The second platform through the seam note 3970 contracted, characterized first from a live capture of the account's /subscriptions page (note 3989). The capture lives in the gitignored captures dir; the committed fixture is hand-built with invented values and was verified tag-for-tag against it - card wrappers, both table heads, and every distinct row shape - before any code depended on it.
What the page is, and the three decisions it forced:
The table IS the status. SubscribeStar has no per-row status word: a creator is either in the active_subscriptions card or the cancelled_subscriptions one. The card's data-identifier is stored verbatim as Membership.status and mapped in MEMBERSHIP_STATUS, keyed on the identifier rather than the table class because the cancelled table's class names the same list differently (for-unsubscribed_users).
The creator's numeric data-user-id is the key, not the slug. A slug re-keys when a creator renames; the old row stops appearing; and a disappearance is exactly what reconciliation reads as a lapse. Keyed on the slug, a rename would have told a paying subscriber they had cancelled. The slug rides as vanity, where the identity join already looks for a handle.
Price is kept as text, never parsed into amount_cents. A bare $ names no currency and a page price is not proven to be the charge - 3970 finding 4. Tier names live behind a per-row modal and are not fetched.
Refusals, because SubscribeStar offers nothing like Patreon's meta.pagination.total and every conclusion downstream is drawn from absence. The parser raises when: the active card is missing (auth error on a login/age wall, drift otherwise); a row lacks a numeric creator id or a creator link; anything renders after a card's table; or the page carries a page= link. Both cards are paginatable (app#embed_pagination) and the captured account was too small to show what pagination looks like, so possible pagination is a roster FC cannot prove complete. A loud error on a larger account beats a quiet half-list. A missing cancelled card is not drift, and a creator in both tables is reported once, as active.
Fetched from subscribestar.adult, not the .art the capture came from: FC's requests never clear the .art age wall with the 18+ cookie (1259, 1284). Whether /subscriptions on .adult authenticates exactly as .art did in the browser is untested - if not, the sweep records a visible error and C6 shows its unavailable rung.
The seam leak D1 found. Note 3970 promised a second platform would be one builders line plus the client method. The sweep instead called current_user_id() on every client, which only Patreon's has, so SubscribeStar would have raised AttributeError on the first sweep. roster_user_id probes it with getattr, the same way the sweep already probes iter_memberships.
Two existing tests were passing for the wrong reason and now can fail:
- "a platform that has never been characterised says nothing" named SubscribeStar, and stayed green only because active_patron is not a SubscribeStar word. Now uses hentaifoundry, with a positive SubscribeStar test beside it.
- the freshness test gave SubscribeStar a Patreon word, so the vocabulary excluded it and deleting the freshness gate outright would have left it green. It now uses cancelled_subscriptions, making the gate the only thing that excludes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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