New accounts cannot start chats until Reddit considers them established.
Until now the bot would burn a candidate on every invitation Reddit was
always going to reject, with nothing in the dashboard explaining why the
account looked idle.
Two signals feed the verdict. A periodic profile check reads the
account's own age, karma and email verification from about.json and
compares them against configurable thresholds — that is what flags a
brand new account before it wastes anything. A rejected invitation is
authoritative: Reddit has told us directly, so the account is held out of
sending with a backoff that doubles per rejection, and a delivered
invitation clears the flag outright.
An unestablished account takes no new posts (canAcceptPost), raises an
attention item, reports an `unestablished` sending state, and shows its
age/karma evidence on the Accounts page. An unchecked account is always
allowed through, so a first run is never blocked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shared foundation:
- New Modal component on native <dialog>.showModal() (focus trap, inert
background, Escape, focus restore, scroll lock); all eight dialogs and
both globalThis.confirm calls migrated to it
- Design tokens for success/warning/danger surfaces; pill danger variant;
.sr-only utility; toast layering above dialog backdrops; not-allowed
cursor for validity-disabled buttons
Conversations/attention: auto-scroll with jump-to-latest, per-conversation
draft persistence, suggestion undo, 30s auto-refresh with refresh controls,
unread emphasis and counts, blur-consistent share dialog, empty-accounts
guidance, collapsed user lookup, relative timestamps, danger pills for
critical items
Media/library/outreach: click-blurred-to-reveal, lightbox with arrow
navigation and captions, dirty-form preservation across refetches, upload
validation with thumbnail preview, save feedback, result counts with
load-more and clear-filters, ticking countdowns from a single clock
Overview/performance/operations/settings: mutation errors inside the
confirm dialog, live sending-window countdown, offline-aware loading
states, per-panel loading/error with retry, 7/30/90-day range toggle,
console scroll yielding with shown/retained counts, risky-save matching
by subreddit name instead of index, useBlocker unsaved-changes guard,
single-pass validation with focus-to-first-error, access panel JSON
validation and input reset
Tests: 806 -> 844 passing; both typechecks clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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