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Companion to ecency/enotify-py#21 and the vision-api scope change. Product half of ecency/vision-api#90.

Context

A Decks notifications column can be built for any account, because notifications are largely public data and that is exactly why the feature exists. That stays.

The exception is Ecency-only activity. enotify now serves chain-derived activity by default and vision-api asks for scope=full only on a self-view, so a cross-account request never receives those types, so a column built for someone else with favourites, bookmarks or scheduled posts would render permanently empty with no explanation.

The picker no longer offers those three once the chosen username is not the signed-in user.

Still available for any account

all and transfers are not withheld wholesale:

  • all returns the public subset
  • transfers still returns chain and Hive-Engine transfers; enotify drops only the Ecency Points rows from it under the restricted default

So neither column type disappears, which keeps the common cases working unchanged.

One thing worth noting

Picking a self-only type and then changing the username to someone else would have left that choice selected and let the column be created anyway. The selection is cleared when it stops being offered.

Spec

Pins which types are withheld, that the chain-derived ones stay available, and that every name listed is one the picker actually offers, since a stale entry would silently protect nothing.

⚠️ This list has to stay in step with PUBLIC_ACTIVITY_MAIN_TYPES in enotify constants.py. The two live in different repositories, so drift is silent and surfaces only as a column that never loads. The spec comment says so at the point someone would edit it.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Notification filters now correctly adapt when viewing your own account versus another account.
    • Self-only notification types are no longer retained or applied when unavailable.
    • Existing selections are preserved while accounts are loading or being reselected.
    • Invalid saved filters automatically fall back to showing all notifications.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for account switching, signed-out states, filter fallback, and reload behavior.

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Companion to ecency/enotify-py#21 and the vision-api scope change.

A Decks notifications column can be built for any account, because notifications
are largely public data and that is why the feature exists. That stays.

The exception is Ecency-only activity. vision-api now downgrades a cross-account
request to scope=public and enotify withholds those types, so a column built for
someone else with favourites, bookmarks or scheduled posts would render
permanently empty with no explanation. The picker no longer offers them once the
chosen username is not the signed-in user.

`all` and `transfers` stay available for any account: neither is withheld
wholesale. `all` returns the public types, and enotify drops only the Ecency
Points rows from `transfers` while chain and Hive-Engine transfers remain.

Picking a self-only type and then changing the username to someone else would
have left that choice selected and let the column be created anyway, so the
selection is cleared when it stops being offered.

The spec pins which types are withheld, that the chain-derived ones stay
available, and that every name listed is one the picker actually offers, since a
stale entry would silently protect nothing. It has to stay in step with
PUBLIC_ACTIVITY_MAIN_TYPES in enotify: the two live in different repositories, so
drift is silent and surfaces only as an empty column.

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Hide self-only Decks notifications for other accounts

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 🕐 10-20 Minutes

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• Hide self-only notification filters when configuring another account’s Decks column.
• Clear invalid selections while preserving public subsets for all and transfers.
• Add contract tests plus a standalone candidate post-path list.
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graph TD
  A["Active Account"] --> C{"Viewing Self?"} -->|Yes| D["Content Catalog"] --> G["Type Picker"] --> H["Selection Guard"]
  B["Selected User"] --> C -->|No| F["Type Filter"] --> G
  D --> F
  E["Self-only Rules"] --> F
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The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Server-provided notification capabilities
  • ➕ Eliminates duplicated privacy policy across repositories
  • ➕ Automatically reflects future backend scope changes
  • ➕ Makes availability authoritative for each account and request scope
  • ➖ Requires a new API contract and coordinated backend rollout
  • ➖ Adds latency or caching concerns to picker configuration
  • ➖ Is disproportionate for the immediate three-type fix
2. Disable private types with explanations
  • ➕ Keeps all notification capabilities discoverable
  • ➕ Can explain why each option is unavailable
  • ➖ Adds UI and translation work
  • ➖ Creates picker clutter for cross-account columns
  • ➖ Still requires validation when the selected username changes

Recommendation: The PR’s client-side filtering and selection guard are appropriate for the immediate fix: they prevent permanently empty columns without removing partially public all or transfers options. Longer term, server-provided capability metadata would reduce silent drift with enotify. The unrelated apps/web/cand.txt list should be removed or documented if its inclusion is intentional.

