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Description

Prevents unwanted requests by allowing the owner to restrict discovery results to a specific original language.

The Original Language filter is disabled whenever Discover Language is set to a value other than an empty string, since the two filters should not be used together.

How Has This Been Tested?

Tested locally in the development environment.

  • Verified that the Original Language filter is available on discovery pages.
  • Verified that the filter can be used when Discover Language is empty.
  • Verified that the Original Language filter is disabled when Discover Language has a value selected.
  • Verified that the discovery results respect the selected original language.
  • Ran the existing test suite and confirmed that all tests pass.
  • Verified that the project builds successfully with pnpm build.

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The Original Language filter field on discovery pages is disabled if Discover Language has any other value than an empty string.

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  • I have updated the documentation accordingly.
  • All new and existing tests passed.
  • Successful build pnpm build

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New Features

  • Added configurable original-language filtering across search, discovery, trending, upcoming, recommendations, similar titles, and media sliders.
  • Added per-section language-filter toggles in Settings.
  • Results are automatically filtered by supported original languages for applicable movie and TV content.
  • Added server settings for configuring filter behavior and supported original languages.
  • Media sliders now apply language, availability, and blocklist filters consistently.

Updates

  • Language selection is disabled when a server-level original language is configured.

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  • server/lib/settings/index.ts
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  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverMovies/index.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverTv/index.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvKeyword/index.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvUpcoming.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/FilterSlideover/index.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/Trending.tsx
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  • src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx
  • src/components/MovieDetails/MovieRecommendations.tsx
  • src/components/MovieDetails/MovieSimilar.tsx
  • src/components/Search/index.tsx
  • src/components/Settings/SettingsMain/index.tsx
  • src/components/TvDetails/TvRecommendations.tsx
  • src/components/TvDetails/TvSimilar.tsx
  • src/hooks/useFilterByLanguages.ts
  • src/types/filters.ts

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The change adds 13 original-language filter settings, exposes them through public settings, provides a reusable filtering hook, and applies the filters across search, discovery, recommendations, similar titles, upcoming lists, trending, and media sliders.

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Original Language Filtering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Language filter contracts and settings
server/lib/settings/index.ts, src/types/filters.ts
Defines 13 filter flags, default values, public settings exposure, filter keys, and filter item types.
Filter settings interface
src/components/Settings/SettingsMain/index.tsx, src/components/Discover/FilterSlideover/index.tsx
Adds the 13 settings toggles and disables the client language selector when a server-level language is configured.
Language filtering hook
src/hooks/useFilterByLanguages.ts
Loads public settings, parses original languages, checks the selected filter, and filters movie and TV results.
Filtered media views
src/components/Discover/*, src/components/MovieDetails/*, src/components/TvDetails/*, src/components/Search/index.tsx, src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx
Applies language filtering to media lists and uses filtered results for rendering and loading checks.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1efaf

The PR adds original-language filtering across discovery, search, recommendations, and similar-title views. At the current head, stale filter state, incorrect movie/TV setting selection, and pagination based on unfiltered results can produce incorrect or incomplete results, while labels may not be localized; merge should wait for these bounded correctness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Admin
  participant SettingsAPI
  participant MediaView
  participant useFilterByLanguages
  participant ListView
  Admin->>SettingsAPI: save language filter settings
  MediaView->>useFilterByLanguages: pass titles and filter key
  useFilterByLanguages->>SettingsAPI: fetch public settings
  SettingsAPI-->>useFilterByLanguages: return public settings
  useFilterByLanguages->>ListView: provide filtered titles
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A rabbit flips toggles, neat and bright
Languages hop into lists just right
Search and sliders follow the trail
Movies stay, mismatches sail
Public settings guide the way
Filters bloom across the display

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In `@src/components/Discover/DiscoverMovieKeyword/index.tsx`:
- Line 7: Restore the ErrorPage import binding in each affected component:
src/components/Discover/DiscoverMovieKeyword/index.tsx lines 7-7,
src/components/Discover/DiscoverMovies/index.tsx lines 14-14,
src/components/Discover/DiscoverTv/index.tsx lines 14-14,
src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvKeyword/index.tsx lines 7-7,
src/components/Discover/Trending.tsx lines 6-6, and
src/components/Discover/Upcoming.tsx lines 6-6. Alias the default export from
`@app/pages/_error` as ErrorPage so the existing ErrorPage renders resolve
correctly; no other changes are needed.

