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Sweep the desktop toast surface for a consistent voice: - error toasts use "Couldn't …" instead of "Failed to …" (git/PR service toasts keep "Failed" as more accurate for that surface) - drop terminal periods on single-clause toasts; keep them only on multi-sentence messages - name the member in relay promote/demote/remove confirmations - archive toasts say "in this community" instead of "on this relay" - clearer copy for repos-directory, DM agent-mention, storage-full, and stop-turn toasts - "added by" (not "was added by") in membership rows, fixing the "You was added by" grammar bug - template apply names the agents that failed; member timeout echoes the chosen duration error.message/err.message branches are preserved throughout; only fallback literals changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Standardize confirmation dialogs: community terminology, question-form
titles, sentence-case buttons, specific "Delete {noun}" actions, contracted
"can't be undone", and consequence-led bodies. Also add cleared-topic and
cleared-purpose system messages.
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## Why The Profile settings action still says “Sign Out,” while its confirmation action says “Delete My Data.” Both buttons trigger the same destructive local-data wipe and should name it consistently. ## What - Label both destructive actions “Delete my data” - Assert the matching section and confirmation labels in the existing Playwright coverage ## Risk Assessment Low — copy and test assertions only; sign-out behavior is unchanged. ## References - Follow-up to #2208 - #2216 also touches this copy and should preserve “Delete my data” when rebased - `just desktop-check` - `just desktop-test` (3,275 tests) - Desktop E2E build and sign-out Playwright spec (2 tests) Generated with Codex Signed-off-by: Bradley Axen <baxen@squareup.com>
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First slice of #2216, scoped to the system/status lines in the chat timeline. ## Why Two problems on the same surface. **Clearing a channel topic renders as empty quotes.** The relay reports a clear as a `topic_changed` event carrying an empty string — there's no separate "cleared" event type. So the timeline printed: > Alice > changed the topic to “” which reads as if the topic were *set to* two quote marks. Same for purpose. **The membership caption reads like a headline, not a metadata line.** `title` and `action` render on separate lines — the member's name sits in the header row with the avatar and timestamp, and the caption sits beneath it. So the caption was "was added by Alice Chen" standing alone under a name, while its siblings on that same line are "joined the channel" and "left the channel". ## What - Blank, missing, or whitespace-only topic/purpose now reads **"cleared the channel topic"** / **"cleared the channel purpose"**. - Membership captions drop "was": **"added by Alice Chen"**, matching "joined the channel" and "left the channel". - The wording moves to `lib/systemEventCopy.ts` as a pure function, so it's assertable in a unit test instead of only reachable through the DOM. That also removes two JSX fragments from `SystemMessageRow.tsx`, taking it 911 → 900 lines. ## Two E2E assertions this exposed Both were measuring something other than what they claimed, and the copy change tipped them over. Neither is a product bug, but both would have failed the next person too. 1. **`mentions.spec.ts:1245`** asserted a button was un-underlined while the mouse was still parked from a previous `hover()`. Any reflow — new rows, scroll-to-bottom, a different text wrap — can slide that button under the stationary pointer, so the assertion measured *where the mouse happened to be* rather than the resting style. Dropping four characters changed the text wrap, changed the row height, changed the scroll offset, and the pointer landed on it. Now parks the pointer off-target first. 2. **`mentions.spec.ts:1253`** used a bare `role=tooltip` lookup. Once the first tooltip animates out while the second opens, two elements match and strict mode trips. Now scopes to the open tooltip via `:not([data-state="closed"])`. ## Deliberately out of scope - **Timestamps.** The day divider, per-message clock times, the Inbox thread pane, and the inbox list have three divergent date implementations and none fully match the writing standard's Today/Yesterday/weekday/date progression. That's its own slice of #2216. - **Whose avatar shows.** An addition puts the *added* member in the header; a removal puts the *remover* there. Possibly intentional, but it's a design question, not copy. - **`the channel` vs `this channel`.