availableVariants fell back to all three variants when the player had no
stored preferences. A fresh offline native launch boots with no profile, so
New Game exposed the English game before the player opted in — contrary to the
backend's Erudit-only new-account default (docs/FUNCTIONAL.md). Fall back to
DEFAULT_VARIANTS (Erudit only) instead; all dictionaries stay bundled.
The Erudit variant's blank is the "звёздочка", so render it with a star.
An empty rack blank (and its drag ghost) shows ✻ centred; a placed blank
keeps its designated letter and carries ✻ where the (absent) point value
sits — on the board and in the Stats best-move tiles. The Scrabble variants
are unchanged. Gated by usesStarBlank() in lib/variants.ts.
Collapse the two per-language Telegram bots into one unified bot and
replace language-based variant gating with explicit per-user variant
preferences.
- Telegram: one bot; drop service_language and the supported_languages
set everywhere (DB, account, auth, FlatBuffers Session wire, gateway,
connector proto). The single bot renders chat and out-of-app push in
the recipient's preferred_language; remove the game-language push
routing override (notify Intent.Language / push Event.language).
- Preferences: new accounts.variant_preferences (text[], DB default
{erudit_ru}, CHECK non-empty + subset of the three variants). Gates
the New Game picker, vs-AI and the friend invitation the player
creates, enforced server-side (HTTP 400 otherwise); an invited friend
may still accept any variant. Edited on the Settings screen; variants
are Erudit-first everywhere.
- Admin: drop the per-bot language selectors (broadcast / send-to-user)
and the feedback channel_lang column/field.
- Env/CI: collapse TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN_{EN,RU}, TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_ID_{EN,RU},
VITE_TELEGRAM_LINK{,_EN,_RU} and VITE_TELEGRAM_GAME_CHANNEL_NAME_{EN,RU}
to single unsuffixed names; drop GATEWAY_DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES.
- Docs updated (ARCHITECTURE, FUNCTIONAL + _ru, platform/telegram, gateway,
backend, ui, UI_DESIGN, PRERELEASE).
The migration squash is deferred to a follow-up PR.
Add a per-game rule chosen on New Game for Russian variants (default off = the
single-word rule; on = standard Scrabble). Off, only the main word along the play
direction is validated and scored; perpendicular cross-words are ignored,
including in robot move generation. The rule rides every create and enqueue
request and joins the matchmaking key, so games and auto-match stay one uniform
path; "Russian-only" is a UI affordance (English always sends standard and shows
no toggle).
- Engine: consume scrabble-solver v1.1.0's PlayOptions{IgnoreCrossWords}, threaded
through engine.Options.MultipleWordsPerTurn -> playOpts() into validate, score
and generate.
- Backend: thread the flag through game CreateParams/Game + store (games column),
lobby InvitationSettings + invitation row, and the matchmaker queue key (variant
+ rule); persisted, so a rebuilt-from-journal game keeps it. Baseline migration
gains multiple_words_per_turn (DB not versioned); jet regenerated.
- Edge: multiple_words_per_turn added to the EnqueueRequest / CreateInvitationRequest
FlatBuffers tables (Go + TS regenerated) and threaded through the gateway.
- UI: a "Multiple words per turn" toggle on New Game, shown for Russian variants
only (auto-match and friend invite), default off; English silently sends standard.
- Tests: backend engine/matchmaker; UI unit (gating) + Playwright e2e (solver
corner-case + GCG fixtures ship in v1.1.0). Docs + PRERELEASE tracker updated.
Squash the 12 goose migrations into one 00001_baseline.sql (there is no prod
data; verified schema-identical to the chain via a pg_dump diff + the green
integration suite) and rename the game-variant labels
english/russian_scrabble/erudit -> scrabble_en/scrabble_ru/erudit_ru across the
backend, the FlatBuffers wire values and the UI.
dawg filenames and the Go enum identifiers are unchanged; the i18n display keys
are kept. Adds PRERELEASE.md (the R1-R7 pre-release tracker), linked from
CLAUDE.md. Contour DB wipe and the scrabble-dictionary tidy are follow-ups.
Each auto-match variant is now a lobby-style plaque: the display name with a flag on the
right (🇺🇸 / 🇷🇺; Erudit uses a bundled minimalist USSR flag SVG) and a one-line rules
summary below — bag size, the ё rule, and bonus differences, sourced from the engine
rulesets (Scrabble 100 · Скрэббл 104, ё a letter · Эрудит 131, ё=е, no centre ×2, +15).
