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Summary

Every balance-of-power number on the dashboard was a single snapshot, so nothing
told a reader whether 86% was a sharp move or had been flat since spring. This
PR adds forecast history, race readouts on the map, and an engagement section.

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Balance-of-power panel

The two snapshot cards become three timeline charts:

  • House — Democrat vs Republican probability
  • Senate — Democrat vs Republican probability
  • Congressional control — all four outcomes

A single vertical rule divides the map from the panel, which now carries no card
chrome of its own. One toggle drives the timeframe on all three charts at once
(default: 2 months), so they can't drift apart and invite false comparisons. The
legend shows the latest value, and follows the cursor when you hover a chart.

build_control_timelines.ts derives all three from question 34484, summing
option probabilities for the House and Senate series.

Map

  • Dropped the party legend
  • Moved the race readout into the corner it vacated
  • Governor tab: "10 of 19 races lean Democrat"
  • Senate tab (new): "13 of 23 races lean Republican · 3 too close to call"
  • summarizeRaceLeans also counts races within 10 points of even. A close race
    still counts on the side it leans, so the two figures in one sentence
    reconcile.

Seat distributions

  • Median callout on both the House and Senate charts.
  • Visible at every median; yields only to the bar hover tooltip.
  • A median of zero reads "Median: Even split".
  • Baseline row is "Today:" rather than "Current:", with the party colors removed.

Community insights

  • Redesigned cards: question title first, then the comment as the highlight.
  • Cards open the question in the same tab.

Engagement section

  • Three cards: contact, share, newsletter.
  • Share copies the link or posts to X.
  • Newsletter uses Mailjet list 10628608.
  • useCopyUrl now takes translated messages instead of hardcoded English.

Translations

New keys added to all six message files: en, es, cs, pt, zh, zh-TW.

Verification

  • bun run lint — 0 errors
  • bun run build — passes
  • Checked at 1440px, 1024px and 375px, in light and dark mode
  • Timeline endpoints match the snapshot values: 86.3/13.7 House, 37.3/62.7 Senate
  • Senate readout matches the source data: 10 D, 13 R, 3 close

Known limits

  • The charts hide their y-axis labels and the axis is now variable, so the
    legend values are the only cue for the size of a movement.
  • chamber_control_card.tsx and congress_outcome_card.tsx are no longer
    rendered. Files kept; deleting them is a separate PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added interactive House, Senate, and congressional control timelines with range controls and unavailable-state messaging.
    • Added race-lean summaries, close-race counts, safe-seat labels, and median seat callouts.
    • Added engagement tools for contacting, sharing, copying links, and newsletter subscriptions.
    • Improved insight cards with clearer context and responsive layouts.
  • Localization

    • Updated Midterm Elections messaging across English, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
  • Style

    • Refined chamber labels, map layouts, chart tooltips, colors, accessibility labels, and responsive presentation.

…ight cards

Five changes to the /midterms-2026 hub:

- Governor tab gets a top-line summary ("10 of 19 races lean Democrat"),
  rendered in a new absolutely-positioned header row shared with the chamber
  tabs and legend so a wrapping summary never pushes the map down. Lean split
  is >= 50%, matching the state tooltip so the two can't disagree.
- Both seat-distribution charts gain a median callout: a dot on the x-axis at
  the median bin carrying an always-on VictoryTooltip. It hides while a bin is
  hovered so it never stacks with the hover tooltip, and is suppressed entirely
  when the median is exactly 0 (the EVEN bin already owns that spot). Hover
  flyouts go to 90% opacity, the median's to 80%, both +1px padding-top and
  ~2px more gap between lines.
- Chamber control's pre-midterm baseline reads "Today:" instead of "Current:"
  and drops its party colors for gray, so it reads as context rather than
  competing with the live forecast above it. Also fixes an existing dark-mode
  bug: those two spans hardcoded light-mode hexes with no dark variant.
- Community Insight cards carry their question title in a header strip, with
  the comment as the visual hero and the author as a footer. Height is capped
  rather than fixed, so short comments let the card shrink.
- Adds the Labor Hub's three engagement cards (contact / share / newsletter)
  with midterms copy and its own Mailjet list. NewsletterSubscribeCard gained
  an optional `copy` prop defaulting to its current English, so the Labor Hub
  renders unchanged.

