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@DerKezorm DerKezorm released this 03 Sep 07:15
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Until now the account setting decided every request. This version puts a list in
front of it.

New

  • Rules decide requests, before the account setting applies. A new admin tab
    holds an ordered list. Every rule is a handful of conditions joined by AND and
    one consequence: approve at once, or decline. Nexview walks the list from top
    to bottom and takes the first rule that matches; if none does, everything
    stays exactly as before.

    Conditions can be built from the type, the genre, the TMDB rating, the
    number of votes, the release year, the runtime, the original language, the
    age rating, the requested tier, and whether the title is already here in the
    other tier. That last one closes a gap that had no answer until now: the same
    film in HD and in 4K are two files in two folders, so nothing stopped a second
    copy. A rule can.

    Conditions are joined by AND only. If you need an "or", add a second rule.
    That is not thrift — it is what makes contradictions computable at all: every
    rule is then a box, and two boxes collide when every dimension overlaps. Where
    one rule overtakes another, the list says so and offers a click to reorder.

  • Approving may book the title to house stock, where it counts against
    nobody's storage quota. The item count still applies — that hangs on the
    request, not on the storage entry, and it renews every week anyway. The flag
    lives on the request rather than on the rule, so editing the rule later does
    not move ownership retroactively.

  • Three things no rule can override, and none of them is a matter of
    ordering. The age filter acts when listing, not when requesting: what an
    account cannot see, it cannot request, so no rule ever gets to see the case.
    The parents' decision stands: a child's wish is not a request, and only
    once a parent approves does anything run. And the requester's quota is
    checked before the rules and wins even over a rule that would have booked the
    title to house stock — otherwise the same request would come out differently
    depending on the rule list, and a quota would stop being a limit.

    Administrators and approvers are exempt from rules altogether, exactly as they
    are from the block list, and for the same reason: the rules are their own
    decision.

  • A decline leaves a trace instead of a shrug. The request is created in the
    declined state, carries the reason the administrator wrote, and says which
    rule decided. The requester is notified the same way a decision by hand would
    notify them, and reads it at the moment of the click rather than finding it
    later. Per rule, they may be allowed to send it to an approver anyway — once,
    and never past a decision made by a person. The approver then sees a badge
    saying a rule had declined it, because that is information they should have
    rather than a hurdle they should not.

Fixed

  • A rule matching on genre names would have worked in one language and not the
    other: genres carries translated names, and the same documentary is called
    something else in each. Genre numbers now travel with a title.
  • TMDB reports a rating of 0.0 with zero votes, which is indistinguishable from
    a real zero. A rule saying "rating below 5, decline" would have caught every
    unrated title — and unrated mostly means new. The rating is only read where
    somebody voted.
  • The same applies to a series runtime: TMDB reports zero minutes for some, and
    that means "we don't know", not "zero minutes". It now counts as unknown, as
    it always did for films.
  • "View single titles" under your storage led to the profile menu instead of the
    storage tab, and the clean-up mail pointed at a tab name that does not exist.