The post-aware on-ramp + the data behind the missing Series browse view.
- page_number_parser: conservative stated-page parser (pages 9-12 / page 5 /
[3/8] / 3 of 8), keyword-gated to avoid false positives. Pure + unit-tested.
- SeriesService.promote_post_to_series: a self-contained post becomes its own
series — series tag named after the post, one chapter, the post's images as
pages (ordered by capture order; stated pages parsed from title/description).
- SeriesService.add_post_as_chapter: append a post as the next chapter of an
existing series, titled after the post and slotted by parsed page number
(a "pages 1-4" post lands ahead of the "pages 9-12" chapter).
- SeriesService.list_series: browse cards — cover thumb, artist, chapter/page
counts, gap flag, last-updated; sort recent|name|size + filter by artist.
- API: GET /api/series, POST /api/series/from-post, POST /api/series/<id>/add-post.
- Resolver uses ImageRecord.primary_post_id (same linkage the posts feed renders).
Frontend (Add-to-series control + Series view + nav) lands next.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds an ordered chapter layer to series. Reading order becomes
(series_chapter.chapter_number, series_page.page_number); a chapter may be a
placeholder reserving a slot, and carries an optional parsed stated-page range
used to flag missing-page gaps. An image still lives in at most one series ⇒ one
chapter (image_id stays UNIQUE).
- models: series_chapter; series_page gains chapter_id (NOT NULL, cascade) +
stated_page. Migration 0040 backfills every existing series into one
auto-chapter holding its current flat pages — no data loss.
- SeriesService: chapter CRUD (create/update/reorder/delete/merge), page→chapter
assignment, reorder_pages, chapter-aware set_cover; list_pages now returns
chapters[] + gaps[] alongside a back-compat flat pages[]. Legacy series-wide
reorder operates on the single default chapter and rejects multi-chapter series.
- API: chapter endpoints under /api/series/<tag>/chapters; POST pages accepts an
optional chapter_id.
- TagService.merge now repoints series_chapter too, so a merged series' chapters
(and their pages) survive the source tag's deletion instead of cascading away.
- Tests: new chapter suite; updated the 4 direct SeriesPage(...) constructions to
supply chapter_id.
Frontend (chapter-aware manage view + reader) lands next; until then the
existing UI keeps working via the flat pages[] + single default chapter.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The showcase/gallery/artist/series/post-feed APIs were constructing
thumbnail URLs from (sha256, mime). The MIME-based extension predicate
("png if image/png or image/gif else jpg") DISAGREED with the
thumbnailer's actual on-disk extension predicate ("png if alpha else
jpg"). Result: every PNG source without transparency 404'd (URL asked
.png, disk had .jpg); every WebP/AVIF source with transparency 404'd
(URL asked .jpg, disk had .png) — despite the thumbnail file existing
on disk.
The backfill task couldn't catch these because backfill checks the
ACTUAL thumbnail_path stored on the record (correct), not the URL the
browser fetches (broken derivation). So records with valid on-disk
thumbnails kept showing as broken in the UI no matter how many times
backfill ran.
Operator-flagged 2026-05-30: "the generate thumbnails function appears
to not catch all of the failed thumbnail cases" — turned out to not be
a backfill bug at all.
Fix: thumbnail_url now takes (thumbnail_path, sha256, mime) and returns
the stored path verbatim — Quart serves /images/* 1:1 from the volume
(frontend.py:20-36), so the URL IS the disk path. Falls back to the old
sha256+mime derivation only when thumbnail_path is NULL (thumbnailer
hasn't run yet); that URL will 404 in the browser until backfill catches
it, same as before the path was tracked.
All 8 callers updated: showcase_service, gallery_service (2 sites),
artist_service, series_service, post_feed_service, tag_directory_service,
artist_directory_service. The four sites whose query was raw-tuple now
also SELECT ImageRecord.thumbnail_path.
Net effect: every record that has a valid on-disk thumbnail will now
render correctly, regardless of which extension the thumbnailer chose,
without any DB migration or backfill rerun needed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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