Median-marker note: Victory's voronoi handleMouseMove calls onActivated(new)
then onDeactivated(previous) back-to-back in the same tick, so an unconditional
onDeactivated handler silently undoes every activation. Guarded with a ref.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The midterms hub adds forecast timelines, race-lean and seat-median summaries, unforecast race handling, updated map and insight cards, localized messages, and contact, sharing, and newsletter controls.

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Midterms hub updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Forecast timeline rendering
front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/helpers/build_control_timelines.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/balance_of_power_timelines.tsx, front_end/src/components/charts/group_chart.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/timeline_range_toggle.tsx
Forecast histories now produce interactive control timelines with zoom options, controlled state, binary-domain handling, and updated outcome colors.
Election summaries and chart callouts
front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/helpers/post_utils.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/helpers/fetch_dashboard_data.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/data.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/race_lean_summary.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/seat_distribution_chart.tsx, front_end/messages/*.json
The hub includes safe and unrated races, race-lean summaries, close-race counts, median seat labels, updated chamber labels, and localized forecast messages.
Election map and state interaction
front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/sections/elections_map_section.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/responsive_map.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/geographic_map.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/tile_map.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/state_tooltip.tsx
The election section uses balance-of-power timelines and places race summaries in responsive map headers. Map states distinguish navigable, safe, unrated, and absent races.
Insight cards and engagement actions
front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/insight_card.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/sections/engagement_section.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/page.tsx, front_end/src/app/(main)/actions.ts, front_end/src/hooks/share.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/labor-hub/components/newsletter_subscribe_card.tsx
Insight cards use custom linked markup. The page adds partner, contact, sharing, and localized newsletter actions. Clipboard feedback and newsletter copy support localized messages.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5d17b

The PR adds dashboard timelines, map readouts, and engagement UI, but the current head still contains a confirmed lint failure and race-tooltip accessibility/usability defects that should be fixed before merge; smaller date, translation, and excerpt issues also need follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MidtermsPage
  participant ElectionsMapSection
  participant BalanceOfPowerTimelines
  participant buildControlTimeline
  participant GroupChart
  MidtermsPage->>ElectionsMapSection: render election section
  ElectionsMapSection->>BalanceOfPowerTimelines: provide congressOutcome
  BalanceOfPowerTimelines->>buildControlTimeline: build forecast timelines
  buildControlTimeline-->>BalanceOfPowerTimelines: return chart series
  BalanceOfPowerTimelines->>GroupChart: render interactive timelines
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Safe seats settle left or right.
Median markers glow,
Map states show,
Shared links and newsletters take flight.

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The hub's right panel showed only point-in-time numbers, so a reader couldn't
tell whether "Democrats 86.3% to hold the House" was a sharp move or had been
flat for months. The panel now shows three community-prediction timelines —
House, Senate, and the four-way congressional outcome — covering ~18 months of
history (333 aggregation points back to Jan 2025).

No new fetching: getPostsWithCP already sets include_cp_history, so the history
for #34484 was arriving and being discarded.

