A notification can arrive from someone whose profile the main app has
never loaded. The iOS notification extension now fetches and caches
sender profiles, channel details, and avatars itself. The main app
supplies account configuration and Keychain credentials only.
After resolving the message, the extension allows 1.5 seconds for sender
and channel details. It uses available stale data when a refresh is slow
or fails, delivers once, and lets late results update its private cache.
Profiles, channel details, and avatar refresh checks share a one-hour
freshness threshold. A verified avatar removal clears the previous
image. Account removal prevents further use of that sign-in's cached
data.
Profile, channel metadata, and membership use separate bounded
downloads, so an oversized roster cannot discard the smaller records.
Sender enrichment can finish while channel requests are pending. A
successful partial channel refresh atomically removes its old
counterpart, preventing a mixed group identity or recipient count.
Group-specific notification presentation still requires a verified
recipient count.
The
[specification](https://github.com/block/buzz/blob/native-notification-enrichment/docs/native-notification-enrichment.md)
describes the display, caching, and account-removal behavior. General
persistent image caching in Flutter remains separate.
### Validation
[Hosted CI](https://github.com/block/buzz/actions/runs/38780108487)
passed on the final commit, including all Flutter shards, Android, the
full iOS release and simulator builds, and native
controls/push-navigation tests. The [current-commit security
review](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8369#issuecomment-6197508385)
found no issues.
The native package passed 159 tests, including new coverage for cache
freshness, avatar replacement and removal, sign-in isolation, concurrent
storage, late results, single delivery, bounded downloads, and SVG
validation. A regression test exposed identical HTTP authentication
event IDs for requests in the same second; each request now includes a
unique nonce, matching the Dart and CLI clients.
Full local CI passed before that small authentication fix. The complete
native suite and signed device build passed again on the latest commit,
including response-size limits, overlapping avatar downloads, canonical
relay-origin matching, independent profile/channel refreshes,
account-key changes before and during requests, and a single initial
snapshot read across 64 accounts, signed IPv6 avatar authorities, and
partial channel refreshes. Focused Flutter regression tests passed 198
tests with three configuration-specific skips; seven avatar widget tests
also passed. Flutter analysis is clean, and the notification extension
builds for the simulator.
On an iPhone SE, the notification displayed the sender name, avatar,
channel, and message before the updated main app was opened. Repeat
notifications used a byte-identical private cache. Three notifications
delivered together displayed the avatar after the authentication fix.
The next notification also displayed correctly after terminating the
extension process. The existing generic-push design can select the same
newest unread message for several pushes; this change does not alter
message selection.

Authenticated HTTP avatar fetching and persistent HTTP cache reuse also
passed on the SE. The first notification downloaded a relay thumbnail.
After terminating the extension and expiring its separate avatar entry,
the next notification displayed the avatar and refreshed that entry
without another media request in the relay logs. The main app remained
unopened throughout. The original app build and test profile were
restored afterward.
Automated tests cover slow and failed requests, stale images, removal,
and account revocation; those cases have not all been exercised on the
phone.
### Before merge
- [x] Verify authenticated HTTP avatar fetching and cache reuse on iOS
against a working relay media service.
<!-- buzz-review-completed -->
---------
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
## Summary
Replace the community switch sheet with a two-column picker. Selection
enlarges the avatar, waits with the voice-note loader for destination
channel content and layout to settle, then follows a curved path into
the header.
Cache raster icons at a maximum 512-pixel size and accept only
resource-free emoji SVGs. Cancel timed-out or disposed downloads without
delaying content readiness. Animate Edit badges in place, and open Add
Community on the pairing welcome page. Community removal lives only in
the switcher’s Edit mode. Keep the flow shared across Android/iOS, with
native iOS controls and removal confirmation, and clear navigation
backgrounds at rest.
### Related issue
Related to #8070 (community icon refresh/caching).
### Testing
- 122 focused Flutter regression tests and seven native iOS tests passed
after merging the latest navigation changes from `main`. Earlier feature
build installed and launched on a physical iPhone.
