Adding a second hashtag interest/disinterest quickly showed "didn't work" yet the
change persisted after a refresh. Cause: the replaceable preferences event used
created_at = floor(now/1000), so two edits in the same wall-clock second produced
the SAME created_at. Relays reject the second as "not newer" (client shows an
error) while relays that break created_at ties by id still store it (so it appears
after a refresh) — an inconsistent false-negative.
Fix: nextReplaceableCreatedAt(lastCreatedAt) (js/nostr/replaceableCreatedAt.js) —
always advance to max(now, lastCreatedAt + 1), so each publish is strictly newer
than the last and every relay accepts it unambiguously. Reusable for the other
replaceable lists (subscriptions/blocks) that have the same latent collision.
Tests: tests/replaceable-created-at.test.mjs (5 — same-second bump, clock-ahead,
no-prior, rapid successive strictly-increasing, floors fractional). Lint + build green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Same class of bug as the subscription fix, applied everywhere an idempotent,
replaceable list is published with an optimistic UI: when no relay ACKs within the
10s window (slow/flaky relays), the event was still sent and almost always
persists (it shows up after a refresh), but assertAnyRelayAccepted threw -> the UI
showed a scary error / reverted, even though it worked.
- nostrPublish.js: add shared helpers relayPublishFailuresAreAllTimeouts() and
assertAnyRelayAcceptedOrUnconfirmed() — the latter returns a summary flagged
{ unconfirmed: true } on all-timeout instead of throwing; explicit relay
rejections (and pre-publish signer/encryption errors) still throw.
- Applied to the replaceable-list publishes: subscriptions (kind 30000, refactored
to the shared helper), user mute/block list (10000), relay list (10002), DM
relay hints (10050), hashtag preferences (30015).
Left as-is for now (higher-stakes, separate follow-up): the generic content
publish path (video/edit/delete/revert/rebroadcast) in publishHelpers/client.js —
same latent issue but the video outcome-describer needs careful handling.
Tests: tests/subscription-publish-timeout.test.mjs (8) now cover both the
classifier and assertAnyRelayAcceptedOrUnconfirmed (confirmed->summary,
all-timeout->soft, rejection->throws). hashtag-preferences suite green (14).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The cold-login REQ storm came from list subsystems subscribing/fetching across
the user's full NIP-65 relay set (often ~20) instead of the documented §17 read
cap. The fetchListIncrementally paths already route through capReadRelays, but
the live subscriptions and direct pool.list calls bypassed it:
- userBlocks.ensureBlockListSubscription: cap the live block-list subscription
- subscriptions.ensureSubscriptionListSubscription: cap the live follows-list
subscription
- hashtagPreferencesService: cap the relay set used by pool.list + fetch
capReadRelays keeps the user's own relays first and guarantees the reserved
defaults, bounded to MAX_SUBSCRIBE_RELAYS (8). Trade-off accepted: a list event
living only on a user's 9th+ relay may sync on a later pass rather than at login.
Regression: tests/user-blocks-relay-cap.test.mjs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
File-size decomposition (no behavior change). Move the pure, state-free helpers
isTransientDecryptError, computeRetryDelay (+ their transient-error tables and
MAX_DECRYPT_RETRY_DELAY_MS) and normalizeHexPubkey out into a new
js/services/hashtagPreferencesHelpers.js and import them back. HEX64_REGEX is now
imported by the helper module instead of the service.
hashtagPreferencesService.js: 1541 -> 1480 lines (back under its 1484 limit).
Baseline left at 1434 (file fits its original allowance again; not bumped up).
Build + full unit suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Under a NIP-46 remote signer, every decrypt is a PUBLISHED relay RPC. The list
services (blocks/subscriptions/hashtags) probed all decryptor families
concurrently via Promise.any — so each list event published nip04 AND nip44 RPCs
at once. On login that flooded the relay ("rate-limited: you are noting too
much"), and the racing/queued RPCs blew past the 30s decrypt budget → the
"Decryption timed out" failures.
A NIP-04 payload carries the "?iv=" marker and can ONLY be decrypted by nip04;
otherwise it's nip44. The other family can never succeed on a given ciphertext,
so racing it is pure waste (and a wasted published RPC under NIP-46). Restrict
the decrypt probe to the family matching the ciphertext format (fall back to all
if the format is somehow unknown). Halves cold-load RPCs and stops the racing
publishes that tripped the rate limit; benefits all signer types.
