Completed Tasks

User Journey Script

Person Responsible: Gavin

Due Date: April 15

Scene 1

Visual: Paul in bed, phone glowing on his face. The sun moves across the sky outside his window. His feed stretches impossibly long — out the door, down the hall, to the moon.

VO: "Paul loves his phone. Maybe a little too much." VO: "He scrolls through things he doesn't care about, posted by people he barely knows on apps designed to keep him there forever."

Scene 2

Visual: Paul at a hangout, visibly exhausted. His friend walks up, carabiner on his bag. Paul's eyes are half shut.

VO: "Then his friend noticed."

FRIEND: (to Paul) "Dude, you look terrible." PAUL: "...I haven't really been sleeping." FRIEND: "You should delete that app. Try Loam." (taps carabiner)

Visual: Friend pulls up his Loam profile. Paul leans in, suddenly a little more awake.

VO: "And just like that, Paul was awake."

Scene 3

Visual: Paul setting up his profile, answering prompts, adding friends, building branches.

VO: "Setting up Loam took about three minutes. He answered a few prompts, added his friends, and made his first branch." VO: "No algorithm. No ads. Just... his people."

Scene 4

Visual: Paul opens the app the next day. He reaches the end of the feed. He pulls to refresh — nothing new. He stares at the screen.

VO: "The next day, something strange happened." VO: "He ran out of feed."

Visual: Paul shrugs, opens the camera. Posts a fridge shelfie.

PAUL: (typing) "What should I cook?" Visual: Comments flood in with suggestions. Paul laughs.

Visual: Paul posts something that goes completely wrong — blurry, badly lit. Comments roast him lovingly.

VO: "So he just... started posting. The good, the bad, and the fridge."

Scene 5

Visual: Paul posts "anyone want to hang out?" — cuts to photos of them actually hanging out, commenting, laughing.

VO: "Loam didn't fix Paul's sleep schedule." VO: "But it did remind him why he liked his phone in the first place."

End card - Loam logo

VO: "Loam. Where the scroll ends."

User Journey Storyboard sketches

Person Responsible: Ella

Due Date: April 15

Dev Updates

Person Responsible: Ella and Max

Due Date: April 23

Feed API (/api/feed/+server.js)

• Replaced auth.getUser() with auth.getSession() — eliminates an outbound HTTP call to Supabase's auth server on every feed load

• Moved status: 'approved' filter into the DB query (was filtering all statuses in JS)

• Removed 3-level sequential fallback query chain

• All secondary queries (profiles, reactions, branch ownership, branch membership) now run in Promise.all — parallel instead of sequential

• Reactions are now bundled into the feed response — eliminates N individual /api/posts/[id]/reactions calls on page load (was 1 invocation per post)

Reactions API (/api/posts/[id]/reactions/+server.js)

• auth.getUser() → auth.getSession() in both GET and POST

• Removed separate profiles round-trip — reactions summary only needs user_id + emoji, not author display names

• Returns aggregated { emoji, count, reacted_by_viewer } instead of raw rows

• Added Cache-Control: private, max-age=10, stale-while-revalidate=30 response header

Comments API (/api/posts/[id]/comments/+server.js)

• auth.getUser() → auth.getSession() in both GET and POST

• Top-level comments and replies now fetched in parallel (replies scoped to post_id instead of waiting for comment IDs)

• Profiles + connections queries now run in parallel

• Two separate connections queries (requester/receiver) merged into one with compound .or() filter

Feed page (+page.svelte)

• Consumes pre-bundled reactions from feed response — fetchReactions() is skipped for all posts where reactions were already returned

Other Changes

• Direct to cloudinary image transformation, still does a local check, next will be to node transform first then cloudinary. - image processing size limit brought up to 10mb

• 10 posts to a profile limit

• upped the comment input font size to 16px, should prevent the zoom from happening on mobile.

• Updated New reaction visibility design

• Added anonymous comment visibility

Social Posts

Person Responsible: Chem and Enoch and Max

Due Date: Ongoing

We've started posting reels and loam-style posts, we also posted our initial "about loam" posts.