- New AvBeatLogo inline-SVG component (rounded-square emblem with
forward-leaning AV monogram + horizontal beam detail) at
src/components/AvBeatLogo.tsx, three variants (full/wordmark/icon).
- Header.tsx now uses the responsive AV BEAT logo lockup in the
top-left, links to /, full lockup on desktop (emblem+wordmark+tagline),
emblem+wordmark on tablet, emblem-only on mobile.
- Removed DualSpeedTicker (the 'RECENT FORUM POSTS' ticker strip);
the news ticker / glow chrome does not match the new aesthetic and the
forum row was the explicit removal target.
- Tailwind theme + globals.css now expose the AV BEAT 2026 palette as
semantic tokens: --brand-blue (#1D4ED8), --brand-blue-bright (#38BDF8),
--brand-navy (#0F172A), --brand-bg (#F8FAFC), --brand-surface, --brand-border,
--brand-text, --brand-text-muted. Legacy --color-* aliases re-point to the
new tokens so any inline-styled component re-themes for free.
- Site-wide hex sweep migrates 2,769 hardcoded color literals across 144
files from the old dark-broadcast palette to the new tokens (orange
-> blue, dark-brown -> white surface / navy text, cream -> navy).
- Layout body class flipped from 'bb-neon' to 'bg-brand-bg text-brand-text'
so the dark glow chrome no longer leaks through the new light theme.
- layout.tsx: load Lora (serif) + Inter (sans) via next/font/google,
self-hosted at build time, exposed as --font-serif / --font-sans
CSS variables on <html>. No CDN fetch, no FOIT, no GDPR concern.
- tailwind.css: --font-heading and --font-body now reference the
next/font variables with Georgia / -apple-system fallbacks for the
brief window before the self-hosted face is ready. --font-mono
upgraded to IBM Plex Mono → ui-monospace → Courier New fallback
(DoubleTicker chips already specify IBM Plex Mono directly).
- ArticleFeed: drop the FEATURED filter chip (duplicates the
Staff Editorial section above), add publish date alongside the
byline on every card, lift the homepage feed cap from 200 → 5000.
- api/public/posts: lift MAX_LIMIT to 10000 so client-side
pagination + infinite-scroll see the full archive.
1. Remove SystemStatusBar from root layout. The "29,220 articles
indexed / 13 events tracked / [v2.0.0]" strip ate vertical space
above the fold without serving readers.
2. /api/newsletter/subscribe was returning 500 "Failed to save
subscription" because:
- The route used the anon-session client and tried to UPSERT on
bb.newsletter_subscribers, but the table's RLS only has an
INSERT policy for the public role. Upsert needs INSERT+UPDATE,
so the second branch failed RLS.
- Switched to createAdminClient (service-role) — bypasses RLS,
which is fine because this is a server-side endpoint with
server-side email validation.
- Welcome email now sends via nodemailer in a non-blocking
background task so a slow SMTP doesn't hold up the response.
Newer HTML template, brand-aligned, with a real CTA back to
/news.
Side work to wire SMTP (done out-of-band):
- Created newsletter@broadcastbeat.com mailbox in Mailcow via
the API (2GB quota, active, no force-pw-update).
- Set SMTP_HOST=mail.onsethost.com, SMTP_PORT=587,
SMTP_USER/PASS/FROM_EMAIL/FROM_NAME in Coolify env so the
welcome email actually fires after the next deploy.
3. FeaturedBentoFromDb section header: "Featured · staff editorial"
(small mono caps) → "Staff Editorial" (font-serif 2xl/3xl, bold,
with a thin metadata line "Selected by our newsroom" beside it
and a 2px bottom rule). Matches the editorial typography on the
article pages.
Renders on every page via root layout. Behavior:
- 5s delay after first paint so it doesn't slam the user.
- Animates from a pill into the full card (bb-modal-pop keyframe);
respects prefers-reduced-motion.
- Heading "Get the latest in broadcast & media", email field,
Subscribe + "Not now" + close (X).
- Subscribe POSTs to the existing /api/newsletter/subscribe route
(native system — newsletter_subscribers table + SMTP welcome
via Mailcow/SMTP2GO). Listmonk wasn't installed anywhere on the
infra; switching to it later is a one-line URL change.
- "Not now" + backdrop click + Escape + X all dismiss for 7 days
via localStorage["bb_newsletter_dismissed"].
- On success → "Check your email" panel + auto-close at 4s;
subscribed flag stored in localStorage so the modal never
re-prompts that visitor.
Styling matches the site's dark-navy + electric-blue palette
(NOT the neon ticker palette). No layout/page shifts — overlay
only.
USER PROFILES (/forum/user/[username]):
- New API at /api/forum/user-by-username/[username] resolves by
username OR display_name (URL-encoded), since forum threads/replies
store author_name = display_name. Returns the persona's profile,
thread history (up to 50), and recent replies (up to 20).
- New page renders the persona card with archetype badge
(Audio Engineer / Colorist / etc.) + expertise level badge
(beginner/intermediate/senior) + role title, company, location,
years_experience, join date, and an expertise-tags chip row.
- Two columns underneath: "Threads started" and "Recent replies"
with proper deep-links into each thread.
- Author names in /forum, /forum/[slug], and /forum/thread/[id] are
now <Link> elements pointing to /forum/user/<displayname>, with
onClick=stopPropagation so the card-level click handler doesn't
also fire.
FAVICON:
- Hand-built neon pulse waveform — emerald→cyan→purple gradient on
dark navy background, designed to read at 16×16 to 256×256.
- Multi-resolution favicon.ico (16/32/48/64) + SVG + PNGs at
16/32/48/64/96/192/256 under /static/favicons/.
