The sidebar no longer carries a sponsor card. The backend stops serving
the "sidebar" slot, so a sponsors.json entry that still lists it keeps
only its other slots and one listing nothing else is dropped. Its
rotation, three-sponsor cap and collapsed-rail logo rendering go with it.
The Sponsors page now lists only real sponsors: the "Your brand here"
card shows only as the empty state instead of sitting in the grid and
repeating the header's Become a sponsor button, and the Available
placements section and its slot-occupancy helper are removed. Cards are
larger, two per row on wide screens. Unused i18n keys are dropped from
every locale.
sponsors.json only had an end date, so a booked placement had to be
added to the file on the day it started. An optional `from` now hides
a sponsor (and its logo) until that instant; entries without it show
immediately as before.
Most tests opened a throwaway panel DB with database.InitDB, which runs the
full AutoMigrate + seed on an empty file every time: ~230ms, and ~850ms under
-race because GORM's reflection-heavy migration is what the detector slows
most. internal/web/service does this in ~550 of its 830 tests, so the CI race
job spent ~10 of its ~14.6 minutes re-migrating empty databases.
internal/database/dbtest.InitDB migrates once per test process, then hands
each test its own copy of that file (~130ms under -race) and registers the
CloseDB cleanup. The copy then goes through InitDB like a panel restart, so
every test still starts from the state a fresh install has. Tests that reopen
an existing file, migrate a hand-built legacy DB or target Postgres keep
calling database.InitDB.
Locally under -race: internal/web/service 626s (last CI run) -> 114s,
internal/sub 246s -> 35s.
Monthly sponsor placements need to change without cutting a panel
release. Panels now read 3X/sponsors.json from the MHSanaei/sponsors
repo (GitHub Pages on sponsors.sanaei.dev) and show active sponsors in
four slots: an overview banner, a rotating sidebar card (max three), the
login page and a new Sponsors page that also lists open placements.
An entry shows only while enable is not false and until is in the
future; links must be https and logos are png/webp/jpg by name only.
The list is cached for an hour and the last good copy survives upstream
failures; logos are proxied through /sponsors/logo/:name with failures
cached, so CSP stays 'self' and admin browsers never reach a third
party. Admins can hide a slot for 24h. Under XUI_DEBUG the panel reads
a sibling ../sponsors/3X checkout so edits can be previewed before push.
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