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Marked-as-seen subscription videos currently stay on one device. Sync them when history sync is enabled in enhanced privacy mode.

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Related issue

Closes #1208.

Description

Store seen marks separately from watch history and merge them across devices, including individual and bulk marks for videos, Shorts, and live streams. Downloaded marks apply to cached and subsequently fetched videos and survive restarts.

Merge persisted marks in the shared datastore so concurrent windows cannot overwrite each other. Public seen marks also survive later updates from stale members-only feeds.

Prune marks already covered by watched history, then retain the 10,000 most recent remaining marks on the client. Local persistence, cache filtering, and encrypted uploads use this cap; timestamp ties resolve consistently across devices. Partially watched videos keep their seen marks.

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Videos marked as seen now sync across devices when history sync is enabled with enhanced privacy and a supporting sync server.

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Testing

  1. Connect two devices to a sync server with seen-video support, enable enhanced privacy, and enable history sync.
  2. Mark a subscription video as seen on the first device and sync both. It should disappear from the second device's New feed without adding a watch-history entry or changing playback progress. Repeat with bulk marking, Shorts, and live streams.
  3. Refresh the second device's feed and restart it. Imported marks should remain effective, including marks received before the video was fetched.
  4. Disable history sync, mark another video as seen, and sync both devices. The new mark should stay local until history sync is enabled again.
  5. Sync an account with more than 10,000 seen marks. Marks for watched videos should be removed first, then the oldest remaining marks should be discarded until 10,000 remain. Restart and sync the other device to confirm the retained marks persist.

Additional context

Requires OpenTubeX/sync-server#12. Existing clients and older servers continue syncing their supported collections.

Implemented with GPT-6 in Codex.

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The change adds persistent subscription seen-video records. It merges concurrent updates, filters seen videos from subscription caches, and synchronizes records through encrypted history sync when the server supports the capability. Unit and end-to-end tests cover privacy, retries, restarts, and concurrent windows.

Subscription seen-video synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Seen-video data and persistence
src/subscriptionSeenVideos.js, src/renderer/store/modules/settings.js, src/datastores/handlers/*, src/main/index.js, src/constants.js
Defines validated merge behavior and persists subscriptionSeenVideos through serialized datastore and Electron window updates.
Cache marking and filtering
src/renderer/helpers/subscription-seen-videos.js, src/renderer/store/modules/subscription-cache.js, tests/unit/sync-seen-videos.test.mjs
Records successful video, Shorts, and live marks, then hides matching cached entries while preserving public members-only transitions.
Encrypted sync pipeline and validation
src/renderer/helpers/sync-server*.js, src/renderer/store/modules/sync-server.js, tests/unit/sync-server-*.test.mjs, e2e/tests/offline/subscriptions-new-feed.spec.mjs, e2e/tests/offline/settings.spec.mjs
Adds the encrypted seenVideos collection, capability gating, sync scheduling, conflict retries, encrypted uploads, and related test synchronization control.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d4a80

The feature is largely bounded, but large histories may make marking slow and a persistence failure can surface in the UI. The E2E test should also wait for a rendered cache-update sentinel so it reliably protects filtering behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SubscriptionCache
  participant SettingsStore
  participant SyncServerStore
  participant EncryptedSyncAdapter
  SubscriptionCache->>SettingsStore: dispatch seen-video entries
  SettingsStore-->>SubscriptionCache: persist merged local marks
  SyncServerStore->>EncryptedSyncAdapter: getSeenVideos()
  EncryptedSyncAdapter-->>SyncServerStore: return remote marks
  SyncServerStore->>SyncServerStore: merge local and remote marks
  SyncServerStore->>EncryptedSyncAdapter: putSeenVideos(merged marks)
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the primary change: syncing videos marked as seen with history.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the seen-video synchronization feature, its scope, behavior, testing steps, and dependency.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement the linked issue requirements, including individual and bulk seen marks, enhanced privacy history sync, encrypted storage, cross-device and cross-window merging, cache filtering,…
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Performance comparison

Compared bc6721ee5 with d4a80392d on the same runner.