- layout.tsx icons block now references all sizes including the
apple-touch sizes (192, 256).
No env / DB changes here — pure deploy.
- layout.tsx: flip robots.index from false→true (and the matching
googleBot block). Drop the manual <meta name="robots"
content="index, follow"> in the JSX head — it was duplicating
(and conflicting with) the metadata-driven tag, so Google was
seeing both "index, follow" AND "noindex, nofollow" and taking
the more restrictive one. Now the metadata block is the single
source of truth.
- sitemap.ts: expand from 5,000 articles to up to 45,000 (catalog
is ~26k; cap leaves room for static + authors + events under
Google's 50k-per-file ceiling). Add /authors/[slug] entries
pulled from bb.author_profiles, and /events/[slug] entries
pulled from bb.events. Drop the duplicate /articles/[slug]
emissions — /news/[slug] is the canonical news URL.
- legacy-source.ts: page through the supabase query in 1,000-row
chunks via Range headers so the 25k cap actually returns the
full catalog (the previous `.limit(25000)` was getting silently
truncated at PostgREST's default 1,000 max_rows).
Phase B (Ollama rewriter) is live; the press-release scrubber +
AI featured-image jobs are running in background to clean the
catalog. User explicitly chose to open SEO now rather than wait
for those jobs to finish.
- Replace img.rocket.new mock URLs in authors/[slug] + FeaturedBento
with /assets/images/article-placeholder.svg (live DB data drives
these pages now; the static maps are fallback only).
- Replace broadcastb5322.builtwithrocket.new with broadcastbeat.com
in admin API routes, news detail, forum layout, and the 4 Supabase
edge functions that build outbound email links.
- Swap rocket-hosted JSON-LD logo URL in root layout for the local
/assets/images/logo.png we already ship.
- Drop img.rocket.new from the Next.js image-hosts allowlist;
add supabase.onsethost.com so storage proxy URLs can render.
The DB has had zero rocket.new image refs for weeks; this finishes
the job in the codebase so no page on broadcastbeat.com can render
a rocket-hosted asset anymore.
Three connected fixes:
1) Stop the unwanted "translate this page to Portuguese?" popup that
some US users were seeing. Chrome's content-language detector was
mis-firing on imported BB articles that mention Portuguese/Spanish
company/person names. Add to layout <head>:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
Together with the existing <html lang="en"> this is the standard
"this site is English, don't offer to translate" signal.
2) Wire the LanguageSwitcher pulldown to actually do something. It used
to set a cookie + flip <html lang> with no effect on visible
content. Now picking a non-English language redirects the current
URL to Google Translate's hosted proxy (e.g.
https://broadcastbeat-com.translate.goog/<path>?_x_tr_sl=en
&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en
), which renders the entire page translated server-side by Google
and preserves the user's session as they navigate. English stays
on the canonical broadcastbeat.com host.
3) SEO posture: English is the only indexable version. The Google
Translate proxy lives on a different (Google-owned) domain so US
browsers and Googlebot only ever see the English content. The
alternates.languages hreflang block stays absent — re-add only once
real translated routes exist (Phase D).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the four accent-family hex codes site-wide with the teal palette
(keeps the dark theme; only swaps the accent family, not the dark base):
#3b82f6 (accent primary CTA) → #5B7C8D (teal) [839×]
#2563eb (accent-dark / hover) → #4A6473 (darker teal) [44×]
#60a5fa (info link, lighter) → #8FB0C3 (mid teal) [68×]
#1e3a5f (accent-muted bg) → #2F4F5F (navy) [44×]
tailwind.config.js tokens updated to match (accent/accent-dark/accent-muted).
Sweep also covers tailwind.css. 108 files touched. The dark base (#0d0d0d,
#111, #161616, #1a1a1a etc.) is intentionally untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0-2 (Adsanity iframe path removed):
- AdImage.tsx: deleted the iframe branch and the ADSANITY_CAMPAIGN_MAP
fallback. AdImage now renders local images only; banners without a
src render nothing.
- ads.ts: removed Ad.adsanity_id from the interface. Pruned AJA, Zixi,
Lectrosonics, Opengear, Studio Hero, Magewell 300x250 and Blackmagic
300x600 — they relied on ads.broadcastbeat.com which does not resolve.
Surviving live banners: LiveU 728x90, LiveU PAYG 300x250, Telycam 300x250.
- SidebarAdStack: key no longer references the removed field.
- No banner_analytics rows reference ads.broadcastbeat.com.
Phase A (SEO baseline):
- robots.ts: fallback base URL now broadcastbeat.com (was rocket staging URL).
- sitemap.ts: fallback base URL now broadcastbeat.com (was bb-staging).
- news/[slug]/page.tsx and articles/[slug]/page.tsx: same fallback fix.
JSON-LD now uses ISO 8601 for datePublished, absolute image URL via
SITE_URL prefix, and publisher.logo points at /assets/images/logo.png
instead of the 404-ing /legacy/site/broadcastbeat-logo.png.
- layout.tsx: removed the /en /es /pt /fr /de /zh /ja /ar /hi hreflang
alternates - those routes 404 today; Phase D will reinstate. Replaced
rocket.new Organization schema URL with broadcastbeat.com. Set
robots index/follow=false until Phase B-D land and Rich Results passes.
Featured-image fallback hardening:
- legacy-source: rowToArticle now treats BB_Gray, no_image and placeholder
URLs as null and falls back to the new placeholder so dead images do not
leak through to the page.
- public/assets/images/article-placeholder.svg: new clean dark gradient
with BroadcastBeat wordmark, NOT no_image.png style.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