Apply the same fix in `@src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvUpcoming.tsx` at line 6:
Same unresolved ErrorPage import binding.

In `@src/components/Discover/FilterSlideover/index.tsx`:
- Line 208: Update the request-state preparation around
currentSettings.originalLanguage and preparedFilters so language is cleared or
omitted whenever the server-provided originalLanguage is non-empty, preventing
bookmarked or URL-derived language values from reaching useDiscover alongside
it. Keep the existing isDisabled UI behavior for new changes.

In `@src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx`:
- Line 158: Complete the blacklistVisible call before declaring
blocklistVisibility, ensuring the hasPermission argument list is closed and the
file parses successfully. Keep the existing permission-check flow unchanged.
- Around line 74-76: Update the filtering predicate in MediaSlider to preserve
person results when hideAvailable is enabled by applying availability-status
checks only to movie and tv entries; leave non-title media types untouched so
person cards remain available for rendering.
- Line 89: Fix the filter expression in the MediaSlider component by closing the
preceding titles.filter callback before starting the hideBlocklisted callback,
restoring valid syntax and allowing the application to build.

In `@src/components/Settings/SettingsMain/index.tsx`:
- Around line 85-98: The filter labels in the filters array, along with the
section title and help text in SettingsMain, are hardcoded English strings. Add
localized message descriptors and use intl.formatMessage for all 13 filter names
and the associated title and help text, following the existing settings
localization pattern.

In `@src/components/TvDetails/TvRecommendations.tsx`:
- Around line 37-38: Update the useFilterByLanguages options in
src/components/TvDetails/TvRecommendations.tsx lines 37-38 and
src/components/TvDetails/TvSimilar.tsx lines 37-38 to pass movie: false and tv:
true, so TV results are filtered using their configured original-language rules.

In `@src/hooks/useFilterByLanguages.ts`:
- Around line 33-38: Update the settings-update logic in useFilterByLanguages so
originalLanguages is assigned on every update, parsing and trimming
originalLanguage when present and using an empty array when it is empty or
unset; preserve applyFilter behavior.

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  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvKeyword/index.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvUpcoming.tsx
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  • src/components/Discover/Trending.tsx
  • src/components/Discover/Upcoming.tsx
  • src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx
  • src/components/MovieDetails/MovieRecommendations.tsx
  • src/components/MovieDetails/MovieSimilar.tsx
  • src/components/Search/index.tsx
  • src/components/Settings/SettingsMain/index.tsx
  • src/components/TvDetails/TvRecommendations.tsx
  • src/components/TvDetails/TvSimilar.tsx
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50-51: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Derive the media type from the URL for recommendations and similar sliders.

When sliderKey is recommendations or similar, both flags are initialized to true. getKey() then always selects the movie filter key, including for TV sliders.

Initialize these flags from the URL before applying overrides for mixed or explicitly typed sliders.

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-  let isSeries = !sliderKey ? url.includes('tv') : true;
-  let isMovies = !sliderKey ? url.includes('movie') : true;
+  let isSeries = url.includes('tv');
+  let isMovies = url.includes('movie');
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In `@src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx` around lines 50 - 51, Update the
isSeries and isMovies initialization in the slider component to derive the media
type from url.includes('tv') and url.includes('movie') for recommendations and
similar sliders, then preserve the existing overrides for mixed or explicitly
typed sliders so getKey() selects the correct filter key.