** joined/left/removed say "the channel"; created/archived/unarchived say "this channel". Worth normalizing, but it touches lines this PR otherwise leaves alone. ## Validation - `pnpm check`, `pnpm typecheck` — clean - Unit: **3781/3781**, including 6 new tests in `systemEventCopy.test.mjs` covering set/blank/undefined/null/whitespace for both fields, plus a guard that no variant can emit empty quotes - Smoke E2E `mentions` + `messaging`: **85/85** - The previously fragile test run with `--repeat-each=5`: **5/5** Signed-off-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## Why The Profile settings action still says “Sign Out,” while its confirmation action says “Delete My Data.” Both buttons trigger the same destructive local-data wipe and should name it consistently. ## What - Label both destructive actions “Delete my data” - Assert the matching section and confirmation labels in the existing Playwright coverage ## Risk Assessment Low — copy and test assertions only; sign-out behavior is unchanged. ## References - Follow-up to block#2208 - block#2216 also touches this copy and should preserve “Delete my data” when rebased - `just desktop-check` - `just desktop-test` (3,275 tests) - Desktop E2E build and sign-out Playwright spec (2 tests) Generated with Codex Signed-off-by: Bradley Axen <baxen@squareup.com>
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First slice of block#2216, scoped to the system/status lines in the chat timeline. ## Why Two problems on the same surface. **Clearing a channel topic renders as empty quotes.** The relay reports a clear as a `topic_changed` event carrying an empty string — there's no separate "cleared" event type. So the timeline printed: > Alice > changed the topic to “” which reads as if the topic were *set to* two quote marks. Same for purpose. **The membership caption reads like a headline, not a metadata line.** `title` and `action` render on separate lines — the member's name sits in the header row with the avatar and timestamp, and the caption sits beneath it. So the caption was "was added by Alice Chen" standing alone under a name, while its siblings on that same line are "joined the channel" and "left the channel". ## What - Blank, missing, or whitespace-only topic/purpose now reads **"cleared the channel topic"** / **"cleared the channel purpose"**. - Membership captions drop "was": **"added by Alice Chen"**, matching "joined the channel" and "left the channel". - The wording moves to `lib/systemEventCopy.ts` as a pure function, so it's assertable in a unit test instead of only reachable through the DOM. That also removes two JSX fragments from `SystemMessageRow.tsx`, taking it 911 → 900 lines. ## Two E2E assertions this exposed Both were measuring something other than what they claimed, and the copy change tipped them over. Neither is a product bug, but both would have failed the next person too. 1. **`mentions.spec.ts:1245`** asserted a button was un-underlined while the mouse was still parked from a previous `hover()`. Any reflow — new rows, scroll-to-bottom, a different text wrap — can slide that button under the stationary pointer, so the assertion measured *where the mouse happened to be* rather than the resting style. Dropping four characters changed the text wrap, changed the row height, changed the scroll offset, and the pointer landed on it. Now parks the pointer off-target first. 2. **`mentions.spec.ts:1253`** used a bare `role=tooltip` lookup. Once the first tooltip animates out while the second opens, two elements match and strict mode trips. Now scopes to the open tooltip via `:not([data-state="closed"])`. ## Deliberately out of scope - **Timestamps.** The day divider, per-message clock times, the Inbox thread pane, and the inbox list have three divergent date implementations and none fully match the writing standard's Today/Yesterday/weekday/date progression. That's its own slice of block#2216. - **Whose avatar shows.** An addition puts the *added* member in the header; a removal puts the *remover* there. Possibly intentional, but it's a design question, not copy. - **`the channel` vs `this channel`.