* Assert what the image endpoints promise rather than the compressor's output
Three tests pinned the exact bytes or the exact length of an encoded
image, so they fail on any toolchain whose deflate or png encoder emits
something different. CI pins go 1.25 and passes; go 1.27 fails all three,
while the images themselves are perfectly valid.
TestRest_QR now decodes both the golden file and the response and
compares the pixels, which is the same assertion about the qr code and
none about the encoder. The two resize cases assert the decoded image
fits the box resize was given and touches one of its sides, which is what
fitting to a box means and what the function actually promises.
Resolves#2200.
* Fill the instance URL into the embedded frontend at serve time
The widget falls back to a compiled-in URL whenever a page omits
`remark_config.host`. The bundler cannot know that URL, so it emits
`{% REMARK_URL %}` and each distribution substitutes it: the docker image
rewrites the files under its web root at container start, and the release
binary, which serves the build embedded in itself, had nothing doing it.
`prepare-release-assets.sh` filled the marker with `http://127.0.0.1:8080`
before the embed instead, so every copy of the binary shipped pointing at
the visitor's own loopback address, and on an https site the request is
blocked as mixed content besides.
It has been that way since v1.11.0, the first release to embed the
frontend, and the earlier binaries embedded none, so the tarball has never
served a correctly addressed widget.
The placeholder now survives into the embedded copy and the file server
fills it with the configured `REMARK_URL` as it serves, which is what the
docker image already does to its own copy. The image no longer bakes the
loopback address into its embedded copy either, so the fallback it keeps
for a missing web root is correct rather than misleading.
Substituted in html, js and mjs, the same set `docker-init.sh` rewrites,
and the served size is the substituted one so a response is neither
truncated nor left hanging.
Nothing exercised the marker the frontend build emits wherever the instance
url belongs. Every page in the suite sets `remark_config.host` from its own
origin, so the compiled-in fallback is never read, and a distribution that
stopped substituting would keep the suite green.
Two tests. The first reads the served bundles and pages back and asserts the
marker is gone from each and that what replaced it is this instance. The
second covers what the substitution is for: the widget document carries no
host of its own, since `iframe.html` builds its config from a query string the
parent never puts one in, so everything it requests is addressed with the
compiled-in url. It asserts the widget renders and that the config request
went to this instance.
The demo pages cannot show the second. Their loader builds the bundle's own
script url from `remark_config.host`, so a page without one never gets as far
as loading the widget.
Verified by disabling both substitution paths, the serve-time one and the
docker image's, and rebuilding: both tests fail. Editing the files on disk is
not enough, since the file server substitutes as it serves.
The served body now depends on remarkURL, but cacheControl builds its
etag from version and path only. An operator who notices the widget is
addressed to the wrong host, corrects REMARK_URL and restarts the same
binary gets 304 on revalidation, so the client keeps a bundle pointing
at the old host. Cache-Control is no-cache, so it revalidates every time
and never ages out of that state either.
That is the exact situation this substitution exists to fix, so the
validator has to carry the url.
* Serve the build-independent web assets from the backend
`privacy.html`, `markdown-help.html` and the `400x400.jpeg` it embeds carry
no template variable, link no script or stylesheet, and are imported by
nothing in the widget. They now live in `backend/app/webassets/assets`,
embedded there, and are served under `/web` alongside the frontend build.
`/web` reads the frontend build first and falls back to them, which is what
lets an operator replace one by dropping a file into `--web-root`. That is
what `privacy.html` needs: it describes remark42.com, while the
authorization guide tells operators to hand its URL to Google and Facebook
as their own application's privacy policy.
Only a missing file falls through. An unreadable file in the web root keeps
reporting as unreadable rather than being silently replaced by the embedded
copy, and a name the filesystem rejects reports as missing rather than as a
server error, both matching what `http.Dir` did.
The dev server serves the same directory, so the Markdown help link in the
comment form resolves on the dev port as well as in production.
The two pages are served as they are written. `markdown-help.html` was
minified before, and its formatted inline stylesheet is most of its 8.5 kB;
that is 2.4 kB more over the wire, behind the hour-long cache header the
file server already sets.
Drops `copy-webpack-plugin`, which had no other pattern, and the stylelint
entries that only ever matched these files.
* Make pnpm dev:app start again
The dev server has been failing to start on two counts, so the flow the
contributing guide documents does not run at all.
