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.
The gapless-board dark cells mixed 12% black into --cell-bg, which read too
contrasty and competed visually with the bonus cells. Halve the tint to 6% (both
themes, keyed off --cell-bg as before) for a gentler checkerboard.
The first attempt (the App.svelte `started` gate) targeted the first pane mount,
but the slide is a second render. On a Telegram cold launch the URL fragment is
Telegram's #tgWebAppData=... launch params, which the router parsed as notfound;
bootstrap's navigate('/') then corrected it to the lobby asynchronously, re-keying
the route pane (notfound -> lobby) and sliding the lobby in as if returning from a
screen. A reload was static because the hash was already #/.
Treat a Telegram launch fragment as the lobby root in the router, so the route is
correct from the first pane (no re-key, no slide). Extract the pure hash->Route
parsing into routeparse.ts so it unit-tests without a DOM, and revert the gate
(the first pane never slid — local transitions skip the initial mount, as clean
browser launches showed).
Tests: routeparse unit tests (incl. the tgWebApp fragment); an e2e that launches
with the fragment in the URL and asserts the lobby plus the normalised #/ hash.
Tab bar: tapping a bottom-tab icon flashed a background — the icon square's
:active press tint plus the default WebKit tap flash, the same pair removed from
the lobby rows. Drop the press tint and set -webkit-tap-highlight-color:
transparent on .tab. The selected-tab highlight (Settings / Comms hubs) stays.
Startup slide: the route pane's in:slideX is local to its {#key} block, so it
plays on that block's own first mount when app.ready flips — the lobby slid in on
launch as if navigated into from another screen. Gate the slide duration to 0 for
the first pane shown after boot (a `started` flag set right after it mounts), so
launch is static while every later route change animates as before.
A tap/click on a lobby game row flashed a highlight on both tappable areas (the
open body and the right chevron/kebab), and the .open:active background lingered
while the finger was held — pointless feedback that only spoiled the look. Drop
the held :active background and set -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent on
the row's buttons.
A single tile that only extended a word perpendicular to the client-declared
direction was rejected: the UI always sent dir=H for one-tile plays (the
dirOverride/Controls toggle was orphaned in the Stage 7 game rework), so placing
"А" above "БАК" to form "АБАК" failed the solver's main-word-length check even
though the word is in the dictionary.
Make the backend infer a play's orientation from the placed tiles and the board
(internal/engine.resolveDirection): two or more tiles by the line they share, a
lone tile by the axis it abuts (longer word wins, horizontal on a tie). Direction
becomes an output, not an input: drop dir from the SubmitPlay/Eval wire requests
and add it to EvalResult. Journal replay keeps trusting the stored "H"/"V"
(SubmitPlayDir) so a rebuilt game matches the one committed.
UI: stop computing/sending direction; the preview now shows the words a move
forms with its total score (game.previewWords); the make-move control is disabled
until the play is confirmed legal; the "your turn" label hides while tiles are
pending. Delete the orphaned Controls.svelte.
Regenerate the FlatBuffers bindings (Go + TS) and update the gateway transcode
and the loadtest edge client to the new contract. Bake the decision into
ARCHITECTURE.md (§5/§9.1), FUNCTIONAL.md (+ _ru) and the backend README.
- Stop a two-finger pinch-out from also opening the history: the board wrapper arms its
open/close pull only while a single pointer is down (a 2nd finger is a pinch, owned by Board).
- Widen the edge-swipe-back activation band to the left half of the viewport (was 20%).
- Align a chat nudge by sender like a bubble — your own to the right, the opponent's to the
left (only the alignment changes).
- Kill the iOS rubber-band inside the history drawer (overscroll-behavior: none).
e2e: a two-finger pinch does not open the history; a back-swipe from the left half navigates back.
On iOS (notably the Telegram Mini App) the document elastic-overscrolls on a
vertical drag even with overscroll-behavior:none — the whole page stretches and
bounces, and it fought the board's swipe-to-open-history. Telegram's own
swipe-to-minimise is already disabled at launch; this removes the remaining
WebKit document bounce by pinning the document (position:fixed + overflow:hidden)
for the game SPA only. Every screen already fits the visual viewport (--vvh) and
scrolls its own inner areas, so the document never needed to scroll.
Scoped to the app via an `app-shell` class set in main.ts; the standalone
landing page (landing.ts) keeps its normal scrolling document. e2e locks the
contract on both entries.