** joined/left/removed say "the channel"; created/archived/unarchived say "this channel". Worth normalizing, but it touches lines this PR otherwise leaves alone. ## Validation - `pnpm check`, `pnpm typecheck` — clean - Unit: **3781/3781**, including 6 new tests in `systemEventCopy.test.mjs` covering set/blank/undefined/null/whitespace for both fields, plus a guard that no variant can emit empty quotes - Smoke E2E `mentions` + `messaging`: **85/85** - The previously fragile test run with `--repeat-each=5`: **5/5** Signed-off-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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) Slice 6 of #2216. Independent of #3642 — cut from `main`, no shared files in conflict. ## Why Five surfaces formatted the same thing five ways, and none of them matched the writing standard's Today / Yesterday / weekday / date progression. | Surface | Before | |---|---| | Chat day divider | `Monday, March 31st` — ordinal suffix, which the standard says to avoid | | Inbox section header | `Yesterday`, but never `Today`; always printed the year | | Inbox list row | A third implementation | | Inbox thread pane header | `Jul 8, 2026, 2:34 PM` — always absolute, always with the year, never relative at any distance | | Channel message header | `9:05 AM` — a bare clock, so a message from last week has nothing to anchor it once its day divider scrolls away | There were three separate date implementations doing this, which is the symptom worth naming: **two different jobs were being solved ad hoc at each call site.** A header that labels a *group* of items needs a different label than an individual item's own timestamp. ## What `shared/lib/datetime.ts` owns both ladders: ``` formatDayGroupLabel formatItemTimestamp (day divider, section header) (list row, message header) Today → Today withTime:false withTime:true Yesterday → Yesterday 2:34 PM 2:34 PM 2–6 days → Monday Yesterday Yesterday at 2:34 PM this year → June 20 Monday Monday at 2:34 PM older → June 20, 2025 Jun 20 Jun 20 at 2:34 PM Jun 20, 2025 Jun 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM ``` ## Two deliberate deviations from the standard Both are documented at the definition, not just here. **The oldest band keeps the day.** The standard collapses anything over ten months to month-and-year (`Aug 2022`). A group label has to *identify* its day — collapsing would give every day in a month the same divider, so scrolling old history would show a run of identical headers with no way to tell one day from the next. Only the year is conditional. There's a test asserting three consecutive 2022 dates produce three distinct labels. **Roomy surfaces keep the time of day at every band.** `Yesterday at 9:05 AM`, not `Yesterday`. This is a chat and collaboration workspace rather than a transactional product — where you read conversation, the time is content, not chrome. Narrow list rows still drop it (`withTime: false`) and rely on the existing hover tooltip, which stays the absolute value. `withTime` is a surface decision, not a preference. Today needs no date word in either mode: a bare clock already reads as today, and "Today at 2:34 PM" is longer without saying more. ## Derived rather than captured `MessageTimestamp` now takes only `createdAt` and derives both of its labels, instead of receiving a pre-formatted `time` string. A relative label captured when the message list was formatted would be frozen at that wording; deriving it means each render recomputes. This does not make it live — `MessageRow` is memoized, so a row already on screen when the clock passes midnight keeps saying "Today" until something re-renders it. The day divider above it has always had the same property, and both correct themselves on the next message, scroll, or navigation. Called out in the component doc so the next person doesn't read "derived" as "reactive". The memo comparator moved from `message.time` to `message.createdAt`. Behavior-identical — `time` was a pure function of `createdAt` — but it now names the prop the row actually reads. The 36px continuation hover gutter stays clock-only. A relative label doesn't fit in `w-9`. ## Middot between metadata segments `managed by you 9:53 AM` ran two unrelated facts together as if they were one phrase. Now `managed by you · 9:53 AM`. - `aria-hidden` — punctuation for the eye only. The header already reads as separate nodes to a screen reader, and `MessageAgentOwner` supplies its own "Agent managed by" label. - Grouped with the segment it precedes, so it can't wrap to the start of a line on its own — as loose siblings in a `flex-wrap` row, an orphaned divider is exactly what happens. - No margin; spacing comes from the container gap. - **No separator after the author name.