`webpack-cli` 4 drives `webpack-dev-server` 5 through the argument order
of an older major, handing it the compiler where it expects the options
object. It rejects that against its schema and exits, complaining about an
unknown `_assetEmittingPreviousFiles` property, which is a field of the
compiler. `webpack-cli` 7 is the release that declares
`webpack-dev-server` 5 as a peer.
Past that, `http-proxy-middleware` resolves to 4.1.1, which no longer
accepts the two-argument call `webpack-dev-server` makes, so the `/api`
and `/auth` proxies throw on startup. It is pulled in by the security
override for CVE-2025-32996, the only override in the file with no upper
bound: `>=2.0.10` matches every later major. Bounding it to the 2.x line
keeps the fix and the API `webpack-dev-server` calls.
With both in place `pnpm dev:app` serves the widget and the pages under
`/web` on port 9000.
Rate limiting and (with --votes-ip) vote de-duplication key on the client IP,
recovered from forwarding headers (X-Real-IP / X-Forwarded-For / CF-Connecting-IP)
when behind a reverse proxy. Those headers were accepted from any client, so a
caller could set them to change its apparent IP.
Add --trusted-proxy / TRUSTED_PROXY (comma-separated CIDR/IP): forwarding headers
are honored only when the direct peer is a trusted proxy; other peers keep their
real socket address. Unset preserves the previous trust-all behavior (with a
startup warning) so existing deployments keep working on upgrade.
Docs: a 'Trusted proxies and client IP' section with per-topology guidance, plus a
note in the nginx manual.
go-pkgz/rest v1.22.0 ships an enforcing Timeout middleware (net/http.TimeoutHandler
style): it runs the handler with a deadline and returns 504 at the deadline even if
the handler ignores the context - unlike the local cooperative timeout, which only
cancelled the context and never actually stopped a stuck handler.
Replace the local timeout with rest.Timeout on every route with a bounded response.
The streaming and long-polling routes are deliberately left without it, since the
enforcing timeout buffers the whole response in memory and aborts at the deadline:
- GET /api/v1/userdata and GET /api/v1/admin/export stream gzipped exports
- GET /api/v1/admin/wait long-polls for up to 15m
- POST /api/v1/admin/import[/form] and /remap ingest large uploads
Delete the local timeout middleware and its test; the enforcing behaviour is covered
by go-pkgz/rest. TestRouteTimeout locks the enforcing-vs-exempt contract in this build.
Migrate the REST router off go-chi/chi onto go-pkgz/routegroup (backed by the
stdlib http.ServeMux), removing the last use of go-chi from the backend:
- rest.go routes() builds the tree with routegroup (Mount/Group/Route/With) and
net/http method+path patterns instead of chi's Get/Post/Route/Mount helpers
- chi.URLParam(...) -> r.PathValue(...) in the admin, public and private handlers
- rest_public_test.go loadPictureCtrl test uses routegroup + http.ServeMux
- rest_test.go: add TestRest_FileServerStaticAssets (bare /web -> /web/ redirect,
cache headers, 404, directory-listing block) and update the path-traversal test
for ServeMux normalising a literal ".." (encoded traversal is still rejected
by the handler)
- drop go-chi/chi from go.mod, go.sum and vendor; update the CLAUDE.md reference
Swap the go-chi/cors middleware for rest.CORS (already a dependency),
removing the go-chi/cors module entirely. Behaviour-preserving:
- with AllowedOrigins "*" and credentials enabled, both reflect the request
Origin into Access-Control-Allow-Origin (a literal "*" is invalid with
credentials)
- preflight responses also vary on Access-Control-Request-Method/-Headers, not
just Origin, matching go-chi/cors so caches don't reuse a preflight response
across different requests
Extract the config into corsMiddleware() in middleware.go and add
TestCorsMiddleware covering origin reflection, credentials, preflight
methods/headers/max-age/Vary, and the no-Origin case. go-chi/cors dropped
from go.mod; the chi router stays until the router migration. go test -race,
vet, golangci-lint, govulncheck clean.
