Deep dive into the "nothing loads / Fetching recent videos… hangs" symptom
found the real blocker: it was NOT the moderation/WoT stage (that uses
cached reads and passes unknown authors through clean). It was the feed's
resolve-posted-at stage.
resolveVideoPostedAt() short-circuits when a video has nip71.publishedAt,
otherwise it does a per-video `nostrClient.hydrateVideoHistory()` network
fetch (looking up kind-30078 history). Foreign NIP-71 videos have no such
history, and the ingest adapter wasn't setting nip71.publishedAt — so a
burst of ~32 ingested videos triggered ~32 blocking history fetches that
stalled the render and flooded relays.
Fix: the ingest adapter now surfaces nip71.publishedAt from the NIP-71
published_at tag (falling back to created_at). The feed short-circuits and
never fetches history for ingested videos. Re-enables FEATURE_NIP71_INGEST
by default now that the hang is addressed.
Tests: adapter published_at extraction + created_at fallback;
mutation-verified. 1237/1238 unit (known UploadModal flake).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
