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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an XML sitemap for eligible pages, jobs, projects, and posts, including last-updated dates when available.
    • Sitemap URLs use canonical page links and reflect public visibility and indexing rules.
    • Robots guidance links to the sitemap when search bots are allowed; the link is omitted when all bots are disallowed.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Post slugs are generated consistently regardless of the active language.

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  • front_end/src/app/(main)/questions/[id]/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
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  • front_end/src/services/api/misc/misc.shared.ts
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  • front_end/src/types/projects.ts
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  • misc/services/sitemap.py
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  • misc/views.py
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Walkthrough

The backend provides cached post and project data through an internal endpoint. The frontend uses that data and indexability rules to generate /sitemap.xml. The robots response includes the sitemap URL when bots are allowed.

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Sitemap flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collect sitemap records
posts/services/sitemap.py, posts/utils.py, projects/services/sitemap.py
The post service selects published, public posts and excludes posts with an unlisted default project. Post slugs are built under the original language. The project service selects public tournament records and shapes them for sitemap use.
Serve cached sitemap payload
misc/services/sitemap.py, misc/urls.py, misc/views.py
The /sitemap/ route serves an internal-only payload. The payload contains post and project data cached for six hours.
Define frontend data and indexability rules
front_end/src/types/post.ts, front_end/src/types/projects.ts, front_end/src/services/api/misc/misc.shared.ts, front_end/src/utils/navigation.ts, front_end/src/utils/questions/metadata.ts, front_end/src/app/(main)/questions/[id]/[[...slug]]/page.tsx
Frontend types describe the sitemap payload, and the API client fetches it in the original locale. getPostLink accepts reduced post data. isIndexablePost excludes posts with a valid canonical override, bot-only status, or a matching default project name. Question metadata uses this predicate for robots metadata.
Generate and advertise the sitemap
front_end/src/app/sitemap.ts, front_end/src/app/robots.ts
The sitemap generator combines static paths, job paths, eligible projects, and indexable posts. It adds lastModified when available and returns an empty sitemap when all bots are disallowed. The robots response advertises the sitemap when bots are allowed.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Next sitemap
  participant ServerMiscApi.getSitemap
  participant sitemap_api_view
  participant get_sitemap_payload
  participant cache_get_or_set
  participant get_sitemap_posts
  participant get_sitemap_projects
  Next sitemap->>ServerMiscApi.getSitemap: Fetch sitemap data
  ServerMiscApi.getSitemap->>sitemap_api_view: GET /sitemap/
  sitemap_api_view->>get_sitemap_payload: Retrieve payload for internal request
  get_sitemap_payload->>cache_get_or_set: Read or populate cached payload
  cache_get_or_set->>get_sitemap_posts: Build post records on cache miss
  cache_get_or_set->>get_sitemap_projects: Build project records on cache miss
  get_sitemap_posts-->>Next sitemap: Return post records
  get_sitemap_projects-->>Next sitemap: Return project records
  Next sitemap->>Next sitemap: Build sitemap URLs
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d57b4

Sitemap URLs use the original-language slugs, private-project posts are excluded, and the inspected sitemap paths are ready for normal merge checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d57b4

The change adds a cross-service sitemap publishing flow. The primary remaining risk is confirming that the backend data route used by that flow cannot be reached through an alternate externally accessible hostname.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new sitemap payload endpoint relies on a host-based internal-request classification that is explicitly deployment-dependent. If an alternate externally reachable hostname can route to the backend, it could satisfy the current internal classification and expose the raw cached sitemap payload, including records whose final indexability is deferred to the frontend.
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Security Blast Radius

  • observed — The new cached payload aggregates records from posts and projects for the frontend sitemap generator, expanding the effect of an access-boundary failure beyond one service.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An attacker who can reach the backend route through an externally reachable non-public-domain hostname could be classified as internal by the current helper and receive the sitemap payload. This path is unverified because deployment routing evidence is absent.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The route-side control rejects requests failing is_internal_request before payload production. The helper’s own documentation states that its host-based classification is not a security primitive and assumes restricted backend public reachability.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The sitemap pipeline uses a cached aggregate and a revalidated public generator, but there is no available evidence that cache sharing or ingress restrictions remain effective across all deployment instances and rollout states.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Validate that all externally reachable backend hostnames are rejected for this route, or use an endpoint-specific authenticated service-to-service control that does not depend solely on hostname and ingress assumptions.
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In `@posts/services/sitemap.py`:
- Line 18: Update the sitemap post selection to use
PostQuerySet.filter_published() instead of only checking published_at__isnull,
so posts scheduled for future publication are excluded.
- Around line 10-25: Update the queryset in get_sitemap_posts to apply anonymous
visibility filtering with filter_permission(user=None) before selecting
approved, published posts, so private-project posts are excluded from sitemap
rows.

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  • front_end/src/app/robots.ts
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  • front_end/src/types/projects.ts
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/**
* Emits a single /sitemap.xml. Google's limit is 50k URLs (or 50MB) per file
* and we're well under it — once we approach that, this has to split via
* generateSitemaps(), which serves /sitemap/[id].xml and does NOT produce a
* sitemap index, so the index would have to be written by hand.
*/

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Do we know we're well under 50k? Nothing enforces it, and every approved, published post goes into this one file. Could we check Post.objects.filter_public().filter_published().count() on prod before merging? If it's anywhere near the limit, it would be better to split with generateSitemaps() now than to discover it when Google starts rejecting the file.

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Good catch. Current sitemap generates 17k links in total (static pages, projects, posts), so we have enough room for now

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class MiscApi extends ApiService {
async getSitemap(fetchOptions?: FetchOptions): Promise<SitemapPayload> {
return await this.get<SitemapPayload>("/sitemap/", fetchOptions);
}

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Just to double-check the intended SEO behavior: getSitemap() appears to use the request locale, while the backend caches the payload under a single key. Are sitemap URLs intended to be stable across locales, and should they match a stable canonical URL for each post?

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Good call, I've just pinned it to forceLang: original

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LGTM

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LGTM

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