93-95: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use filteredTitles for pagination and visible-result decisions.

titles still contains results removed by useFilterByLanguages. If the first two pages contain 40 results but fewer than 24 match the configured languages, this effect stops fetching. Matching results on later pages never reach the slider.

The same raw array keeps an empty slider visible and makes ShowMoreCard use hidden-language posters. Move the effect below useFilterByLanguages, then use filteredTitles.length for fetching and empty-state checks, and filteredTitles.slice(20, 24) for Show More data.

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-      titles.length < 24 &&
+      filteredTitles.length < 24 &&
...
-  if (hideWhenEmpty && (data?.[0].results ?? []).length === 0) {
+  if (hideWhenEmpty && filteredTitles.length === 0) {
...
-  if (linkUrl && titles.length > 20) {
+  if (linkUrl && filteredTitles.length > 20) {
...
-        posters={titles
+        posters={filteredTitles

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In `@src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx` around lines 93 - 95, Update the
MediaSlider logic around the pagination effect and rendered empty/Show More
states to use filteredTitles, not titles. Move the pagination effect below
useFilterByLanguages, use filteredTitles.length for fetch and empty-state
decisions, and pass filteredTitles.slice(20, 24) to ShowMoreCard so
hidden-language results are excluded.

221-225: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add a stable key to PersonCard.

PersonCard is returned from filteredTitles.map without a key. When the filtered order changes, React may reuse a card's state for the wrong person. Add key={person-${title.id}}.

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In `@src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx` around lines 221 - 225, Add a stable
React key to the PersonCard rendered inside filteredTitles.map, using the person
ID to uniquely identify each card and preserve state association when the
filtered order changes.

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In `@src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx`:
- Around line 50-51: Update the isSeries and isMovies initialization in the
slider component to derive the media type from url.includes('tv') and
url.includes('movie') for recommendations and similar sliders, then preserve the
existing overrides for mixed or explicitly typed sliders so getKey() selects the
correct filter key.
- Around line 93-95: Update the MediaSlider logic around the pagination effect
and rendered empty/Show More states to use filteredTitles, not titles. Move the
pagination effect below useFilterByLanguages, use filteredTitles.length for
fetch and empty-state decisions, and pass filteredTitles.slice(20, 24) to
ShowMoreCard so hidden-language results are excluded.
- Around line 221-225: Add a stable React key to the PersonCard rendered inside
filteredTitles.map, using the person ID to uniquely identify each card and
preserve state association when the filtered order changes.

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  • src/components/Discover/DiscoverTvKeyword/index.tsx
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  • src/components/Discover/Upcoming.tsx
  • src/components/MediaSlider/index.tsx
  • src/components/MovieDetails/MovieRecommendations.tsx
  • src/components/MovieDetails/MovieSimilar.tsx
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Please use the discover language multi select instead of the toggles.

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Please use the discover language multi select instead of the toggles.

Thanks, going to look at that. I get it now.

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Also I'm not sure I understand this PR. Discover Language is a discover setting. It already sets with_original_language on /discover/movie and /discover/tv, and that's the whole contract. Applying it to search, recommendations, similar, trending and sliders changes what the setting means for every admin who already has it configured. Someone who set it to get Japanese rows on discover for example did not ask for search to stop returning results.

If the goal is restricting what users can request, that is a separate feature with its own setting, and shouldn't be a reinterpretation of this one.

Two other things:

  • The filtering happens client side after fetch, so a page of 20 can render as 3 and pagination and counts stop lining up. A filter that isn't enforced at the request layer will always do this.
  • The premise that Discover Language and the slideover's Original Language conflict isn't right. The slideover value already overrides the server default:

with_original_language:
originalLanguage && originalLanguage !== 'all'
? originalLanguage
: originalLanguage === 'all'
? undefined
: this.originalLanguage,

That override is deliberate. Disabling the selector removes it.

