The admin was a set of env credentials on its own loopback listener. That
bought network isolation, and charged a second port to tunnel and proxy and
a second credential in the password manager. It also sat outside the
SameSite protection the member cookie already had, and left every ban and
password reset with no actor to log.
is_admin on users reuses what was already there: the session, the login
rate limiter, ban-drops-sessions, CSRF. /admin is now a route on the member
mux. A member without the flag gets 404 rather than 403 — the pages are
none of their business, and "forbidden" confirms there is something to be
forbidden from.
Registration needs an invite and invites come from /admin, so an empty
database cannot grow its first user. seedAdmin breaks that circle exactly
once, from ADMIN_EMAIL and ADMIN_PASSWORD, and does nothing against a
database that already has users.
An admin cannot ban themselves: banning drops the target's sessions, and
nothing would be left that could undo it.
This reverses decision 8, which is rewritten rather than deleted, along
with the admin entry in the CONTEXT.md vocabulary.
The Nuxt version is being rewritten in Go. This is the design that came out
of it, split by how each part ages:
- CONTEXT.md glossary, English identifiers and Finnish UI wording
- docs/spec.md behaviour: rules, submission pipeline, routes, API contract, schema
- docs/decisions.md why, append-only
- docs/later.md deliberately not in v1
testdata/ytdlp-noose.json is a real yt-dlp dump used to test metadata
prefill against a video with no track, artist or album tags.
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