The share menu's "Share on Nostr" entry was never clickable, no matter who was
logged in -- it rendered as inert, dimmed text.
VideoModal initialized `shareNostrAuthState` to { isLoggedIn: false, hasSigner:
false } and nothing ever wrote to it. createVideoShareMenuPanel gates the item
on `isLoggedIn && hasSigner`, so it was always disabled, and the click
delegation in bindShareMenuActions() bails on `button.disabled` -- so the whole
share-to-Nostr flow behind it was unreachable.
The renderer and the publish path were both already correct; only the gate was
missing:
- VideoModal.setShareNostrAuthState() records the state and closes an already
open share menu when it changes, so a menu opened before login does not keep
showing the stale disabled item. It is a no-op when nothing changed, to avoid
slamming the menu shut on every sync.
- syncAuthUiState() computes the gate from isUserLoggedIn() plus a
signing-capable active signer, mirroring ShareNostrController.handleShare():
a signer without signEvent would only produce an error toast on click.
- syncAuthUiState() was only ever called at bootstrap, so logging in
mid-session left the gate closed. It now self-installs a bitvid:auth-changed
listener on first run (bound once, re-entrancy safe) rather than adding a
call site in js/app.js, which is at its file-size cap.
Verified in a browser that the rendered item is disabled when logged out or
signer-less and enabled + click-dispatching with both; the new tests fail 5/9
with the gate push removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
index.html carries one set of site-wide OG tags, so every /?v=<nevent> link
previewed as the same generic bitvid card -- never the video's title or
thumbnail. bitvid is a static SPA and crawlers do not run JS, so the client
cannot fix this.
api/og.js renders the tags on demand. Nothing is pre-generated and nothing is
stored: the video is a query param, not a path, so one stateless function
serves every video and dist/ is byte-identical with or without it. The only
caching is the CDN edge (s-maxage=300) plus a per-container memo of the admin
lists.
This is never load-bearing. Only crawler user-agents are rewritten to it
(vercel.json), humans get a 302 to the untouched SPA, and a static/nsite deploy
with no functions keeps working -- it just serves the site-wide card. Rollback
is deleting the `rewrites` block.
- Emits twitter:player / og:video:url pointing at embed.html?pointer=<nevent>,
so a shared link plays inline on Twitter/Discord/Telegram rather than showing
a still. frame-ancestors * already permits the embed.
- Fails closed. A crawler never authenticates, so anything emitted is public
forever in third-party caches: deleted, isPrivate, isNsfw/content-warning,
blacklisted authors, and -- while whitelist mode is on -- an unavailable or
empty whitelist all fall back to the generic card.
- Escapes every attribute. Titles come from arbitrary nostr events and this HTML
is served from bitvid's own origin; only http(s) URLs reach a meta tag.
- Parses BOTH event shapes: bitvid's kind-30078 v3 JSON and the NIP-71 tag shape
(kinds 21/22/34235/34236) that nostube/slidestr publish, where the title is a
`title` tag and the thumbnail an `imeta image` entry. Reading only the JSON
shape made every NIP-71 video fall back to the generic card.
- Relay budget is 4s: a cold pool's first read measured ~3s, and 1.5s silently
degraded every preview. Warm containers answer in <600ms.
Admin-list identity and the relay set are imported from js/config.js,
js/nostr/toolkit.js and js/nostrEventSchemas.js rather than duplicated -- a
hardcoded copy of the namespace gated every preview during development, and a
test now fails if any npub or wss:// literal reappears in the handler.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
"Share on Nostr" published a kind-1 note whose body ended with a bare thumbnail
URL. Many clients only inline such a URL when a NIP-92 `imeta` entry describes
it, so the viewer often saw a plain link instead of a preview image.
- buildShareEvent now emits an `imeta` entry for the thumbnail. The media type
is inferred from the extension and OMITTED when unknown -- a wrong `m` is
worse than a missing one, since clients use it to decide whether to render
inline at all, so extensionless Blossom URLs ship url + alt only.
- inferImageMimeTypeFromUrl lives in a SEPARATE map from EXTENSION_MIME_MAP:
that map gates video upload/publish paths, and folding image types into it
would let an image pass a video check.
- shareNostrController was passing only { id, pubkey } to buildShareEvent, so
the tag could never be built; it now forwards title and thumbnail.
