ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-801/unable-to-recommend-sites-with-long-excerpts
- recommending a site with a long excerpt was being blocked by a
validation error
- with this change, we truncate the excerpt to 2000 characters max. and
avoid showing an error in the UI
- with this change, the description length validation is also now
stricter; 200 characters max, instead of 2000, to match the UI
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-799
- recommendations were being stripped of query parameters and hash
fragments before save
- in particular, query parameters for attribution such as ?ref were not
being stored
refs https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-750
- when adding a recommendation, we fetch the recommended site's metadata
- before this change, if the metadata fetch failed for some reason, we'd show an error and block the recommendation from being added
- after this change, we use fallback values if the metadata fails to fetch, instead of blocking the recommendation from being added. We use the site domain as the title and leave the rest empty (no favicon, no description)
- this change also means we are not checking whether a site exists or not for the publisher anymore. It’s then up to the publisher to make sure they don’t enter broken URLs
ref ENG-737
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-737/http-500-errors-from-recommendations-check-endpoint
- it's still possible for `this.#externalRequest.get` to throw, like if
DNS resolution fails
- we want to try-catch this so we don't throw from this function and
return a HTTP 500 to the user
- instead, we can just return `undefined`, which is the fallback
- adds a breaking test too
ref PROD-233
- Stored whether Docker is used in the config files
- When running `yarn setup`, any existing Docker container will be
reset. Run with `-y` to skip the confirmation step.
- `yarn setup` will always init the database and generate fake data
- Increased amount of default generated data to 100,000 members + 500
posts.
- Made lots of performance improvements in the data generator so we can
generate the default data in ±170s
fixes https://github.com/TryGhost/Product/issues/4102
E.g. you recommend myghostsite.com, while that site redirects all
traffic to [www.myghostsite.com](#):
The redirect causes CORS issues, which means we cannot detect
one-click-subscribe support.
- This is fixed by moving the whole detection to the backend, which has
the additional benefit that we can update it in the background without
the frontend, and update it on every recommendation change.
- This change also fixes existing recommendations by doing a check on
boot (we can move this to a background job in the future).
fixes https://github.com/TryGhost/Product/issues/4005
We no longer use the 'reason' of a recommendation, but allow a flexible
description instead. Because this is a breaking change in the API, we do
this before making this feature GA.
- Added new database utils for renaming a column
- Added new migration to rename the column
- Updated all references in code
refs https://github.com/TryGhost/Product/issues/3978
- added "GET /incoming_recommendations/" browse endpoint to the Admin
API - we store incoming recommendations as mentions in the database. The
new endpoint reuses the Mentions API underneath to fetch verified
mentions of type recommendation - recommendation-specific attributes are
returned by the new endpoint, including calculated fields such as the
"RecommendingBack" boolean
- show "Recommend back" option for sites recommending me, only if I
haven't recommended the site already