Replace the flat chronological move list with a ruled matrix aligned under the
score plaque: one column per seat, each seat's moves filling its column top to
bottom. A cell is the move's word(s) and its score, "WORD (12)", centred; the
player names and the running total are dropped (the plaque heads the column and
shows the live total). Non-play moves keep their dim parenthesised tag; the
awaited opponent's next cell shows a dim "thinking..." (never the viewer's own
turn). Thin 1px rules between columns and rows match the panel's separator.
Re-introduce a swipe-down-on-the-board gesture to open the history, gated to the
zoom-out board scrolled to its top so it never fights the zoomed board's pan or
the stage's own vertical scroll (the conflict that retired this gesture before).
Grid layout extracted to lib/history.ts (unit-tested); add game.thinking to the
EN/RU catalogs; e2e covers the gesture and the grid on Chromium and WebKit.
Per owner feedback: pass/exchange/resign/timeout rows in the move history now read
as a dim, parenthesised, lowercase tag — e.g. «(обмен)» — so they stand apart from a
scored word. The move.* catalog values are lowercased (resign RU → «сдаюсь»); the
parentheses and the muted colour (var(--text-muted)) are applied in the view via a
.ha.sys modifier.
- Highlight tracks the last move overall (not the last word): a trailing
pass/exchange now highlights nothing, so the board no longer lights up the
opponent's old word after our own empty move.
- Make the highlight event-driven: refreshed only on a real game event
(open/refresh, opponent move, our own committed move) and dismissed the moment
composing starts, so recalling a just-placed tile never re-triggers it.
- Localize non-play move-history labels via new move.* catalog keys
(pass/exchange/resign/timeout); the label printed the raw English action.
- Clamp the zoomed board's pan at its edge (overscroll-behavior: none), removing
the native rubber-band past the content.
Tests: lastMoveCells unit coverage (trailing pass/exchange -> empty), i18n RU
label assertions, an e2e overscroll-contract check on the zoomed viewport.
Replace the very-narrow 24px edge-swipe trigger with a left band of ~20% of the
viewport width (EDGE_FRACTION) so the back-swipe is easy to reach, keeping the
simple instant-navigate behaviour (the route slide plays the animation). A
hit-test keeps the wider band clear of the rack, a draggable pending tile, a
zoomed-in board and text inputs, so it never hijacks those drags.
Test: e2e (Chromium+WebKit) — the band swipe returns to the lobby; a swipe
starting on the rack does not navigate.
The +20px gap was too far; use +10px (padding-top safe-top+16). The gap is
fixed px, so the clearance from Telegram's native nav stays constant when
the user scales the font up — the title grows downward and the bar with it,
no overflow. Locked by a new e2e test that asserts the title top is
unchanged across font sizes and never overflows the bar.
min-height was the wrong lever: in Telegram the title is the bar's only
child (the back chevron is hidden), so the bar is sized by padding+content
and min-height (the nav-band height) never binds — the earlier bump did
nothing. Drop the title clear of the native nav band with padding-top
instead (notch + a 20px gap, was +6), and revert the min-height change.
- tg-fullscreen: +20px header height — without the (removed) hamburger the
title bar lost its bulk and sat flush on Telegram's native nav band.
- Settings/Comms hub tabs gain text labels under the icons (Settings /
Profile / Friends / Info and Chat / Dictionary); the icon is aria-hidden
so the label names the button. New i18n keys about.tab, game.dictionary.
Replace Menu.svelte (hamburger) everywhere with tab-bar navigation:
- Settings hub (SettingsHub) from the lobby ⚙️ tab: Settings/Profile/
Friends/About as in-place tabs, back → lobby; the lobby ⚙️ badge counts
incoming friend requests (invitations keep their own lobby section).
- Comms hub (CommsHub) from the move-history 💬: Chat/Dictionary tabs,
back → game; Dictionary only while the game is active.
- Game menu items relocate into the open history: 🏁 leave / 📤 export in
the header, 🤝 add-friend per opponent card, 💬 comms; unread chat is
badged on the score bar + the 💬.
- TapConfirm (tap → fading ✅ → tap) replaces the Skip/Hint press-and-hold
popovers and drives the add-friend confirm.
- Fix the move-history "jump": the slid board is inert and the stage can't
scroll, so a swipe up genuinely closes the history.
Remove Menu.svelte + HoldConfirm.svelte. Docs: UI_DESIGN, FUNCTIONAL(+ru),
PRERELEASE. UI check/unit/build/bundle/e2e (Chromium+WebKit) all green.
A practical single-host ordering guide — CPU cores, RAM, disk at three tiers —
grounded in the R7 profile (~5.5 cores / ~2.5 GiB peak at 500 players) and the
measured on-disk footprint (images ~2.4 GB; Tempo 3.1 GB at 72 h; the game DB
23 MiB and growing). Notes which knobs move disk (Tempo/Prometheus retention,
Postgres growth) and that the gateway scales horizontally past one host.