When a video has a NIP-71 mirror, the note instead quotes it with
`nostr:naddr1...`, which nostr clients render as a native video quote card --
the closest thing to a rich preview that does not depend on any client fetching
OpenGraph tags (most never do).
- The mirror is addressable (kind 34235/34236, author = video pubkey,
d = videoRootId), so js/nostr/mirrorPointer.js derives the coordinate with no
relay lookup, and the pointer survives the author editing the video where a
plain `nevent` would rot on the next replace.
- The pointer is only embedded after nip71MirrorService.findMirror() confirms
the mirror exists. A pointer to a missing event renders as a broken/empty
quote box, which is worse than the plain-link fallback, so a disabled
service, a throwing lookup, a 2.5s timeout or a missing videoRootId all fall
back to the thumbnail note.
- resolveMirrorKind prefers the kinds actually observed on relays and only then
falls back to the same portrait rule the mirror builder uses, so a derived
pointer matches what would be published rather than guessing independently.
- While quoting, the raw thumbnail URL is dropped from the body and the imeta
tag is skipped: the quote card already shows the thumbnail, and emitting both
rendered the same image twice. An `a` tag links the note to the coordinate.
Known limitation: a client rendering the quote card still has to play the
video, so mirrors whose imeta url is an .m3u8 hit the same HLS wall -- title and
thumbnail render, playback depends on the client.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
bitvid attached every hosted source with `videoEl.src = url`, which only plays
HLS on Safari-family browsers. Firefox 146 fails with MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED
(canPlayType returns ""), so every .m3u8 note -- e.g. anything published by
nostube/slidestr -- was unplayable there and the URL-health badge showed
"offline". Chrome/Brave 149 happen to play HLS natively, which is why this
looked browser-specific.
Vendor hls.js (npm run build:hls) and route HLS sources through it:
- js/services/hlsPlayback.js owns detection, engine choice and the hls.js
lifecycle. Engine choice keys off MediaSource, NOT canPlayType: Chrome
returns "maybe" for every HLS type, so a native-first branch would hang.
Native is used only when MSE is genuinely unavailable.
- The bundle is the FULL build, not hls.js/light -- light drops the alternate
audio stream controller and real ladders demux audio into an EXT-X-MEDIA
group. It is lazy-imported only when a .m3u8 is encountered, so ordinary
MP4/WebTorrent playback never pays the ~500KB.
- modalCoordinator tears the instance down first; clearing `src` alone leaves
the transmuxing worker and segment fetches running after the modal closes.
- urlHealthController probes HLS by fetching the playlist for #EXTM3U. The old
bare-<video> probe could not load it and on Chrome emitted no events at all,
burning the full timeout on every HLS card.
- HLS_PLAYBACK_START_TIMEOUT widens the 3s start window, which fired
mid-startup: the bundle, master playlist, variant playlist, init segment and
first media segment are four-plus serial round trips.
Also fixes two bugs found while verifying this:
- A stale MediaError was reported as the current failure. Teardown clears `src`
and calls load(), leaving MEDIA_ERR_SRC_NOT_SUPPORTED ("Empty src attribute")
on the element; a later watchdog fallback rendered that as "Hosted playback
failed: source not supported or blocked." over a stream that was playing
fine. Only a MediaError produced by the current attempt is surfaced now.
Sources are also bound before the watchdogs are armed, so hls.js's own
attachMedia() src swap cannot read as a playback failure.
- `audio/x-mpegurl` is a legacy alias for an HLS playlist of any kind, not an
audio-only assertion. isAudioOnlyVideoObject misfiled HLS video ladders
published with it as podcasts and dropped them from every video feed.
Verified end-to-end in Chromium, Chrome 149, Brave 149 and Firefox 146 against
a live HLS stream: Firefox goes from "No playable source found." to playing.
Rollback: stop calling attachHlsSource() and the previous `src` assignment
returns; see docs/playback-fallback.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
### Motivation
- Prevent a browser-policy muted-autoplay retry from overwriting a viewer's explicit mute/unmute preference and ensure fallback mutes are transient.
- Ensure that when a user logs in while a video comment modal is open, the open thread is reloaded (not just refreshed) so comments continue to display correctly after relay-backed services are reconfigured.
### Description
- Add `js/utils/autoplayPreference.js` with `muteForAutoplayFallback` and `consumeAutoplayFallbackMute` helpers to mark and consume transient fallback mutes.
