Pinky is opening this PR on Wes’s behalf.
## Summary
Reduce two separately measured mobile delays without changing the relay
API or removing rich message rendering:
- Publish the finite channel-list snapshot without waiting for live
subscription setup.
- Batch active channel-list subscriptions into sorted, deterministic
chunks of at most 128 explicit channel IDs, retaining unchanged chunks.
- Install replacement chunks before retiring old coverage. Retain old
chunks across thrown replacement failures; filter callbacks to the
current relay/identity and still-desired channels; clean up
retired/in-flight work across disconnect and disposal.
- Scope the custom-emoji Markdown matcher to known shortcodes actually
referenced in the rendered content, rather than embedding the whole
community palette in every message’s regex. Preserve unknown literals,
shared-colon token boundaries, event-tag URL priority, content edits,
and code literals.
- Honor explicit zero retry hints without inventing a ten-second
session-wide gate, while preserving the ordinary live-subscription retry
backoff and any already-active gate.
## Matched performance results
Medians of three before and three after process-cold launches,
alternated on the same authenticated iPhone 17 Pro / iOS 26.5 simulator.
Before is mobile source at `e76c81968b65b0755b83efdd59dc3375c59ddf40`;
after is this production patch before two documentation-only comment
fixes.
First channel-list frame: 11.617s → 3.179s · 73% lower latency
Live setup duration: 8.475s → 0.185s · 98% lower latency
Channel-open first message-list frame: 2.754s → 1.230s · 55% lower
latency
Message data ready → first frame: 1.977s → 0.286s · 86% lower latency
Channel-open reveal complete: 2.845s → 1.394s · 51% lower latency
Channel-open data readiness: 0.770s → 0.944s · 23% higher latency
The gain is client-side orchestration/rendering, not a claim that the
relay became faster. First channel-list frame ranges were 10.835–11.788s
before and 2.872–3.395s after; channel-open first-frame ranges were
1.560–2.906s before and 1.149–1.317s after.
### Measurement boundaries
- Debug simulator builds, CPU sampling disabled, bounded timestamp
probes enabled identically. These are not release/physical-device
measurements.
- Startup clock starts at Dart `main`; build/install/native pre-main
time is excluded. Auth/preferences and OS/disk caches are retained
between new processes.
- Same account scale: 113 active channels. Latest-message events varied
slightly with live activity (1543–1546).
- Channel-open uses the same initial 50-row history window, 97 query
events, and 67 provider events. The 2306-entry emoji palette is
explicitly loaded before navigation on both sides; palette preparation
is excluded from the channel-open clock and happens after the startup
frame measurement.
- Both diagnostic builds temporarily disabled unused avatar segmentation
to work around the existing Google ML Kit arm64-simulator slice
limitation. The workaround, dependency/native changes, auto-navigation,
and all probes are excluded from this PR.
## Validation
- Full mobile package suite: `flutter test` — 1890 passed.
- `just mobile-check` — 506 files unchanged; analyzer clean.
- `just file-size-check` — policy tests and all client ratchets passed.
- `git diff --check` — passed.
- New lifecycle regressions cover front-sorting insertion across a chunk
boundary while replacement readiness is paused, failure
retention/departed-channel filtering, retired generation + disconnect
cleanup, disposal, chunk limits, unchanged-set reuse, and scope
switches.
- Emoji unit/widget coverage includes a 2500-unused-emoji palette,
unknown tokens, case matching at the component level, shared-colon
boundaries, rich text, event URL priority, and content edits.
- Fresh-frame source review traced the subscription queue/fences,
callback scopes, duplicate-event paths, matcher/wiring, and retry
scheduling.
- At committed/pushed head `13a83b628c8411c5885e6f76a250ba87accf6067`,
all normal pre-push hooks passed: `mobile-checks` (formatter, analyzer,
and the full 1890-test mobile suite), `file-size-check`, `branch-skew`,
and `push-head-scope`. The commit hook formatted 506 files with no
changes. Runtime measurements preceded only the two
documentation-comment fixes; no runtime source changed afterward.
## Limits / follow-ups
- `RelaySession.subscribe` still settles under its existing
EOSE/fallback/retryable-CLOSED contract. “Setup completed” is not an
unconditional EOSE or live-delivery guarantee. This PR does not add
status-aware replacement ownership.
- The channel-message provider still awaits subscribe before fetching
history; that separate serialization is not removed here.
- Oversized Huddle queries and the separate history batching path above
128 active channels remain follow-ups, as do pre-existing read-state
initialization/size warnings.
- Palette-only widget refresh and upstream Markdown uppercase-dispatch
behavior are not changed.
