Solo Dev Discovers Moderation System Silently Screened No Real Users After Login

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A solo founder building a social livestreaming platform discovered that its entire AI-powered content moderation pipeline was operational but effectively screening no authenticated users. The bug stemmed from three separate coding oversights: the client never attached a JWT authorization header to broadcast token requests, the server performed no cryptographic verification of its own and defaulted silently to an 'anonymous' user, and the app failed to restore session identity from storage after a page reload. Because anonymous sessions followed a different code path, every post-login broadcast bypassed identity-attributed screening entirely, with no crashes, errors, or user complaints to signal the failure. The issue was only uncovered through a deliberate end-to-end verification probe against the live system, not standard testing. Fixes included enforcing server-side JWT verification, explicitly attaching the authorization header on the client, and restoring session hydration on page load.

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