0.2.66 - End Credits improvements / Gateway: 0.1.47 - End credits redesign

server/internal/api/preferences.go

@@ -163,17 +163,15 @@ var preferenceCatalogue = []preferenceDefinition{
 			option(skipIntroOff, "Do nothing"),
 		},
 	},
-	{
-		// Default on: the whole feature is that it happens without being asked for, and it
-		// is visible, reversible and over in a minute — a viewer who dislikes it turns it
-		// off having seen exactly what it does. That is a different trade from
-		// skipIntroMode's, which defaults to the button rather than the automatic seek
-		// because a jump nobody can see coming is not recoverable by watching it.
-		Key: "speedUpCredits", Name: "Speed through the credits", Area: "Playback",
-		Description: "When an episode reaches its closing credits, shrink them to one side " +
-			"at double speed and show what is on next beside them.",
-		Kind: preferenceToggle, Default: true,
-	},
+	// `speedUpCredits` was here. It is deliberately not a viewer preference any more: the
+	// closing-credits pane is how this client ends an episode, and an opt-out made it a
+	// feature half the household never saw. The operator's `end_credits` flag remains the
+	// one switch, which is the right level for it — it governs a subsystem that reads media
+	// bytes, and turning it off is a decision about the server rather than about taste.
+	//
+	// Removing the key from the catalogue is also how the stored values are cleaned up:
+	// normalizePreferences drops what it does not recognise, so a viewer who had turned it
+	// off gets the pane back on their next sync with nothing having to migrate anything.
 	{
 		Key: "subtitlesEnabled", Name: "Subtitles", Area: "Playback",
 		Description: "Turn a subtitle track on automatically when the title has one.",