Pure relocation, no behaviour change: gather all request-scoped middlewares
and their tests into dedicated files instead of scattering them across
rest.go and ssl.go.
funcs -> app/rest/api/middleware.go:
timeout (from ssl.go); rejectAnonUser, matchSiteID, cacheControl,
apiCSPMiddleware, securityHeadersMiddleware, subscribersOnly,
validEmailAuth, rateLimiter (from rest.go)
tests -> app/rest/api/middleware_test.go:
TestTimeout (from ssl_test.go); TestRest_rejectAnonUser,
TestRest_cacheControl, TestRest_apiCSP, TestRest_securityHeaders,
TestRest_subscribersOnly, Test_validEmailAuth, TestRest_matchSiteID
(from rest_test.go)
go test -race, vet, golangci-lint and govulncheck clean; example builds.
middleware.Timeout was the last use of go-chi/chi/v5/middleware (RealIP, the
other user, landed in #2099). Swap it for the local timeout helper (context
deadline + 504 on deadline, matching chi exactly; covered by TestTimeout),
which removes the go-chi/chi/v5/middleware package from the vendor tree.
The go-chi/chi module stays in go.mod — the router (chi.NewRouter etc.) still
uses it, so go.mod only shrinks after the router migration. Build, vet, race
tests and golangci-lint clean.
Behaviour-preserving swap: rest.RealIP sets r.RemoteAddr from
X-Real-IP / X-Forwarded-For like chi's middleware.RealIP, removing chi from
the RealIP path without changing the trust model (GHSA-56x6-q882-mf27 stays
present, to be fixed separately). chi/middleware stays imported for Timeout;
whichever of this PR and the Timeout PR (#2097) merges last drops the import.
Drop-in to a tested rest middleware; covered by existing api router tests.
go-pkgz/rest.NoCache is borrowed from chi's middleware.NoCache and behaves
identically: same no-cache response headers and the same stripping of
conditional request headers (If-None-Match etc.), which the image-proxy
etag logic relies on. Drop-in swap, chi router left in place.
chi/middleware stays imported for RealIP and Timeout. Build, vet, race
tests and golangci-lint clean.
Drop-in swap of the global concurrency limiter (go-pkgz/rest.Throttle has
the same signature and semantics as chi's middleware.Throttle), with the
chi router left in place. First of the per-middleware swaps that chip away
at go-chi/chi/v5/middleware before the router itself is migrated.
chi/middleware is still imported for RealIP/Timeout/NoCache; build, vet,
race tests and golangci-lint clean.
* fix(security): reject non-image content-types in image proxy and /picture/ to prevent stored XSS
The /api/v1/img proxy and /api/v1/picture/{user}/{id} endpoints emitted
http.DetectContentType on the served bytes as the response Content-Type. A
controlled upstream serving Content-Type: image/png with an HTML body passed
the upstream check (only the response header was inspected, not the body),
and the body bytes then sniffed back to text/html — so the proxy served the
attacker's HTML from the remark42 origin. Browsers honoured the declared
text/html and executed the response as a document with access to cookies and
CSRF tokens. Affected from v1.6.0 (April 2020) through v1.15.0; verified live
via published docker images.
Layered defense applied to both handlers:
- rest.SafeImgContentType (in backend/app/rest/) validates sniffed content
against a strict allowlist: image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/webp,
image/bmp, image/x-icon. Anything else (HTML, XML, SVG, plain text,
octet-stream, or any future image type the stdlib sniffer may learn) is
rejected with no body echo. SVG is implicitly excluded — it sniffs as
text/xml or text/plain, never image/svg+xml, and SVG can execute scripts
when navigated to top-level. The previous octet-stream → image/* fallback
is gone.
- Per-endpoint Content-Security-Policy override sets
"default-src 'none'; sandbox; frame-ancestors 'none'" on every response
(success, 304, or error). Sandbox neuters scripts even if Content-Type
ever regresses. The same policy is also applied to all /api/v1/* via
apiCSPMiddleware as defense-in-depth.
- Content-Disposition: inline; filename="image" frames the response as a
file rather than a renderable document.
- /picture/ rejection paths set Cache-Control: no-store so 4xx responses
are never cached.
The defense headers and the strict ETag matcher are extracted as
rest.SetImageDefenseHeaders and rest.EtagMatches in the shared rest package
(consumed by both proxy/image and api/rest_public — no package cycle).
The /api/v1/img path additionally bumps the ETag to a versioned `"v2:..."`
so revalidating clients (top-level navigation, Ctrl+R, intermediaries) get
a fresh 200 instead of a 304 against poisoned pre-fix cached HTML.
