From 94acc71729d629c8a2d5469575d0d2156a791069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: diondiondion <mail@diondiondion.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 16:26:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [Glitch] Prevent hover card from showing on touch devices

Port de4ee8565c658ae14aa5cc4504aa246694f92c1e to glitch-soc

Signed-off-by: Claire <claire.github-309c@sitedethib.com>
---
 .../components/hover_card_controller.tsx      | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/hover_card_controller.tsx b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/hover_card_controller.tsx
index d2a636e939..d232b6760c 100644
--- a/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/hover_card_controller.tsx
+++ b/app/javascript/flavours/glitch/components/hover_card_controller.tsx
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ export const HoverCardController: React.FC = () => {
   const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
   const [accountId, setAccountId] = useState<string | undefined>();
   const [anchor, setAnchor] = useState<HTMLElement | null>(null);
+  const isUsingTouchRef = useRef(false);
   const cardRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement | null>(null);
   const [setLeaveTimeout, cancelLeaveTimeout] = useTimeout();
   const [setEnterTimeout, cancelEnterTimeout, delayEnterTimeout] = useTimeout();
@@ -60,6 +61,12 @@ export const HoverCardController: React.FC = () => {
       setAccountId(undefined);
     };
 
+    const handleTouchStart = () => {
+      // Keeping track of touch events to prevent the
+      // hover card from being displayed on touch devices
+      isUsingTouchRef.current = true;
+    };
+
     const handleMouseEnter = (e: MouseEvent) => {
       const { target } = e;
 
@@ -69,6 +76,11 @@ export const HoverCardController: React.FC = () => {
         return;
       }
 
+      // Bail out if a touch is active
+      if (isUsingTouchRef.current) {
+        return;
+      }
+
       // We've entered an anchor
       if (!isScrolling && isHoverCardAnchor(target)) {
         cancelLeaveTimeout();
@@ -127,9 +139,16 @@ export const HoverCardController: React.FC = () => {
     };
 
     const handleMouseMove = () => {
+      if (isUsingTouchRef.current) {
+        isUsingTouchRef.current = false;
+      }
       delayEnterTimeout(enterDelay);
     };
 
+    document.body.addEventListener('touchstart', handleTouchStart, {
+      passive: true,
+    });
+
     document.body.addEventListener('mouseenter', handleMouseEnter, {
       passive: true,
       capture: true,
@@ -151,6 +170,7 @@ export const HoverCardController: React.FC = () => {
     });
 
     return () => {
+      document.body.removeEventListener('touchstart', handleTouchStart);
       document.body.removeEventListener('mouseenter', handleMouseEnter);
       document.body.removeEventListener('mousemove', handleMouseMove);
       document.body.removeEventListener('mouseleave', handleMouseLeave);