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Summary

• fix: erase the link cards of commits a deleted account takes with it #1230 makes deleting an account erase the link cards of the commits it takes with it but accounts deleted before that change already left those cards behind
• they still hold Name (@handle) on /dev/null: “…” and the commit's text in their title and description
• this one off migration erases them like 2026_10_20_120000 did for the content of deleted commits

Changes

• a migration deletes the link previews of /dev/null commit pages (on the host of app.url or a subdomain like www.) whose commit is gone or has no author left which is what DeleteUser leaves behind
• previews of live commits including ones still in their undo window are kept and so are links to other sites
• it is one statement that reads the commit id out of each url the same way 2026_10_20_120000 does and uses not exists so postgres runs it as an anti join however big commits is

Validation

• lint (pint and rector) phpstan type coverage JS tests build and the full pest suite pass (4547 tests with 100% coverage)
• a test in DeleteUserTest runs the migration: a tombstone's preview and a missing commit's preview (typed with an uppercase id or on www.) are deleted while the previews of a live commit and of one still in its undo window and an example.com url with the same path shape and a host that only ends in the app's host are kept
• the test fails when the host check is dropped or loosened to any host ending in it or narrowed so www. misses and when the live commits aren't excluded and when soft deleted commits count as gone

Visual evidence

a commit that links to a post of an account deleted before #1230 (so its card was left behind) before and after the migration runs

before	after

• local data: the linked post's card comes from PageMetadata::commit() like the real unfurl and the account is deleted with the current DeleteUser then the migration runs with production's app.url

Independent review

• read-only Claude agent: CODE PASS on base 8f887ac4 head 73c3ec5c after a FAIL round that showed not in falling back to scanning commits for every preview once commits gets big which not exists fixes
• read-only Claude agent: CODE PASS on 73c3ec5c..c8684d27 for the follow up that only matches the app's host or its subdomains after a round that showed anchoring on :// alone would miss www. links

Limitations

• like fix: erase the link cards of commits a deleted account takes with it #1230 it leaves profile and followers page previews of deleted accounts for a follow up
• it is best merged with or after fix: erase the link cards of commits a deleted account takes with it #1230 so accounts deleted in between don't leave new ones behind

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Link previews for local commit URLs are removed when the referenced commit is missing or no longer associated with an account. Matching also works with uppercase commit identifiers and application URLs using a www prefix.
  • Previews for existing commits, including soft-deleted commits that remain associated with an account, and links to external sites are retained.

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• tests/Unit/Actions/DeleteUserTest.php

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Walkthrough

A migration deletes local commit link previews when no commit with a non-null user_id matches the URL’s commit identifier. A test checks removal of previews for erased commits and retention of control previews.

Changes: Stale commit link previews

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Migration and validation database/migrations/2026_10_27_160000_erase_the_link_previews_of_erased_commits.php, tests/Unit/Actions/DeleteUserTest.php	The migration deletes matching previews when no commit with a non-null user_id matches the lowercased 36-character identifier in the URL. The test checks removal of previews for tombstoned commits and retention of previews for existing commits, deleted commits with users, external URLs, and nonmatching hosts.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• fix: refresh link previews when a page's metadata changes #969: The issue requests broader refresh behavior for changed page metadata. This migration removes previews for missing or authorless commit pages, but does not address metadata refresh.

Possibly related PRs

• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1230: Both changes delete previews associated with commits erased by account deletion.
• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1153: This migration targets internal commit URLs handled by the LinkPreview records introduced in that PR.
• dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh#1231: Both changes concern previews for internal commit URLs; this migration deletes records when the linked commit was erased.

Suggested reviewers: mnapoli, xheaven

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c8684

The migration behavior aligns with the documented application and database environment, with no merge-blocking risk established.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to c8684

The cleanup improves deleted-account privacy, but its URL matching can also erase unrelated-site link cards. The impact is limited to optional preview metadata and references; posts and messages are not deleted.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: The destructive cleanup infers site ownership from unanchored URL text. An unrelated URL containing .{app-host}/@.../commits/{missing-id} in its path matches the deletion predicate despite having an external authority. Because previews are shared, deletion removes that card from every referencing commit or message. Ordinary external-host retention tests do not cover this boundary crossing.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The operation spans matching preview rows across the application database, regardless of which users or conversations reference them. Its demonstrated destructive authority is limited to preview metadata and optional foreign-key references, not the referencing post or message bodies.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A stored external URL can carry the configured host and commit-shaped suffix inside its path or query. Leading SQL wildcards allow that text to reach the privileged deletion sink without proving local authority. This creates a bounded integrity failure during migration, not an arbitrary deletion capability or privilege escalation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The configured-host filter and live-owner anti-join are explicit deletion controls. Tests intentionally include www-prefixed hosts, retain ordinary example.com and nonmatching-host URLs, and verify uppercase-ID cleanup. These controls establish useful cases but do not validate the actual URL authority.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Base destructive selection on a validated URL authority and canonical commit path, with an explicit policy for accepted subdomains. Embedded local URLs in external paths or queries should not establish ownership.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Documentation-only edits and deletions within survi…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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The title "fix: erase the link cards that deleted accounts left behind" matches the main change. The PR adds a one-off migration that deletes link previews for commit pages of deleted accounts when the commit is gone or has no author, and the title states this purpose with a conventional commit prefix. It is concise and specific. It does not mention the host check or the preservation of live and undo-window commits, but the title does not need to cover every detail.

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Resolution

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@database/migrations/2026_10_27_160000_erase_the_link_previews_of_erased_commits.php:
- Line 17: Update the link-preview selection in this migration to compare each
URL’s parsed authority exactly with the configured $host, while retaining the
commit-path check. Add a test confirming a URL on a different host containing
the configured host is not selected for deletion.

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