Spec correction: the hashtag "retries decryptors when hinted scheme fails" test
stubbed an impossible scenario (the same ciphertext decrypting under nip04 after
nip44 failed). Rewritten to assert the real contract — the ciphertext format
routes decryption and overrides a misleading `encrypted` tag, invoking only the
matching decryptor.
test_integrity_note:
change_type: ["spec_correction"]
scenarios:
- id: SCN-decrypt-format-routing
given: "a nip04-format ciphertext (?iv=) tagged misleadingly as nip44"
when: "a list service decrypts it"
then: "only the nip04 decryptor is invoked; nip44 is never attempted"
anti_cheat_rationale:
prevents: ["over-mocking internal logic", "asserting impossible cross-family decryption"]
relaxation:
did_relax_any_assertion: false
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
A raw window.nostr probe in the user's browser (getPublicKey → nip04.encrypt
→ nip04.decrypt, bypassing ALL of bitvid) HUNG forever, with the extension's
own console showing `ObjectMultiplex - orphaned data for "background-liveness"`
+ `malformed chunk` + listener-leak warnings. That is the NIP-07 extension's
content-script ↔ background-service-worker channel being dead (classic MV3
worker death) — an extension/environment failure, not a bitvid bug. No client
change can force an unresponsive signer to answer; the fix is to reload/unlock
the extension.
What bitvid CAN do is stop failing silently. Add js/utils/signerHealthNotice.js:
after a few consecutive list-decrypt timeouts while the signer reports itself
present, emit ONE rate-limited, actionable user notice ("your signer isn't
responding to decryption — unlock/reload the extension and refresh") instead of
the silent 15-minute retry loop. Reset on any decrypt success so a transient
blip doesn't warn. Wired into blocks, hashtags, and subscriptions.
Also documents the definitive root-cause + all resilience increments in
KNOWN_BUGS #0. Test: tests/signer-health-notice.test.mjs (threshold, rate-limit,
success-reset). Full unit suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Real-env console: signerStatus "present" but every block/hashtag decrypt
timed out at the 15s service budget, forever, retrying every ~15s for
15+ minutes — lists never loaded.
Reproduced deterministically with the channel-sim harness (latency
override): with per-call latency BELOW the service budget all lists load;
the instant it crosses the budget every list fails (NO) and retries
forever. A nip-07 decrypt is a postMessage round-trip to the extension's
single-threaded, possibly-sleeping service worker — under cold-login load
real extensions take 15-25s to answer even though the crypto is instant.
The earlier 6s per-call timeout was killing those in-progress decrypts.
Raise the budget across blocks/hashtags/subscriptions so a slow-but-
responsive signer completes instead of timing out:
- service-level DECRYPT_TIMEOUT_MS 15s → 30s
- per-call nip-07 decrypt timeout 6s → 25s interactive / ~10-12s background
- backoff cap 30s → 60s so a persistently dead signer settles into an
occasional heartbeat instead of pinning the extension every ~15s
Harness: at 16s/call (previously NO across the board) blocks +
subscriptions + hashtags now all decrypt (0 timeouts); healthy mode
unchanged (signer-ready ~1.2s). Full unit suite green. KNOWN_BUGS #0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Built a deterministic NIP-07 channel-simulation harness
(scripts/perf/nip07-channel-sim.mjs) that reproduces the real cold-login
failure locally with a fake extension whose message channel drops under
concurrent load (MODE=overload), recovers (MODE=slow), or stays dead. It
seeds a real encrypted block list and reports whether it decrypts.
The harness pinned the actual root cause that the relay/breaker/timeout
work hadn't fixed: when the channel briefly drops during the login burst,
the per-scheme decrypt probe (Promise.any) rejects with
"message channel closed" — and every list service SWALLOWED that and
treated it as "the user has no blocks / no subs / no hashtags", or routed
it to a give-up branch. Either way: no retry, so the list stayed empty
until a full page refresh, even though the channel recovered seconds later.
Fix: classify transient failures (channel-death messages, breaker fast-fail
code, our own decrypt-timeout) and route them to the existing keep-stale +
scheduleDecryptRetry path instead of swallowing/abandoning:
- userBlocks: re-throw a transient sub-error out of the Promise.any probe
(was silently returning [] = "no blocks"); route it (and channel/breaker
errors) through the retry branch.
- hashtagPreferencesService + subscriptions: broaden the retry condition
from the timeout code only to any transient error, recursing into the
nested Promise.any AggregateError causes.
