Index: test/feed-pagination.test.js
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--- test/feed-pagination.test.js	(revision 7b04d3b709bae5f43a5c7f73f2d86123a46aa1d4)
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+// Load-more pagination: getTimeline honours limit + offset so the News feed can
+// page in blocks of 72 without overlap. In-memory SQLite. Run: npm test
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+
+process.env.DATABASE_PATH = ':memory:';
+process.env.PUBLIC_BASE_URL = 'https://test.example';
+
+const dbMod = await import('../src/config/database.js');
+const db = dbMod.default;
+dbMod.initializeDatabase();
+const AP = (await import('../src/services/ActivityPubService.js')).default;
+
+// Seed 150 timeline rows with strictly decreasing published times (newest first).
+const ins = db.prepare(`INSERT INTO ap_timeline (id, slug, author_uri, author_name, content, published, created_at)
+  VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)`);
+for (let i = 0; i < 150; i++) {
+  const n = String(i).padStart(3, '0');
+  // higher i = older, so order DESC by published yields 000,001,... first
+  const pub = `2026-01-01T00:00:00Z`.replace('00:00:00', `${String(23 - Math.floor(i / 60)).padStart(2, '0')}:${String(59 - (i % 60)).padStart(2, '0')}:00`);
+  ins.run('n' + n, 'me', 'https://r.test/u/a', 'A', '<p>' + n + '</p>', pub);
+}
+
+test('getTimeline pages with limit + offset, no overlap', () => {
+  const page1 = AP.getTimeline('me', 72, 0);
+  const page2 = AP.getTimeline('me', 72, 72);
+  assert.equal(page1.length, 72, 'first page is full');
+  assert.equal(page2.length, 72, 'second page is full');
+  const ids1 = new Set(page1.map((r) => r.id));
+  const overlap = page2.filter((r) => ids1.has(r.id));
+  assert.equal(overlap.length, 0, 'pages do not overlap');
+});
+
+test('probe of PAGE+1 reveals whether more remain', () => {
+  // 150 rows: at offset 0 a probe of 73 returns 73 (more), at offset 144 it returns 6 (done).
+  assert.equal(AP.getTimeline('me', 73, 0).length, 73);
+  assert.equal(AP.getTimeline('me', 73, 144).length, 6);
+});
+
+test('offset past the end returns empty', () => {
+  assert.equal(AP.getTimeline('me', 72, 300).length, 0);
+});