DELIBERATE TRADEOFF: Cache-Control on /api/v1/img success responses remains
max-age=2592000 (30 days), unchanged from before. An aggressive "force
revalidate on every reuse" policy was prototyped during review but reverted
because the perf cost (a server round-trip on every image view, even with
304 saving the body bytes) outweighed the corner-case mitigation. The
realistic exposure of cache carryover is narrow: cache carryover only
affects users who navigated top-level to an attacker URL pre-fix and still
have it in their local cache — the normal <img> embed path cached text/html
but never executed it. Local browser caches that hold pre-fix bytes
continue to serve them until their 30-day TTL expires or are evicted under
memory pressure. The ETag bump reaches all clients that DO revalidate
during the cached lifetime (Ctrl+R, intermediaries, post-expiry use); for
the rest, exposure self-limits via cache expiry. Operators running a
CDN/edge cache in front of remark42 should purge /api/v1/img after deploy.
The /api/v1/img handler short-circuits on a matching current-version
If-None-Match before any store Load or upstream fetch, returning a bodyless
304 with the defense headers set. Safe because the 304 carries no body and
the client's cached bytes came from a prior validated 200; an attacker
fabricating an etag value can only short-circuit fetches for URLs they
themselves crafted. This avoids upstream DoS amplification when clients
revalidate on hot comment pages.
The /api/v1/img route was moved from the "open routes" group (which uses
middleware.NoCache, stripping If-None-Match from incoming requests) to the
"open routes, cached" group alongside /picture/ and /qr/telegram so the
304 revalidation path is no longer broken upstream of the handler.
The /picture/{user}/{id} endpoint does not need the v2 etag prefix. Upload
validates input format via readAndValidateImage and the serve path
re-validates the stored bytes via rest.SafeImgContentType. Bytes within
the resize dimension limits are preserved verbatim, so the browser defense
relies on the response headers (validated Content-Type + nosniff + strict
CSP + Content-Disposition: inline), not on byte normalization.
Global CSP: font-src data: → font-src 'none'. Audit confirmed no @font-face,
no base64 fonts, no icon-font library in the bundle. Drops an unnecessary
attack surface; no behavioural change.
Tests: TestImage_ContentTypeHandling table-tests a real PNG and attack
shapes (HTML claimed as image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, image/svg+xml,
image/webp; svg with onload; html fragment; polyglot PNG+HTML), proving
the defense holds across arbitrary upstream Content-Type variation.
Polyglot case is intentionally served as image/png — the browser cannot
execute the trailing HTML when the response type is image/png with nosniff.
TestImage_ContentTypeHandling_CacheHit exercises the cache-hit branch with
attacker bytes preloaded into the store. TestImage_PerRequestRevalidation
alternates upstream PNG/HTML across four proxy calls to prove no trust
accumulates between requests. TestImage_RoutesUsingCachedImage asserts
cache-poisoning is caught at serve time. TestImage_EtagVersioned asserts
the v2 prefix invalidates pre-fix etags AND that the revalidation 304
triggers no store Load. TestImage_RevalidationSkipsIO proves the
short-circuit works even with no upstream reachable. TestSafeImgContentType
covers the allowlist directly. TestRest_LoadPictureDefenseHeaders and
TestRest_LoadPictureRejectsNonImage exercise the /picture/ endpoint.
TestRest_apiCSP covers the strict CSP middleware on JSON API + RSS routes;
TestRest_securityHeaders confirms /web/ HTML pages keep the global CSP.
Verified end-to-end against the dev docker image: the original demo URL
(arbitrary HTML claimed as image/png) now returns 415 application/json with
CSP/nosniff/Content-Disposition set, no XSS in the browser.
* fix(security): set Cache-Control: no-store on image-proxy error paths, sync stale route comment
Addresses two review comments on #2067:
1. Cache-Control: max-age=2592000 and Etag were set before the
load/download/validation block, so 404/400/415 error responses inherited
the 30-day cache TTL and the versioned etag — a transient failure (or an
intentionally triggered 415) would be pinned in browser/intermediary
caches for that TTL, keeping users locked out even after the underlying
cause was resolved. Now: etag is computed but not set as a header until
after validation succeeds; error paths route through sendImageProxyError
which sets Cache-Control: no-store and never sets Etag. The 304
short-circuit still sets both because that path serves the same validated
content the client already has cached.
