The landing settles as one motion: the resolving shell now holds the frame over every screen — an auto-restored wallet no longer flashes its home page — and the animation clock stands still until the profile has replaced the shell in place, so nothing slides twice

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019eA8JRq9Wr7z2fRQk99HLi

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/src/app.js b/src/app.js
index 6ad7dcc..237808e 100644
--- a/src/app.js
+++ b/src/app.js
@@ -474,7 +474,11 @@ function renderInner() {
   const navKey = [ui.screen, ui.tab === 'settings', ui.chatOpen, ui.msgView, ui.msgPeer, ui.msgCommunity,
     ui.profilePk, ui.settingsPage, ui.addrScan, ui.arkExitPage, ui.txDetail, ui.giftMode, ui.claimStep, ui.nameEditOpen,
     ui.noteThread && ui.noteThread.focusId, !!ui.userSearch, !!ui.zapSetup, !!ui.hatShop].join('|');
-  if (uiChanged('nav', navKey)) _navAt = performance.now();
+  // A deep-linked profile landing is ONE page settling, not a chain of
+  // navigations: boot screens shuffle beneath the shell (unlock → restored
+  // wallet), then the resolved profile replaces the shell in place. The key
+  // still updates, but nothing slides or re-animates until the landing ends.
+  if (uiChanged('nav', navKey) && !(ui.pubProfPending || ui.pubProfHold)) _navAt = performance.now();
   applyAnim(screen, 'anim-page', (performance.now() - _navAt) < 340 ? performance.now() - _navAt : -1);
   morphChildren(root, [screen, footer()]);
   if (fpath) {
diff --git a/src/features/messages.js b/src/features/messages.js
index 94e8909..c4ed990 100644
--- a/src/features/messages.js
+++ b/src/features/messages.js
@@ -652,11 +652,16 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
           if (!profiles.has(pk)) profiles.set(pk, { name, t: 0 });
         }
       }
-      ui.pubProfPending = null;
       if (pk && /^[0-9a-f]{64}$/.test(pk)) {
+        // hold the pinned nav key across this render: the profile replaces
+        // the shell in place, with no page-slide re-animation
+        ui.pubProfHold = true;
+        ui.pubProfPending = null;
         if (ui.screen === 'wallet') ui.pubProf = null; // wallet chrome owns it
         openProfile(pk);
+        ui.pubProfHold = null;
       } else {
+        ui.pubProfPending = null;
         ui.pubProf = null; // unknown name: fall through to the front door
         render();
       }
@@ -2384,6 +2389,16 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
     unreadMessages() { return unreadCount(); },
     notifySettingsCards() { return [notifyCard()]; },
     screenView() {
+      // A profile deep link mid-resolution holds the frame over EVERY screen
+      // — an auto-restored wallet would otherwise flash its home page for the
+      // beat the registrar lookup takes. The shell shows the name straight
+      // off the URL; no spinner, the empty beat reads calmer.
+      if (ui.pubProfPending) return h('div', { class: 'col', style: 'gap:16px' },
+        ctx.brandHeader(false),
+        h('div', { class: 'card col', style: 'gap:12px' },
+          h('div', { class: 'row gap6', style: 'align-items:center' },
+            h('div', { class: 'chat-avatar profile-avatar fallback loading' }),
+            h('div', { class: 'chat-title' }, ui.pubProfPending))));
       if (ui.screen !== 'wallet') {
         // The public (no-wallet) surface: a deep-linked profile, and the
         // threads reachable from it, are public nostr content — shown
@@ -2391,14 +2406,6 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
         if (ui.pubProf) {
           if (ui.noteThread) return threadScreen();
           if (ui.profilePk) return profileScreen();
-          // resolution in flight: the shell holds the layout with the name
-          // straight off the URL — no spinner, the empty beat reads calmer
-          if (ui.pubProfPending) return h('div', { class: 'col', style: 'gap:16px' },
-            ctx.brandHeader(false),
-            h('div', { class: 'card col', style: 'gap:12px' },
-              h('div', { class: 'row gap6', style: 'align-items:center' },
-                h('div', { class: 'chat-avatar profile-avatar fallback loading' }),
-                h('div', { class: 'chat-title' }, ui.pubProfPending))));
         }
         return null;
       }