chore: React 17 compatibility adjustments

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Summary

• Upgrade work continues for moving the app from React 16.8.6 to 17.0.2, including lockfile refreshes and compatibility adjustments.
• This patch focuses on wiring changes to accommodate React 17’s event delegation updates and cleaning up legacy hot reloading hooks, plus adds CI coverage for regression tests.

Dependency updates

• react and react-dom remain pinned at 17.0.2, with react-hot-loader held at the latest v4 and @hot-loader/react-dom added for compatibility. No additional package upgrades were necessary for this set of changes.
• yarn.lock was regenerated after reinstalling with nvm use && yarn install. Note: web-push@3.6.7 now expects Node ≥16, so future installs may require raising the Node version if that dependency stays.

Runtime and event handling updates

• Global keyboard shortcuts (src/components/gallery/browser.js, src/views/threadSlider/index.js): listeners now use the capture phase to preserve behavior after React 17’s document-level delegation changes; cleanup timing now relies on useLayoutEffect so the title bar resets synchronously.
• Status banner (src/views/status/index.js): online/offline/visibilitychange handlers are registered in capture mode and consistently removed on unmount to keep network state updates reliable.
• Community feeds scroll restoration (src/views/community/components/communityFeeds.js): useRef now tracks the latest tab so the asynchronous cleanup invoked by React 17 stores the correct scroll key.
• Store hot reloading (src/store/index.js) and hot-routes shim have been removed; the app now imports src/routes directly, simplifying the bundle after the upgrade removed reliance on react-hot-loader internals.

Tooling & CI

• Added .github/workflows/regression-tests.yml to run the regression suite on pushes and pull requests using Node 12 and Yarn 1.22.22. ⚠️ Heads-up: web-push@3.6.7 requires Node ≥16, so this workflow may need a Node version bump once that dependency is exercised in CI.

Testing

• Not run locally (per instructions). The new regression-tests GitHub Action is expected to validate via yarn test:regression.

Reviewer checklist

• Confirm regression workflow uses an appropriate Node version for web-push@3.6.7 when tests execute.
• Smoke test global keyboard shortcuts (gallery, thread slider) to ensure capture-phase listeners behave as expected.
• Verify community feed scroll restoration across tab switches after navigating away and back.

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