Harness verdict (MODE=overload, 16 channel drops): block list
BLOCK LIST DECRYPTED NO -> YES after the fix; signer-ready ~1.9s.
Adds getAppState().lists observability to the test harness. Full unit
suite green. KNOWN_BUGS #0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Real-env console (2026-06-15) showed [signer-ready] taking ~48s and every
list decrypt timing out before AND after it. Root mechanism: a priority
inversion on the 2-slot NIP-07 request queue.
- List decrypts run at NIP07_PRIORITY.HIGH; the readiness gate's
permission/enable handshake ran at NORMAL. So a flood of HIGH-priority
decrypts jumped ahead of the gate and starved it — the channel never got
warmed, so the decrypts kept failing. Fix: add NIP07_PRIORITY.CRITICAL
(above HIGH) and run the permission/enable handshake at CRITICAL so it
always wins queue ordering.
- Login-time decrypt timeouts were 12-15s even though a healthy
nip04/nip44 decrypt is local crypto (~1s); the long window was only to
tolerate a first-grant prompt, which the gate already pre-grants. A 15s
timeout just monopolizes one of the two queue slots on a doomed call,
blocking the gate for 15s at a time. Cut blocks/hashtags/subscriptions
login decrypt timeouts to 6s so slots cycle ~2.5x faster (and the circuit
breaker trips in ~18s instead of ~45s). Service-level 15s wrappers stay
as a backstop (now strictly longer than the nip07 layer).
Part of KNOWN_BUGS #0 ("cut the burst, then add a safety net"). Full unit
suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Real-env console shows the encrypted lists are FETCHED but DECRYPTION fails on
cold login: hashtags time out at 6s, blocks report signerStatus 'missing', DMs
throw 'helpers unavailable'. Root cause: a relay-connection storm to the user's
~20 dead NIP-65 relays (subsystems use uncapped relayManager read+write) starves
the nip-07 extension. Bumping the decrypt timeout to 15s (matching blocks) is a
partial mitigation for hashtags/subscriptions. The proper fix (bound reads to a
liveness-ranked healthy core incl. defaults + DM decrypt retry) is documented in
KNOWN_BUGS #0 — a first capReadRelays attempt was reverted because capping block
reads broke the security-critical user-blocks integration test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The two feed-driving list subscriptions (kind-30000 follows, kind-30015/30005
hashtag prefs) now go through the L1 SubscriptionManager instead of the global
relaySubscriptionService singleton: centralized dedup + reconnect re-issue (the
lists self-heal after a relay drop). Handles are stored and closed on teardown;
relaySubscriptionService is retained as the manager-less fallback.
Verified: subscriptions-manager/-feed + hashtag-preferences suites pass (32);
flaky multi-relay harness still all-PASS; pool-access lint clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The NIP-07 adapter uses type "nip07" but all permission pre-granting
checks only matched type "extension", causing NIP-07 browser extension
users to fail decryption for block/mute lists, subscriptions, DMs, and
watch history. Hashtag preferences appeared to work because their read
path had a separate fix, masking the systemic issue.
Changes:
- shouldRequestExtensionPermissions() now matches both "extension" and
"nip07" signer types (central fix affecting DM signals, comments,
publish helpers, and watch history fetch)
- buildDmDecryptContext() pre-grants extension permissions for NIP-07
- userBlocks.js: remove capabilities-gated decryptor check that failed
with lazy NIP-07 module injection (same fix already in subscriptions.js);
always resolve signer regardless of allowPermissionPrompt; increase
fast-path relay timeout from 6s to 10s
- watchHistoryService: recognize NIP-07 type and always resolve signer
- All publish paths (blocks, subscriptions, hashtags, relays, uploads,
sharing, moderation) now pre-grant permissions for NIP-07 signers
https://claude.ai/code/session_01PipsdaTQmw7wBTJ1LmJjkk
- Remove redundant double signer readiness gate evaluation that added 5-10s
to the login path (authSessionCoordinator)
- Reduce decryption timeouts (10s→6s per scheme, 3s→1.5s retry delay,
8s→5s NIP-07 no-prompt, 45s→25s overall ensureLoaded) for faster scheme
fallback during list sync
- Fix storage tab unlock: remove overly strict capabilities check that
blocked lazy-injecting NIP-07 extensions, and add auto-unlock attempt
when profile modal opens with an active signer
- Fix subscription/hashtag decryption: always resolve signer for background
refreshes (was previously gated behind allowPermissionPrompt), and always
check window.nostr as fallback decryptor regardless of prompt mode
- Fix capabilities check in subscription decryption: use method existence
instead of dynamic capabilities getter that returns false during lazy
extension injection
- Wrap Promise.any decryptor calls in Promise.resolve().then() to catch
synchronous throws from NIP-07 adapter methods when extension modules
haven't loaded yet
- Make watch-history feed registration race-safe with pre-check and
try/catch for concurrent registration attempts
- Improve NIP-07 extension detection with DOMContentLoaded listener for
faster detection of extensions that inject during page load
https://claude.ai/code/session_0174XTB5ADJ9cMBSucqL9Wer
The NIP-07 login flow was extremely slow because list decryption (blocks,
subscriptions, hashtag preferences) started before the signer was ready.
