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

On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 01:05:54PM +0100, James Turner wrote:
> > 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.

Does this mean that the Launcher creates a UUID and stores
it locally, and sends it to Sentry for various debugging tasks?

If the web/REST POST API also records the source IP, that combo
should be all we need.

- Chris