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Phase 3, part 1 (`docs/design.md`, "Next"): cases and notifications. File blocks, API tokens and two-factor sign-in come as separate PRs.
**Cases**
- One queue (Console → Cases) for everything someone has to decide. Each case has:
- a thread of notes, where internal notes are visible only to those deciding
- an assignee (moderators assign cases to moderators)
- a decision, Resolve or Decline, with a written resolution that the person who opened it sees
- **Reports:** anyone signed in can report a product or catalog from its page (the API also takes rooms and people).
- Limits: 10 an hour, one open report per person and thing, and you can't report yourself.
- Reports about a product go to the teams of the catalogs hosting it, as well as to moderators.
- Only the reporter and moderators know who reported. The audit entry for a report isn't tagged with what it's about, so a product's creator can't find out from their audit log either.
- **Rating reviews:** a creator lowering a rating from adult to general now opens a review instead of being refused. The rest of the edit still saves. Resolving the review lowers the rating, recorded in the product's history.
- **Removal requests:** a catalog's team can ask moderators to remove a product it hosts, everywhere. Resolving it removes the product.
- **Deletion requests:** a catalog's owner asks for deletion from the catalog's console page, and a moderator decides, as agreed. Resolving it marks the catalog `deleted`: its key stops working, nothing is available from it, and its changes feed says so.
- **Appeals:**
- From the audit log, the person an action affected can appeal it, once: their product removed, delisted or edited by someone else; their catalog suspended or rejected; a ban from a catalog or a declined request to join.
- Another moderator decides. An admin may decide an appeal of their own action, and the audit log flags it.
- Resolving records the decision; the moderator then undoes the action where it's done. For that, there's now a Restore for removed products (Console → Products, for moderators); the design mentioned one, but it was never built.
- The console shows a "Cases" tab, and a to-do with the number of open cases the person could decide.
**Notifications**
- A bell in the header with the unread count, and a notifications page with "Mark all as read".
- Each is also sent to the person's proxies over the realtime connection (`{"type": "notification"}`), so the client can show them later.
- They cover:
- a moderator edited or locked your product, or undid a change (with the reason)
- your product was removed or restored
- your case was decided
- someone replied on your case
- a catalog decided your membership
**Also changed**
- A product's creator and moderators can now see it when it's adult, even without an adult account. Before, a creator who made their own product adult couldn't open its page any more, and neither could moderators. Getting and wearing adult products still need an adult account.
**Not done yet** (in `docs/console.md`): email notifications (the hub sends no email yet), canned reasons, private moderator notes on people and products, and second approval for the most destructive actions.
**Migration** `0012_cases`: the `moderation_case`, `case_note` and `notification` tables. (`case` is a reserved word in SQL, hence the table's name.)
**Checks**
- 51 API tests pass. The 7 in the new `cases.test.ts` cover:
- who sees and decides each kind of case, and that the reporter stays private
- rate limits and duplicate reports
- the thread and internal notes, and assigning
- what deciding each kind of case does
- appeals by the person affected only, decided by another moderator
- restoring a removed product
- the notifications
- Type checks pass.
- On a local hub I went through every flow with the website's own forms: report from a product page; the catalog owner's note and decision; assigning, an internal note and a decision as admin; removal by a moderator, the creator's appeal from the audit log, the admin's decision and Restore; a creator's rating review and the decision lowering the rating; a deletion request and its decline; the notifications, the bell's count, and Mark all as read.
- Fixed along the way:
- The catalog's team could see who reported.
- A missing Resolve/Decline choice was treated as Decline; now it's refused.
- The Unassign button sent the typed name instead of nothing.
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Phase 3, part 1 (`docs/design.md`, "Next"): cases and notifications. File blocks, API tokens and two-factor sign-in come as separate PRs.
**Cases**
- One queue (Console → Cases) for everything someone has to decide. Each case has:
- a thread of notes, where internal notes are visible only to those deciding
- an assignee (moderators assign cases to moderators)
- a decision, Resolve or Decline, with a written resolution that the person who opened it sees
- **Reports:** anyone signed in can report a product or catalog from its page (the API also takes rooms and people).
- Limits: 10 an hour, one open report per person and thing, and you can't report yourself.
- Reports about a product go to the teams of the catalogs hosting it, as well as to moderators.
- Only the reporter and moderators know who reported. The audit entry for a report isn't tagged with what it's about, so a product's creator can't find out from their audit log either.
- **Rating reviews:** a creator lowering a rating from adult to general now opens a review instead of being refused. The rest of the edit still saves. Resolving the review lowers the rating, recorded in the product's history.
- **Removal requests:** a catalog's team can ask moderators to remove a product it hosts, everywhere. Resolving it removes the product.
- **Deletion requests:** a catalog's owner asks for deletion from the catalog's console page, and a moderator decides, as agreed. Resolving it marks the catalog `deleted`: its key stops working, nothing is available from it, and its changes feed says so.
- **Appeals:**
- From the audit log, the person an action affected can appeal it, once: their product removed, delisted or edited by someone else; their catalog suspended or rejected; a ban from a catalog or a declined request to join.
- Another moderator decides. An admin may decide an appeal of their own action, and the audit log flags it.
