🔎 Opened by loup from a user session recording.
The newsletter form only rejects an invalid email after a full server round-trip, with no inline feedback before the user presses Subscribe. Combined with the form becoming unrecoverable on error (input and button disappearing), the subscribe flow is easy to get stuck in. Adding inline (pre-submit) client-side validation would inform the user of a bad address before they submit, preventing the broken state entirely.
Verified from the recording at 0:12: At 0:12, the error 'Invalid email address.' only appears after submission with no prior inline validation visible, and the form controls are gone leaving the user stuck.
Where: appview/pages/templates/timeline/home.html:509
📎 Evidence @ 0:12
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