET-path URL building. Deletes the server-side POST /api/uploads handler and
the now-unused @fastify/multipart plugin registration. GET /api/uploads/:filename
remains intact.
DmLastMessagePreview lacked a `type` field, so the sidebar rendered
`lastMessage.content` verbatim — surfacing JSON like
`{"event":"space_invite",...}` for space invites and member-add events.
Adds `type` to the preview payload (populated server-side from
`dm_messages.type`) and routes all sidebar call sites through a single
`formatDmSidebarPreview` helper that renders human-readable text for
each system event and skips the group `Sender:` prefix on system rows.
Empty-string (local) origin is now stored as the absolute home origin
so relayed DM space-invite cards carry the correct value to remote
recipients instead of resolving against the wrong instance.
POST /api/dm/space-invite was hanging 5s and returning invite_invalid
for any local-space invite. fetchSpaceInviteSnapshot was being called
against our own public domain from inside the backspace container, which
fails (Docker NAT loopback) and aborts on timeout.
Add getLocalInviteSnapshot — reads the snapshot directly from the DB —
and branch in dm.ts so local invites bypass the HTTP roundtrip entirely.
Cross-instance invites still go through fetchSpaceInviteSnapshot with
its existing SSRF guard.
Also refactor the GET /api/spaces/invite/:code/preview handler to use
the same helper, keeping the snapshot shape in one place.
Tests assert fetchSpaceInviteSnapshot is NOT called for the local case
(critical regression guard) and that the cross-instance path still hits
the HTTP fetch.
Adds POST /api/dm/space-invite which fetches a space-invite snapshot
server-to-server from the space's home instance, ensures a 1-on-1 DM
between the caller and a friend, and posts a type='system' message
carrying SpaceInviteSystemPayload. Snapshot is never trusted from the
client. Rate-limited 30/60s per caller. Federation relay queued when the
recipient is on a remote instance (system message type forwarded by
Tasks 1-3).
Adds an `ensureOneOnOneDmChannel` helper that mirrors the dedup-or-create
behavior of the existing POST /api/dm handler — including federatedId
computation and the dm_channel_created notification payload — without
modifying that handler. Duplication is intentional; consolidation is a
separate follow-up.
The original test seeded the DB with the schema default (1) and asserted
the response was true after a partial PATCH. That passes both for
'untouched' and 'reset to default' — doesn't distinguish them. Now the
test toggles the DB column to false BEFORE the PATCH, then asserts the
false value survives both in the response AND in the DB row directly.
Jannis Braun