Metric Base median Candidate median Change Limit Result
Startup: Electron connected 339.5 ms 344.4 ms +1.4% Diagnostic Reported
Startup: window created 492.1 ms 498.8 ms +1.4% Diagnostic Reported
Startup: initial route committed 492.5 ms 499.2 ms +1.4% Diagnostic Reported
Startup: interactive 1741.3 ms 1739.4 ms -0.1% 6000.0 ms
or +15% and +250.0 ms
Pass
Startup: renderer longest frame 433.2 ms 433.3 ms +0.0% 500.0 ms and +100.0 ms
or +20% and +100.0 ms
Pass
Large route navigation elapsed 136.6 ms 126.3 ms -7.5% 500.0 ms
or +15% and +30.0 ms
Pass
Large route navigation longest frame 100.0 ms 66.7 ms -33.3% 200.0 ms and +20.0 ms
or +20% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Channel search elapsed 54.3 ms 50.9 ms -6.3% 200.0 ms
or +15% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Channel search longest frame 37.1 ms 33.3 ms -10.2% 100.0 ms and +20.0 ms
or +20% and +20.0 ms
Pass
First subscription switch elapsed 179.2 ms 201.2 ms +12.3% 250.0 ms
or +15% and +20.0 ms
Pass
First subscription switch longest frame 116.7 ms 133.3 ms +14.2% 200.0 ms and +20.0 ms
or +20% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Repeated subscription switch elapsed 125.8 ms 121.7 ms -3.3% 150.0 ms
or +15% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Repeated subscription switch longest frame 50.0 ms 50.0 ms 0.0% 100.0 ms and +20.0 ms
or +20% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Large feed scrolling longest frame 50.1 ms 50.0 ms -0.2% 100.0 ms and +20.0 ms
or +20% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Renderer heap growth after 10 navigation cycles 0.0 MiB 0.0 MiB 0.0 MiB 24.0 MiB
or +50% and +4.0 MiB
Pass
Local playback start elapsed 1639.7 ms 1651.8 ms +0.7% 5000.0 ms
or +15% and +150.0 ms
Pass
Local playback start longest frame 650.1 ms 666.6 ms +2.5% 750.0 ms and +20.0 ms
or +20% and +20.0 ms
Pass
Packed JavaScript and CSS 7121.5 KiB 7125.7 KiB +0.1% +5% and +64.0 KiB Pass
What these scenarios measure
  • Startup phases are cumulative from launching Electron. Interactive means the top navigation and tab bar are visible. Startup frame sampling runs from the initial route commit until that point.
  • Large route navigation opens 933 subscribed channels. Channel search filters that list down to one channel.
  • Subscription switches process 33,588 cached video records. Scrolling moves through the first rendered page for 60 animation frames.
  • Renderer heap growth is the used JavaScript heap increase after 10 Subscribed Channels and Trending navigation cycles, with renderer garbage collection before each reading.
  • Local playback start runs from submitting a watch URL until the bundled demo video emits playing. It makes no network requests.
  • Packed code size totals all emitted JavaScript and CSS, including renderer chunks, the main process, preload, and BotGuard.

No regression crossed the configured thresholds.

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src/renderer/helpers/subscription-seen-videos.js (1)

22-28: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial

Define a shared retention policy before bounding subscriptionSeenVideos.

mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos retains one mark per video, and syncSubscriptionSeenVideos uploads all merged marks. The encrypted payload can grow as users see more subscription videos. No feed-retention window or seen-video limit exists. Age-based trimming can make previously seen videos reappear when they are fetched later or remove marks needed by another device. Apply any cap consistently to cache filtering and sync.

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In `@src/renderer/helpers/subscription-seen-videos.js` around lines 22 - 28,
Define a shared subscription-seen-video retention limit or policy and apply it
consistently in mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos and syncSubscriptionSeenVideos.
Bound the cached and uploaded subscriptionSeenVideos after merging, preserving
the existing one-mark-per-video behavior while ensuring both cache filtering and
client.putSeenVideos use the same bounded result.
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In `@e2e/tests/offline/subscriptions-new-feed.spec.mjs`:
- Around line 473-475: Extend the upload expectations in the test around the
existing uploads assertions to explicitly require the seenVideos collection to
be uploaded, while preserving the current decrypted-content validation and
history upload assertion.

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In `@src/renderer/helpers/subscription-seen-videos.js`:
- Around line 22-28: Define a shared subscription-seen-video retention limit or
policy and apply it consistently in mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos and
syncSubscriptionSeenVideos. Bound the cached and uploaded subscriptionSeenVideos
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Comment thread e2e/tests/offline/subscriptions-new-feed.spec.mjs Outdated
Sync subscription seen marks through a separate encrypted collection when history sync is enabled. Preserve marks across devices, cache refreshes, and concurrent windows without adding watch-history entries.

Resolves #1208
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Implemented the retention policy in d4a8039. The client removes marks already covered by watched history before keeping the 10,000 most recent remaining marks, with deterministic timestamp ties. Partial, live, and upcoming entries use the same watched-status rules as the feed. Persistence, cache filtering, and sync share the cap, and uploads use the retained local set so stale remote marks are not reintroduced.

The unit suite and focused Electron E2E tests pass, including oversized encrypted uploads and persistence after restart.