- A clean source build still has the existing Google ML Kit
arm64-simulator issue; the profiling workaround is not a proposed
product fix.
Originating Buzz conversation:
buzz://message?channel=793b0522-7995-4375-b1a6-fd94a96fa21d&id=6ba88afdec78ab2cfb6728afcd4a6d10f29e6aa33ff0f62f45d6750381e4d789
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Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Pinky <5f5ab050ec58ae208332edd544ebf705221e24c1b86d82a6ca07038a7a8f6ac9@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Brain <1a02c72794dcd0f07058a353bc3a81f4028b8c77c92c87fce6d5c8b85970a20b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Carl <9d00794d3df50972eb8b615511783cab12a77a8fd5dd5edd58073ec73b54bd8b@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
### What changed?
After a new mobile invite claim succeeds, Buzz now best-effort ensures
membership in the same public starter channels as desktop:
- `#general`
- `#welcome-everyone`
Missing starters use desktop's deterministic per-relay IDs and exact
public channel configuration, so concurrent mobile and desktop setup
converges safely. Setup failures do not invalidate or retry an already
successful invite claim, and failure for one starter does not block the
other.
The success sheet offers **Continue to #welcome-everyone** when that
channel is available. Mobile does not create the private `Welcome`
channel because it cannot provision the desktop Welcome agents that make
that channel useful.
This PR is stacked on #6145 because it deliberately reuses that PR's
open-channel directory and join behavior. Once #6145 merges, this PR can
be retargeted to `main` without changing its BUZZ-12 diff.
Fixes
[BUZZ-12](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BUZZ-12/bug-community-appears-empty-after-using-invite-link-on-mobile).
### How is it tested?
- Desktop/mobile deterministic starter-ID parity coverage.
- Existing-channel join and missing-channel creation coverage.
- Duplicate-create convergence and per-channel failure isolation
coverage.
- Invite success remains successful when starter setup fails.
- Widget coverage for continuing directly into `#welcome-everyone`.
- Focused invite/deep-link tests: 23 passed.
- `just mobile-check`: passed.
- `just mobile-test`: 1,483 passed.
- Pre-push repository checks: passed.
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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
### What changed?
Mobile now recovers live subscriptions after retryable or rate-limited
relay `CLOSED` responses. It ports the existing desktop model: classify
terminal versus retryable closures, honor retry hints through a
session-owned rate-limit gate, retry with bounded backoff, and replay
visible-channel subscriptions first in bounded batches.
Channel refreshes also retain unchanged live subscriptions instead of
clearing and recreating them. This is desktop parity, not a new relay
policy.
### Why?
On reconnect or resume, mobile replayed its retained live subscriptions
while `channelsProvider` independently cleared and recreated roughly the
same set, alongside unread catch-up and open-channel requests. The relay
allows 50 REQs per 5 seconds, so users in many channels could
predictably exceed the budget. In live reproduction, 55 subscriptions
produced 9 rate-limit closures, 60 produced 18, and 80 produced 36.
Mobile then treated every live `CLOSED` as terminal, removed the
affected subscription, and never restored it. Channel updates could
remain dead until a later session reconstruction. This is the primary
causal chain behind
[BOT-1449](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BOT-1449/buzz-mobile-posted-messages-dont-appear-until-leavingre-entering-the).
Desktop already handles this as normal transient pressure by classifying
closures, gating and backing off retries, pacing reconnect replay, and
retaining unchanged subscriptions. This change brings mobile to the same
recovery model while removing the avoidable request burst.
### How is it tested?
Full mobile suite: 721 passed, 1 skipped. Analyzer and formatting checks
pass. Required CI checks pass.
Added and updated tests cover `CLOSED` classification, retry hints,
rate-limit gating, bounded retry and reset behavior, terminal failures,
timer cleanup, history gating, visible-first batched replay, and
retention of unchanged subscriptions.
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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub1tquskdu6yc4h8l7xxtceculxw600grekeq0xg2ukqfrwl7vrzg3quz3gmp <58390b379a262b73ffc632f19c73e6769ef40f36c81e642b960246eff9831222@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: npub1tu6ed4gf70jg7pvk8uhttlprexznhzpg74am2d3seqd3ececzgusy8hzac <5f3596d509f3e48f05963f2eb5fc23c9853b8828f57bb53630c81b1ce3381239@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: npub1w85l93z2dyetvaev42kvmgv3r5qsgc7rutrvgpqshqefj4sydqqskwstfm <71e9f2c44a6932b6772caaaccda1911d010463c3e2c6c40410b8329956046801@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