On page refresh, all three services failed with "permission-required" and
scheduled 3-second retry delays, adding 6-10 seconds to every login.
Key fixes:
- List loading now waits for the permission pre-grant to complete before
attempting decryption, ensuring the signer is available on first try
- Extension wait timeout increased from 3s to 5s for slower extensions
- Decrypt timeouts reduced from 20s to 10s (signer is guaranteed ready)
- Auto-login now forwards authType/providerId from saved profiles
- Storage tab unlock falls back to ensureActiveSignerForPubkey when the
global signer is not yet registered
- Watch history feed registration adds defensive re-registration and
try/catch fallback to prevent "Feed not registered" errors
- Decryption scheme cache TTL extended from 10 minutes to 2 hours
- ensureExtensionPermissions waits for extension injection when there
are outstanding permissions to request (was returning immediately)
https://claude.ai/code/session_01T4wwPu7m5qp1Nxx3H2v57j
Replaced the legacy "interests" string literal with NOTE_TYPES.HASHTAG_PREFERENCES
in profileCache calls to unify key usage. Updated migration logic and comments.
Verified that the underlying storage key remains consistent for backward compatibility.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
Moves the repeatedly defined HEX64_REGEX constant to a shared utility
module to improve maintainability and consistency. Updates all consumers
to import from the new location.
Signed-off-by: Jules <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
Three performance bottlenecks were causing slow list loading after NIP-07 login:
1. Each list service (blocks, subscriptions, hashtag preferences) maintained
its own isolated decryptionSuccessCache. When blocks decrypted with nip44_v2,
subscriptions and hashtag preferences had no way to know — they each had to
independently probe all schemes through the NIP-07 extension queue, tripling
the number of extension calls during the critical login path.
2. List loading was gated on both relaysReadyPromise AND permissionPromise in
the coordinator. Since the NIP-07 extension already grants decrypt permissions
during loginWithExtension(), the redundant pre-grant was adding 2-5 seconds
of unnecessary latency before any list fetching could begin.
3. The DECRYPT_RETRY_DELAY_MS was 10 seconds across all services. When a decrypt
attempt failed transiently (extension still initializing), the retry waited
far too long before trying again.
Changes:
- Create shared decryptionSchemeCache module used by all three list services
- Add fast-path: when shared cache knows the correct scheme, try ONLY that
scheme before falling back to parallel Promise.any() probe
- Remove permissionPromise from the list-loading gate in authSessionCoordinator
- Reduce DECRYPT_RETRY_DELAY_MS from 10s to 3s in all three services
- Clear shared cache on logout
https://claude.ai/code/session_013QrGMnxtMTsGTPqaP35jMj
When hashtag preferences decryption fails with "permission-required" during
background loading (allowPermissionPrompt=false), the service silently returned
without setting loaded state, scheduling a retry, or emitting a change event.
This left the UI stuck showing empty hashtag lists. The subscriptions module
already handled this case correctly.
Also fix error scheme mapping in Promise.any() catch blocks for both hashtag
preferences and subscriptions — the index into the original order array was
wrong after filtering out deduplicated scheme families.
https://claude.ai/code/session_016xYxLQ1U2XVVY5rFuCRKfc
Login with NIP-07 extensions was extremely slow because list loading
(blocks, subscriptions, hashtag preferences) happened sequentially and
each list's decryption tried encryption schemes one at a time.
