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When the address moved and the screen did not

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PR: #1008

Head SHA: 429499e6621bb90250a72086f02cd647092216ab

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Work report

Clicking a Queen tab wrote the address at once but showed the view seconds later, because the router applies navigations inside a transition that waits behind the hive's long tasks. A click now sets the view directly while the address still drives it from outside.

What changed

• apps/website/src/pages/Queen.tsx: the view is local state set directly by a click, and a render-phase check keeps it following the address when the address changes from outside.

Context and reasoning

The symptom: after a tab click on t27.ai the address named the new tab within milliseconds, while the screen kept showing the old tab for up to twelve seconds.

The cause: React Router's HashRouter hands every navigation to React inside startTransition, and the hive under every view kept the main thread busy long enough to hold it.

The repair: the shell keeps its own view, set directly on click, and still follows the address when Back, a link or a script changes it from outside.

The evidence: the same in-page harness on the same machine measured 18 of 18 clicks switching at once on the fix and 0 of 18 on the current build.

The boundary: the hive's long tasks remain, a double click could flash a middle tab, and the harness is not yet part of continuous integration.

Reported verification

• [failed] Command: In-page view-lag harness (scratchpad wf-viewlag/viewlag2.mjs) on t27.ai with the fix(website): one address per Queen tab, and the landing's spec count from the manifest #1002 build, 42 clicks with a fresh load each. Result: Before the fix: the view changed inside the click in 0 of 42 trials and lagged the address by more than 700 ms in 30 of 42, up to 11.9 s.. Evidence: Investigation agent output recorded in the session scratchpad verify-params.json
• [passed] Command: node viewlag2.mjs http://127\.0\.0\.1:18911 v2-sub.json r-lagfix.jsonl 5 against a local build of this branch. Result: The view changed inside the click in 18 of 18 trials over four variants, lag behind the address median 13 to 44 ms, over 700 ms in 0 of 18.. Evidence: Session scratchpad lagfix/r-lagfix.jsonl summarised with wf-viewlag/analyze.py
• [failed] Command: node viewlag2.mjs http://127\.0\.0\.1:18912 v2-sub.json r-pr.jsonl 5 against a local build of main 86153ac, run right after on the same machine. Result: Control, expected to fail: the view changed inside the click in 0 of 18 trials, with lags up to 6.8 s, so the harness distinguishes the builds.. Evidence: Session scratchpad lagfix/r-pr.jsonl summarised with wf-viewlag/analyze.py
• [passed] Command: PROBE_SKIP_FRAMES=1 node live-tabs-probe.mjs against a local server of this branch's dist (index-CYdzc_-D.js). Result: 47 of 47 checks pass: all 12 tab clicks write the address, outside hash, keys, Back, reload, and a tab click keeps other hash params; the last one failed on the live fix(website): one address per Queen tab, and the landing's spec count from the manifest #1002 build.. Evidence: Session scratchpad lagfix/probe-lagfix-2.json; the landing module-frame scroll was skipped because it froze the renderer under machine load
• [passed] Command: npx eslint src/pages/Queen.tsx; npm run typecheck:ratchet; npx vite build. Result: Zero eslint errors and warnings, 179 type errors against a baseline of 179, and a successful production build.. Evidence: Local runs in the fix/queen-tab-click-commits-now worktree on 2026-09-14

Limits and open questions

• Two clicks landing before the first router transition commits could briefly show the middle tab; this is reasoned from the code and was not observed.
• Timings were taken on a heavily loaded machine, so absolute lags are inflated for both builds even though the comparison between them holds.
• The hive is still mounted under every view, so its long tasks still delay other work after load.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1008
• Reported head commit 429499e6621b
• Merge commit 1007cf436cb9

Topic tags

#Website #Performance #Routing

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