Work log — 14 August 2026. Posted retrospectively.
Implemented deletion propagation as designed: a GET /deletions.json endpoint with cursor paging, a post-deleted bus event, a WebSub ping to notify peers, a proxy route, and a migration for the paging index. Plus cookie-authed DELETE /posts/:id so authors can remove their own posts, feed_item_limit as an admin setting, and a fix to replyCounts that failed to descend past invisible nodes.
Also corrected three code comments that overstated what the code actually did. Worth its own commit: a comment claiming a guarantee the code doesn't provide is worse than no comment, because it stops the next reader from checking.
All of the deletion machinery above was deleted the next day.