** "Alice 9:53 AM" already reads as a name followed by a time. Dividers go between metadata segments only. Middot is already the app's separator for this — `MessageThreadSummaryRow`, the mention list, project rows, 46 files in total. Applied to the channel message header, channel system rows, and the Inbox thread pane. Left-side Inbox activity rows deliberately unchanged. ## Verified Screenshots taken through `just desktop-screenshot`: - `#agents` — `nadia 🤖 managed by you · 10:20 AM`, and the `Today` divider with clock-only rows - Inbox thread pane — `alice 🤖 owner unavailable · 12:00 PM` **Gap worth naming:** every mock channel message is same-day, so the past-day labels (`Yesterday at 9:05 AM`, `Jun 20 at 2:34 PM`) are covered by unit tests rather than by a rendered screenshot. Happy to add a spec that seeds an older `created_at` if a reviewer wants to see them. ## Validation - `pnpm check`, `pnpm typecheck` — clean - Unit: **3800/3800**, including 17 new tests in `shared/lib/datetime.test.mjs` and 4 in `messageTimestampContract.test.mjs` The datetime tests pin the things that are easy to regress: Today/Yesterday as *calendar* boundaries rather than 24-hour windows (a message 15 hours old across midnight is "Yesterday"; one 22 hours old on the same day is "Today"), the weekday band bounded at both ends so a future timestamp from clock skew never gets labelled with a past weekday, no ordinals across all the tricky days (1/2/3/11/12/13/21/22/23/31), the year omitted within the current year, and compact labels staying ≤12 chars for a narrow row. - Smoke E2E: **783 passed, 2 failed, 1 skipped** Both failures are pre-existing and unrelated, confirmed by re-running each against a clean tree: 1. `video-attachment.spec.ts:223` — fails deterministically on clean `main` 2. `community-rail.spec.ts:797` (keyboard drag-and-drop reorder) — flaky on clean `main`: 2/5 failures there vs 3/5 with this branch, i.e. noise ## Mobile Mobile had the same divergence, so it moves with desktop rather than drifting until the next pass. `mobile/lib/features/channels/date_formatters.dart`: | Before | After | |---|---| | `formatDayHeading` → Today / Yesterday / `Tuesday, March 31, 2026` | Today / Yesterday / `Tuesday` / `March 31` / `March 31, 2025` | | `formatThreadSummaryLastReplyTime` → `on May 19th` | `on May 19` | Same two departures from the standard as desktop, documented at the definition and cross-referenced to `datetime.ts` so the next person editing one finds the other. Day comparison also moved to a rounded start-of-day difference, so a DST transition counts as one calendar day rather than zero — Dart's `Duration.inDays` truncates. **Message timestamps stay clock-only on mobile.** Desktop message headers now read `Yesterday at 9:05 AM`; mobile keeps `9:05 AM` at every band. That's the compact side of the same surface split the desktop change makes — a mobile timestamp sits inside a chat bubble on a narrow screen with the day divider a short scroll away, where a date word costs width it doesn't earn. Recorded as a decision at `formatMessageTime` so it doesn't read as an oversight. Mobile needs no middot work: message headers have no "managed by" segment, and the mention suggestion list already uses `\u00b7`. Validation: `dart format` clean, `flutter analyze` no issues, `flutter test` **911 passed, 1 skipped** — 8 new day-heading tests covering the weekday band, the year boundary, ordinals across 1/2/3/11/12/13/21/22/23/31, distinct labels for consecutive days in the oldest band, and calendar-day rather than 24-hour bands. ## Out of scope - **Search results.** `SearchResultItem.tsx` and `TopbarSearch.tsx` hand-roll a `5m ago` elapsed format. That's a third *kind* of label — elapsed rather than relative-calendar — and deciding whether search should switch is a separate call. - **`formatThreadSummaryLastReplyTime`** keeps its own "3 hours ago" elapsed scale on both platforms; only its old-reply fallback lost the ordinal (`on May 19th` → `on May 19`). - **Mobile search.** `relativeTime` returns `7/31/2026` past a week, matching the desktop search format that's also out of scope above. Both should change together or not at all. --------- Signed-off-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ock#3769) Slice 6 of block#2216. Independent of block#3642 — cut from `main`, no shared files in conflict. ## Why Five surfaces formatted the same thing five ways, and none of them matched the writing standard's Today / Yesterday / weekday / date progression. | Surface | Before | |---|---| | Chat day divider | `Monday, March 31st` — ordinal suffix, which the standard says to avoid | | Inbox section header | `Yesterday`, but never `Today`; always printed the year | | Inbox list row | A third implementation | | Inbox thread pane header | `Jul 8, 2026, 2:34 PM` — always absolute, always with the year, never relative at any distance | | Channel message header | `9:05 AM` — a bare clock, so a message from last week has nothing to anchor it once its day divider scrolls away | There were three separate date implementations doing this, which is the symptom worth naming: **two different jobs were being solved ad hoc at each call site.