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Closes #1113

  • A bell next to Follow on the profile of someone you follow: ring it to get a notification for each of their new commits (replies left out).
  • Watching is stored on the follow, so unfollowing or a block ends it.
  • New "Commits" filter in the inbox; muted authors and people already notified by a mention or a quote are skipped.
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  • New Features

    • You can watch followed users from their profiles to receive notifications when they post approved commits. Stopping a watch does not unfollow them.
    • Commit notifications appear in the inbox, with a dedicated Commits filter and a distinct notification style.
    • Watch notifications exclude replies and watchers who are mentioned, quoted, muted, or blocked by the author or watcher.
    • Watch controls are available only for users you follow, and profiles show whether you’re watching someone.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Unfollowing a user also stops watching them.

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  • app/Actions/CreateFirstCommitNotifications.php
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Walkthrough

The change adds watch preferences to follow relationships. Profile controls let users manage those preferences. Approved, top-level commits from watched authors generate committed notifications, which users can filter and view in the notification inbox.

Changes: Watching accounts and commit notifications

Layer / File(s) Summary
Store and control account watches
database/migrations/*watching*, app/Models/User.php, app/Actions/UpdateUserWatch.php, app/Http/Requests/*UserWatchRequest.php, app/Http/Controllers/UserWatchController.php, app/Http/Controllers/UserController.php, routes/web.php, resources/js/components/watch-button.tsx, resources/js/pages/user/show.tsx, tests/Feature/Controllers/UserWatchControllerTest.php, tests/Unit/WatchButton.test.tsx
The follow pivot stores a watching flag. Authenticated users can set the flag for accounts they follow. The profile page displays a watch control and its current state.
Create notifications for watched authors
app/Enums/NotificationType.php, app/Actions/CreateWatchNotifications.php, app/Actions/CreateCommit.php, app/Actions/UpdateCommitStatuses.php, app/Actions/CreateFirstCommitNotifications.php, tests/Unit/Actions/CreateWatchNotificationsTest.php, tests/Unit/Actions/CreateFirstCommitNotificationsTest.php, tests/Unit/Actions/UpdateCommitStatusesTest.php, tests/Unit/Enums/NotificationTypeTest.php, tests/Feature/Controllers/UserWatchControllerTest.php
Commit creation and approval invoke the notification action. It processes approved, top-level commits with an author, excludes specified watchers, and inserts committed notifications. First-commit notifications exclude watchers.
Filter and render committed notifications
app/Http/Requests/ListNotificationsRequest.php, app/Queries/NotificationBuilder.php, app/Queries/NotificationGroupsQuery.php, resources/js/types/notification.ts, resources/js/pages/notification/index.tsx, tests/Unit/NotificationInbox.test.tsx
The notification filters, query handling, and frontend types support committed notifications. The inbox displays the Commits category and committed notification details.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CreateCommit
  participant UpdateCommitStatuses
  participant CreateWatchNotifications
  participant NotificationRecords
  CreateCommit->>CreateWatchNotifications: Handle created commit
  UpdateCommitStatuses->>CreateWatchNotifications: Handle approved commits
  CreateWatchNotifications->>NotificationRecords: Insert eligible committed notifications
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Possibly related PRs

  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1189: Both changes add commit notifications through commit creation and approval flows, with different recipient rules.
  • dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1168: This PR adds committed notifications that reference commits, connecting it to handling notification groups tied to commits.

Suggested reviewers: mnapoli, xheaven

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 19271

The reviewed changes are mergeable with no actionable current risk identified.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 19271

Watch preferences remain tied to the requesting user's follows, and notifications retain approval, mute, and block restrictions. No introduced security-control bypass was established. Production deployment and concurrent preference-change behavior were not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — An eligible author commit can fan out to that author's watching followers, with no fixed recipient cap in the producer. Recipients come from stored opt-in relationships rather than a recipient list supplied with the commit. Writes occur synchronously within the inspected creation or approval transaction.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Watch routes use authentication and the follows throttle. Enabling watching requires an existing follow. Controllers pass the authenticated current user to an update scoped through that user's following relationship, so the route's target identifies the watched account rather than the preference owner.
  • observed — The watch producer excludes muted authors and both block directions. Committed notifications also inherit the existing inbox approval gate and dynamic mute/block exclusions. Thus retained notification rows do not remain relevant while their commit is rejected or the actor is currently silenced.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Stopping a watch or unfollowing does not retract previously created committed notifications. This matches the inspected separation between delivery eligibility and historical inbox relevance; it does not remove the approval, mute, or block checks applied when those notifications are read.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 2

Failed Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Issue #1113 requires selective notifications from user profiles and the following list, plus a push notification when the selected account publishes a post. The PR adds the profile bell and tested in-… Add watch state and a WatchButton to each applicable following-list row. Add feature tests for that control. Implement and test push delivery for eligible watched-account posts, or change issue #1113 to explicitly accept in-app notificati…
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 62.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed Passed checks: 3 passed
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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the primary change: adding a watch feature that notifies users about each new commit from a watched person.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes support issue #1113. They add follow-bound watch state, profile watch routes and UI, watched-commit notifications, duplicate-notification prevention, exclusion rules, the Commits filter, a…
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Explanation

The changes support issue #1113. They add follow-bound watch state, profile watch routes and UI, watched-commit notifications, duplicate-notification prevention, exclusion rules, the Commits filter, and related tests. The first-commit notification change prevents duplicate notifications for watchers. No unrelated change is established.

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Explanation

Issue #1113 requires selective notifications from user profiles and the following list, plus a push notification when the selected account publishes a post. The PR adds the profile bell and tested in-app committed notifications. resources/js/pages/user/connections.tsx still renders only ConnectionFollowButton; it provides no watch control or watch state. CreateWatchNotifications inserts Notification rows but does not dispatch push delivery. The PR therefore leaves two coding requirements unmet.

Resolution

Add watch state and a WatchButton to each applicable following-list row. Add feature tests for that control. Implement and test push delivery for eligible watched-account posts, or change issue #1113 to explicitly accept in-app notifications instead of push notifications.

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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  • app/Actions/CreateCommit.php
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  • app/Enums/NotificationType.php
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  • app/Http/Controllers/UserWatchController.php
  • app/Http/Requests/CreateUserWatchRequest.php
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  • app/Http/Requests/ListNotificationsRequest.php
  • app/Models/User.php
  • app/Queries/NotificationBuilder.php
  • app/Queries/NotificationGroupsQuery.php
  • database/migrations/2026_10_28_120000_add_watching_to_follows_table.php
  • resources/js/components/watch-button.tsx
  • resources/js/pages/notification/index.tsx
  • resources/js/pages/user/show.tsx
  • resources/js/types/notification.ts
  • routes/web.php
  • tests/Feature/Controllers/UserWatchControllerTest.php
  • tests/Unit/Actions/CreateWatchNotificationsTest.php
  • tests/Unit/Enums/NotificationTypeTest.php
  • tests/Unit/NotificationInbox.test.tsx
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@xHeaven check plz

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hbenabdallah force-pushed the feat/watch-commits branch 2 times, most recently from 9167331 to 4d2270e Compare October 29, 2026 15:39

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