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

Currently ramping up the prototype. should be available in a few days

Vào Thứ 5, 28 thg 5, 2026 vào lúc 19:07 James Turner <[email protected]>
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> On 28 May 2026, at 12:45, An Phúc Nguyễn Vạn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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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