- Update `js/services/playbackService.js` to treat sound as default unless the viewer explicitly chose mute, persist explicit choices via `localStorage`, ignore fallback-generated volume changes using `consumeAutoplayFallbackMute`, and expose `muteForAutoplayFallback` delegating to the new util.
- Replace direct `videoElement.muted = true` calls with `playbackService.muteForAutoplayFallback` in `js/app/playbackCoordinator.js` and `js/webtorrent.js` so fallback mutes are marked as transient.
- Change `js/app/authSessionCoordinator.js` to reload the currently open video comment thread with `commentController.load(activeModalVideo)` after login if a modal video is active, instead of only calling `refreshAuthState`.
- Update tests in `tests/services/playbackService.test.mjs` and add a test in `tests/app/login-defers-dms.test.mjs` to cover the login behavior that reloads an open comment thread.
### Testing
- Ran the `PlaybackService` unit tests (`tests/services/playbackService.test.mjs`) which assert `prepareVideoElement` behavior, explicit mute persistence, and the transient nature of fallback mute, and they passed.
- Ran the auth login unit tests including `tests/app/login-defers-dms.test.mjs` which verifies DM deferral and reload of an open comment thread, and they passed.
(cherry picked from commit ce14004725)
### Motivation
- Prevent a browser-policy muted-autoplay retry from overwriting a viewer's explicit mute/unmute preference and ensure fallback mutes are transient.
- Ensure that when a user logs in while a video comment modal is open, the open thread is reloaded (not just refreshed) so comments continue to display correctly after relay-backed services are reconfigured.
### Description
- Add `js/utils/autoplayPreference.js` with `muteForAutoplayFallback` and `consumeAutoplayFallbackMute` helpers to mark and consume transient fallback mutes.
- Update `js/services/playbackService.js` to treat sound as default unless the viewer explicitly chose mute, persist explicit choices via `localStorage`, ignore fallback-generated volume changes using `consumeAutoplayFallbackMute`, and expose `muteForAutoplayFallback` delegating to the new util.
- Replace direct `videoElement.muted = true` calls with `playbackService.muteForAutoplayFallback` in `js/app/playbackCoordinator.js` and `js/webtorrent.js` so fallback mutes are marked as transient.
- Change `js/app/authSessionCoordinator.js` to reload the currently open video comment thread with `commentController.load(activeModalVideo)` after login if a modal video is active, instead of only calling `refreshAuthState`.
- Update tests in `tests/services/playbackService.test.mjs` and add a test in `tests/app/login-defers-dms.test.mjs` to cover the login behavior that reloads an open comment thread.
### Testing
- Ran the `PlaybackService` unit tests (`tests/services/playbackService.test.mjs`) which assert `prepareVideoElement` behavior, explicit mute persistence, and the transient nature of fallback mute, and they passed.
- Ran the auth login unit tests including `tests/app/login-defers-dms.test.mjs` which verifies DM deferral and reload of an open comment thread, and they passed.
Pulls in bitlogin's session-persistence feature -- after a successful
sign-in, the everyday private key is cached in IndexedDB for this
origin, so a page reload restores the session instead of asking for
the login name + password again. No changes needed in
bitloginModalIntegration.js: the existing "bitlogin-login" listener
fires the same way whether the sign-in was just typed or silently
restored. See bitlogin's CHANGELOG.md (2026-07-22 entry).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DY9UMTuF43Ekc2U4E1eDwX
devLogger.warn is a no-op outside dev mode (IS_DEV_MODE = false on
this deployment), so when AuthService.requestLogin() rejected a
BitLogin sign-in -- e.g. the invite-only access-control check
("Access restricted to admins and moderators users only.") -- nothing
ever told the user why. The widget itself doesn't know bitvid rejected
it, so it kept showing its own "Signed in" screen, and the login modal
never closed, looking exactly like a hung/broken close button.
On rejection: route the error through app.handleLoginModalError (the
same visible-banner path every other sign-in method already uses) and
reset the widget via widget.logout() so it doesn't keep claiming a
session bitvid never actually granted.
