Feed: what arrives waits behind the pill; the count bumps; no auto-flush.

Posts a refresh found slid in a beat after the cached page painted,
moving what you had begun reading, and reaching the top of the page let
waiting posts in with a re-render under a finger on its way to the pill —
the tap landed on the post beneath. Now everything that arrives after the
first paint, the boot catch-up included, waits behind the pill wherever
you are; the pill is a keyed node whose count bumps on each change; and a
tap scrolls to the top before painting so the new posts open under your
eyes. A rebuilt follow list still rebuilds the feed in place.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JuwQqNWtDJcxPWtEm9134z

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/style.css b/src/style.css
index dd90ec1..366efe6 100644
--- a/src/style.css
+++ b/src/style.css
@@ -636,6 +636,12 @@ html.no-scroll { overflow: hidden; scrollbar-gutter: auto; }
   box-shadow: 0 3px 12px rgba(0, 0, 0, .28);
   animation: pill-in .18s ease-out;
 }
+/* the count bumps each time it changes: a fresh node per value replays it */
+.feed-new-pill .n { display: inline-block; min-width: 1.1em; text-align: center; animation: pill-bump .32s cubic-bezier(.2,.9,.3,1.4); }
+@keyframes pill-bump {
+  from { transform: scale(1.7); opacity: .4; }
+  to { transform: scale(1); opacity: 1; }
+}
 @keyframes pill-in {
   from { opacity: 0; transform: translate(-50%, -8px); }
   to { opacity: 1; transform: translate(-50%, 0); }