Files changed (4) +128 / -3

Bug fix (2) +45 / -3
deck-add-column-notifications-settings.tsxFilter private notification types for cross-account columns +27/-3

Filter private notification types for cross-account columns

• Compares the selected username with the active account and hides self-only notification types when they differ. Adds an effect that clears a selected content type if a username change makes it unavailable.

apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/add-column/deck-add-column-notifications-settings.tsx

content-types.tsDefine self-only notification content types +18/-0

Define self-only notification content types

• Introduces the centralized list of favourites, bookmarks, and scheduled-publication notifications withheld from cross-account requests. Documents why 'all' and 'transfers' remain available with public subsets.

apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/consts/content-types.ts

Tests (1) +54 / -0
notification-content-types.spec.tsVerify the cross-account notification type contract +54/-0

Verify the cross-account notification type contract

• Pins the exact self-only types, confirms chain-derived and partially public types remain available, and verifies every restricted name exists in the picker catalog. Documents the synchronization requirement with enotify’s 'PUBLIC_ACTIVITY_MAIN_TYPES'.

apps/web/src/specs/app/decks/notification-content-types.spec.ts

Documentation (1) +29 / -0
cand.txtAdd candidate Hive post paths +29/-0

Add candidate Hive post paths

• Adds a standalone list of 29 account and post-path candidates. Its relationship to the Decks notification fix is not established by the diff.

apps/web/cand.txt

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const contentTypes = isSelf
? NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES
: NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES.filter(
({ type }) => !SELF_ONLY_NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES.includes(type)
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P2 Badge Filter the existing column settings too

This filtering only protects the add-column picker. For any cross-account notifications column, including one created with a public type, DeckNotificationsColumn still passes the full NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES list to DeckContentTypeColumnSettings (lines 107–112), so the user can subsequently select nfavorites, nbookmarks, or scheduled_published and recreate the permanently empty column this change is intended to prevent. Apply the same account-aware filtering to that settings control, and account for already-saved cross-account columns with a self-only type.

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Correct, fixed. DeckNotificationsColumn was still handing the full list to DeckContentTypeColumnSettings, so a cross-account column could be switched onto a restricted type after creation, recreating the empty column the filtering exists to prevent.

Both call sites now resolve their options through a shared notificationContentTypesFor(target, activeUser). The root cause was that the filtering lived inside one component rather than being shared, so the spec now covers the helper directly instead of the picker.

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Both points fixed in 0818808.

Persisted types. You were right that filtering the selector does not touch a stored value. effectiveNotificationContentType() falls back to all when the stored type is not available for the column's target, and it is used in two places: for fetching, so the very first load is already correct, and to persist the correction, so the stored value, the header subtitle and the selector all agree and it survives a reload.

It depends on the active user as well as the target, which is the half a target-only check would miss: signing in as someone else is what turns a self column into a cross-account one, and signing out does the same. That case has its own test.

Mutation-verified: removing the fallback fails three cases including the account-switch one.

cand.txt. Removed, and it was my error rather than a stray from elsewhere. It was an untracked scratch file already in the working tree when I started, and a git add -A in my earlier commit swept it in. Nothing to do with this change.

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The lifecycle issue is fixed too, in the commit above. That was a regression in my own previous fix, and you are right about the mechanism: the store starts with no active user, ClientInit restores it after mount, and the persist effect fired during that window, so a locally stored self column lost its filter on an ordinary reload.

Fetching and persisting answer different questions, so they are now separate. What to fetch is safe to decide immediately, and all is the right temporary answer while signed out. What to persist waits until an active username is known, because writing on a guess is destructive and the guess is wrong on every reload.

shouldPersistContentTypeCorrection() holds that rule so the lifecycle is testable without mounting the store. It covers the exact sequence you named, undefined then the owning username, asserting the stored filter is left intact throughout, plus persisting once a genuinely different account is active.

Mutation-verified: removing the uninitialized guard fails both lifecycle cases.

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1. Settings recreate empty columns ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
Existing notification column settings still render every NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES entry, so a
cross-account column can be switched to nfavorites, nbookmarks, or scheduled_published. That
filter is sent for the other username and produces the permanently empty column this change is
intended to prevent.
Code

apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/add-column/deck-add-column-notifications-settings.tsx[R30-33]

+  const contentTypes = isSelf
+    ? NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES
+    : NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES.filter(
+        ({ type }) => !SELF_ONLY_NOTIFICATION_CONTENT_TYPES.includes(type)
Evidence
The new filtering exists only in the add-column component. DeckNotificationsColumn still supplies
the full constant to DeckContentTypeColumnSettings, whose select persists any supplied type;
fetchData then sends that selected type together with the configured target username. The new
constant's own documentation establishes that these three filters are withheld for cross-account
requests and leave the column empty.

apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/add-column/deck-add-column-notifications-settings.tsx[29-42]
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/deck-notifications-column.tsx[50-57]
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/deck-notifications-column.tsx[107-113]
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/deck-column-settings/deck-content-type-column-settings.tsx[23-38]
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/consts/content-types.ts[101-117]

