Large albums opened slowly and flickered; the default album cover was
also lost in the media-objects refactor.
Large-album loading:
- quantize signed object URLs within a window and send Cache-Control so
previews are reused instead of re-fetched
- publish photo.updated (not photo.created) when variants are ready, so
clients update in place without reordering the grid
- worker concurrency + newest-first variant priority; raise default batch
Album cover:
- first uploaded photo becomes the cover when none is set
- clear the cover when the cover photo is trashed or moved out
- "set as album cover" in the photo context menu and actions panel
OpenSpec changes: fix-large-album-load, fix-album-cover
Backend (Go/Gin/pgx): env config, pgx pool with retries, Garage S3 client
(path-style, region garage), embedded golang-migrate migrations, JWT auth with
refresh rotation, albums CRUD, members/roles/invites with no-escalation matrix,
photo upload + async imaging/goexif WebP variants, cursor pagination, presigned
URLs, likes/comments, SSE hub (album + personal), notifications, share links.
Frontend (SvelteKit 2 + Svelte 5 + Tailwind v4): API wrapper with 401 refresh,
auth store, all screens, Uploader/PhotoGrid/Lightbox/Comments, SSE client with
reconnect + REST catch-up, three themes + system via data-theme.
Deploy without Docker: Makefile builds the frontend into backend/static and
embeds it (go:embed) into a single statically linked binary; systemd unit and
nginx SSE example included.
Use gen2brain/webp (-tags nodynamic) instead of cgo kolesa-team/go-webp to keep
CGO_ENABLED=0 static builds; design.md/proposal.md updated accordingly.
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