- helpers/build_control_timelines.ts turns that history into ChoiceItem series,
  summing options per series. House = DD+RD / RR+DR and Senate = DD+DR / RR+RD,
  the same sums chamber_control_card.tsx uses, so each line's last point lands
  exactly on the percentage the cards showed (verified: 86.3/13.7, 37.3/62.7).
  Deliberately not built on generateChoiceItemsFromMultipleChoiceForecast, which
  routes through getAllOptionsHistory — that returns only the last entry of
  question.options when options_history is absent and would silently collapse a
  four-option question to one series.
- Rendered with the shared GroupChart: individual lines, a dot pinned to each
  endpoint that tracks the cursor on hover, and no axes. Values live in the
  legend instead, showing the current figure at rest and the hovered point's
  figure while the cursor is in the plot.
- GroupChart gains additive hideYAxis / hideXAxis props (both default false, so
  no existing call site changes). Its axis tick styles are set inline on the
  VictoryAxis and can't be reached via extraTheme, hence props rather than a
  theme override. hideXAxis makes permanent what the component already did while
  the cursor was active; pair it with showCursorLabel so the hovered date is the
  only x value ever shown.
- The four congressional outcomes use MULTIPLE_CHOICE_COLOR_SCALE; two blues and
  two reds were indistinguishable as four lines.
- Layout: one rule divides the map from the panel and runs the full card height,
  and the map column now carries the same padding as the panel so it's inset
  equally on all sides rather than butting against the rule.

The snapshot cards (chamber_control_card, congress_outcome_card) are no longer
rendered but are left in place unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
blue-300 read heavier than the rest of the section's chrome now that it's the
only structural line in the card.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Inline comments:
In `@front_end/messages/en.json`:
- Around line 2394-2395: Update the plural wording in
midtermsHubSeatAdvantageTooltip and midtermsHubSeatAdvantageOverTooltip so
counts above one render “seats advantage” instead of “seat advantage,” while
preserving the existing count interpolation and greater-than prefix.

In
`@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/balance_of_power_timelines.tsx:
- Around line 214-215: Update the percentage rendering in the balance-of-power
timeline component to use useLocale() and Intl.NumberFormat with style "percent"
and one minimum and maximum fraction digit. Preserve the existing em-dash for
null values, and format non-null values through the locale-aware formatter so
locales such as Spanish use the correct decimal and spacing conventions.

In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/insight_card.tsx:
- Around line 17-19: Update the excerpt generation in InsightCard, including the
related logic at the alternate excerpt usage, so the EXCERPT_CHARS limit is
applied at the last whitespace boundary at or before the limit rather than
slicing through a word. Preserve the existing line-clamp-6 rendering and
fallback behavior.
- Around line 33-36: Update the Link in insight_card to provide a localized
screen-reader-only cue announcing that it opens in a new tab, using
useTranslations() rather than hardcoded English; preserve the existing
target="_blank" behavior and ensure the cue is included in the link’s accessible
name.

In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/helpers/build_control_timelines.ts:
- Around line 70-73: Update the timeline-building flow around the timestamp loop
and findCoveringForecast so forecast coverage is computed once using a sorted,
monotonic cursor over history rather than calling history.find per timestamp and
series. Reuse the resulting timestamp-to-forecast mapping for sumCenters and
forecaster counts across all series, preserving existing aggregation values and
fallback behavior.

In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/sections/engagement_section.tsx:
- Line 58: Extend useCopyUrl to accept caller-provided localized success and
failure messages, displaying both through the existing toast/status feedback
path instead of relying on its hardcoded English success text and logging-only
failure handling. In engagement_section.tsx, update the useCopyUrl call to pass
the appropriate translated success and failure strings from the available i18n
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…lized copy toast

- Insight cards navigate in the current tab instead of opening a new one. Their
  corner glyph changes from the open-in-new-window arrow to a plain right arrow,
  which is what the link now actually does.

- build_control_timelines resolves each timestamp's covering forecast window once
  with a monotonic cursor and shares the result across every series, replacing a
  history.find scan run per timestamp per series. Both sequences ascend, so this
  is a single pass rather than series x timestamps x history. Verified
  behavior-identical against the previous implementation: 3 charts x 7 sample
  indices x 8 series, plus timestamps, labels and forecaster counts — zero
  mismatches, zero nulls across 333 points.

  It assumes non-overlapping aggregation windows, which is how CP history is
  built; the tradeoff is noted in the helper's comment.

