The site now speaks German, French, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian, Chinese,
Korean and Hindi alongside English — 623 strings per language, 5,607
translations, covering the landing page, the key exchange, the chat, group
calls and every error along the way.
Each locale is a real page at a real URL (/de/, /fr/, …), generated at build
time from locales/*.json. That is the whole point: the app is client-rendered,
so a language that only swaps strings at runtime has no address for a crawler
to index and no link anyone can share. Each page carries its own canonical, a
reciprocal hreflang cluster and translated schema.org.
The URL decides the language, always. A stored preference only applies where
the address does not say, and nothing ever redirects on Accept-Language —
that is how sites become invisible to search engines outside one country.
robots.txt and sitemap.xml did not exist before; both are generated now.
Bugs found on the way, each with a test that would have caught it:
- partner logos used page-relative paths and 404'd from any /xx/ page
- post-build stamped ?v= only into the root shell, leaving locales behind
- "Back online" appeared on every page load, not just after being offline
- update timestamps were hard-coded to US format for every reader
- t() threw on a partial window, taking whole components down with it
Add 1:1 voice and video calling over the existing SAS-verified peer
connection. Audio and video tracks ride the same RTCPeerConnection as the
chat, bundled onto one DTLS-SRTP transport, so media inherits the session's
end-to-end encryption. SDP offer/answer is renegotiated in-band over the
verified data channel — no signalling server, so the media's DTLS
fingerprints are authenticated end-to-end. Calls are gated on a connected,
SAS-verified session.
Codecs & adaptation:
- Opus tuned for lossy links (in-band FEC, DTX, RED redundancy); audio is
bandwidth-prioritised and never throttled.
- VP9/AV1 single-encoding SVC with H.264/VP8 fallback; video degrades by
spatial/temporal layer.
- Runtime NetworkAdaptationController trims video bitrate on loss/RTT and
recovers as the link clears — no renegotiation. Live connection-quality
indicator (Excellent/Good/Fair/Weak) in the call UI.
In-call controls: mute, camera on/off (voice→video upgrade in-band),
camera flip, minimize-to-widget, hang up, and accept/decline for incoming
calls. Production logging disabled (DEBUG_MODE=false); temporary call
diagnostic logger removed. Codec rationale in docs/webrtc-config.md.
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