Also added a WeakSet guard so wireBitloginLogin() can never attach two
"bitlogin-login" listeners to the same element, regardless of how
attachWidget() ends up getting invoked -- cheap insurance, no observed
bug currently triggers it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DY9UMTuF43Ekc2U4E1eDwX
bitlogin's widget now implements NIP-04 (nip04Encrypt/nip04Decrypt),
closing the one gap left relative to a real NIP-07 extension. bitvid's
own nip07Adapter/nsecAdapter/nip46Adapter all already wire this up and
report it via signerCapabilities.nip04 -- BitLogin's adapter was the
one exception, hardcoded to nip04: false because the widget genuinely
didn't support it before. js/nostr/client.js's DM encrypt/decrypt path
only offers NIP-04 to a caller when that capability flag is true, so a
BitLogin-signed-in user previously had no working legacy-DM path at
all. Re-vendored the widget bundle (bitlogin's CHANGELOG.md, 2026-07-21
entry, third one) and updated the one test that hardcoded the old
(now-incorrect) capabilities shape.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DY9UMTuF43Ekc2U4E1eDwX
relay.nostr.band (shared by both relay roles pinned here) is currently
unreachable, and BitLogin's publishAndVerify() enforces a fixed
ack/readback floor of 2 regardless of relay count -- so pinning to
only 3 vault relays left zero margin the moment one went down,
surfacing as a registration/login quorum failure.
Widen the <bitlogin-auth> vault-relays/discovery-relays attributes in
components/login-modal.html to match bitlogin's own updated built-in
defaults, and re-vendor the widget bundle (see bitlogin's CHANGELOG.md
2026-07-21 entry). No CSP change needed -- this branch's connect-src
already allows wss: broadly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DY9UMTuF43Ekc2U4E1eDwX
The login modal now shows <bitlogin-auth> -- a portable Nostr identity
behind a login name and password -- as the default sign-in path,
styled with bitvid's own brand tokens (accent-strong, surfaces, radii).
The existing NIP-07 extension, nsec, and NIP-46 remote-signer options
still work exactly as before, just collapsed under a new "Other login
options" fold instead of a flat "Available methods" grid; nip07 no
longer carries the stale "Recommended" eyebrow now that BitLogin has
that role.
BitLogin isn't a single button-click-then-await-a-promise flow like
the other providers -- it's a whole multi-screen sign-in/create/recover
UI -- so it gets a permanent, statically-declared widget in
components/login-modal.html (js/ui/bitloginModalIntegration.js relocates
it, never destroys and recreates it, since removal tears down its crypto
Web Worker) instead of a grid button. It still goes through the exact
same session-establishment path as every other signer: a new "bitlogin"
provider (js/services/authProviders/bitlogin.js) lets AuthService
resolve and activate it via the normal requestLogin -> handleAuthLogin
path, while providersForModal excludes it from the grid so it isn't
rendered twice.
Two things this needed beyond the wiring itself:
- js/app.js is one line from its lint/file-size ceiling, so the only
change there is renaming an import binding (providers -> providersForModal),
a net-zero line change. The actual widget/event wiring lives in a new,
unconstrained module instead.
- The login modal's HTML (including the permanent widget element) loads
asynchronously after bootstrap runs, so wireBitloginLogin() waits via
MutationObserver rather than assuming a specific call order.
Vendored via scripts/build-bitlogin-widget.mjs (mirrors the existing
Bitcoin Connect/Blossom vendor steps): BitLogin isn't published to npm,
so the widget build is copied verbatim from the sibling ../bitlogin
checkout into committed vendor/bitlogin/, then lazy-imported (like
Bitcoin Connect) so its ~350KB never weighs on visitors who never open
the login modal.
Gated behind FEATURE_BITLOGIN (config/instance-config.js), default on
for this unstable-branch experiment per AGENTS.md §1 -- reset to false
before this reaches main until verified end-to-end against production
relays.
Verified: npm run lint (clean), the full auth/login test suite (43/43,
including new coverage for the provider + adapter), and a manual
Chrome pass against the built dist/ -- widget renders themed correctly,
"Other login options" still shows the original four methods unchanged.
The v5 line of these two actions still targets Node.js 20 (unlike
checkout/setup-node@v5, which are already on Node 24), so the deprecation
warning persisted. upload-artifact reaches Node 24 at v6+ and
download-artifact at v7+; move to the current latest (v7 / v8), which
share the same v4-generation artifact backend and pair correctly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DwbE3uTiFaKRNjx5vP2muV
The v4 actions target Node.js 20, which GitHub now force-runs on Node 24
and flags as deprecated. Bump all four across every workflow to v5 (their
native Node-24 line) to clear the warning. Mechanical version-only change;
upload/download-artifact stay on matching majors as required.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DwbE3uTiFaKRNjx5vP2muV
