Existing local dev: 35 tables/views; game_likes UNIQUE(game_id,user_key) present; active feed sources=0; post_categories slugs=notice,devlog,showcase,resources,industry. Local live schema has no tables; this is not evidence about production.
Isolated PostgreSQL 16 with db/schema.sql: post_categories count=0. New user and recruit persisted via HTTP in isolated DB only.