Changes:
- Load blocks, subscriptions, and hashtags in parallel instead of
sequentially (blocks no longer blocks other lists from starting)
- Use Promise.any() to try all decryption schemes simultaneously
instead of trying nip44_v2 → nip44 → nip04 one-by-one
- Deduplicate same-family schemes (nip44/nip44_v2) to avoid redundant
extension calls
- Increase NIP-07 request queue concurrency from 3 to 5 to support
parallel decrypt operations during login
- Raise no-prompt decrypt timeout from 3s/5s to 8s since extensions
that have already granted permission still need time to decrypt
- Increase feed sync timeout from 8s to 12s to give lists more time
to settle before rendering unfiltered content
https://claude.ai/code/session_01V6m1gTecsppPrBHQnUyPnF
Increases NIP-07 concurrency to 3 and lowers priority for non-critical decryption tasks to prevent blocklist timeouts. Increases relay max listeners to 200 to mitigate warnings.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
* Update `refreshAllVideoGrids` in `js/app.js` to detect the currently active feed (For You, Kids, Explore, or Recent) and invoke the corresponding loader, preventing staleness when interacting with the UI.
* Refactor `HashtagPreferencesService` mutation methods (`addInterest`, etc.) to be `async` and await the `publish()` call, ensuring state is persisted before returning.
* Remove redundant `persistPreferencesFromMenu` call in `TagPreferenceMenuController`, relying on the service's internal persistence logic.
* Update unit tests for `HashtagPreferencesService` and `TagPreferenceMenuController` to align with the async behavior.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
- Fix flaky mock in `tests/hashtag-preferences.test.mjs` (limit mock responses to avoid timeouts)
- Fix timeout leak in `js/services/hashtagPreferencesService.js` (clear timeout on success)
- Update `nostrClient.loginWithExtension` to request full permissions (fixing `nostr-login-permissions.test.mjs`)
- Ensure `jsdom` is available for `channel-profile-moderation.test.mjs`
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
- Fix flaky `tests/hashtag-preferences.test.mjs` by correcting mock implementation for `fetchListIncrementally`.
- Fix `tests/nostr-login-permissions.test.mjs` failure by requesting correct permissions in `js/nostr/client.js`.
- Fix 90s timeout in `HashtagPreferencesService` by clearing the timeout timer upon successful decryption.
- `npm install` was run to ensure dependencies like `jsdom` are present for `tests/app/channel-profile-moderation.test.mjs`.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
- Implements a priority queue for NIP-07 (browser extension) requests to allow critical tasks (blocklist/prefs decryption) to jump the line.
- Updates NIP-46 client and adapters to support priority overrides for encryption/decryption.
- Updates UserBlockListManager, SubscriptionsManager, and HashtagPreferencesService to request HIGH priority when decrypting data.
- Ensures strict serialization for NIP-07 to prevent extension errors while optimizing latency for critical data.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
Introduced a request queue in `js/nostr/nip07Permissions.js` to serialize all interactions with the NIP-07 extension (`window.nostr`).
Updated `js/userBlocks.js`, `js/services/hashtagPreferencesService.js`, and `js/auth/signingAdapter.js` to wrap direct extension calls with `runNip07WithRetry`, ensuring they participate in the queue.
This resolves "message channel closed" errors and timeouts caused by concurrent requests flooding the extension during sync operations.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
This commit updates `HashtagPreferencesService.decryptEvent` to register and utilize decryption methods from `window.nostr` (NIP-04 and NIP-44) as a fallback mechanism. This ensures that users without an active internal signer (e.g., read-only or extension-only users) can still decrypt their preferences if they have granted permission to the extension.
- Mirrors the decryption logic from `UserBlockListManager` (`js/userBlocks.js`).
- Adds logging for fallback attempts and failures.
- Preserves existing scheme selection logic (`determineDecryptionOrder`).
- Adds new test cases to `tests/hashtag-preferences.test.mjs` verifying fallback behavior when the active signer is missing or incapable.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
- Updated `NostrClient.fetchListIncrementally` to prioritize user's NIP-65 read relays, cap concurrent requests, and temporarily mark failing relays as unreachable.
- Added `markRelayUnreachable` to `NostrClient` for temporary relay exclusion.
- Updated `SubscriptionsManager`, `HashtagPreferencesService`, and `UserBlockListManager` to use `relayManager.getReadRelayUrls()` for selecting relays, ensuring consistency with user preferences.
- Added structured logging for relay selection in `fetchListIncrementally`.
- Updated unit tests to mock `relayManager` behavior correctly.
Co-authored-by: PR0M3TH3AN <[email protected]>