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## Issue description
The new self-only notification filtering applies only while adding a column. Existing cross-account notification columns still expose all notification types in their settings and can therefore be changed to a filter that the API withholds.
## Issue Context
Centralize the account-aware filtering so both the add-column picker and existing column settings use it. Also handle persisted cross-account columns already configured with a self-only type by normalizing them to an allowed type or presenting an explicit corrective state rather than continuing empty requests.
## Fix Focus Areas
- apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/add-column/deck-add-column-notifications-settings.tsx[29-42]
- apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/deck-notifications-column.tsx[95-113]
- apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/deck-column-settings/deck-content-type-column-settings.tsx[23-38]

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Notification content filtering

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Notification type rules and correction helpers
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/consts/content-types.ts, apps/web/src/specs/app/decks/notification-content-types.spec.ts
The code defines self-only notification types and account-aware helpers. Tests cover allowed types, fallback to all, and persistence guards.
Account-aware notification picker
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/add-column/deck-add-column-notifications-settings.tsx
The picker derives content types from the selected and active usernames. It preserves the selection while the username is empty.
Corrected notification column flow
apps/web/src/app/decks/_components/columns/deck-notifications-column.tsx
The column fetches with the effective content type, persists valid corrections after account state is known, and passes allowed types to the selector.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ea6e7

The notification picker now hides self-only types for other accounts, but an in-flight response from the previous account can overwrite the column after an account switch and potentially show stale private notifications in the new account context. This bounded race warrants explicit owner awareness or follow-up, while the change remains mergeable with normal checks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DeckNotificationsColumn
  participant notificationContentTypesFor
  participant effectiveNotificationContentType
  participant getNotifications
  DeckNotificationsColumn->>notificationContentTypesFor: derive allowedContentTypes
  DeckNotificationsColumn->>effectiveNotificationContentType: resolve stored contentType
  effectiveNotificationContentType-->>DeckNotificationsColumn: return effectiveContentType
  DeckNotificationsColumn->>getNotifications: request notifications with effectiveContentType
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- Around line 39-42: Update the contentType validation effect in the relevant
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…re-pick

Two review findings, both on the same root cause: the filtering lived inside one
component instead of being shared.

Codex and Qodo both caught that only the add-column picker was filtered.
DeckNotificationsColumn still handed the full list to DeckContentTypeColumnSettings,
so an existing cross-account column could be switched onto nfavorites, nbookmarks
or scheduled_published afterwards, recreating exactly the empty column the
filtering exists to prevent. Both call sites now resolve their options through
notificationContentTypesFor().

CodeRabbit caught that clearing the username to re-pick an account passes through
an empty string, and the effect treated that as a switch and dropped a valid
selection even when the same account was chosen again. The effect now skips while
the username is empty.

Spec covers the helper directly: everything offered for your own account and
case-insensitively so, the self-only types withheld for another account while
`all` and `transfers` remain, and withheld when signed out or with no target,
since neither an unknown viewer nor an unset target can be shown to be self.

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…nd.txt

Review was right that filtering the selector was not enough. A column persists
its contentType, so one created before its target became cross-account, or
created while signed in as a different account, keeps a self-only type. The
selector no longer offers it, but the stored value is unchanged, so the column
kept fetching a filter that returns nothing and sat permanently empty with its
own current value missing from the dropdown.

effectiveNotificationContentType() falls back to "all" when the stored type is
not available for the column's target. It is used twice: for fetching, so the
very first load is already correct, and to persist the correction, so the stored
value, the header subtitle and the selector agree and it survives a reload.

It depends on the ACTIVE user as well as the target, which is the half a
target-only check would miss: signing in as someone else is what turns a self
column into a cross-account one, and signing out does the same.

Mutation-verified: removing the fallback fails three cases, including the
account-switch one.

Also removes apps/web/cand.txt. That was an untracked scratch file already in the
working tree, and a `git add -A` in the earlier commit swept it in. It has
nothing to do with this change.

typecheck clean, lint clean, 373 files / 3692 tests pass.
Review caught a regression in my own previous fix. The global store starts with
no active user and ClientInit restores it after mount, so during that first
render every column looks cross-account. The persist effect fired then, so a
locally stored self column using nfavorites lost its filter on an ordinary page
reload, before the account it belongs to had been restored.

Fetching and persisting answer different questions, so they are now separate.
What to FETCH is safe to decide immediately, and "all" is the right temporary
answer while signed out. What to PERSIST waits until an active username is known,
because writing on a guess is destructive and the guess is wrong on every reload.

shouldPersistContentTypeCorrection() holds that rule so the lifecycle is testable
without mounting the store. Tests cover the exact sequence a reload performs,
undefined then the owning username, leaving the stored filter intact throughout,
plus persisting once a different account is genuinely active.

Mutation-verified: removing the uninitialized guard fails both lifecycle cases.

typecheck clean, lint clean, 373 files / 3696 tests pass.
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