Completing the four sites the previous commit named rather than leaving them.
🔴 **Stories were CLOBBERED by a failed fetch, not merely mis-described.** Both
`refreshStories` and the poll loop did
`runCatching { current.stories() }.getOrDefault(emptyList())` and then wrote
that straight into state — so one hiccup emptied the strip the user was looking
at, and the poll repeated it on every tick. A poll that cannot reach the relay
has learned nothing, and nothing is not "no stories". Both now keep what is on
screen and skip that tick.
⚠️ Groups, both platforms. Android rendered NOTHING for an empty list — no
guidance and no way to tell "you have no groups" from "the list did not load".
It now says which, matching the contacts card. iOS already had copy and it had
the same flaw: `refreshGroups` uses `try?`, so a failure left the list empty and
the section confidently said "No groups yet. Start one with your buddies."
`groupsLoaded` gates that on both sides.
That shape is worth naming, because it produced three separate findings today:
a swallowed failure, written into state, rendered as a confident empty state.
The group DECODE bug hid inside it for months — groups were invisible on iOS
and working on Android, and nothing anywhere said a word.
Android 194 tests green, iOS 46 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