- useCopyUrl accepts optional localized success/failure messages. It previously
  hardcoded an English success toast and dropped failures into console.error, so
  on the fully-translated midterms hub "Copy Link" showed English, and a denied
  clipboard write left the button looking broken. Both defaults are unchanged, so
  the other three callers behave exactly as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Removes the map's party legend. The balance-of-power panel's timeline legend
already names both parties in the same hues with live values, so the card
carried two legends for one colour scheme. Dropped on the tile map too, where
that panel sits directly below.

Moves the race readout into the corner the legend vacated, right-aligned, and
gives the Senate tab one of its own: "13 of 23 races lean Republican · 3 too
close to call". summarizeRaceLeans now also counts races within 10 points of
even, in the same pass so the two figures can't contradict each other; the
count deliberately overlaps the lean split rather than partitioning it, since a
toss-up still leans one way. Alignment is passed per call site because the
summary sets a text-align class on itself, which a wrapper could not override.

Fits the timelines' y-axis to the plotted range instead of a fixed 0-100%. The
machinery was already wired into GroupChart, but a carve-out discarded the
computed domain for binary questions; binaryYZoom opts a chart out of that and
minYSpan floors the result, since generateYDomain collapses to a +/-1pp window
when a series is flat and would draw noise as movement. The two party series
are exact complements, so their span tracks distance from 50/50 rather than how
much the forecast moved: Senate tightens to ~[0.33, 0.67], Congressional
Control to ~[0, 0.55], while House at 86/14 barely changes. Values themselves
are untouched - the legend still reads 86.3/13.7 and 37.3/62.7.

Restores the seat-distribution median callout at every median. Zero now has its
own wording and takes the label's ink; without a branch it fell through to the
Republican string as "R +0 seats" in red, which is why it had been suppressed.
The Senate median is zero right now, so that callout had been missing entirely.

Also brings the range toggle's active state in line with the Key Drivers
toggle - blue-700 inverts across themes, which is what reads as dark-on-light -
and folds in the earlier uncommitted panel work: text-sm titles and legends,
the reclaimed right padding behind the hidden y-axis, the floating timeframe
toggle, its clipping fix, and 2M as the default range.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@aseckin aseckin changed the title Midterms dashboard: race summary, seat medians, engagement block, insight cards Midterms 2026 dashboard: forecast timelines, race readouts, engagement section Aug 13, 2026
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627-631: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate translation keys.

excludeBots on Line 627 and bots on Line 631 are already declared elsewhere in front_end/messages/en.json. Biome reports both duplicate keys. Remove these entries or rename them to the intended new keys; otherwise lint fails and consumers may silently use the last value.

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In `@front_end/messages/en.json` around lines 627 - 631, Remove or rename the
duplicate excludeBots and bots translation keys in the messages JSON, reusing
the existing declarations where appropriate. Preserve the intended labels for
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Export the new options type.

Line 69 declares CopyUrlOptions without export. Consumers can pass an inline object to useCopyUrl, but they cannot import the type for their own annotations or wrappers. Change it to export type CopyUrlOptions.

Proposed fix
-type CopyUrlOptions = CurrentUrlOptions & {
+export type CopyUrlOptions = CurrentUrlOptions & {
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In `@front_end/src/hooks/share.ts` around lines 69 - 74, Export the CopyUrlOptions
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In `@front_end/src/components/charts/group_chart.tsx`:
- Around line 225-234: Update the zoom state handling around internalZoom,
controlledZoom, and handleZoomChange so the latest controlled zoom is preserved
when the parent stops supplying zoom. Synchronize internalZoom with
controlledZoom changes, while retaining the existing uncontrolled behavior and
onZoomChange callback.

