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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.
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Co-authored-by: dhkatz <[email protected]>
T5DE Hub website
The hub's website: accounts, linked IMVU accounts, who's online, signing T5DE in, and the moderation console.
Next.js (App Router), Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui. Pages are rendered on the server, which calls the hub's API
(apps/api) with the visitor's cookie; forms use server actions. The browser only talks to this app: /api/* is
rewritten to the API, so the API's session cookies belong to the website's origin.
Develop
From the repository root, bun install, then start the API (cd apps/api && bun src/index.ts) and the website:
cd apps/web
bun run dev # http://localhost:4100
bun run check-types
bun run build
The first account created is the hub's admin.
Configuration
| Variable | Default | What |
|---|---|---|
API_URL |
http://localhost:4101 |
The API's address as this app reaches it. Needed at build time and at run time (below). |
PORT |
4100 |
The standalone server's port (next start and bun run dev use 4100). |
The API's WEB_URL must be this website's public address (it's where Better Auth trusts requests from, and where
T5DE's sign-in code page is).
API_URL is read in two places: by server code on every request, and by next.config.ts's /api rewrite, which
Next fixes when it builds. So build with the same API_URL the app will run with.
Deploy
Container
The Dockerfile builds a standalone server (output: "standalone"). Build it from the repository root:
docker build -f apps/web/Dockerfile --build-arg API_URL=http://api:4101 -t t5de-hub-web .
docker run -p 4100:4100 -e API_URL=http://api:4101 t5de-hub-web
Next's own gzip is off (it held back the API's live event stream), so put a reverse proxy that compresses in front,
and don't let it buffer text/event-stream responses (/api/v1/online/events).
Vercel
Import the repository with the project's root directory set to apps/web (Vercel installs the Bun workspace from the
root). Set API_URL to the API's public address for both builds and runtime. Nothing else is needed: there's no
custom server.