archilyzer

commit d1d249ff285ed7b678d2ba4b34ad690620d38d99
parent a1dbe0b13af15e1083f18df55854fab3b7caa587
Author: I Mean I'm Just Saying <imeanimjustsaying@kiwifarms.st>
Date:   Fri,  2 Oct 2026 01:30:55 -0400

common: review L4 — the live-chat archive counts what it left out

While a channel's media is away, a video with a raw replay and no cues on disk
is counted in the build log ("N video(s) with a raw replay and no cues left
out of this build"); the channel is never dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Diffstat:
M
common/controller/archiveLiveChat.ts
 | 
18
++++++++++++++++--

1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/controller/archiveLiveChat.ts b/common/controller/archiveLiveChat.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import path from "node:path";
 import {
   access,
   link,
+  lstat,
   mkdir,
   readdir,
   rm,
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ import pLimit from "p-limit";
 import { listChannelStatsFromDisk, type ChannelStat } from "./channels";
 import { isLiveChatCuesFresh, normalizeLiveChat } from "./normalizeLiveChat";
 import { inspectChannelMedia } from "../lib/channelMedia";
+import { LIVE_CHAT_MEDIA_FILENAME } from "../lib/mediaTier";
 import {
   archiveExtension,
   archiveSidecarPath,
@@ -156,6 +158,10 @@ async function stageChannel(
   let linkedCount = 0;
   let normalizeFailed = 0;
   let keptStale = 0;
+  // Videos with a raw replay (a link onto the away drive, lstat'd) and no cues
+  // on disk yet: left out of this build, and COUNTED — a drive outage must not
+  // shrink a site silently (review L4).
+  let leftOut = 0;
 
   const requiresRewrite = !build.includeMetadata || build.prettyPrint;
 
@@ -185,7 +191,14 @@ async function stageChannel(
               (st) => st.isFile(),
               () => false,
             );
-            if (!have) return;
+            if (!have) {
+              const hasRaw = await lstat(path.join(videoDir, LIVE_CHAT_MEDIA_FILENAME)).then(
+                () => true,
+                () => false,
+              );
+              if (hasRaw) leftOut++;
+              return;
+            }
             if (!fresh) keptStale++;
             outcome = { status: "fresh" as const, cuesPath };
           }
@@ -218,7 +231,8 @@ async function stageChannel(
     log(
       `  ${ch.slug}: its media is not reachable (${media.detail ?? media.status}) — ` +
         `staged the live-chat cues on disk as they are` +
-        (keptStale > 0 ? ` (${keptStale} older than their raw replay)` : ""),
+        (keptStale > 0 ? ` (${keptStale} older than their raw replay)` : "") +
+        `; ${leftOut} video(s) with a raw replay and no cues left out of this build`,
     );
   }