• somewhere to go, because the settings screen was the whole plugin

    pastilhas released this 2026-09-05 20:17:21 +00:00

    The owner installed it, landed on the configuration form, and could not get off
    it. Not a bug in the form: there was nothing behind it. One panel was registered
    and it was the settings.

    That is the wrong shape for a plugin regardless of how much is finished. A screen
    whose only content is its own configuration reads as broken rather than
    unfinished, because the first thing anybody does after installing is look for the
    way forward.

    So: collections on the left, links on the right, and the settings behind the gear
    in the collections panel - reachable when something is wrong and out of the way
    when it is not. Selection is ?collection= in the URL rather than a channel, so
    which collection you are looking at survives a reload and can be linked to.

    Search is Linkwarden's own searchQueryString, which searches names,
    descriptions, tags AND the archived page text - the thing a bookmark bar cannot
    do, and the reason this is worth more than a list of addresses. Doing it here
    would mean pulling every link to the browser and would still only see the fields
    we happened to fetch. Verified against the instance: 50 unfiltered, 8 for "arch",
    0 for a string matching nothing.

    The panel holds no credential and could not send one. Every request goes through
    the authenticated door, which finds the caller's mapped account and puts their
    token on. no Linkwarden account is mapped to you is the state every user starts
    in, so it is said as an instruction rather than rendered as an outage.

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