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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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