Old Android System WebViews (the Telegram/VK in-app browser; a real device with Google
Play auto-updates the WebView, but emulators / no-Play / restricted devices stay frozen)
showed a white screen. Two causes, fixed in order:
- build.target es2022 shipped ?./?? verbatim, which the old engine cannot parse. Lowered
to es2019 so esbuild down-levels the syntax.
- The es2020+ runtime globals the bundle and its deps call (globalThis, structuredClone,
Array.at, ...) are missing on those engines. A conditional core-js loader (emitPolyfills
writes dist/polyfills.js, document.write'd by an index.html gate only when needed) covers
them; modern engines download nothing, so the bundle-size budget is untouched.
BigInt (the 64-bit FlatBuffers timestamp decode) and Proxy (Svelte 5 runes) cannot be
polyfilled, so the effective floor is Chrome 67. Below it, a permanent ES5 boot guard in
index.html shows a friendly "this device's OS or browser can't run the app" screen (with
the web-version link inside a Mini App) and a "Diagnostic information" view with a Copy
button, instead of a white screen. A reactive net raises the same screen on an uncaught
boot error that never signals window.__booted.
Board tile glyphs used container-query units (cqw, Chrome 105+) under .cell font-size:0,
so they collapsed to 0px on Chrome 74 (invisible letters); added vmin fallbacks.
The unsupported-engine telemetry beacon is a separate follow-up PR.
The landing now always opens in Russian (saved 🌐 choice still wins) —
browser-language detection made the indexed content nondeterministic
(Googlebot renders with en-US). landing.html gains the static Russian
SEO head: title/description, canonical pinned to the production origin,
Open Graph card (Telegram/VK link previews), twitter:card, JSON-LD,
theme-color and the favicon set; the SPA shell turns noindex and its
tab title becomes «Эрудит (Скрэббл)». New assets/icons generator
(same tile design as the VK loader) produces favicon.svg/ico,
apple-touch-icon.png and og-image.png into ui/public/, plus robots.txt.
The Telegram SDK was a render-blocking <script src="telegram.org/..."> in the
shared index.html shell, so it ran on every entry (/telegram/, /app/, native).
On a network that blocks telegram.org — common where Telegram itself reaches
users only over a proxy — the script hangs forever, stranding the whole page,
including the launch-diagnostic screen meant to surface exactly this failure.
This is the likely root cause of the Android "won't open" reports (all launch
methods fail identically; iOS on a different network works).
Remove the head <script> and load the SDK dynamically (lib/telegram.ts
loadTelegramSDK) with a 10s timeout, only on a Telegram entry (the /telegram/
path or a tgWebApp launch fragment). The SPA — served from our own reachable
origin — boots first and controls the load: on a block/error it falls through
to the diagnostic screen (reporting sdk: no) instead of hanging, and Retry
re-attempts. /app/ and the native build no longer touch telegram.org.
Pin the SDK to the version the official page recommends (?62) for the newer
client features the app already uses (fullscreen, safe areas, swipe guard).
Tests: loadTelegramSDK unit tests (present / error / timeout); an e2e that
aborts the script fetch and asserts the diagnostic still renders.
New platform/telegram connector (own container, bot token only there):
- go-telegram/bot long-poll loop: /start deep-links + Mini App launch button.
- gRPC API pkg/proto/telegram/v1 (Telegram service): ValidateInitData, Notify
(renders a localized message + deep-link button), SendToUser/SendToGameChannel
(admin, wired in Stage 10). Generic methods are platform-agnostic (external_id).
- Bot API base override for Telegram's test environment; Dockerfile + compose
(VPN sidecar, no public ingress); README.
Gateway:
- initData validation relocated from the gateway into the connector; the gateway
calls ValidateInitData over gRPC (GATEWAY_CONNECTOR_ADDR), drops the bot token,
and deletes internal/auth.
- Out-of-app push: runPushPump routes events whose recipient has no live in-app
stream to connector.Notify, gated by /internal/push-target + the in-app-only
flag (race-free de-dup); HasSubscribers added to the push hub.
Backend:
- Migration 00007 accounts.notifications_in_app_only (default true) + jetgen.
- ProvisionTelegram seeds a new account's language/display name from the launch
fields; IdentityExternalID reverse lookup; /internal/push-target handler.
UI:
- Telegram Mini App launch: detect initData, apply themeParams, authTelegram,
route the deep-link start_param (g/i/f); /telegram/ guard redirects outside
Telegram. Vite relative base + telegram-web-app.js. In-app-only profile toggle;
share-to-Telegram link for a friend code. Vitest + Playwright coverage.
Wire/docs/CI: fbs Profile/UpdateProfileRequest gain notifications_in_app_only
(Go + TS); go.work uses ./platform/telegram; go-unit.yaml covers it; PLAN,
ARCHITECTURE, FUNCTIONAL (+ru), UI_DESIGN, READMEs updated.
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Ilia Denisov