Re: The endless influx of low-quality, low-realism, quantity-over-quality aircraft into FGAddon

> On 28 May 2026, at 12:45, An Phúc Nguyễn Vạn <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I was thinking the rating would be submitted through a web page, but if the launcher is going to POST it directly then yes, the awkward part is mostly authentication / abuse prevention.
> 
> For a first version I’d probably keep the backend very small: just accept a rating for an aircraft-id, store it, and expose an aggregate JSON/XML file that the catalog builder can fetch.
> 
That’s fine.

> For storage, SQLite might be enough at first and would keep backups simple. The main question is whether anonymous ratings are acceptable. We could do basic rate limiting and maybe have the launcher generate a local anonymous id, but of course that would not be abuse-proof.
> 
We already have an anonymous ID for Sentry, so fine to use that to avoid duplicate submissions, and if we can rate limit by IP as well, ideally. 
> The cleaner version, in my opinion, it would be to open a web page from the launcher and let the user sign in with GitLab/GitHub(or a different service if you prefer) before rating. More friction, but much easier to reason about.
> 
Then we’re into OAuth (etc) territory right, to allow sign-in? That doesn’t fill me with joy, the friction level is a bit high. (Based on feedback I see here about using GH/GitLab…)

I think we should start with a once-per day manual approval step: eg I SSH in, check the last N hours of submitted data, and merge it into the aggregate if it looks plausible. If it looks like something strange has happened, I can check the NGnix logs and maybe discard that window of data? This solution won’t work long term but it feels like a good way to test the approach?
> I can sketch a small backend/API/export prototype if that would be useful.
> 
Yes, it would, if you can manage it.

Kind regards,
James

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