Four preset color themes, switchable from Profile settings with instant
preview and server-side persistence (User.theme, applied via a data-theme
attribute the CSS custom-property overrides in themes.css key off). Dark
stays the existing DarkSingularity palette and default. Light is a genuine
new light-mode design; Midnight is a higher-contrast OLED-friendly dark
variant; Sunset swaps in a warm amber/coral accent family.
Custom theme building (pick-your-own-colors) is out of scope for this
pass -- presets only.
Also: fixed the PATCH /api/auth/me handler to only apply fields actually
present in the request body. It previously always overwrote display_name
unconditionally, which happened to be harmless when it was the only
field on ProfileUpdate but would have silently cleared it on any
theme-only update. And switched two hardcoded hex colors
(.btn-primary:hover, .role-badge-admin) to token-derived color-mix()
values so they adapt across themes instead of staying fixed to the
original cyan/violet palette.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Users can set a display name (shown instead of username in the message
list, room member list, TopBar, and admin Users tab) and upload a real
avatar, replacing the generated color-initial avatars everywhere a user
appears. Avatars are square-cropped and downscaled to 512px, reusing
app/storage.py's upload primitives from image uploads with a new square
option.
Two deliberate divergences from message-image handling, documented in
backend/README.md: the previous avatar file is deleted on replace/remove
(safe since it's strictly one file per user), and avatar serving is not
room-gated and uses a short cache (identity-addressed and mutable, unlike
a message image's permanent content-addressed URL).
Frontend: new ProfileModal reachable from the TopBar account menu;
AuthContext gains updateUser() so a profile change reflects instantly
everywhere without a refetch.
ksmithandClaude Sonnet 5