- Full mobile pre-push checks passed; regression coverage includes
gradient rendering, rejected/oversized icons, bounded persisted raster
decoding, SVG resource rejection and cache migration, timeout/disposal
cancellation, disconnected destination channels, degraded unread-history
settlement, and switching while icons refresh. Full `just ci` stopped
during Rust checks for low disk space. Hosted CI remains required.
- [Grid and Edit
previews](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/8076#issuecomment-5977838957).
---------
Signed-off-by: kenny lopez <klopez4212@gmail.com>
Buzz sets up starter channels when a person accepts an invite. If the
phone already had a saved community, the first attempt could fail. Retry
could then succeed.
A delayed read could replace the new active community with the old one.
The read now leaves the saved selection unchanged. The fix also delays
channel-status updates until the channel provider finishes
initialization.
### Before and after
Controlled Flutter app captures against local relays, with the same
delayed storage read. The before capture restores the pre-fix
active-community provider in the test harness. The after capture uses
the fixed provider. These are separate from the native iOS validation
below.
| Before: first attempt fails | After: first attempt succeeds |
| --- | --- |
| 
| 
|
### Validation
- Regression tests reproduce the delayed-read ordering and passing
timing control; removing the channel sequencing safeguards makes their
regressions fail.
- Production app against local relays passes the forced race on the
first attempt.
- Native iOS simulator with an existing saved community accepted the
original invite using a fresh identity, joined on the first attempt, and
opened the welcome channel without Retry.
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Long threads (over ~100 replies) time out in desktop. The aux hop that
loads reactions and other e-tag references builds its filter as one
`tags @> …` term per id, joined with `OR`. Past about 100 ids the
planner switches to walking each partition's primary key backward,
expecting to stop early. When few rows actually match, it scans the
whole community. With a dirty GIN pending list, a 188-reply thread never
finishes.
### What changes
- **Set-based e-tag reads (`buzz-db`).** The aux e-tag query now puts
the id set behind a `MATERIALIZED` CTE and matches with `ANY`. Each
e-tag read also runs under a transaction-local `statement_timeout` of 20
s.
- **Terminal timeout contract (`buzz-relay`).** When a read hits the
deadline, the client gets a terminal timeout (`CLOSED` for REQ, the
timeout error for COUNT and search), not a retryable failure.
- **Subscription lifecycle (`buzz-relay`).** The per-connection
subscription map lock is now the lifecycle lock. Claims, replacement,
client `CLOSE`, owner-checked timeout and search cleanup, revoke, and
connection teardown all change the map, the registry, topic refcounts
and terminal frames while holding it. As a result, a timed-out
subscription's `CLOSED` goes out before any replacement with the same id
can claim it, and claims made after teardown are refused.
- **Dropped terminal frame disconnects (`buzz-relay`).** If the `CLOSED`
for a retired subscription (owner-checked timeout or channel eviction)
can't be queued, the relay cancels the connection instead of leaving the
client holding a subscription that will never receive fan-out. A
client-initiated `CLOSE` ack is exempt.
- **COUNT under the same deadline (`buzz-db`).** The fast COUNT path
runs e-tag counts under the same transaction-local 20 s cap as SELECT,
so WS COUNT and HTTP `/count` produce the terminal timeout too.
- **Replica reads surface the deadline (`buzz-db`).** When a
replica-routed read is cancelled by `statement_timeout` (SQLSTATE
`57014`), the error is returned instead of re-running the query on the
writer, which would run the same slow statement. Other replica errors
still fall back to the writer.
`PLANS/REPLICA_FULL_READ_ROUTING_DESIGN.md` records the exception.
