The live emitters stopped filing priority facts in 1cbd68a, but the launch
backfill kept doing it for historical zone-firsts and deaths. It is inert today
— Pete's handler short-circuits on no_push before the Matrix post, and headlines
key off event_type rather than tier — so nothing on the site or in the room
moves. It was a landmine: the echo rule was being enforced by a guard that
happens to sit in front of it, not by the tier itself, and anyone touching that
guard resurrects the echo at back-catalogue scale.
Bulletin is the rule. Nothing in the back catalogue is news anyway.
Closes the two deferred code-review follow-ups on the adventure-news
seam, plus folds in two pre-committed WIP fixes.
A. Privacy — the public GUID no longer leaks a stable per-player id.
Replaced userHash(userID)=sha256(userID)[:6] with
eventToken(userID, discriminator)=HMAC-SHA256(salt, userID‖disc).
The salt is 32 random bytes, auto-generated once and persisted in the
durable news_config table (cached via sync.Once). Because each event
uses a distinct HMAC message, tokens are a PRF output and are BOTH
uncomputable from a Matrix handle (no enumeration of a player's
events, incl. ones anonymized after !news optout) AND mutually
unlinkable (a named event can't be walked back to a player's other,
anonymized events). Updated all emit sites: pete.go zone, dnd_combat
death, adventure_duel rival, dnd_setup arrival, achievements
milestone, bootstrap x3.
B. Taxonomy — repeat zone clears were mislabeled zone_first. Now emit
zone_clear (bulletin) vs zone_first (realm-first, priority). Adopted
the invariant GUID-prefix == event_type, which also fixes latent
permalink mislabels (achv->milestone, rival->rival_result rendered a
neutral "Dispatch" on their permalink pages).
Folded-in WIP fixes: create the news_config table b42beec's
newsEmissionOn reads but never created; reap sent pete_emit_queue rows
in RunMaintenance; don't burn a retry attempt when shutdown cancels an
in-flight send.
Tests: TestEventToken (salted/stable/per-event/persisted),
TestEmitZoneClearTaxonomy (first->zone_first, repeat->zone_clear),
updated pete_test.go prefixes. Full internal suite + vet green.
Unshipped. Deploy Pete first (it must know zone_clear), then gogobee.