Hide Xiph by default while its directory serves empty data - #1401
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dir.xiph.org's beta backend is flapping: it served ~500 genres to this codebase on Aug 13-14 and serves nothing today -- on every path (/genres, /codecs, /search, yp.xml), to every client, with byte-identical responses for a browser user agent and QUILL's own. Wayback snapshots from July are equally empty. Server-side, intermittent, and not ours. So: hidden for new profiles rather than removed. default_on=False means a fresh install does not open onto a permanently empty branch, while anyone who enables Xiph in Choose Browse Sources keeps it -- the visibility model stores an explicit choice, and "never set" is what changed. The honest empty-state still explains an outage for those who look, the code and tests stay, and reversal is one line when the backend holds steady. Removal outright only after sixty dead days. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Diagnosed 2026-08-15: dir.xiph.org is serving empty data on every path (
/genres,/codecs,/search,yp.xml) to every client — responses are byte-identical for a browser user agent and QUILL's own, so it is server-side, not filtering and not our parser (which measured ~500 genres from the same site on Aug 13-14). Wayback snapshots from July are equally empty: the beta backend has been flapping for weeks.Ruling: flapping, not dead — hide, do not remove.
default_on=Falseinbrowse_visibility, so new profiles do not open onto a permanently empty branch. Anyone who enables Xiph in Choose Browse Sources keeps it, the branch's honest empty-state still explains the outage, and reversal is one line when the backend holds. Outright removal only after sixty dead days.Both radio changelogs record the diagnosis; docs re-rendered, parity green. 396 browse/visibility tests pass.
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