The move-time limit (24h auto-match clock) is shown under the buttons. e2e locks it.
(Multiple-words-per-move is the same for every variant, so it is described in About/landing
rather than repeated on each button.)
- Profile: drop the hint-balance line.
- Board: no mobile tap flash on a cell tap (-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent),
matching the web click; the only intentional cell animation stays the last-word flash.
- Variant names keyed by the game's alphabet, not the UI language: english -> Scrabble
always, russian_scrabble -> Скрэббл always (unlocalized, never collide), erudit localized.
- Chat/nudge are mutually exclusive by turn: the message field + Send show on your turn,
the nudge replaces them on the opponent's turn; while the nudge cooldown is active the
button is disabled with a grey 'awaiting reply' caption to its left.
- Even zoom: interpolate the board scroll toward a pre-clamped target as the real width
grows/shrinks, so it magnifies A->B in one motion instead of lurching and snapping back
near the edges/centre. Recentre only on a zoom toggle, never on a focus change — so a
2nd+ placed tile and a hovered dragged tile no longer jump the board.
- Drag: highlight the aimed-at empty cell as a drop target; hover-hold auto-zoom now
fires only for the first (zoom-in) hold.
- Pinch zoom: two-finger spread/close toggles zoom toward the pinch midpoint (preventDefault
only for two touches, so one-finger scroll stays native); a second finger aborts a drag.
- Shuffle hop capped at 0.3s and disabled under reduce-motion.
- Make-move is a borderless icon button, disabled while the pending word is known illegal.
- Variant display names: english & russian_scrabble -> Scrabble/Скрэббл, erudit ->
Erudite/Эрудит; the in-game title shows the variant name (was always 'Scrabble').
- #6 align the UI variant id to the backend canonical 'russian_scrabble' (type, variants, Lobby, mock, tests) — fixes the New->Russian 400
- #11/#12 inside Telegram force the colour scheme from WebApp.colorScheme (over OS prefers-color-scheme, fixing the Telegram Desktop breakage) and hide the theme switcher
- #14/#15 nav bar takes Telegram's bg; announcement banner gets a dedicated subtle --ad-bg accent token
- #16 suppress the reconnect banner while backgrounded and silently reconnect the live stream on return to the foreground
- #17 hint zoom scrolls to the placement's bounding box, not the top-left
- #19/#20 players plaque: active seat raised with side shadows, others sunk; tap toggles history
- #21/#23 history: scrollbar-gutter:stable (no word jitter); fixed-height drawer pins the bottom shadow to the board
- #3 (UI) disable nudge on the player's own turn
- #18a directional screen slide transitions (forward in from the right, back reveals the lobby)
- #13 per-game in-memory cache: instant render on re-entry + background refresh
- e2e: openGame waits for the slide transition to settle
Service-agnostic refinement of the owner's idea: the sign-in service returns a
set of supported game languages with the user identity, and the lobby gates the
New Game variant choice by it (en -> English; ru -> Russian + Эрудит).
- Connector hosts two bots in one container (one per service language, each its
own token + game channel; the same telegram_id spans both). ValidateInitData
tries each token and returns the validating bot's service_language +
supported_languages. Per-language config (TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN_EN/_RU, channels).
- supported_languages rides the Session (fbs, session-scoped, not persisted); the
UI offers only the matching variants on New Game — gating only the START of a
new game (auto-match + friend invite), not accept/open/play; backend does not
enforce.
- service_language persisted (accounts.service_language, migration 00010, written
every login, last-login-wins) and routes the user-facing Notify push back
through the right bot (push-target coalesces with preferred_language).
- Admin SendToUser/SendToGameChannel gain an operator-chosen language selector in
the console (unrelated to ValidateInitData).
- Non-Telegram logins carry the gateway default set
(GATEWAY_DEFAULT_SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES, all variants).
Wire (committed regen): ValidateInitDataResponse +service_language
+supported_languages; Session +supported_languages; SendToUser/SendToGameChannel
+language. Docs (ARCHITECTURE/FUNCTIONAL/_ru/READMEs) + PLAN updated; stage marked done.
Ilia Denisov