2. The comment at rest.go:282 still described the prototyped
no-cache/must-revalidate Cache-Control policy that was reverted before
the PR landed. Updated to match the actual 30-day max-age behavior.
Tests: TestImage_ContentTypeHandling now asserts reject paths carry
Cache-Control: no-store and have no Etag header, and accept paths carry
the max-age=2592000 + v2: etag.
matchSiteID guarded most authenticated and admin routes with
`if siteID != "" && user.SiteID != siteID`. Dropping the ?site= query
parameter made the check no-op and any authenticated user passed the
middleware. Downstream handlers fell back to reading site from the JSON
body or just used the empty string, so on email/telegram subscribe
endpoints (which read site from body) a user authenticated to siteA
could perform actions targeting siteB without the cross-site guard
ever firing.
Require ?site= to be present and to match user.SiteID. Body-only site
flows are still supported provided the URL also carries the matching
?site= — both must agree, which removes the bypass and keeps the
declared site visible to the middleware.
Reproduction TestRest_matchSiteID enumerates four cases (matching,
mismatched, missing, empty). Existing test calls that relied on the
implicit pass had to add ?site=remark42 to the URL: the addComment
helper now derives the param from c.Locator.SiteID, picture upload
URL gets the param explicitly, and the email/telegram subscribe table
adds it to every endpoint. The negative cases that previously asserted
StatusBadRequest from the handler now correctly assert StatusForbidden
from the middleware.
Apply go fix ./... analysers (Go 1.26) across backend and examples:
- interface{} → any (type alias, no behaviour change)
- for i := 0; i < N; i++ → for range N / for i := range N
- slices.Contains / slices.ContainsFunc replacing manual loops
- strings.SplitSeq replacing strings.Split in range (avoids allocation)
- strings.CutPrefix replacing HasPrefix+TrimPrefix
- min() replacing manual if/else
- fmt.Appendf replacing []byte(fmt.Sprintf(...))
- strings.Builder replacing string += concatenation
- wg.Go(func(){}) replacing wg.Add(1)/go/wg.Done() pattern
- removed redundant ii := i loop variable copies (unnecessary since Go 1.22)
omitempty on struct-typed JSON fields: go fix removed omitempty from
struct-typed fields (time.Time, PostInfo, UserDetailEntry) because
encoding/json's omitempty never applied to struct types — it was always
a no-op. Kept as bare tags (no omitzero replacement) to preserve the
existing serialisation behaviour.
Replace strings.Split(RemoteAddr, ":") with net.SplitHostPort for correct
IPv6 address extraction in vote deduplication and comment IP tracking.
Harden image proxy: add SSRF-safe transport blocking private/reserved IPs
at connection time with DNS rebinding protection, sanitize error messages
to prevent information leakage, add response size limit via io.LimitReader.
Fix shadowed error variables in BlockedUsers, SetTitle, and Delete methods.
Exclude gosec taint analysis false positives at linter config level.
Add two missing security headers to the existing securityHeadersMiddleware:
- X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff — prevents browsers from MIME-sniffing
responses away from the declared Content-Type, stopping e.g. a
user-uploaded image from being reinterpreted as executable HTML/JS
- Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin — limits URL information
leaked in the Referer header on cross-origin requests to just the origin
(no path), and sends nothing at all on HTTPS-to-HTTP downgrades
Replace go-chi/render with go-pkgz/rest for JSON responses and custom
helpers for HTML/plain text responses.
Key changes:
- Replace render.JSON/render.Status with rest.RenderJSON and explicit
w.WriteHeader() calls
- Replace render.DecodeJSON with json.NewDecoder().Decode()
- Add SendErrorJSON helper that sets Content-Type header before
WriteHeader (required since rest.RenderJSON can't set headers after
WriteHeader is called)
- Add HTMLResponse and PlainTextResponse helpers
Fix export double-execution in migrator.go:
The original code called Export twice - once to io.Discard to check for
errors, then again to actually write. This was wasteful and had a race
condition risk. Now file mode buffers to memory first for atomic
success/failure, while stream mode writes directly with proper error
handling.
Change the default img-src value to "*" and sets it to "'self'" when
image proxy is enabled. The previous state was inversion of this logic
which was wrong.