- loadtest/REPORT-R7.md: the final stress-run report — method, the 500-player resource
profile, the agreed tuning, the validation (transport_error 2.49% -> 0.72% at 3 gateway
cores; the burst run showing connection-bound behavior), and the prod-sizing
recommendation for Stage 18.
- loadtest/README.md: per-player transports, --cpus capping, docker_stats (was cAdvisor),
the absolute BACKEND_DICT_DIR for ./loadtest/... , and report links.
- docs/TESTING.md + docs/ARCHITECTURE.md: observability now uses the otelcol docker_stats
receiver (cAdvisor removed); links to both trip reports.
- CLAUDE.md: repo-layout line reflects docker_stats + per-service limits.
- PRERELEASE.md: R7 marked done in the tracker + heading; a Refinements entry recording
the decisions, findings, applied tuning and validation.
This is the final pre-release hardening phase; Stage 18 (prod cutover) is next.
Round-2 tuning, decided from the 500-player resource profile:
- gateway: 2 -> 3 cores + GOMAXPROCS=3. It holds one h2c connection per player, so
at 500 players it burst into the 2-core cap (~2.49% transport_error on game.state);
3 cores absorbs the bursts. The per-connection cost is the realistic prod load.
- tempo: memory 1G -> 2G. It reached the 1 GiB cap during the run (OOM risk).
- backend Postgres pool: MAX_OPEN_CONNS 25 -> 40. The pool sat at its 25-conn cap
(28 backends) at peak; headroom trims the p99 tail. Postgres (2c/512M) handles it.
- docker log volume: a json-file rotation default (10m x 3 = 30 MiB/container) applied
contour-wide via a YAML anchor; the backend logs ~14 MiB / 30 min at info under load
and was previously unbounded. Log level stays info.
backend/postgres stay at 2 cores / 512 MiB (peak ~0.85 / ~1.4 cores — headroom is cheap
on the shared host). A validation re-run confirms the gateway fix before merge.
The receiver defaults to Docker API 1.25, but the contour daemon's minimum is
1.40 (it speaks up to 1.54), so otelcol crash-looped on start with "client
version 1.25 is too old". Pinning api_version to 1.44 (accepted by both the
receiver's bundled client and the daemon) starts the receiver cleanly —
verified by running the image against the host socket ("Everything is ready",
no start error).
Observability: replace cAdvisor (which resolves only the root cgroup on the
contour host — separate-XFS /var/lib/docker) with the otelcol docker_stats
receiver, which reads per-container CPU/memory/network straight from the Docker
API and works the same in prod. The collector joins the host docker group
(DOCKER_GID, default 989) and mounts the socket read-only; its metrics flow out
through the existing prometheus exporter, so the cAdvisor scrape job and the
privileged cAdvisor service are removed. The Resources dashboard panels are
retargeted to the docker_stats metric names (container_name label;
container.cpu.utilization/100 == cores).
Container limits: apply deploy.resources.limits (honoured by Compose v2) across
the contour and pin GOMAXPROCS to the CPU limit on the Go services so the runtime
matches the cgroup quota. Starting values are generous over the R2 peak (~1 core /
<=100 MiB per app service) to avoid skewing or OOM-killing the measurement run;
they are tightened to the agreed prod sizing after the final stress run (R7
Round 2). The privileged VPN sidecar is left unconstrained.
Each virtual player now builds its own edge.Client (its own h2c connection
carrying both the Subscribe stream and the Execute calls), instead of every
player multiplexing over a single shared http2.Transport. The R2 trip report
traced the ~14% transport_error on game.state at 500 players to that single
shared transport; per-player connections mirror real clients and isolate the
artifact. The assembly burst and the gateway-hammer each get their own client.
playTurn now reports when a game has finished so playerLoop drops it from the
rotation (slices.DeleteFunc); once no active game remains the player idles while
still holding its stream. This stops secondary ops from hammering game_finished
on already-ended games (the other R2 harness finding).
Move the cross-file integration fixtures — the service constructors
(newGameService/newSocialService/newRobotService/newMatchmaker), the game-assembly
helpers (newMirror/newGameWithSeats/newDraftGame), account provisioning
(provisionAccount/provisionGuest) and the stats reader — out of the domain test
files (newGameService alone was used by 10 files) into a single
backend/internal/inttest/helpers.go. Helpers used by a single file stay local.
Pure relocation: the helper bodies are unchanged, no test logic changes; the
imports the moves left unused are pruned. go vet -tags=integration is clean.