- **Deadline handling (desktop).** Only the relay's `query timed out`
counts as a query deadline. A client-side `request timed out` stays
retryable. For one-shot reads a deadline is terminal: the global query
retry (budget 1), thread-replies retry and reaction hydration don't
re-send the same slow query. Reaction ids held back by a deadline are
released when the channel is opened again, so reopening retries them
while same-channel re-renders don't. Live subscriptions, in both the
renderer and the native archive-sync socket, keep treating a deadline
`CLOSED` as transient: they back off and resubscribe with the same
filter instead of being dropped.
- **Deadline handling (mobile).** Mobile recognizes the deadline on both
transports: HTTP `503 {"error":"query timed out"}` and the WS `CLOSED`
reason.
- The root `ProviderScope` retry policy returns no retry for deadline
errors and keeps Riverpod's default backoff for everything else.
- Background thread-summary recounts don't retry a deadline.
- Forum posts polling pauses while the last load settled on a deadline;
reopening the forum retries.
- A channel's newest-window load surfaces a deadline instead of falling
back to legacy WS history, and the channel list's batched queries return
"unavailable" on a deadline instead of fanning out to per-filter
fallbacks. An unavailable batch is not treated as empty. Known
last-message timestamps and unread state are kept, and unread catch-up
moves `lastMessageAt` forward (never backward) the same way live events
do, so a cold start with no known timestamp still gets one.
- A live subscription that gets a deadline `CLOSED` backs off and
resubscribes with the same filter. History requests still fail on it.
- Settled load failures show a Retry control, matching desktop's
thread-replies error card: a shared `LoadErrorView` on the channel
timeline, forum thread and forum posts list, and an icon button beside
the thread replies summary. While the thread query has no value, the
thread page shows the route snapshot plus live, cached and optimistic
replies, with the loading or error status still visible.
- Other re-sends (reconnect, foreground resume, live events, the unread
backstop, scroll) are not suppressed; each is bounded by the relay's 20
s statement deadline.
- **Long-thread seeder.** `just seed-long-thread [replies]` posts one
thread (default 187 replies) with some reactions to the local dev relay,
for reproducing long threads in the apps. It uses a throwaway key,
refuses non-loopback relays and ignores ambient `BUZZ_*` credentials.
Writes are paced to fit the stock relay rate limit.
**Lifecycle concurrency.** The lock serializes one connection's
subscription changes. Other connections can still be delayed by pressure
on the shared pubsub command queue, and by serial eviction loops waiting
behind a blocked connection. This PR does not claim strict isolation
between connections.
**Recovery vs. load.** Clients stop automatic retries of the same
one-shot read, but they don't remember deadlines across other triggers:
reconnect, resume, live events and the unread backstop can each send the
read again later, bounded by the 20 s statement deadline. A live
subscription that hits the deadline resubscribes with its original
filter under the existing 1–30 s backoff, and against a filter that
keeps timing out it retries at the 30 s cap indefinitely, so the worst
case is one bounded query per subscription every 30 s. `since` is
deliberately not advanced to now on resubscribe, because that would skip
events missed while the subscription was closed. Unchanged from `main`:
when mobile's channel history sync fails with cached messages available,
the cached messages are shown without the error or Retry control.
### Benchmark
Local reproduction on an isolated bench stack (not committed):
- PG16, migrations applied, one 188-reply thread plus 5M background
events in the same community.
- Each request replays the desktop thread-replies filter through the
relay, with `include_aux` on. Times are total ms for 3 runs, with a 60 s
client cap.
GIN pending-list state is controlled with `VACUUM` (clean) or by
refilling the pending list (dirty), and recorded per partition with
`pgstatginindex`. Dirty runs held 402 pending pages on every partition's
tags index at the start and end of each matrix. Clean runs held 0–1
pages (relay startup writes).