`Content-Security-Policy` now restricts resource loading and execution
to enhance security:
- `default-src 'none'`: Disallow all resource loading by default.
- `base-uri 'none'`: Prevents the use of `<base>` tag to change the
base URL for relative URLs.
- `form-action 'none'`: Disallows form submissions.
- `connect-src 'self'`: Restricts the origins that can be connected to
(via XHR, WebSockets, etc.) to the same origin.
- `frame-src 'self'`: Restricts the origins that can be embedded using
`<frame>` and `<iframe>` to the same origin (for `/web/` demo
endpoint).
- `frame-ancestors %s;`: Specifies the origins that are allowed to
embed this content in a frame. If no specific origins are allowed, it
defaults to `*` (any origin). This enhances security by controlling
which sites can embed your content.
- `img-src 'self'`: Allows images to be loaded only from the same
origin. If `imageProxyEnabled` is true, allows images from any origin
(`*`).
- `script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'`: Allows scripts to be loaded and
executed only from the same origin and allows inline scripts.
- `style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'`: Allows styles to be loaded and
applied only from the same origin and allows inline styles.
- `font-src data:`: Allows fonts to be loaded from data URIs.
- `object-src 'none'`: Disallows the use of `<object>`, `<embed>`, and
`<applet>` tags.
`Permissions-Policy` now restricts the use of certain browser features
which we don't use to enhance user privacy and security:
- `accelerometer=()`: Disables the use of the accelerometer sensor.
- `autoplay=()`: Disables automatic playback of media.
- `camera=()`: Disables the use of the camera.
- `cross-origin-isolated=()`: Disallows the page from being treated as
cross-origin isolated.
- `display-capture=()`: Disables the ability to capture the display.
- `encrypted-media=()`: Disables the use of Encrypted Media Extensions
.
- `fullscreen=()`: Disables the ability to use fullscreen mode.
- `geolocation=()`: Disables the use of geolocation.
- `gyroscope=()`: Disables the use of the gyroscope sensor.
- `keyboard-map=()`: Disables the use of the keyboard map.
- `magnetometer=()`: Disables the use of the magnetometer sensor.
- `microphone=()`: Disables the use of the microphone.
- `midi=()`: Disables the use of the MIDI API.
- `payment=()`: Disables the Payment Request API.
- `picture-in-picture=()`: Disables the use of Picture-in-Picture mode
.
- `publickey-credentials-get=()`: Disables the use of the Web
Authentication API.
- `screen-wake-lock=()`: Disables the ability to prevent the screen
from dimming.
- `sync-xhr=()`: Disables synchronous XMLHttpRequest.
- `usb=()`: Disables the use of the USB API.
- `xr-spatial-tracking=()`: Disables the use of spatial tracking in
WebXR.
- `clipboard-read=()`: Disables the ability to read from the clipboard
.
- `clipboard-write=()`: Disables the ability to write to the clipboard
.
- `gamepad=()`: Disables the use of the Gamepad API.
- `hid=()`: Disables the use of the Human Interface Device API.
- `idle-detection=()`: Disables the ability to detect idle state.
- `interest-cohort=()`: Disables the use of interest cohort tracking.
- `serial=()`: Disables the use of the Serial API.
- `unload=()`: Disables the ability to use the `beforeunload` and
`unload` events.
- `window-management=()`: Disables the ability to use window
management APIs.
MakeTree calculated Info locally for historical reasons,
and the results were consistent with the dataService.Info call
but calculated differently.
That change fixes that, ensuring that Info is requested
in the same manner.
As discovered in #1477, dashes are expected to work in the site ID
and do work everywhere but in email auth. That change makes
the behaviour consistent: site ID now allows dashes.
Telegram authentication requires you to open a chat on the phone.
It's convenient to have a QR code for the case when you want to
log in on the computer but have Telegram only on your phone
and would be able to scan the QR instead of copy-pasting the link
from the computer to the phone any other way.
Originally we thought of generating QR on the client but found
backend-generated QR a better alternative because we avoid adding
one more JavaScript dependency to the frontend that way.
Previously it was done through writing bot first,
clicking a button, copying the token, and pasting
it into the web interface.
The new flow is way simpler: click the link
to write bot a message, then click the "Check"
button in the web UI and you got notifications
enabled.