With the test backend, the app is built against the test directory's address, and the smoke test goes on to search it: the Directory header above the results and their avatars in both layouts, the chat list's cards shown while typing and hidden under the results once the profile has a conversation, and "Show more" disabled while its page loads.
A fresh client sends the directory the search the app sends, and must find ci_group and ci_channel; then "ci seed" and "ci avatar" are followed page by page into seed.md, with each page's entries and size against maxServiceBodyLength. The message search stays. The seeded entries name the cases they serve again.
The branch name was part of the jq program text, so a branch named to close the string could select an artifact from a fork or another branch. Same fix as the desktop lookup.
A client started with -s gives that server every role, names included, only to the users that exist when it starts, so the name probe's first connect plan on a new database failed with NO_NAME_SERVERS (run 38904976359). The user is now created by a plain run first, as every other peer is and as desktop's backend does.
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