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Blog: decide between an in-app reader and a browser handoff #121

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Blog: decide between an in-app reader and a browser handoff#121
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P3Nice to have / low desktop valuearea:blogArea: blogparityWeb/API feature-parity work

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Adron
opened on Sep 15, 2026

Decision needed before building

The four public /api/blog/* endpoints are subscription management only — subscribe, confirm, unsubscribe. There is no public post-listing or post-content endpoint outside /api/admin/blog*, which is admin-only and cookie-authed.

So an in-app blog reader has no API to read from. Two honest options:

  1. Browser handoff (recommended) — a "Blog" entry that opens https://interlinedlist.com/blog in the OS browser, exactly like the existing OAuth and "Manage account on the web" handoffs.
  2. Wait for a public read endpoint and revisit.

Acceptance criteria

  • Confirm there is no public blog-read endpoint (re-check the live spec at build time).
  • Implement the browser handoff, or record the decision to defer.
  • Do not scrape the website's HTML as a substitute for an API.

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  1. Adron
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    P3Nice to have / low desktop value
    area:blogArea: blog
    on Sep 15, 2026
  2. Adron
    added a parent issue on Sep 15, 2026

  3. Adron commented on Sep 16, 2026

    @Adron
    Adron
    on Sep 16, 2026
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    Implemented in #172 — work continues in the PR from here. Shipped together because #121 is the decision that determines what #122 can be.

    #121: browser handoff. No public blog-read endpoint — /api/blog, /api/blog/posts and /api/blog/list all 404, and the only other blog routes are admin-only cookieAuth. Nothing to render in-app.

    #122: subscribe works; unsubscribe does not. Both GET and POST /api/blog/unsubscribe take only a ?token= from the email footer, so an app knowing just the address cannot unsubscribe anyone. The panel says where the link lives instead of offering a control that can't work. Subscribe is double opt-in and the UI says so explicitly.

  4. Adron
    closed this as completedon Sep 16, 2026
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