| build | GIN pending state | limit 10 | 50 | 100 | 200 (188 ids) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `main` | clean | 26 / 16 / 13 | 56 / 51 / 52 | 92 / 93 / 95 | 662 /
639 / 641 |
| `main` | dirty | 315 / 298 / 327 | 22141 / 15888 / 16769 | 28992 /
27819 / 28080 | timeout ×3 (>60 s) |
| this PR | clean | 35 / 21 / 14 | 57 / 49 / 48 | 82 / 80 / 75 | 153 /
150 / 135 |
| this PR | dirty | 290 / 254 / 251 | 1257 / 1204 / 1206 | 2432 / 2378 /
2382 | 4333 / 4706 / 5104 |
Baseline `origin/main` `b37e47721`; this PR at `5f2650f5f`, whose e-tag
read builders are identical to the current head. At head `1ad81d868`
against `origin/main` `15d44dcce`, limit 200 measured 145–179 ms clean
(`main` 683–715) and 4.41–4.51 s dirty (`main` timeout ×3).
Every completed cell returns the same signed event set: 209 events, 187
replies at limit 200. With `include_aux` off, every cell is ≤66 ms. The
thread-window loader (`select_aux`) is unchanged from `main`, and its
timings and captured plans match `main`'s.
Actual aux-hop statements captured from each relay binary with
`auto_explain` (analyze + buffers), execution ms:
| build | clean, 100 ids | clean, 188 ids | dirty, 100 ids | dirty, 188
ids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `main` (N-way `OR`) | 40 | 298 | 28785 | 62892 |
| this PR (`MATERIALIZED` fence + `ANY`) | 23 | 45 | 1992 | 3539 |
**What the fence changes**
- On `main`, the planner combines `ORDER BY created_at … LIMIT` with an
overestimated match count and walks each partition's primary key
backward, expecting to stop early. With few real matches it scans the
whole community: the dirty 188-id statement touches ~4.9M shared buffers
on `main` vs ~0.6M with the fence.
- The fence prevents that early-stop plan. Across the measured cases
(1–188 ids, both pending states), the planner used the GIN tags index.
The fence doesn't force GIN in general; a broad enough filter could
still get a different plan.
**Tradeoff:** the fence materializes every match before sorting. In this
bench small limits stayed within run-to-run noise of `main`. A single
hot id (5,000 reactions, limit 100) measured 30–34 ms unfenced vs 35 ms
fenced.
**Deadline:** each e-tag read (SELECT and COUNT) runs under a
transaction-local `statement_timeout` of 20 s. It only tightens: a
shorter operator timeout (`BUZZ_DB_STATEMENT_TIMEOUT_MS`) is kept. It's
a per-statement limit, not a per-request one, so a request that runs
several pages or hops can take longer than 20 s in total. The benchmark
does not force the deadline.
---------
Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Hayt <211b96e6a2b7f45fd4047988976c7bbbeeda0c15f3ae7b32eec20834b5a55118@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
On iOS, Buzz stores verified profile and channel information for the
notification extension. The extension uses this cache to show sender and
channel names. Loading profiles or channels also updates the cache.
Cache updates currently check event signatures on the UI thread, even
when the caller does not wait for the update. This can delay taps and
screen updates. This change moves those checks to a background worker.
Signature checks, event selection, community boundaries, and the order
of native writes are preserved.
The worker accepts up to eight batches. When it is busy, later profile
requests stay coalesced before fetching; profiles already loaded remain
available immediately. Overlapping channel updates trigger a fresh
joined-channel cache snapshot after the current export finishes, without
delaying or restarting the channel screen. Queue saturation gets up to
five retries per operation. Pending updates get their own recovery
attempt even if the preceding export fails. Recovery fetches
joined-channel data once and retries cache admission without repeating
relay reads. It does not fetch the open-channel directory. Verified
payloads are split into native-sized writes (256 profiles or 512 paired
channels), keeping the same export ordering. Native profile/channel
write failures retry the same verified chunk while retaining the
export's queue position. All chunks share five retries with 7.75 seconds
total backoff; other native errors fail immediately. Terminal failures
are recorded, and later successful writes do not hide them. Captured
batches keep their original community. Pending channel refetches are
retired on a community switch and refreshed when the user returns. The
cache remains best effort; prolonged failures can still prevent
delivery.
