ServUO ships Server.cfg with `Name=My Shard`. An operator who never edited it
publishes that verbatim, so the rules page read "My Shard" under a header
carrying the real name. That value is the shard saying *unnamed* rather than
naming anything, so the site now answers with its own.
`settings.getInstanceName()` resolves `site_title || BRAND_NAME` — the same
resolution `getPublic().brand.name` already uses, so an install that set only
the site title can never show two different names on two pages. Bare
`brand.name` would have been wrong for exactly that case.
Substituted at INGEST rather than on read: world.ruleset is also broadcast
live, and the same object is handed to the SSE fan-out, so a read-time fix
would be undone by the next reconnect's frame. Matched case- and
padding-insensitively but only as a whole value, so a shard genuinely called
"My Shard Reborn" keeps its name.
Fixes a second ruleset writer found on the way: uoLinkSocket.backfill() called
shardState.setRuleset directly instead of going through the dispatcher as
ingestEach does, so the boot/reconnect snapshot silently skipped this
normalization. The two arrival orders have to produce the same stored frame.
Also renders a placeholder row on an unscored leaderboard — the instance name
with an em dash where a score goes, deliberately not shaped like an entry (no
medal, no bar) because a placeholder that looked like a real standing would be
a fabricated one. Presentation only; the API still sends an empty `top`.
Verified live against the shard + sidecar: rules page and leaderboards on web
and Android both correct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U7CBg11prhLimL9iHSX1bP
Protocol 3.0 §5 (docs/link/v3.md). The shard publishes its own ruleset —
expansion, which optional systems are on, skill/stat caps, account and house
limits, champion scroll rules, the save/restart schedule — and the site renders
it, so the rules page cannot drift from how the shard actually plays.
Server
- shard_ruleset: a singleton table (id = 1) holding the whole frame in
`payload`, with `rev` and `expansion` hoisted. Nothing is normalized out:
the frame is a flat description of config read as one page, and splitting it
into columns would mean a schema change every time the shard grows a block.
- shardIngest routes world.ruleset to setRuleset and deliberately does NOT
log it — the shard re-emits the whole ruleset on every sidecar connect, so
logging would append a duplicate row per reconnect, and server.hello already
marks each of those.
- uoLinkSocket backfills GET /ruleset explicitly rather than via snapshot(),
which asserts an array; this covers the order where the sidecar was already
up and holding the ruleset when we reconnected.
- GET /public/shard/ruleset behind requireFeature('ruleset') and projected,
per §3.6.1's rule that a shard read which doesn't project is a bug. `null`
means the shard has never published one — a real answer, distinct from a
published ruleset, and the page says so.
Client
- routes/public/Rules.jsx at /site/rules, live via world.ruleset (a frame is a
complete ruleset, not a delta, so the newest one wins outright). Caps are
rendered from tenths — 7000 is 700.0, and showing the raw number would
mislead. A systems key this build doesn't know still renders, humanised, so
a newer plugin can't go invisible against an older client.
- Nav entry gated on the `ruleset` feature, so it hides rather than 403s.
Verified end to end against the local MariaDB and a sidecar fed by a fake shard:
backfill snapshot, live SSE delivery of a changed ruleset, REST reflecting the
overwrite, an empty /feed (not logged), and the gate — 200 by default, 403 at
audience=staff (and dropped from /features so nav hides it), 404 when disabled.
Page rendered clean at all breakpoints checked, no console errors.
497 server tests pass; routes.manifest.json, routes.guards.json and the OpenAPI
spec regenerated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