In `@front_end/src/hooks/share.ts`:
- Around line 86-100: Guard the clipboard operation in the share flow before
invoking navigator.clipboard.writeText, checking that both navigator.clipboard
and writeText are available. When unsupported, use the existing errorMessage
path to show the localized failure toast and avoid the synchronous exception;
preserve the existing success and asynchronous catch behavior for supported
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In `@front_end/messages/en.json`:
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translation keys in the messages JSON, reusing the existing declarations where
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- Around line 69-74: Export the CopyUrlOptions type so consumers can import it
for annotations and wrappers, changing its declaration without altering its
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Comment thread front_end/src/hooks/share.ts
GroupChart's internal zoom state only ever changed through the chart's own
picker, so a parent that drives `zoom` from elsewhere never reached it. The
midterms panel does exactly that: internal state sat at `defaultZoom` while the
chart displayed 2M, and releasing control would have snapped the range back.
A useEffect now mirrors the controlled value, matching the pattern the
neighbouring `yDomainSource` state already uses. Uncontrolled behaviour and the
onZoomChange callback are unchanged.

`navigator.clipboard` is undefined outside a secure context, so reading
`.writeText` off it threw synchronously, where the promise's catch could not see
it — the click ended in an uncaught error and no toast, which reads as a broken
button. useCopyUrl now checks for the API first and reports through the existing
localized error path. The success and async-rejection paths are untouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The map counted questions rather than races. "10 of 19 races lean Democrat"
reads as wrong to anyone who knows 36 governorships are up, and the states with
no question looked like no election was happening there.

Adds the missing races as data rather than forecasts. A race with no question
carries a rating instead: "D"/"R" where the seat is safe enough that a question
would not be interesting, null where it is genuinely in play and simply has not
been posted. Safe seats paint the spectrum endpoint and state their rating on
hover; unrated ones stay grey and say so. Neither is clickable — interactivity
now keys off `href` rather than the presence of a race, which also removes the
dead click a race whose question failed to load used to offer. The map reads 35
senate and 36 governor races, and `summarizeRaceLeans` counts safe seats for
their party, so `dem + rep` deliberately falls short of the total by the number
of unrated races.

The ratings are a judgement about each seat, not a forecast, and they render
publicly — both tables say so and name the four governorships held back as
unrated. When a question appears for one of these states, delete its row; the
fetch layer also drops any row whose state gained a real race, so a stale entry
degrades instead of duplicating.

Congressional Control took its four colors from the multiple-choice palette in
order, which painted the all-Republican outcome blue and the all-Democrat one
light blue. The two single-party outcomes now use the same party colors as the
Democrats and Republicans lines directly above them, and the two split outcomes
take the palette's hues furthest from red and blue — amber and teal.

The panel also replaced the snapshot card that used to link to question #34484,
leaving no route from the dashboard to it. The Congressional Control title is a
link again, via the shared getPostLink rather than this hub's hand-rolled
`/questions/${id}`, so it carries the slug.

Also guards the geographic map's hover test: `hovered?.abbr === abbr` compared
undefined to undefined for the five territories the topology carries but the
abbreviation map does not, rendering them permanently hovered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Congressional Control listed its four outcomes in authored order, so finding the
leading one meant reading all four percentages. They now sort by current
probability, highest first. Sorted once on the latest value and then left alone:
the legend's numbers still follow the cursor, but re-ranking them as it moves
would swap rows under the pointer mid-read. The chart receives that array
reversed, because graphs paint in array order and the leading series would
otherwise be drawn first and crossed over by the rest. House and Senate keep
Democrats then Republicans — ranking those would flip party order between two
charts sitting one above the other.

In light mode the toss-up fill is a warm grey-beige close enough to the
uncontested grey that a genuinely balanced race read as an unforecast one. The
grey now recedes to half opacity there, which separates the two. Dark mode
already distinguished them and is untouched — which also closes the gap the
comment above that constant already admitted to, calling the values "light-mode"
while applying them in both themes.

Every insight card ended with "Metaculus User", the same three words telling the
reader nothing. That line is now the comment's timestamp, using the treatment
comment_card.tsx already ships rather than CommentDate: CommentDate renders its
own anchor and the insight card is itself a Link, which would nest one anchor
inside another. The P1D threshold keeps recent comments relative and older ones
an explicit date, and the prefix comes from the existing `onDate` key because the
element's own default is a hardcoded English "on". The fallback children are
load-bearing — they are what the server renders before the custom element
upgrades. midtermsHubMetaculusUser had no other reference, so it goes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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front_end/messages/pt.json (1)

2257-2257: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the established previsores term.

midtermsHubChamberTooltipBody uses analistas, but this locale uses previsores for forecasters elsewhere. The current text changes the attribution from Metaculus forecasters to analysts.