Tests through the production APIs reduced UI delay from 27–31 ms to
below 0.3 ms for four profiles, and from 59–60 ms to below 0.3 ms for
four channel and membership pairs. The native payloads were identical.
This does not measure overall screen speed.
Validation: 2,225 mobile tests passed (one skipped), along with 18
focused export tests, 12 recovery tests, 39 native Swift tests, 35
focused profile tests, and static analysis. Production regressions cover
13-entity bursts, invalid newer events, community rebuilds, reentrant
refreshes, and terminal failures. Regression tests fail when producer
recovery controls, terminal-failure draining, or member-only recovery
scope are removed.
---------
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
## Summary
- raise Desktop Rust's differential file-size ceiling from 1,000 to
1,500 lines
- raise Desktop frontend and Mobile ceilings from 1,000 to 1,200 lines
- keep Web at 1,000 lines and preserve the existing no-growth ratchet
above each ceiling
## Why
The flat 1,000-line limit is forcing mechanical trimming in Desktop and
Mobile even for small cohesive changes. Surface-specific ceilings
relieve that pressure without granting Web or every authored component a
blanket 2,000-line budget.
## Testing
- `just file-size-check`
- `cd desktop && pnpm exec biome check scripts/check-file-sizes.mjs`
- `node --check mobile/scripts/check-file-sizes.mjs`
- `git diff HEAD^ --check`
Signed-off-by: Wes <wesbillman@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Carl <32a2e2c9d428ee08902cab75d956da2c1d235a22d4766b0dd4138bf6e2e5db1d@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
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
---------
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>
This PR implements MVP, iOS-only,
[NIP-PL](8d2d0ff5ad/docs/nips/NIP-PL.md)-compliant
push notifications.
A relay with `BUZZ_PUSH_ENABLED` will send a push notification for any
message that appears in the in-app Notifications tab.
## Enrollment flow
The first time the client first connects to a relay with
`BUZZ_PUSH_ENABLED`:
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant App as Buzz iOS app
participant iOS
participant Relay as Buzz relay
participant Attest as Apple App Attest
participant Gateway as Push gateway
App->>Relay: Fetch NIP-11 push capability
Relay-->>App: Push profile, current relay public key, and limits
par
App->>iOS: Request notification permission
iOS-->>App: Permission result
and
App->>iOS: Register for remote notifications
iOS-->>App: Device token
end
App->>Gateway: Request installation challenge
Gateway-->>App: Single-use challenge
App->>Attest: Attest installation transcript
Attest-->>App: Attestation proof
App->>Gateway: Enroll device token and proof
Gateway-->>App: Installation handle
App->>Gateway: Request delegation challenge
Gateway-->>App: Single-use challenge
App->>Attest: Assert relay-key delegation
Attest-->>App: Assertion
App->>Gateway: Create delegation
Gateway-->>App: Opaque endpoint grant
App->>Relay: Publish encrypted push lease and filters
Relay-->>App: Lease acknowledged
```
## Push-time flow
When a notification-eligible event is received by the relay:
```mermaid
%%{init: {
"sequence": {
"actorMargin": 20,
"width": 110,
"messageMargin": 18,
"diagramMarginX": 8,
"wrap": true
}
}}%%
sequenceDiagram
autonumber
participant Relay as Buzz relay
participant Gateway as Push gateway
participant APNs as Apple Push<br/>Notification service
participant iOS
participant NSE as Notification service<br/>extension
Relay->>Gateway: POST /v1/deliveries/apns<br/>opaque endpoint grant, request ID, expiry, NIP-98 authorization
Gateway->>APNs: POST /3/device/{device-token}<br/>topic, request ID, expiry, constant mutable-content payload
APNs-->>Gateway: 200 OK: request accepted
Gateway-->>Relay: 200 OK: accepted status
APNs-->>iOS: Notification: constant reconnect alert<br/>mutable-content = 1
iOS->>NSE: Invoke extension<br/>original notification content
NSE->>Relay: POST /query: subscription filters, limit 10<br/>NIP-98 authorization
Relay-->>NSE: 200 OK: signed Nostr events<br/>kinds 9, 40002, 45001, or 45003
NSE->>iOS: Complete notification: title, body, subtitle<br/>thread ID, exact-message target
```
relay → push gateway → APNs -> NSE -> Notification Center
## Known limitations
The APNs wake payload is intentionally constant and opaque: it contains
no originating community or message identifier, in keeping with the
implemented NIP-PL privacy design.