Extract the FlatBuffers builders for the wire tables shared by the backend push
encoder and the gateway edge transcoder — GameView, MoveRecord, StateView,
AccountRef, Invitation and their nested rows — into a new scrabble/pkg/wire
package. Both callers keep their local builder signatures (no call sites move)
but now map their own source types (the backend's notify.* payloads and the
decoded engine.MoveRecord; the gateway's backendclient.* REST DTOs) to neutral
wire.* structs and delegate the construction to package wire, the single
definition of the nested-table layout.
Behaviour-preserving: the verified-identical field sets mean the wire bytes
decode the same, and the notify + transcode round-trip tests pass unchanged. The
fiddly Start/Add/End + reverse-prepend vector boilerplate now lives once; the two
encode files shrink while pkg/wire carries the shared logic.
These pre-R4 summary scalars on OpponentMovedEvent were redundant with the
move/game delta and read by nobody — the UI codec and mock take only
move/game/bag_len, and the gateway forwards the push payload verbatim. Removed
from scrabble.fbs, the notify emit (notify/events.go) and the round-trip test;
regenerated the FB Go + TS bindings. No prod data, so the wire-slot renumber is
free and there is no DB change.
Pass (a) removed a stale "(reaping abandoned guest rows is deferred — TODO-3)"
note from ARCHITECTURE §3, but guest reaping is implemented (the background
reaper, BACKEND_GUEST_REAP_INTERVAL / BACKEND_GUEST_RETENTION, covered by
inttest). State the current behaviour instead.
A full section-by-section review of ARCHITECTURE / FUNCTIONAL (+_ru) / TESTING /
UI_DESIGN against the code found no other drift — each R-phase baked its own docs,
and FUNCTIONAL/TESTING already describe the reaper correctly.
Analysed the real dist (gzip + sourcemap attribution): the bundle is already minified + tree-shaken and dominated by the Connect/FlatBuffers transport runtime + generated bindings + the Svelte runtime (~2/3 of main), so no in-scope code slimming is warranted. Lazy-loading was rejected (bundle-size.mjs sums every chunk -> zero total-size win, plus +N gateway fetches of latency); i18n lazy-load and chunk-collapsing likewise (caching/HTTP2).
Instead bundle-size.mjs now measures per HTML entry with three independent gates (app entry <=100 KB, Svelte+i18n shared <=30 KB, landing-own <=5 KB): the app's real payload is its entry chunk + the shared chunk (~97 KB), never landing.js. Same CLI + exit-code contract, CI step unchanged. Fixed the stale ~82 KB figure in the script and ui/README.md. No app code change.
Enrich the in-app live stream into a delta channel so the UI renders a move from the event without a follow-up game.state, and make the matchmaking poll a stream-down fallback.
- pkg/fbs: trailing fields on opponent_moved (move+game+bag_len), your_turn (move_count), match_found (state), game_over (game), notify (account/invitation/state), MoveResult (rack+bag_len); regenerate Go + TS.
- backend: notify owns the FB encoding (encode.go + payload.go input structs); game/lobby/social map their domain types in. emitMove builds the move delta; game.Service.InitialState feeds match_found/game_started the recipient's initial StateView; friends/invitations notify carry their account/invitation. The move-commit response (submit_play/pass/exchange/resign) returns the actor's refilled rack + bag size.
- gateway: MoveResult transcode carries rack+bag_len.
- ui: pure lib/gamedelta.ts reducer advances the per-game cache keyed on move_count (idempotent + gap-safe); app.svelte seeds the cache on match_found/game_started; Game.svelte applies the delta (commit/pass/exchange/resign drop their load()); NewGame polls only while app.streamAlive is false.
- docs: ARCHITECTURE §10, FUNCTIONAL(+ru), backend/gateway/ui READMEs; PRERELEASE R4 marked done + Refinements.
- gateway/Dockerfile gains a `landing` target: caddy:2-alpine + the shared
Vite build (identical build args keep the ui stage a single cached build);
the gateway target drops landing.html from the embed.
- The contour caddy routes /app/, /telegram/ and the Connect path to the
gateway; the catch-all — the landing at / and any stray path — goes to the
new landing service, so junk traffic is absorbed by static file serving.
- deploy/landing/Caddyfile mirrors the webui caching (immutable assets,
no-cache shells) and falls back unknown paths to the landing shell.
- The gateway's / now 308-redirects to /app/ (keeps a local no-caddy run
usable); webui placeholder landing.html removed.
- CI deploy probe checks both / (landing) and /app/ (gateway).