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src/datastores/handlers/base.js (1)

21-30: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid a full watch-history scan on every seen mark.

mergeSeenVideos runs for each individual mark. Each run reads every history document and builds a full historyById map. A user with a large history pays that cost per marked video, and the queue serializes the calls, so the latency accumulates during rapid marking.

Restrict the query to the video IDs that are relevant, for example the incoming entries plus the saved marks:

♻️ Proposed narrowing of the history query
       const saved = await db.settings.findOneAsync({ _id: 'subscriptionSeenVideos' })
-      const history = await db.history.findAsync({}, {
+      const videoIds = Array.from(new Set([
+        ...mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos(saved?.value, entries).map(entry => entry.videoId),
+      ]))
+      const history = await db.history.findAsync({ videoId: { $in: videoIds } }, {
         videoId: 1,
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In `@src/datastores/handlers/base.js` around lines 21 - 30, Update mergeSeenVideos
to restrict db.history.findAsync to only the relevant video IDs from the
incoming entries and saved marks, then build historyById from that filtered
result instead of scanning the full history collection.
src/renderer/store/modules/settings.js (1)

975-976: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Handle persistence failures at the UI action callers.

DBSettingHandlers.mergeSeenVideos is IPC-backed and can reject. markSubscriptionEntriesAsSeen and markSubscriptionVideoAsSeen await its dispatch without handling rejection, and FtListVideo.vue dispatches the latter without awaiting it. Catch and log the failure in these UI paths. Do not swallow the rejection in mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos, because syncSubscriptionSeenVideos must stop before putSeenVideos when persistence fails; otherwise it can upload stale local state.

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In `@src/renderer/store/modules/settings.js` around lines 975 - 976, Handle
rejected persistence in the UI callers of mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos: add
catch-and-log handling to markSubscriptionEntriesAsSeen and
markSubscriptionVideoAsSeen, and await the latter’s dispatch in FtListVideo.vue
before handling errors. Leave mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos rejecting unchanged so
syncSubscriptionSeenVideos stops before putSeenVideos when persistence fails.
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In `@e2e/tests/offline/subscriptions-new-feed.spec.mjs`:
- Line 479: Update the test around updateSubscriptionVideosCacheByChannel to
include an unseen video in the cache update, wait for that video to become
visible, then assert that “Fetched after sync” remains absent. Ensure the
visibility wait occurs after the cache update so the suppression assertion
cannot pass before the rendered feed reflects the change.

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In `@src/datastores/handlers/base.js`:
- Around line 21-30: Update mergeSeenVideos to restrict db.history.findAsync to
only the relevant video IDs from the incoming entries and saved marks, then
build historyById from that filtered result instead of scanning the full history
collection.

In `@src/renderer/store/modules/settings.js`:
- Around line 975-976: Handle rejected persistence in the UI callers of
mergeSubscriptionSeenVideos: add catch-and-log handling to
markSubscriptionEntriesAsSeen and markSubscriptionVideoAsSeen, and await the
latter’s dispatch in FtListVideo.vue before handling errors. Leave
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const store = document.querySelector('#app').__vue_app__.config.globalProperties.$store
await store.dispatch('updateSubscriptionVideosCacheByChannel', { channelId, videos, timestamp: new Date() })
}, { channelId: CHANNEL_ID, videos: [video('fetched-later', 'Fetched after sync', now, { isNewInSubscriptionFeed: true })] })
await expect(page.getByText('Fetched after sync', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for a newly fetched sentinel before checking suppression.

updateSubscriptionVideosCacheByChannel commits the cache before Vue flushes the rendered feed. Because Fetched after sync is absent before the update, toHaveCount(0) can pass immediately. The assertion can therefore run before the cache update renders.

Add an unseen video to the update and wait for it to become visible first.

💚 Proposed fix for the render race
-    }, { channelId: CHANNEL_ID, videos: [video('fetched-later', 'Fetched after sync', now, { isNewInSubscriptionFeed: true })] })
+    }, {
+      channelId: CHANNEL_ID,
+      videos: [
+        video('fetched-later', 'Fetched after sync', now, { isNewInSubscriptionFeed: true }),
+        video('fetched-unseen', 'Fetched unseen video', now, { isNewInSubscriptionFeed: true })
+      ]
+    })
+    await expect(page.getByText('Fetched unseen video', { exact: true })).toBeVisible()
     await expect(page.getByText('Fetched after sync', { exact: true })).toHaveCount(0)
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In `@e2e/tests/offline/subscriptions-new-feed.spec.mjs` at line 479, Update the
test around updateSubscriptionVideosCacheByChannel to include an unseen video in
the cache update, wait for that video to become visible, then assert that
“Fetched after sync” remains absent. Ensure the visibility wait occurs after the
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