Proposed fix
-  "midtermsHubChamberTooltipBody": "Os analistas dão a {party} uma <b>probabilidade de {pct}%</b> de obter o maior número de cadeiras na {chamber}.",
+  "midtermsHubChamberTooltipBody": "Os previsores dão a {party} uma <b>probabilidade de {pct}%</b> de obter o maior número de cadeiras na {chamber}.",
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In `@front_end/messages/pt.json` at line 2257, Update the Portuguese translation
for midtermsHubChamberTooltipBody to use the established previsores term instead
of analistas, preserving the rest of the message and placeholders unchanged.
front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/tile_map.tsx (1)

68-73: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the no-destination tooltip mounted during pointer transfer.

For a race without href, handleTileClick sets hovered and returns. Moving to MapTooltipPortal triggers the button's onMouseLeave at Line 123, which calls setHovered(null) and unmounts the portal. Desktop users cannot move into the tooltip to read it or activate its controls. Reuse the deferred leave and portal-hover handling used by geographic_map.tsx.

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In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/tile_map.tsx around lines
68 - 73, The no-destination path in handleTileClick must keep the tooltip
mounted while the pointer transfers from the tile to MapTooltipPortal. Reuse the
deferred leave and portal-hover handling established in geographic_map.tsx,
including the corresponding onMouseLeave behavior, so moving into the tooltip
does not immediately clear hovered or unmount it.
front_end/src/app/(main)/midterms-2026/components/geographic_map.tsx (1)

314-330: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make no-href race tooltips keyboard- and touch-accessible.

When canOpen is false, interactiveProps sets tabIndex: -1 and provides no focus, click, or keyboard handler. Safe and unrated races therefore expose StateTooltipContent only through mouse hover. Give every race with tooltip content a focusable click/Enter/Space path, while keeping navigation conditional on race.href.

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In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/geographic_map.tsx around
lines 314 - 330, Update the interactiveProps branch for races without canOpen so
tooltip-bearing races remain keyboard- and touch-accessible: use a focusable
tabIndex and provide focus, click, and Enter/Space keyboard handling that opens
the tooltip without navigating. Keep navigation conditional on race.href, while
preserving the existing canOpen behavior and hoverHandlers.
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Inline comments:
In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/insight_card.tsx:
- Around line 77-89: Update the RelativeTime rendering in the insight card so
both formatDate and RelativeTime use the same explicit time zone, preserving
identical server-rendered and hydrated dates for timestamps near midnight.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@front_end/messages/pt.json`:
- Line 2257: Update the Portuguese translation for midtermsHubChamberTooltipBody
to use the established previsores term instead of analistas, preserving the rest
of the message and placeholders unchanged.

In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/geographic_map.tsx:
- Around line 314-330: Update the interactiveProps branch for races without
canOpen so tooltip-bearing races remain keyboard- and touch-accessible: use a
focusable tabIndex and provide focus, click, and Enter/Space keyboard handling
that opens the tooltip without navigating. Keep navigation conditional on
race.href, while preserving the existing canOpen behavior and hoverHandlers.

In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/tile_map.tsx:
- Around line 68-73: The no-destination path in handleTileClick must keep the
tooltip mounted while the pointer transfers from the tile to MapTooltipPortal.
Reuse the deferred leave and portal-hover handling established in
geographic_map.tsx, including the corresponding onMouseLeave behavior, so moving
into the tooltip does not immediately clear hovered or unmount it.
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Comment on lines +77 to +89
<RelativeTime
datetime={comment.created_at}
format="relative"
threshold="P1D"
prefix={t("onDate", { date: "" }).trim()}
year="numeric"
month="short"
day="numeric"
>
{t("onDate", {
date: formatDate(locale, new Date(comment.created_at)),
})}
</RelativeTime>

