Three things, one of which we were quietly getting wrong.
REAL OPT-OUT. We told members "removable any time" in three separate places and there
was no way to remove anything. Same class of failure as the dead "Add mine" button:
copy written, mechanism never built. The profile card now offers Remove username,
Remove email and Remove everything, and profiles.remove() clears the value while never
touching the position. Adding it again later works exactly as before, so opting out is
not a one-way door.
It is a two-step inline confirm, not a native confirm() dialog. Browsers with "suppress
dialogs" switched on return false, which would have made Remove look broken in precisely
the way Add mine was broken. First tap arms and explains the consequence, second tap
does it, and it disarms itself after six seconds.
THE PROMISE WE WERE BREAKING. The payout mailer and the upgrade alerts read
member-alerts.json, NOT profiles.json. So a member who completed the new profile got
NOTHING, while the invitation card promised "a note the moment POL lands in your
wallet". Verifying a profile email now mirrors into member-alerts.json so every existing
alert path works, including the unsubscribe link, and removing the email clears both
stores so opting out actually stops the email.
MANSON'S HUGE ASTERISK. He asked for it to be bigger and bolder so nobody can say they
did not see it, and on a decentralized build that burden is ours, not the member's. One
gold badge now appears on the dashboard invitation, inside the dialog on every step, in
the inbox banner and on the profile card itself: "100% OPTIONAL - never required", with
the plain statement that the position, the payouts, the team and everything on the page
work exactly the same without it, nothing on chain depends on it, and it can be removed
again any time.
gate-e2e is 52 assertions, up from 38. The new ones prove one tap does NOT remove
anything, the second tap does, the server agrees the value is gone, an email-only
removal leaves the username alone, and the invitation reappears afterwards so the whole
thing is reversible. profiles-unit 28, signin-fallback 7, captions-e2e 158 all green.
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Manson's objection was that requiring a username and a verified email pulls the
build back toward a centralized database of members. He is right, and the
communication gap is real too, so the answer is to ask well rather than to force.
Nothing about holding a position, getting paid, reading the org, the training or
the tools depends on contact details any more. There is no onboarding gate: a
brand-new member registers, lands on their page and is never stopped by a modal.
The dashboard offers a dismissable card ("Not now" snoozes it for a week) that
leads with the thing members actually want, a note the moment a payout lands in
their wallet, and says outright that everything works the same without it. The
inbox is the one place that asks, because a message cannot be delivered to
someone who left no way to reach them, and even there it is an invitation.
The card sits above the tab strip rather than inside the dashboard pane: the page
opens on the pitch tab, so an invitation parked in the dashboard would never be
seen by the new members it is aimed at.
For leaders, /api/public/reach answers "how many of my org can I reach off the
site", scoped by chain.isInTeam so it leaks nothing upward or sideways. That
makes coverage a leader's own problem to solve by asking, not a rule imposed on
members.
Fixes a real bug found by the rewritten suite: the dismissable flag double-booked
as "single-field edit", so saving a username in the opt-in flow closed the dialog
instead of advancing to the email step. Split into oneShot; the suite now asserts
the advance as a regression.
QA, all green: profiles-unit 28, signin-fallback 7, gate-e2e 33 (rewritten to
assert the opposite of what it used to: no forced modal, dismissable everywhere,
visitors unaffected), join-flow 12 cold / 11 refuse / 12 warm.
qa/reseed.sh carries two hard-won guards: never name a shell variable TMP on
Windows (it inherits the system temp dir and rm -rf wipes it), and never pkill.
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Findings fixed: the gate's buttons had no stable ids (fragile to test and maintain), and finishing the
gate left the member on the pitch tab where the profile card and Messages are not visible, so
completion now opens the Position Dashboard tab. /api/public/profile/email-start returns devCode
outside production so the flow is testable locally, matching the InstantAdPay pattern.
qa/profiles-unit.mjs (28 assertions) and qa/gate-e2e.mjs (47 assertions, real sessions, real UI) with
a README. All pass.
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The first-time gate cannot be dismissed; editing later can. The 'Email me my alerts' card becomes
'Your member profile' for a signed-in owner, showing the username and confirmed email with Change
buttons, so the verified address is the one source of truth for both messaging and payout alerts.
Visitors and non-owners keep the original opt-in form unchanged.
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Marty, 2026-09-16: leaders can write but 94% of positions cannot receive (47 of 771 have ever signed
in to messaging, 482 messages sit 85% unread). profiles.js stores username + verified email per
POSITION (one wallet holds one position, so a Triple Play holder has three; the person is the email
and one email may hold several positions). Seeds the 40 emails already on file from
member-alerts.json, pre-filled but unverified so confirming costs one tap.
Writes are only ever accepted from a session that PROVED ownership: wallet personal_sign
(messages.verifyChallenge) or the Telegram Mini App bridge. The public /my/<id> page is untouched and
cannot write a profile, verified by test: all four endpoints 401 unauthenticated while /my/21 stays
200. Endpoints GET /api/public/profile, POST .../username, .../email-start, .../email-verify, plus
GET /api/admin/profiles for coverage. Email codes: 6 digits, 15 min, 60s cooldown, 5/day, 6 tries.
profile-gate.js is a two-step modal that cannot be dismissed, fired on dashboard boot (covers the
Mini App landing) and right after a wallet sign-in. Chatbot canned answer + AI prompt updated.
28 unit tests pass.
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