The video pager: a clip that plays by itself has no poster, and its caption is live — names open profiles, the words open the post.

No poster: every poster there was (the kept frame, a post's imeta picture, the server's) is 480px wide and taken at some moment of the clip, so it showed for a beat, soft and not quite the first frame, and the clip's own first frame replaced it — a flash on every flick (Adam, 2026-10-16: "if we're auto playing let's not show the thumbnail let's just start on the first frame of the video"). The slide is the pager's black until the player, whose opening is in the cache by then, has its first frame. Giving the next clip's player its file ahead of time was tried and dropped: it pulled the whole file down (pager-eager-test). On a connection to be careful with the poster stays: a heavy clip waits for a tap, and the still is what there is.

The caption was a plain excerpt, which left "@NostrValley" as dead text. It is the post's words rendered as a post's are now — names, tags, note references and links live. A tap on a name, a tag or a note reference leaves the pager (and the full screen) before going where it goes; a link to the web opens in its own tab and the pager stays; a tap anywhere else on the caption leaves the pager and opens the post, where the whole of a long caption reads ("clicking anywhere on the caption that's not a link should take me out of fullscreen and take me to the post"). The expand-in-place toggle is gone.

Tests: tools/pager-no-poster-test.js (no poster on the clip on screen nor the ones ahead, playing; with Data Saver the posters stay), tools/pager-caption-test.js (the name is a link and opens the profile out of the pager; a tap on the words opens the post; a web link opens its own tab and the pager stays). Pre-existing on a clean checkout: feed-video-pager-test "from where it was in the feed", feed-pager-ahead-test "past fifteen posts with none" (fails on 33c7218 too).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J1Kon8bxJoHRpJdSzshCkp

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