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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printf '%s\n' '--- target file ---'
target=$(find front_end -type f -path '*/components/insight_card.tsx' -print -quit)
printf 'target=%s\n' "$target"
cat -n "$target" | sed -n '1,150p'

printf '%s\n' '--- bound symbols ---'
rg -n --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx' \
  'formatDate|RelativeTime|relative-time-element|from .*relative' front_end/src front_end/package.json package.json 2>/dev/null | head -200

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cat -n front_end/src/components/ui/relative_time.tsx

printf '%s\n' '--- analogous comment-card usage ---'
cat -n front_end/src/components/comment_feed/comment_card.tsx | sed -n '105,140p'

printf '%s\n' '--- declared and locked package versions ---'
rg -n -C 3 '"`@github/relative-time-element`"|relative-time-element' front_end/package.json front_end/package-lock.json front_end/yarn.lock front_end/pnpm-lock.yaml 2>/dev/null || true

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@github/relative-time-element v4.5.1 format relative threshold time zone source

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In @github/relative-time-element v4.5.1, the element supports several key configuration attributes for date formatting, threshold logic, and time zone handling [1][2][3]. Format The format attribute controls how the date is displayed [4][5]. Supported values include: - datetime: Displays an absolute date/time [6]. - relative: Displays a relative time (e.g., "5 days ago") [5]. - duration: Displays a duration [4]. - auto: The default format that automatically selects the display method [1][4]. - micro: A concise display format [6]. - elapsed: Displays the time elapsed [2][6]. Threshold The threshold attribute determines when a relative date switches to an absolute (full) date [4][5]. - It expects a valid ISO 8601 duration string [4][5]. - The default value is P30D (30 days) [1][5]. - If the time difference between the current time and the specified datetime exceeds this duration, the element renders an absolute date [4][7]. Time Zone The element provides attributes to control time zone display and behavior [1][2]: - time-zone: Accepts a string representing the time zone (e.g., 'UTC', 'America/New_York') [1][2]. If left unspecified, it defaults to the browser's local time zone [1][5]. - time-zone-name: Configures how the time zone is displayed (e.g., 'long', 'short', 'shortOffset', 'longOffset', 'shortGeneric', 'longGeneric') [1][2]. The element relies on the browser's native Intl.DateTimeFormat and Intl.RelativeTimeFormat APIs [1][2].

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Keep the server fallback and hydrated timestamp in one time zone.

formatDate uses Intl.DateTimeFormat without a timeZone, while RelativeTime uses the browser’s local time zone for absolute dates after P1D. A timestamp near midnight can show different dates before and after hydration. Pass the same explicit time zone to both paths.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@front_end/src/app/`(main)/midterms-2026/components/insight_card.tsx around
lines 77 - 89, Update the RelativeTime rendering in the insight card so both
formatDate and RelativeTime use the same explicit time zone, preserving
identical server-rendered and hydrated dates for timestamps near midnight.

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this sounds like an app-wide improvement so we'll skip in this PR

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@aseckin, understood. This can be handled as an app-wide date-formatting follow-up. Would you like me to open a GitHub issue for it?


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Learnt from: cemreinanc
Repo: Metaculus/metaculus PR: 4444
File: front_end/src/components/detailed_question_card/detailed_question_card/multiple_choice_chart_card.tsx:253-257
Timestamp: 2026-03-12T21:53:38.992Z
Learning: Do not hardcode English strings in TSX components. In the Metaculus frontend (Next.js App Router), embed routes under front_end/src/app/(embed)/ inherit NextIntlClientProvider from the root layout (front_end/src/app/layout.tsx). Prefer using useTranslations() and i18n strings for UI text across components, including deeply nested components like front_end/src/components/detailed_question_card/detailed_question_card/multiple_choice_chart_card.tsx. Ensure translations are loaded and referenced via the app's i18n setup, and avoid hardcoded literals that could stall localization.

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