The Notification Service Extension must therefore reconnect to the relay
and resolve eligible messages after each wake. Around overlapping wakes,
timing boundaries, or resolution windows, notification presentation may
occasionally omit an expected message or display a message more than
once.
This best-effort behavior is deliberately accepted for the current
implementation and will be measured during the internal rollout to
determine whether the user experience is acceptable before any broader
deployment; the implementation does not claim exactly-once presentation.
## Validation
Live end-to-end hardware validation used an internal remotely hosted
development relay and push gateway, the APNs sandbox, and a physical
iPhone 12 mini:
- A second real Buzz client published a uniquely marked message through
the hosted relay.
- The relay matched the message and sent the constant opaque wake
through the hosted gateway. The gateway made an actual APNs request; no
`simctl push` or simulated notification was used.
- The iPhone received the notification on its lock screen. The
Notification Service Extension reconnected to the relay, fetched the
event, verified its ID and signature, and replaced the placeholder
content with the real notification title and body.
- After the app populated its shared presentation cache, a final marked
notification visibly showed the sender display name, sender avatar, and
hashtag-prefixed channel name.
- Tapping a lock-screen notification opened Buzz and exercised the
notification-response path and navigated to the corresponding message.
Final validation with a dogfood-signed artifact and production App
Attest/APNs configuration remains a release step.
## Independent pre-reviews
- **First pass:**
[Carl](buzz://message?channel=18882f4c-289f-41db-942f-81f6f8066da1&id=74ab9a93bb227f3e762568f1cf9fee66d7495b0edc3918735ff787238b9cc585)
found missing transient retries, executor-key rotation suppression,
duplicate installation renewal, and an unauthenticated challenge write
amplifier. These were resolved by [retry-safe
bootstrap](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/6269/changes/12c66ea62)
and [authenticated renewal plus a cross-replica
quota](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/6269/changes/8e5ece0bd).
[sol-max](buzz://message?channel=ad83385f-8e9e-4461-9a35-c1bf2e208532&id=d26d53daa4684669e2ed354638241f13f36c3a97027fe8b4dd738aff09038962)
found delegation generation burning and an edited applied migration,
resolved by [exact-generation
revocation](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/6269/changes/c26d2159d)
and a [forward-only
migration](https://github.com/block/buzz/pull/6269/changes/956c1d099).
[k3-max](buzz://message?channel=5e46055d-a766-4065-ae25-05d1e4aaa6b2&id=d43139138a0b15f806cbdbeeedd8f69d992cadf2e805876db6fdde6a34c7eda1)
found no blockers.
- **Exact-head re-review:**
[Carl](buzz://message?channel=18882f4c-289f-41db-942f-81f6f8066da1&id=a897721673459301b0cf26e8b85a1478d7ebbb56a4621f93d774c98d395b8f68),
[sol-max](buzz://message?channel=ad83385f-8e9e-4461-9a35-c1bf2e208532&id=fb2159f709ec68f74f7b21459acd76da0e8a7c5c0f3d469f99826b0cc2380849),
and
[k3-max](buzz://message?channel=5e46055d-a766-4065-ae25-05d1e4aaa6b2&id=2ce2842910435f562e9d9cc718595848f281b122c94605e523a4b964254b8bfb)
independently returned **NO BLOCKERS** at `7eb3a650b`; k3-max also
revalidated every remediation and the endpoint-specific App Attest
enrollment bound.
