Fold July-2026 short-form UX research into docs/shorts-plan.md:
- Immersive one-at-a-time 9:16 feed (grid = entry point), muted autoplay + loop,
preload next 2-3 (no spinner between shorts), overlaid action rail
(Zap/Comment/Share/follow — zaps as the bitvid differentiator), captions when
present, prefers-reduced-motion.
- Mobile: full-screen + swipe up/down.
- Desktop: centered letterboxed player (never stretch 9:16) + NATIVE keyboard nav
(up/down prev/next, Space, M, Esc) + side action rail — YouTube Shorts' desktop
keyboard-nav gap is an opportunity to do it right.
- Phase 2 reframed as the responsive immersive feed; sources cited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Shorts (docs/shorts-plan.md):
- Add DECISION 6 + architecture/phase items for a NEW portrait 9:16 card design.
The existing VideoCard.js is hardcoded 16:9 (ratio-16-9), so shorts need either
a "short" variant of VideoCard or a dedicated ShortCard — a first-class Phase 1
deliverable, not an afterthought.
Live ingest (docs/live-ingest-plan.md):
- Reframe past streams (VOD) and chat from "deferred/maybe" to committed phases:
Phase 3 read-only chat (+ optional 3b post), Phase 4 ended/recording VOD
playback through the same HLS path. So the plan's phases fully account for
live AND past zap.stream streams AND chat.
- Add a distinct LiveCard design (LIVE badge, viewer count, ended state).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Two flag-gated, watch-only content types, each spec'd following the repo's
docs/*-plan.md convention with open decisions embedded as DECISION callouts.
- docs/shorts-plan.md (#16b): NIP-71 kind 22. Ingest already exists
(nip71IngestAdapter handles kind 22), so this is an isShort marker + a Shorts
sidebar tab + vertical UI + a shorts feed source. Behind FEATURE_SHORTS.
- docs/live-ingest-plan.md (#16): NIP-53 kind 30311 (+1311 chat), HLS playback.
Leads with a Phase 0 research spike (confirm tag shapes from zap.stream/
shosho.live, de-risk hls.js + CORS). Behind FEATURE_LIVE_INGEST; publishing
(#16c) is explicitly out of scope with its own future flag.
Both docs specify the "off = no trace" wiring (no tab, no feed registration, no
subscriptions, no route, no lazy assets) per the locked shared requirement.
TODO #16/#16b now link their plans.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
