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Base reddit cookie expiry warning on reddit_session, the only cookie actually required.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The pipeline runs from `src/app.js`:
### Reddit client (`src/reddit/client.js`), the core of this branch
- Calls reddit's public `.json` endpoints on `www.reddit.com` (`/user/x/about.json`, `/user/x/submitted.json`, `/comments/id.json`, `/api/morechildren.json`) with `raw_json=1`. There is no OAuth.
- Anonymous requests run into reddit's bot challenge, so a logged-in session's cookies (`config.reddit.cookies`, a cookie-jar string, or `config.reddit.cookie`, a raw header) are sent. If reddit returns HTML instead of JSON, the cookies have most likely expired. The client warns when the soonest cookie expires within 48h.
- Anonymous requests run into reddit's bot challenge, so a logged-in session's cookies (`config.reddit.cookies`, a cookie-jar string, or `config.reddit.cookie`, a raw header) are sent. Live testing (2026-11) showed that only `reddit_session` (the login, valid ~6 months) is required; without it, reddit returns a 403 HTML page. The client warns when `reddit_session` is missing or expires within 48h.
- Social links have no public JSON endpoint (the widgets API needs OAuth). They are scraped from the profile page HTML (`data-faceplate-tracking-context` attributes), which is fragile and breaks whenever reddit changes its markup.
- All reddit requests go through **one Bottleneck limiter**: `maxConcurrent: 1`, reservoir 6/min, `minTime` 1500ms (`config.reddit.throttle`). This is deliberately slow, because being flagged as a bot defeats the purpose. Retries for 429/503 and network errors happen **outside** `limiter.schedule()`. Retrying inside it previously caused a deadlock; keep it that way.
- Avoid unnecessary reddit calls: gallery posts reuse `media_metadata`/`gallery_data` from the submission listing (`curate/posts.js` → `methods/redditAlbum.js`). `getSubmission` (post only, cheap) is separate from `getSubmissionWithComments` (full comment tree including `more` stubs, which is expensive and only used for self posts).