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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@squareup.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Jordan Mecom <jm@squareup.com>
## Summary
Hiding a DM row and then receiving a new message from that person never
brought the row back — the reader was left with only an Inbox
notification. This restores the row from live activity, client-side,
with no relay or database changes.
- Subscribe to hidden-DM activity **channel-scoped** over the hidden-DM
id set (`#h`), re-registering whenever the set changes. The relay's
`fan_out_scoped` only routes channel-scoped events (every kind:9 DM
carries a `channel_id`) to channel-scoped subscriptions, so a
community-global `#p` filter receives nothing. Hiding a DM never drops
membership, so `#h` authorization holds. Because every delivered event
is already for a hidden DM the reader belongs to, eligibility no longer
needs a self `p` tag — untagged CLI/agent DMs resurface too — and no
per-event visibility fetch is required.
- On qualifying activity, invoke the existing open-DM action (`41010`)
to reopen the hidden one-to-one or group DM, validating that the relay
reopened the same channel.
- Preserve the existing relay-synced hide snapshot (`41012` → `30622`);
hide state still syncs across devices.
- Let Inbox reopen a hidden DM before navigating to its message, with a
busy state on the row and context-menu "Open in channel" action while a
reopen is pending.
- Coalesce resurface attempts per channel: a concurrent message that
arrives while a reopen is in flight triggers a retry on failure instead
of being marked handled and dropped.
- Write exact dm-visibility query keys on open/hide mutations.
This is the client-only replacement agreed in the Buzz design thread and
supersedes #6713. The accepted limitation is that resurface only fires
while a client is running — a message that arrives while all clients are
closed does not restore the row on next launch (the `30622` snapshot has
no watermark); Inbox click-through is the safety net for that case.
Addresses #6316.
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Signed-off-by: kenny lopez <klopez4212@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Hayt <9e1c23a3fd83f61da34420e4e88ff1b16e45cafcc0cd9019eb07d4ecfa8ca9b0@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>
## Summary
- make mobile unread state visible with bold channel names, an animated
Inbox badge, and swipe-to-toggle Inbox rows
- add directional transitions for top-level mobile navigation
- let mobile send while media uploads, with cancellable progress UI
- normalize iOS and Android video uploads, attach poster frames, and
improve native video playback
## Validation
- `just mobile-check`
- `just mobile-test`
- `cargo test -p buzz-media`
- Pixel smoke test
- iPhone smoke test
Desktop background uploads moved to #4522 so the two platforms can be
reviewed independently.
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Signed-off-by: kenny lopez <klopez4212@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
Co-authored-by: leader <71e9f2c44a6932b6772caaaccda1911d010463c3e2c6c40410b8329956046801@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
### 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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**Category:** new-feature
**User Impact:** Mobile users can copy permalinks, revisit, follow, and
manage messages through a clearer long-press menu that matches desktop
capabilities.
**Problem:** The mobile message menu exposed only a small subset of
desktop actions, and important workflows such as copying a permalink or
scheduling a reminder were unavailable or hard to discover.
**Solution:** Bring applicable desktop actions to mobile using native
patterns, promote Reply, Copy link, and Remind me above the fold, and
group the remaining actions by intent in a scrollable sheet.
**Intentional behavior changes (per review):**
- The quick-reaction row goes from 6 emojis to 4 (👀 and 🙏 dropped) to
make room for larger 52px tap targets alongside the `+` picker, which
still offers the full set.
- **Copy link — not a native share sheet — is the permalink path.** An
earlier revision shipped a `share_plus` Share message row; it was
removed in review since Copy link covers the job and custom-scheme
`buzz://` URIs are handled inconsistently by share targets. Native share
can return as a follow-up with an https fallback.
- Mark unread is message-scoped and session-local: it forces just that
message unread (surfacing its channel as unread), and message-level Mark
read can never clear a channel-level unread set from the channel tile.