** A header that labels a *group* of items needs a different label than an individual item's own timestamp. ## What `shared/lib/datetime.ts` owns both ladders: ``` formatDayGroupLabel formatItemTimestamp (day divider, section header) (list row, message header) Today → Today withTime:false withTime:true Yesterday → Yesterday 2:34 PM 2:34 PM 2–6 days → Monday Yesterday Yesterday at 2:34 PM this year → June 20 Monday Monday at 2:34 PM older → June 20, 2025 Jun 20 Jun 20 at 2:34 PM Jun 20, 2025 Jun 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM ``` ## Two deliberate deviations from the standard Both are documented at the definition, not just here. **The oldest band keeps the day.** The standard collapses anything over ten months to month-and-year (`Aug 2022`). A group label has to *identify* its day — collapsing would give every day in a month the same divider, so scrolling old history would show a run of identical headers with no way to tell one day from the next. Only the year is conditional. There's a test asserting three consecutive 2022 dates produce three distinct labels. **Roomy surfaces keep the time of day at every band.** `Yesterday at 9:05 AM`, not `Yesterday`. This is a chat and collaboration workspace rather than a transactional product — where you read conversation, the time is content, not chrome. Narrow list rows still drop it (`withTime: false`) and rely on the existing hover tooltip, which stays the absolute value. `withTime` is a surface decision, not a preference. Today needs no date word in either mode: a bare clock already reads as today, and "Today at 2:34 PM" is longer without saying more. ## Derived rather than captured `MessageTimestamp` now takes only `createdAt` and derives both of its labels, instead of receiving a pre-formatted `time` string. A relative label captured when the message list was formatted would be frozen at that wording; deriving it means each render recomputes. This does not make it live — `MessageRow` is memoized, so a row already on screen when the clock passes midnight keeps saying "Today" until something re-renders it. The day divider above it has always had the same property, and both correct themselves on the next message, scroll, or navigation. Called out in the component doc so the next person doesn't read "derived" as "reactive". The memo comparator moved from `message.time` to `message.createdAt`. Behavior-identical — `time` was a pure function of `createdAt` — but it now names the prop the row actually reads. The 36px continuation hover gutter stays clock-only. A relative label doesn't fit in `w-9`. ## Middot between metadata segments `managed by you 9:53 AM` ran two unrelated facts together as if they were one phrase. Now `managed by you · 9:53 AM`. - `aria-hidden` — punctuation for the eye only. The header already reads as separate nodes to a screen reader, and `MessageAgentOwner` supplies its own "Agent managed by" label. - Grouped with the segment it precedes, so it can't wrap to the start of a line on its own — as loose siblings in a `flex-wrap` row, an orphaned divider is exactly what happens. - No margin; spacing comes from the container gap. - **No separator after the author name.** "Alice 9:53 AM" already reads as a name followed by a time. Dividers go between metadata segments only. Middot is already the app's separator for this — `MessageThreadSummaryRow`, the mention list, project rows, 46 files in total. Applied to the channel message header, channel system rows, and the Inbox thread pane. Left-side Inbox activity rows deliberately unchanged. ## Verified Screenshots taken through `just desktop-screenshot`: - `#agents` — `nadia 🤖 managed by you · 10:20 AM`, and the `Today` divider with clock-only rows - Inbox thread pane — `alice 🤖 owner unavailable · 12:00 PM` **Gap worth naming:** every mock channel message is same-day, so the past-day labels (`Yesterday at 9:05 AM`, `Jun 20 at 2:34 PM`) are covered by unit tests rather than by a rendered screenshot. Happy to add a spec that seeds an older `created_at` if a reviewer wants to see them. ## Validation - `pnpm check`, `pnpm typecheck` — clean - Unit: **3800/3800**, including 17 new tests in `shared/lib/datetime.test.mjs` and 4 in `messageTimestampContract.test.mjs` The datetime tests pin the things that are easy to regress: Today/Yesterday as *calendar* boundaries rather than 24-hour windows (a message 15 hours old across midnight is "Yesterday"; one 22 hours old on the same day is "Today"), the weekday band bounded at both ends so a future