Verified: both images build; the landing container serves landing.html at /
(no-cache) with junk-path fallback; the gateway image redirects / to /app/
and carries no landing content.
- accounts.flagged_high_rate_at baked into the R1 baseline (no prod data; the
contour schema is wiped after merge); jet regenerated — the regen also picks
up the previously missing game_drafts/game_hidden models.
- account.Store: FlagHighRate (set-once), ClearHighRateFlag, the flag in
GetByID/ListUsers and a ListFlaggedHighRate review queue.
- New internal/ratewatch: ingests the gateway rejection reports, keeps a
bounded in-memory episode window for the console and applies the
conservative auto-flag (1000 rejected / 10 min, BACKEND_HIGHRATE_FLAG_*).
- POST /api/v1/internal/ratelimit/report (network-trusted, like
sessions/resolve).
- Admin console: Throttled page (episodes + flagged accounts), a high-rate
badge in the user list, the marker + operator clear action on the user card.
- Tests: ratewatch unit suite, report-route handler test, renderer cases,
integration coverage for the store round-trip and the console flow.
- GATEWAY_MAX_BODY_BYTES (1 MiB): connect WithReadMaxBytes + http.MaxBytesReader
on the public mux; explicit http2.Server MaxConcurrentStreams/IdleTimeout and
an http.Server ReadHeaderTimeout (R2 report follow-up).
- gateway_rate_limited_total{class} counter, Debug per rejection, a rejection
tracker drained every 30 s into a Warn summary per key and a report POST to
/api/v1/internal/ratelimit/report (feeds the admin view + auto-flag).
- The dead AdminPerMinute/AdminBurst policy now guards the /_gm mount (429),
ahead of its Basic-Auth.
- resolve() logs the cause of infra session-resolve failures at Warn (the
transient unauthenticated dips from the R2 run); unknown tokens stay silent.
Ran the moderate early pass (50/200/500, 10 min/step) against the contour: ramped
clean to 500 players, 1.2 M edge calls, 48 870 plays, 2 798 games finished, no
crash/deadlock; cleanup removed all 11 000 seeded accounts. The per-user limiter held
under the gateway-hammer (99.97 % rejected, p99 2 ms).
Top finding: ~14 % transport_error on game.state at 500 players under CPU saturation
(backend/gateway/Postgres each ~1 core), amplified by the harness's single shared
http2.Transport (the harness itself peaked at 86 % of a core on the same host).
Observability finding: cAdvisor yields only the root cgroup on the contour host
(separate XFS /var/lib/docker); per-container metrics captured via docker stats; R7
should adopt the otelcol docker_stats receiver. Full report in loadtest/REPORT-R2.md;
PRERELEASE refinements logged; R2 marked done.
- display-name marker: letters-only 'Zzloadtest' (the editable-name validator
forbids digits/colons), so profile.update resends the seeded name successfully.
- draft.save: rack_order is a string in the backend draft DTO (was sent as []),
fixing the bad_request.
Both confirmed ok against the contour. chat_not_your_turn / nudge_own_turn are
by-design turn gates (backend/internal/social/chat.go), correctly exercised.
Adding the loadtest module to go.work (use ./loadtest + the scrabble/gateway
replace it needs) broke the other services' Docker builds: their reduced
workspace still referenced ./loadtest (not in their build context), failing with
'cannot load module loadtest: open loadtest/go.mod: no such file or directory'.
Each service Dockerfile now also -dropuse=./loadtest; backend and telegram (which
do not COPY ./gateway) additionally -dropreplace the loadtest-only scrabble/gateway
replace. Verified by building all three images plus loadtest locally.
New scrabble/loadtest module (the pre-release stress harness): seeds 1000 guest +
10000 durable accounts with pre-created sessions directly in Postgres (token hash
matches backend/internal/session), drives virtual players through the edge protocol
(real 2-4p games assembled via invitations, mid-ranked legal moves generated locally
by the embedded scrabble-solver — the edge carries no board, so the client replays
history), plus nudge/chat/check-word/draft/profile/stats and a gateway-hammer that
verifies the rate limiter. Prints a trip-report summary (per-op latency percentiles,
result codes, live-event tally). Go unit tests cover the pure pieces; the DAWG-backed
move test runs under BACKEND_DICT_DIR.
Contour: add cAdvisor + postgres_exporter + a 'Scrabble - Resources' Grafana
dashboard and the two Prometheus scrape jobs, for the R2/R7 stress-run resource
baseline.
CI: gate ./loadtest/... (path filter + vet/build/test). Docs: TESTING, ARCHITECTURE,
project CLAUDE repo layout.
Ilia Denisov
developer