<details>
<summary>File changes</summary>
**mobile/lib/features/channels/channels_provider.dart**
Feeds followed thread roots into unread and notification evaluation so
following a thread has meaningful behavior.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/message_actions.dart**
Reworks the long-press sheet with promoted fast actions, message links,
reminders, read state, thread following, and clearer action grouping
while preserving existing guards. Quick-reaction circles share one
extracted widget.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/read_state/message_read_state.dart**
Centralizes message-level unread evaluation across channel, message, and
thread markers; channel-level forced unread deliberately does not leak
into message state.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/read_state/read_state_provider.dart**
Forced-unread flags are per-context (channel id or `msg:` key) mapped to
their channel, so message- and channel-level unread choices round-trip
independently.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/thread_follows/thread_follows_provider.dart**
Exposes per-identity thread follow state to the message menu and
notification pipeline.
**mobile/lib/features/channels/thread_follows/thread_follows_storage.dart**
Persists a bounded, validated set of followed thread roots on the
device.
**mobile/lib/shared/reminders/remind_me_later_sheet.dart**
Adds reminder presets and a native custom date/time flow for deferring a
message. Lives under `shared/` so the channels feature never imports
another feature module. Cancelling the custom picker keeps the preset
sheet open; submission failures show stable copy and log the underlying
error.
**mobile/lib/shared/reminders/reminder_service.dart**
Creates desktop-compatible, self-encrypted kind-30300 reminder events.
**mobile/lib/shared/reminders/reminder_time_presets.dart**
Defines reminder choices that match the desktop experience.
**mobile/lib/shared/deeplink/deep_link.dart**
Builds canonical Buzz message links, including thread context when
present.
**mobile/lib/shared/relay/nostr_models.dart**
Adds the reminder event kind to the shared Nostr model constants.
**mobile/lib/shared/widgets/sheet_divider.dart**
Shared bottom-sheet section divider used by the message actions and
reminder sheets.
**mobile/test/features/channels/message_actions_test.dart**
Covers action visibility and guards, promoted actions, read/unread
round-tripping (including channel- vs message-level force isolation),
thread follows, and canonical links.
**mobile/test/features/channels/read_state/message_read_state_test.dart**
Covers unread precedence for channel, message, and thread contexts.
**mobile/test/features/channels/thread_follows/thread_follows_storage_test.dart**
Covers follow persistence, identity separation, validation, and storage
bounds.
**mobile/test/shared/reminders/reminder_service_test.dart**
Covers reminder payloads, tags, crypto round-tripping, and preset
behavior.
**mobile/test/features/channels/read_state/read_state_provider_test.dart**
Drives the production ReadStateNotifier/ReadStateManager (no fake
bookkeeping) through message unread → read → unread round-trips,
explicit channel-level Mark read clearing forced messages, and automatic
channel-open reads preserving them.
**mobile/test/shared/reminders/remind_me_later_sheet_test.dart**
Covers custom-picker cancel keeping the sheet open, stable failure copy
without the raw error, and the happy preset path.
**mobile/test/shared/deeplink/deep_link_test.dart**
Covers canonical top-level and threaded message-link generation.
</details>
## Reproduction steps
1. Run the mobile app with a signed-in identity and open a channel
containing regular messages and threads.
2. Long-press a message and confirm reactions plus Reply, Copy link, and
Remind me appear as fast actions above the fold.
3. Use Copy link; confirm the resulting `buzz://message` link opens the
correct channel and thread context.
4. Toggle Mark unread/Mark read and Follow thread/Unfollow thread,
reopening the sheet to confirm each state changes correctly. Force a
channel unread from the channel tile, then mark a message read — the
channel stays unread.
5. Choose a reminder preset and a custom date/time; confirm the reminder
is created and appears in the desktop reminder experience. Cancel the
custom date picker and confirm the reminder sheet stays open.
6. Long-press a system message and a message you cannot manage; confirm
utility and destructive actions remain appropriately hidden.
## Screenshots / demos
<img width="1206" height="2622" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81096cd6-329b-408f-bcff-712e23b268a4"
/>
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Signed-off-by: Taylor Ho <taylorkmho@gmail.com>
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