The feed opened by URL paints as the restoring wallet's from its first frame: the Post button, the feed chips and the nav come with the page, not a beat after it. /feed is a public page, so it painted as a visitor's (no button, chips or nav) the moment the app ran, and the wallet's restore — synchronous work: the vault's scrypt on a cold start, the wallet's state, every feature's init, ~0.5 s on a laptop and more on a phone — re-painted it with the button only once it had run ("the post button takes a while to appear", Adam, 2026-10-31). Boot now tells before that work whether a wallet is about to open (a session list in the tab, a vault the last seal or unlock opened without a password — noted, since the vault alone can't say short of the scrypt being avoided — or watch-only accounts) and the feed, the nav and the chips paint for it; taps still go by the wallet actually being open, which it is by the time one lands. The wide-screen wallet column waits for the numbers. A visitor with no wallet on the device gets the visitor's page as before. tools/feed-boot-chrome-test.js boots the built app at /feed behind a session, a noted vault, an unnoted vault (the old order, and the unlock leaves the note) and as a visitorHEADmaster

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VMan6TFgisGKUDhdStLUvs

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/features/messages.js b/src/features/messages.js
index 478e054..f634866 100644
--- a/src/features/messages.js
+++ b/src/features/messages.js
@@ -6307,6 +6307,13 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
   // ---- feeds anyone can open --------------------------------------------
   // Every kind of feed has a URL, and a visitor with no wallet can read it.
   const isVisitor = () => !wallet.mnemonic && !wallet.xpub && !wallet.xprv;
+  // Whose page is painted: a visitor's (no wallet on this device), or the
+  // wallet's that boot is about to restore (ctx.restorePending). The feed,
+  // reached by URL, paints before that restore lands; painted as a visitor's
+  // it had no post button, chips or nav until the wallet opened a beat later
+  // (Adam, 2026-10-31). Taps go by isVisitor(): by the time one lands the
+  // restore, synchronous, has run.
+  const visitorView = () => isVisitor() && !(ctx.restorePending && ctx.restorePending());
   const showFeed = (id) => {
     ui.userSearch = null; ui.profilePk = null; ui.profOverThread = false; ui.noteThread = null; ui.liveStream = null; ui.goLive = null; ui.feedEdit = null;
     ui.chatOpen = true; ui.msgView = 'feed';
@@ -13697,10 +13704,13 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
   function feedChips() {
     const items = feedList();
     const cur = feedDef();
-    if (cur && adhocFeeds.has(cur.id)) items.push(cur);
+    // (a wallet restoring behind /feed is on the visitor's copy of Popular
+    // for a beat: the built-in chip stands for it, not a second Popular)
+    const onVisitorCopy = curFeedId === 'all:visitor';
+    if (cur && adhocFeeds.has(cur.id) && !onVisitorCopy) items.push(cur);
     return h('div', { class: 'row feed-chips', 'data-key': 'feed-chips' },
       ...items.map((f) => h('button', {
-        class: 'feed-chip' + (f.id === curFeedId ? ' on' : ''), type: 'button', 'data-key': 'chip:' + f.id,
+        class: 'feed-chip' + (f.id === curFeedId || (onVisitorCopy && f.id === EVERYTHING) ? ' on' : ''), type: 'button', 'data-key': 'chip:' + f.id,
         onClick: () => switchFeed(f.id),
         // someone's timeline carries the person, not a name — an empty
         // label left a blank black pill
@@ -13779,7 +13789,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
     }, 0);
   }
   function appBottomNav() {
-    const visitor = isVisitor();
+    const visitor = visitorView();
     const me = !visitor && ctx.shownPubkey ? ctx.shownPubkey() : null;
     // a stream (or Go live) over the shell is a place of its own: no button
     // is "here", so the one tapped goes there (Feed under a stream thought it
@@ -16270,7 +16280,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
     const c = feedNow();
     c.opened = true;
     const def = feedDef();
-    const visitor = isVisitor();
+    const visitor = visitorView();
     queueMicrotask(() => {
       syncMediaPager();
       if (listView()) watchSeen();