### What changed?
Mobile now recovers live subscriptions after retryable or rate-limited
relay `CLOSED` responses. It ports the existing desktop model: classify
terminal versus retryable closures, honor retry hints through a
session-owned rate-limit gate, retry with bounded backoff, and replay
visible-channel subscriptions first in bounded batches.
Channel refreshes also retain unchanged live subscriptions instead of
clearing and recreating them. This is desktop parity, not a new relay
policy.
### Why?
On reconnect or resume, mobile replayed its retained live subscriptions
while `channelsProvider` independently cleared and recreated roughly the
same set, alongside unread catch-up and open-channel requests. The relay
allows 50 REQs per 5 seconds, so users in many channels could
predictably exceed the budget. In live reproduction, 55 subscriptions
produced 9 rate-limit closures, 60 produced 18, and 80 produced 36.
Mobile then treated every live `CLOSED` as terminal, removed the
affected subscription, and never restored it. Channel updates could
remain dead until a later session reconstruction. This is the primary
causal chain behind
[BOT-1449](https://linear.app/squareup/issue/BOT-1449/buzz-mobile-posted-messages-dont-appear-until-leavingre-entering-the).
Desktop already handles this as normal transient pressure by classifying
closures, gating and backing off retries, pacing reconnect replay, and
retaining unchanged subscriptions. This change brings mobile to the same
recovery model while removing the avoidable request burst.
### How is it tested?
Full mobile suite: 721 passed, 1 skipped. Analyzer and formatting checks
pass. Required CI checks pass.
Added and updated tests cover `CLOSED` classification, retry hints,
rate-limit gating, bounded retry and reset behavior, terminal failures,
timer cleanup, history gating, visible-first batched replay, and
retention of unchanged subscriptions.
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Signed-off-by: Tom Brow <tomb@block.xyz>
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## Summary
Communities joined via an invite link never connect: the app dials
`ws://` on port 80 instead of `wss://` on 443 and sits on
"Reconnecting…" indefinitely.
`RelayConfig.baseUrl` is documented as an HTTP origin, but the two
onboarding flows disagree on what they persist:
- **Device pairing** validates and stores `https://` —
`pairing_provider.dart:657` throws on anything else.
- **Invite join** stores the relay URL straight off the invite link, and
`deep_link.dart:165` always emits `ws://` or `wss://`.
`wsUrl` only special-cased `https://`, so a `wss://` base fell through
to the plaintext branch:
```dart
final scheme = uri.scheme == 'https' ? 'wss' : 'ws'; // 'wss' is not 'https'
```
The claim request itself succeeds, because `_claimUrlFromRelay`
(`invite_join_provider.dart:242`) maps `wss → https` explicitly. Only
the socket path is missing that conversion — which is why the community
appears, correctly named, and then never loads.
The same `baseUrl` also feeds `/query` (`relay_session.dart:136`), media
upload (`media_upload.dart:765`), Blossom auth (`media_auth.dart:128`)
and `relayClientProvider` (`relay_provider.dart:113`), so those requests
were malformed too. Where port 80 *does* answer, it is additionally a
silent TLS downgrade after `validateInviteRelayUri` insisted on
`wss://`.
This folds the websocket schemes back to their HTTP equivalents in
`baseUrl` itself, so every consumer is correct by construction rather
than needing a second getter remembered at each call site, and
communities **already persisted** with `wss://` are repaired on read
without a migration. `community_icon_provider.dart:46` already performs
this same conversion locally.
One subtlety worth flagging for review: the normalization is derived in
the getter rather than applied in the constructor, so the constructor
stays `const`. The compile-time fallback at `relay_provider.dart:77`
relies on const canonicalization for a stable identity across rebuilds,
and Riverpod's `defaultUpdateShouldNotify` is `previous != next`
(`element.dart:361`), which falls back to identity for this class. A
`factory` constructor here yields a fresh instance per rebuild, which
tears down and resubscribes every listener —
`channels_provider_test.dart` catches it as an unexpected unsubscribe
during reconnect.
### Related issue
Fixes#2662.
### Testing
`flutter test` — **705 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed**
`flutter analyze` — No issues found
`dart format --set-exit-if-changed .` — 249 files, 0 changed
Run against the Hermit-pinned SDK (Flutter 3.41.7 / Dart 3.11.5),
matching CI.
10 new unit tests in `mobile/test/shared/relay/relay_config_test.dart`
covering both onboarding schemes, `http`/`https` passthrough,
non-default ports, and agreement between the invite and pairing paths
for the same relay.
Verified end-to-end against a self-hosted relay behind `tailscale
serve`, which terminates TLS on 443 and leaves port 80 closed. Relay
logs show the invite claim succeeding over HTTPS at the moment of
joining, while no WebSocket connection ever arrives — no `WebSocket
connection established`, no NIP-42 auth, no `kind:0` profile, no push
registration — across the relay's entire history, even though the member
row is present and correct. Port-80 refusals are not logged by
`tailscaled`'s netstack, which is why the retries leave no trace
server-side. Reproduced on both iOS and Android.
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Signed-off-by: Krishna C <github@kumb.uk>