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Also I'm not sure I understand this PR. Discover Language is a discover setting. It already sets with_original_language on /discover/movie and /discover/tv, and that's the whole contract. Applying it to search, recommendations, similar, trending and sliders changes what the setting means for every admin who already has it configured. Someone who set it to get Japanese rows on discover for example did not ask for search to stop returning results.

If the goal is restricting what users can request, that is a separate feature with its own setting, and shouldn't be a reinterpretation of this one.

Two other things:

  • The filtering happens client side after fetch, so a page of 20 can render as 3 and pagination and counts stop lining up. A filter that isn't enforced at the request layer will always do this.
  • The premise that Discover Language and the slideover's Original Language conflict isn't right. The slideover value already overrides the server default:

with_original_language:
originalLanguage && originalLanguage !== 'all'
? originalLanguage
: originalLanguage === 'all'
? undefined
: this.originalLanguage,

That override is deliberate. Disabling the selector removes it.

My ideia is to take advantage of the value already set for Discover Language since this option is to filter content by original language. The issue with this option is that users can still search for content for all languages no matter what this input states.

For example, if I want my users to only be able to find content with Original Language [English, Japanese, Portuguese] currently there's no way to achieve that.

My PR gives the ability to filter out results based on the Discover Language input value with the flexibility of choosing where this filter can be applied (preferably everywhere).

I'll look into the pagination issue, that would intruduce a bug for sure.

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I didn't do a thorough review but here are somethings I noticed while I skimmed through:

The MediaSlider fix looks right, but it’s the only place that actually got fixed. Every other scroll-driven view still takes isEmpty and isReachingEnd directly from useDiscover, which calculates them from the unfiltered titles:

const isEmpty = !isLoadingInitialData && titles?.length === 0;
const isReachingEnd =
isEmpty ||
(!!data && (data[data?.length - 1]?.results.length ?? 0) < 20) ||
(!!data && (data[data?.length - 1]?.totalResults ?? 0) <= size * 20) ||
(!!data && (data[data?.length - 1]?.totalResults ?? 0) < 41);

If page 1 returns 20 results and the filter removes all of them, isEmpty is still false, so the list renders nothing. fetchMore is also only triggered by onScrollBottom, but there’s nothing to scroll, so it never fires. It just gets stuck instead of fetching the next page.

That affects both Discover pages, both keyword pages, Upcoming, Trending, DiscoverTvUpcoming, and Search. Search also still uses titles?.length in its isLoading check.

MediaSlider itself still has the size < 5 cap too, so a narrow allowlist could leave a slider with three items and then stop fetching.

The slideover issue I mentioned earlier is also still unaddressed:

isDisabled={!!currentSettings.originalLanguage}

If Discover Language becomes an allowlist of [English, Japanese, Portuguese], the selector should be limited to those three rather than disabled. As it is now, a user who is allowed all three can’t narrow Discover down to just Japanese. So the restriction ends up removing the filtering it was supposed to preserve.

As for the overall goal, I still think this should be its own setting. The toggles can remain their own setting, but the language allowlist shouldn’t be tied to Discover Language.

Right now the hook just reads originalLanguage from public settings, so the allowlist effectively becomes Discover Language. That means you can’t have Japanese-only Discover rows while still allowing English, Japanese, and Portuguese elsewhere, such as Search.

That’s also why you had to disable the selector, since one value is effectively being used for two different purposes, so whatever you set for Discover gets interpreted as a restriction too. That also removes functionality for existing users who don’t care about this feature.

I’d give the allowlist its own languages field. That solves both issues, and you wouldn’t need the 13 flags either.

As it stands, this can’t be merged regardless of the rest. Anyone who upgrades with Discover Language already set will lose the language filter in the slideover without opting into any of these changes. That effectively removes existing functionality in the name of adding a new feature (in other words I consider this a regression).

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