timestamp from clock skew never gets labelled with a past weekday, no ordinals across all the tricky days (1/2/3/11/12/13/21/22/23/31), the year omitted within the current year, and compact labels staying ≤12 chars for a narrow row. - Smoke E2E: **783 passed, 2 failed, 1 skipped** Both failures are pre-existing and unrelated, confirmed by re-running each against a clean tree: 1. `video-attachment.spec.ts:223` — fails deterministically on clean `main` 2. `community-rail.spec.ts:797` (keyboard drag-and-drop reorder) — flaky on clean `main`: 2/5 failures there vs 3/5 with this branch, i.e. noise ## Mobile Mobile had the same divergence, so it moves with desktop rather than drifting until the next pass. `mobile/lib/features/channels/date_formatters.dart`: | Before | After | |---|---| | `formatDayHeading` → Today / Yesterday / `Tuesday, March 31, 2026` | Today / Yesterday / `Tuesday` / `March 31` / `March 31, 2025` | | `formatThreadSummaryLastReplyTime` → `on May 19th` | `on May 19` | Same two departures from the standard as desktop, documented at the definition and cross-referenced to `datetime.ts` so the next person editing one finds the other. Day comparison also moved to a rounded start-of-day difference, so a DST transition counts as one calendar day rather than zero — Dart's `Duration.inDays` truncates. **Message timestamps stay clock-only on mobile.** Desktop message headers now read `Yesterday at 9:05 AM`; mobile keeps `9:05 AM` at every band. That's the compact side of the same surface split the desktop change makes — a mobile timestamp sits inside a chat bubble on a narrow screen with the day divider a short scroll away, where a date word costs width it doesn't earn. Recorded as a decision at `formatMessageTime` so it doesn't read as an oversight. Mobile needs no middot work: message headers have no "managed by" segment, and the mention suggestion list already uses `\u00b7`. Validation: `dart format` clean, `flutter analyze` no issues, `flutter test` **911 passed, 1 skipped** — 8 new day-heading tests covering the weekday band, the year boundary, ordinals across 1/2/3/11/12/13/21/22/23/31, distinct labels for consecutive days in the oldest band, and calendar-day rather than 24-hour bands. ## Out of scope - **Search results.** `SearchResultItem.tsx` and `TopbarSearch.tsx` hand-roll a `5m ago` elapsed format. That's a third *kind* of label — elapsed rather than relative-calendar — and deciding whether search should switch is a separate call. - **`formatThreadSummaryLastReplyTime`** keeps its own "3 hours ago" elapsed scale on both platforms; only its old-reply fallback lost the ordinal (`on May 19th` → `on May 19`). - **Mobile search.** `relativeTime` returns `7/31/2026` past a week, matching the desktop search format that's also out of scope above. Both should change together or not at all. --------- Signed-off-by: Clay Delk <clay.delk@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: bhargavms <bhargav.m@ewa-services.com>
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Tracking PR for the desktop content polish work. The original single diff reached 71 files spanning five unrelated changes, so it's being split into reviewable slices.
This branch is the holding pen for whatever hasn't been split yet. Each child PR is cut off
main; as one merges, this branch gets rebased and those commits drop out of the diff automatically. So the diff below is always exactly "what's left." When it's empty, this closes.Slices
1. Chat timeline system messages — fix(desktop): channel topic and membership metadata cleanup #3642
SystemMessageRow.tsx. Cleared topic/purpose rendering as empty quotes (a real bug), and "was added by" → "added by". Extracted the copy tolib/systemEventCopy.tsfor unit coverage.2. "relay" / "space" → "community"
identity-archive/hooks.ts,community-members/ui/ConfirmRemoveDialog.tsx,profile/ui/ArchiveConfirmDialog.tsx,agents/ui/PersonaDeleteDialog.tsx.A product-vocabulary decision, not a copy tweak — wants a reviewer who can approve the word itself. Incomplete in this branch: 7 files still show "relay" to users, including
onboarding/ui/ProfileStep.tsx("reconnect to the relay") andcommunities/ui/CommunityEditForm.tsx("Can't reach this relay"). Finish or scope explicitly.3. Destructive confirmation pattern — ~15 files
Title becomes a question ("Delete template?"), description states the consequence in future tense ("X will be removed"), confirm button names the object ("Delete team", not "Delete"), and
cannot→can't. One pattern applied consistently.4. Toast voice sweep — ~40 files
"Failed to X" → "Couldn't X", trailing periods dropped from toast fragments. Purely mechanical.
