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The pre-deploy review of #99 found that one address could pump a card's public click count. The click's visitor key mixed in the user agent, which the caller picks, so a loop with a random user agent counted on every request (about 60 a minute per machine, ~120 across both).

What

  • A click's visitor is now the address alone (an IPv6 address by its /64, an IPv4-mapped one by its IPv4 address) with the daily salt. The per-IP rate bucket uses the same key.
  • One address adds at most one click per card every 30 minutes. People behind one shared address count once, so the public count leans low rather than high.
  • While a deploy rolls, a poll from a machine on the older build has no clicks: cards show no count instead of an "undefined clicks" tooltip.
  • Docs, schema comment and the admin note updated to say "per address".

Testing

  • Unit tests for the address key: IPv4, IPv6 written several ways, /64 grouping, brackets/zone ids, IPv4-mapped, malformed input.
  • Source guards: no user agent in the click visitor; the bucket uses the same key; no raw b.clicks reads in the lane.
  • Live: 5 clicks from one address with 5 rotated user agents → 1 counted.
  • 1,296 tests pass, tsc and lint clean.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Boost click and visitor counts now use normalized network addresses, grouping IPv6 connections by network prefix and no longer varying with the browser’s user agent.
    • Boosted cards display a zero click count when older responses omit that information.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified address-based click deduplication, the 30-minute click window, daily visitor counts, and per-address rate limits. Also noted that older responses may omit click counts.

The pre-deploy review of PR 99 found that one address could pump a card's public click count: the visitor key mixed
in the user agent, which the caller picks, so a loop with a random user agent counted on every request (about 60 a
minute per machine). A click's visitor is now the address alone (an IPv6 address by its /64, an IPv4-mapped one by
its IPv4 address) with the daily salt, and the per-IP bucket uses the same key. One address adds at most one click
per card every 30 minutes; people behind one shared address count once, so the count leans low rather than high.

Also: a poll from a machine still on the older build (mid-deploy) has no `clicks`; cards show none instead of an
"undefined clicks" tooltip.
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Boost click tracking now uses normalized client addresses for rate limiting and visitor hashes, without using the user agent. Boost lane cards default missing click counts to zero.

Changes: Boost Click Tracking

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Normalize addresses and record click visitors
app/src/lib/launchpad/boostAddress.ts, app/src/lib/launchpad/boostAddress.test.ts, app/src/app/api/boost/seen/route.ts, app/src/components/launchpad/boost-ui.test.ts, app/db/schema.sql, app/src/lib/launchpad/boostServer.ts, app/src/components/launchpad/BoostAdmin.tsx, docs/boost.md
The server-only address helper maps IPv4-mapped IPv6 to IPv4 keys and groups other IPv6 addresses by /64. The seen endpoint uses the normalized address for rate limiting and visitor hashes. Tests and descriptions specify address-based counting.
Handle missing lane click counts
app/src/lib/launchpad/boostServer.ts, app/src/components/launchpad/BoostedLane.tsx, app/src/components/launchpad/boost-ui.test.ts, docs/boost.md
BoostLaneItem.clicks is optional. The lane uses zero for titles and click display when the count is absent. Documentation notes that older-build polls may omit click counts.

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Change: Bug fix

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Hexadecimal IPv4-mapped addresses no longer share a click or rate-limit identity. No merge-blocking issue remains from the supplied evidence.

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- Around line 246-247: Update the address-mapping logic around the mapped
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const mapped = /^(?:(?:0{1,4}:){5}|::)ffff:(\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})$/.exec(a);
if (mapped) return mapped[1];

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Recognize hexadecimal IPv4-mapped addresses before applying /64 grouping.

When a mapped address uses hexadecimal groups, such as ::ffff:cb00:7107, this expression does not match it. The fallback gives all such mapped addresses the same 0:0:0:0::/64 key. As a result, unrelated IPv4 clients can share a rate bucket and lose distinct clicks. Parse and classify the complete address before converting mapped addresses to IPv4 and grouping other IPv6 addresses by /64.

Based on learnings, use node:net IP classification rather than relying on a custom address-matching expression.

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Review comment at @app/src/lib/launchpad/boost.ts around lines 246 - 247:
Update the address-mapping logic around the mapped expression to classify the
complete address with node:net before applying IPv6 /64 grouping. Convert
IPv4-mapped addresses, including hexadecimal-group forms such as
::ffff:cb00:7107, to their IPv4 address so they retain distinct rate-bucket
keys.

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… keeps its IPv4

CodeRabbit on #100: an IPv4-mapped address written in hex groups (::ffff:cb00:7107) missed the dotted-only pattern
and fell into 0:0:0:0::/64, so every such IPv4 client shared one key (one rate bucket, one click per 30 minutes).

boostClickAddress now validates with node:net isIP, expands the address to its eight groups (a dotted IPv4 tail
included), and maps the whole ::ffff:0:0/96 range to its IPv4 address, dotted or hex; any other IPv6 is its /64,
anything that is not an address is its own key. It moves to a server-only module (boostAddress.ts): boost.ts ships
to the browser with the lane and must not import node:net. A guard test holds that.
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