- Resolving records the decision; the moderator then undoes the action where it's done. For that, there's now a Restore for removed products (Console → Products, for moderators); the design mentioned one, but it was never built.
- The console shows a "Cases" tab, and a to-do with the number of open cases the person could decide.
**Notifications**
- A bell in the header with the unread count, and a notifications page with "Mark all as read".
- Each is also sent to the person's proxies over the realtime connection (`{"type": "notification"}`), so the client can show them later.
- They cover:
- a moderator edited or locked your product, or undid a change (with the reason)
- your product was removed or restored
- your case was decided
- someone replied on your case
- a catalog decided your membership
**Also changed**
- A product's creator and moderators can now see it when it's adult, even without an adult account. Before, a creator who made their own product adult couldn't open its page any more, and neither could moderators. Getting and wearing adult products still need an adult account.
**Not done yet** (in `docs/console.md`): email notifications (the hub sends no email yet), canned reasons, private moderator notes on people and products, and second approval for the most destructive actions.
**Migration** `0012_cases`: the `moderation_case`, `case_note` and `notification` tables. (`case` is a reserved word in SQL, hence the table's name.)
**Checks**
- 51 API tests pass. The 7 in the new `cases.test.ts` cover:
- who sees and decides each kind of case, and that the reporter stays private
- rate limits and duplicate reports
- the thread and internal notes, and assigning
- what deciding each kind of case does
- appeals by the person affected only, decided by another moderator
- restoring a removed product
- the notifications
- Type checks pass.
- On a local hub I went through every flow with the website's own forms: report from a product page; the catalog owner's note and decision; assigning, an internal note and a decision as admin; removal by a moderator, the creator's appeal from the audit log, the admin's decision and Restore; a creator's rating review and the decision lowering the rating; a deletion request and its decline; the notifications, the bell's count, and Mark all as read.
- Fixed along the way:
- The catalog's team could see who reported.
- A missing Resolve/Decline choice was treated as Decline; now it's refused.
- The Unassign button sent the typed name instead of nothing.
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
Co-authored-by: dhkatz <[email protected]>
t5de-hub
T5DE's hub: accounts linked to IMVU accounts, presence, and (to come) the registry of community products and catalogs, T5DE-hosted rooms, and the moderation console. Part of T5DE (git.t5de.dev/t5de). Design: docs/design.md; the API: docs/api.md; what a room needs from a server: docs/imq-rooms.md.
What works
- Accounts (Better Auth): sign-up with email, username and password; sign-in by username. The first account is
an admin; roles user, moderator, admin. Registration open or closed (new accounts wait for a moderator's
approval): an admin's setting in the console, defaulting to the API's
REGISTRATION. - Linking IMVU accounts: the person puts a code in the account's tagline; the hub reads it from IMVU's public API. The most recent proof wins (an account linked elsewhere moves, with a new pairwise ID). Link caps per person (default 10).
- Age: an IMVU account counts as adult if IMVU says it's age verified or has Access Pass, checked by the hub, or
if its person verified their age with an ID document and a selfie (Didit, when configured:
AGE_PROVIDERS, seeapps/api/src/index.tsand docs/design.md, "Age"). - Proxy sign-in: OAuth 2.0 device authorization (
t5de-proxy signinshows a code to enter at/device); the proxy then uses its session as a bearer token. JWTs with published keys (/.well-known/jwks.json) for catalogs. - Presence: signed-in proxies keep a WebSocket (
/api/v1/realtime) telling the hub which IMVU account is in use and the community products it wears./onlineshows those who opted in, live, with the opt-in T5DE badge. - Products (website): browsing and search, product pages, uploads straight from the browser to a catalog,
editing, revisions (retract, stay on one), the library, and registering catalogs (
docs/products.md). Pages send a strict Content Security Policy (apps/web/proxy.ts). - Console (moderators): counts, who's online (live), people, link caps, bans, roles, the audit log.
Layout
A Bun monorepo (workspaces, Turborepo):
apps/api |
The API: Elysia on Bun, Better Auth, the realtime WebSocket. Port 4101. |
apps/web |
The website: Next.js 16 (React server components), Tailwind CSS 4, shadcn/ui. Port 4100. Calls the API through its own /api (rewrites), typed end to end with Eden. |
packages/db |
Drizzle schema and migrations; Postgres in production, PGlite (in-process Postgres) for development and tests. |
Development
Needs Bun (1.4) and Node (for Next.js).
bun install
bun run dev # the API on :4101 (database in apps/api/data) and the website on :4100
bun run test tests the API against PGlite; bun run check-types, bun run build.
Running it
- Self-hosted:
AUTH_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 32) docker compose up -druns Postgres, the API and the website (seedocker-compose.ymlfor the public addresses). - Elsewhere: the website deploys as is to Vercel and similar (
apps/web, envAPI_URL); the API to any host that runs Bun or containers (Railway, Render, Fly.io, Heroku), withDATABASE_URL,AUTH_SECRET,API_URL(its public address) andWEB_URL(the website's).
A staging site shows a slim "Staging" bar: when it's served from a staging. address (hub.staging.t5de.dev),
or with the website's HUB_ENVIRONMENT=staging (production hides it).
T5DE's proxies reach the API's address directly (sign-in and the WebSocket): t5de-proxy signin -hub <API address>.