Incomplete in this branch: 96 files still contain "Failed to" (180 instances), and the
projects/feature was left behind entirely — it kept "Failed to merge pull request", "Failed to post comment", "Failed to approve" while everything else moved to "Couldn't". Either finish it or state the boundary in the PR, because as-is it reads as an oversight.5. Toasts that needed new data — 8 files
Not copy — this group changes code.
MembersSidebarMemberCard.tsx+useMembersSidebarModeration.tsthread a newdurationLabelthrough two layers so the toast can say "timed out for 10 minutes";channel-templates/useApplyTemplate.tsadds a newformatFailedAgentNameshelper. Neither has a test. Most likely of the six to draw a real review comment, and currently buried under 60 files of string edits.6. Date and time formatting — feat(desktop): one relative date ladder across chat and the Inbox #3769
Three divergent implementations against one standard:
messages/lib/dateFormatters.tsformatDayHeading(chat day divider) — has Today/Yesterday, but every older date renders as "Monday, March 31st" with an ordinal, instead of the standard's weekday → "June 20" → "Aug 2022" progression.home/ui/InboxDetailPane.tsx:239andHomeView.tsx:842— the visible header timestamp isformatInboxFullTimestamp, which is always absolute and always carries the year ("Jul 8, 2026, 2:34 PM"), even for a message from this morning. Never relative, at any distance. (An earlier version of this item said clock-time-only; that was wrong —formatTimefeeds only the continuation-row hover gutter.) The pane has no day divider, so whatever it shows has to carry its own date.home/lib/inbox.ts— a third implementation; shows "Yesterday" but never "Today".Standard is
shared-foundations-numbers→ Relative Dates and Timestamps. One open question: the standard's oldest band drops the day ("Aug 2022"), which is ambiguous for a day divider that must uniquely identify a day.Sequencing
PersonaDeleteDialog,ConfirmRemoveDialog, andArchiveConfirmDialog— send them sequentially or as a small stack.main.Also noted, not scheduled
Membership rows are the only passive-voice status lines. 10 of the 12 system-event captions are active ("created this channel", "left the channel"). The 2 exceptions are
members_addedandmember_joinedwhere actor ≠ target, which read "added by Alice Chen" — because those rows are titled with the person who arrived, not the person who added them. That's also why they get the dual avatar leading with the new member's face.fix(desktop): channel topic and membership metadata cleanup #3642 dropped "was" rather than making it agree with the subject ("You was added by" is broken). Agreement would key on user-controlled display names, fail visibly when it guesses wrong, and need re-deriving for every future passive line. The durable fix is to remove the passive voice instead: re-title those rows with the actor and go active — "Alice added Marcia to the channel, along with Peter, Jordan, and 2 others" — which matches
member_removedexactly and makes the title slot always mean "the actor". Cost: it changes whose avatar and name lead the row, so it's a design call, and it touchesisMembershipArrivalplus thementions.spec.tsmembership assertions."Added by You" in the persona catalog.
agents/ui/PersonaAddedBy.tsxhas the same mid-sentence capitalization mismatch fix(desktop): channel topic and membership metadata cleanup #3642 fixed for channel system rows (toInlineNameinmessages/lib/systemEventCopy.ts). One-word change plus two assertions inagents.spec.ts, but it's the agents feature rather than the chat timeline."the channel" vs "this channel" — joined/left/removed say one, created/archived/unarchived say the other.
This branch's
7fb85c878carries an unrelated.gitignoreaddition (.pnpm-store/) that should ride with something else or go on its own.