Dune/docs/READABLE_NOTICES.md

Readable progress, recovery and action notices

The user reported that a popup after room creation disappeared before it could be read or acted on. The first create/join request was rendering the full saved request recovery panel while awaiting its initial response. Successful creation then removed it immediately, making actionable recovery instructions appear to flash on screen even when nothing had gone wrong.

First submissions now show only Creating your room… or Joining the room… and a short progress message. Successful responses open the confirmed table with a Room created or Room joined confirmation above it. The confirmation shows the room code and invitation/seat-protection guidance, and stays until Continue. Polling, reconnecting and ordinary game actions do not dismiss it. Continue acknowledges only local text, without submitting a game action. Leaving, reloading or claiming a different seat clears the local notice. A lost/uncertain response, saved request after refresh, or storage problem shows the existing persistent recovery panel. Its exact retry, deliberate abandonment and saved-kit recovery controls remain available until the player resolves the request. The private retry proof is still saved before submission; there is no automatic retry or new seat operation.

Completed-action notices also retain their text until Continue, instead of vanishing after 1.5 seconds. This is a local display control: the server has already completed the action and human/AI play continues normally. New events cannot replace the text being read. The optional toggle, bounded summaries, private-information filtering and silent refresh baseline remain; see completed-action feedback.

The follow-up audit also covers instructions replaced by a quick server response, even without a dismissal timer. Initial administrator creation, room/lobby controls, removal, closure and archive requests now show only progress while awaiting their first response. The same applies to AI permissions and handover creation, cancellation and acceptance. Saved requests restored after refresh and uncertain results retain their recovery controls; explicitly retrying leaves those controls visible and disabled until the response. Private retry proofs are still saved before dispatch, independently of whether recovery instructions are visible.

Successful seat recovery and handover show a confirmation above the table with Continue, including the previous owner's/session's revoked access. It remains while the player reads or plays; background polling and new actions do not clear it. Continue dismisses only the message. Leaving or reloading the page clears this local confirmation, without changing the recovered seat.

Errors and recovery prompts have explicit controls; component inspectors have close buttons. The shared toast provider also defaults to no automatic timeout; its standard notice list provides a visible Dismiss button. Network progress, polling deadlines and permission-expiry countdowns keep their existing behavior.

Verification

24 October subsequent source recheck: the same three focused test files still pass 23/23. The notice components have no dismissal timers, and no application caller overrides the toast provider's no-timeout default. Corrected the in-app reference and README, which still described the former short action notices. A fresh read-only browser visit to the deployed homepage still displayed 716304bb9ed7bcf73202e07712de7c6d857ddc0c; it remains older than the pushed room confirmation fix. No new room, deployment or server restart was needed for this recheck. The existing local/browser evidence below remains separate from production acceptance.

24 October user-report follow-up: a fresh local create at source revision 59aa56af2bd2b98f5996fadb888019b3ebb53498 showed only concise progress, then Room created with Continue. The confirmation remained readable for at least 30 seconds through background polling and a player-circle change. Continue removed only the notice; the same room and selected circle remained. The dedicated QA room and screenshot are preserved. The three focused notice/entry/seat test files pass 23/23. A bounded source audit found no remaining automatic dismissal of actionable text: action notices and room/seat confirmations use Continue, standard toasts use Dismiss, and uncertain request instructions retain their recovery controls. No application callers override the toast provider's no-timeout default.

The same follow-up read the live homepage at dune.procrastination.games: it still identifies 716304bb9ed7bcf73202e07712de7c6d857ddc0c, predating the room-confirmation fix in 999edb6. This is an outstanding deployment gap; no new application change or deployment was made for this recheck. The local development server had been stopped and was started for this dedicated QA; existing saved games were preserved. Private evidence is in /home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20261024-readable-notices-followup/.

24 October deployed recheck: the public site displayed revision 716304bb9ed7bcf73202e07712de7c6d857ddc0c. A dedicated QA create request showed the concise progress screen, then opened its lobby without a persistent room confirmation. That deployed revision predates the Room created / Room joined Continue confirmation added in 999edb6; it does not verify the current source. The current action-notice, room-entry client and seat-confirmation tests pass 23/23. The QA room and private screenshot/observation are preserved outside Git. No deployment or server restart was performed. Recheck actual create/join confirmation retention and Continue after deploying a revision containing the fix; production acceptance for that fix remains open.

18 October follow-up: local QA room NAZLA8P4 kept its unread confirmation for 43 seconds through background polling and a normal player-circle change. Continue removed only the notice; the same room stayed open and subsequent polls did not restore the notice. The screenshot and browser record are kept outside Git. No console errors; focused23/23 existing entry/notice/seat tests, types/lint and production build pass. The dedicated QA room is preserved. This is local evidence; deployed verification remains open.

Browser QA uses dedicated rooms and a temporary local transport that delays the first response and can lose one successful create response. This verifies actual rendered progress, durable recovery instructions, and explicit same-request retry without introducing production timing changes. Existing room-entry regressions cover retry identity, storage failure, ambiguous responses and no duplicate creates; notice regressions cover retention, continuation, summaries and mute.

Record browser, source-bound checks and deployed acceptance separately. Test normal create/join and notice controls on the deployed revision; a local delayed transport test does not establish production behavior. Preserve existing games.