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Improve watch-party controls and browsing recovery for v6.4.11. Participant actions now use labeled menus and named confirmations; host badges, plain-language pause permissions, and basic playback/sync states are visible without Advanced controls.

Add distinct empty, disabled-library, and failed-loading states with recovery actions. Use neutral Plex connection errors with retry and optional troubleshooting, validate custom service URLs before connecting, label refresh/visibility/sort/settings controls, and show a numeric next-episode countdown with “Don’t play next episode”.

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  • Build and lint passed.
  • 171 Node tests and 570 frontend tests passed, including moderation, stale requests, recovery, address validation, and countdown cancellation.
  • npm audit: zero vulnerabilities.
  • Rendered desktop and phone-width fixture checks covered moderation, party status, browsing/search recovery, service connection, settings, and next episode.
  • Live Plex playback/authentication and physical-device behavior remain unverified.

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  • New Features
    • Up-next dialogs show a seconds countdown and offer a clearer “Don’t play next episode” option.
    • Hosts can manage participants through a confirmation dialog, with clearer playback and sync-status labels.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Search and library views provide clearer empty and error states, retain available results when some servers fail, and offer retry or filter-clearing options.
    • Room joining shows service health, supports retrying checks, and validates custom server addresses before connecting.
  • Accessibility
    • Settings and library controls have clearer accessible labels; the party-pause setting explains who can control playback.

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  • src/__tests__/desktop-ui-controls.test.js
  • src/__tests__/participant-health.test.js
  • src/__tests__/participant-moderation.test.js
  • src/__tests__/usability-recovery.test.js
  • src/components/UserList.vue
  • src/views/AdvancedRoomJoin.vue
  • src/views/PlexHome.vue

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The update adds recovery states and retry actions to Plex browsing and room joining. It changes participant readiness and moderation controls, adds an up-next countdown and accessible control labels, expands UI preview scenarios, and updates the package version.

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Usability and recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Room connection checks and validation
src/views/AdvancedRoomJoin.vue, src/__tests__/roomjoin-stale-url.test.js, src/__tests__/usability-recovery.test.js
Room joining shows availability status, supports health-check retries, validates custom HTTP(S) addresses, and guards connection attempts. Tests cover connection outcomes and cancelled room creation.
Plex browsing and search recovery
src/views/PlexHome.vue, src/views/PlexLibrary.vue, src/views/PlexSearch.vue, src/__tests__/usability-recovery.test.js
Plex views display error, empty, and unavailable states with retry or filter-reset actions. Search keeps results from successful servers when another request fails. Library and search views discard stale requests.
Participant readiness and moderation
src/components/UserList.vue, src/__tests__/participant-health.test.js, src/__tests__/participant-moderation.test.js
Participant statuses use readiness labels, including sync-flexibility thresholds. Host moderation actions require confirmation and handle pending, cancelled, and failed actions.
Playback and settings controls
src/components/TheUpnextDialog.vue, src/components/TheSettingsDialog.vue, src/components/TheSidebarRight.vue, src/__tests__/desktop-ui-controls.test.js
The up-next dialog shows a countdown and labels its cancellation action. Settings controls gain accessible names. The party-pausing control gains explanatory text.
UI preview scenarios
test/fixtures/ui-preview.js, test/fixtures/ui-preview.vue
The preview adds Browse, Search, Library, Settings, and Next episode views, with empty, failure, and disabled scenarios and sample up-next data.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Package version
package.json
The package version changes from 6.4.10 to 6.4.11.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature



Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 815f5

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Review comments at @src/__tests__/desktop-ui-controls.test.js:
- Around line 172-174: Update the countdown test to cover the singular
one-second label: after the existing three-second advance, advance another six
seconds and assert that the dialog shows “Next episode starts in 1 second.” For
automatic mode, advance the remaining second afterward; keep the existing button
interaction for other modes and do not assert a zero-second state.

Review comments at @src/__tests__/participant-health.test.js:
- Around line 39-45: Update the test around readinessLabel to render
participants with both syncFlexibility values and assert the visible “In sync”
and “Catching up” labels instead of testing readinessLabel directly; retain the
detailed-drift assertion for Advanced mode.

Review comments at @src/__tests__/participant-moderation.test.js:
- Line 76: Wrap the first test’s assertions in a try/finally so its wrapper is
always unmounted, including when an assertion fails; keep the existing
wrapper.unmount() call in the finally block to clean up the UserList interval.

Review comments at @src/components/UserList.vue:
- Around line 253-256: Update readinessLabel to handle a missing user.state
before assigning playback or sync labels, returning the existing Connecting
status whether or not media is present; preserve the current handling of defined
states.

Review comments at @src/views/AdvancedRoomJoin.vue:
- Around line 327-328: Update the guard in the custom Connect flow in
AdvancedRoomJoin so a configured URL without a health entry does not silently
prevent connecting. Keep the health check scoped to the configured-service
action, or disable the custom button with an explanation.

Review comments at @src/views/PlexHome.vue:
- Line 20: Update the hidden-servers alert text in PlexHome.vue to identify the
Show libraries control by its visible icon, or add visible text to that button,
so touch users can identify the action without a hover hint.

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  • package.json
  • src/__tests__/desktop-ui-controls.test.js
  • src/__tests__/participant-health.test.js
  • src/__tests__/participant-moderation.test.js
  • src/__tests__/roomjoin-stale-url.test.js
  • src/__tests__/usability-recovery.test.js
  • src/components/TheSettingsDialog.vue
  • src/components/TheSidebarRight.vue
  • src/components/TheUpnextDialog.vue
  • src/components/UserList.vue
  • src/views/AdvancedRoomJoin.vue
  • src/views/PlexHome.vue
  • src/views/PlexLibrary.vue
  • src/views/PlexSearch.vue
  • test/fixtures/ui-preview.js
  • test/fixtures/ui-preview.vue

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