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Undo fuse

Archive acts at once, then the button becomes Undo and its outline burns down as the time left to take it back.

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Where it earns its place

Fast, reversible housekeeping in dashboards and client portals, where a confirm dialog would slow people down and no safety net would scare them.

What we changed

  • Set in a Vellum Labs client portal with three real briefs, each row carrying its own fuse and restoring itself for the next visitor.
  • Kept the original's subtle rule: hover pauses the fuse only after the pointer has left once, so the click that archived cannot freeze its own countdown.
  • One button changes role instead of two stacked buttons, so focus never jumps; Escape undoes and a live region announces the window.
  • The fuse is an SVG outline with pathLength 1 driven by one framer-motion value, so the dash length is literally the time left.
  • Dropped the drop-shadow glow on the fuse and the hugeicons dependency; a flat champagne hairline carries it.