Let visitors tick providers (Yandex, IXcellerate, RTK-DC, Sber, …) and
get the usual 5×5 card made of only those providers' datacenters, first
25 in ranking order, with lines scored as normal. A selection with fewer
than 25 sites leaves the rest of the card empty, so the card is always
5×5. Each provider chip shows crossed/total for the current view.
Datacenters get a provider slug, backfilled from the free-text operator,
guessed for new rows and editable in the admin. Filtered URLs are
noindex with canonical to the plain card.
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The card led with construction projects (Sber Balakovo at #1, MOS7,
MOS11, Yandex Vladimir-2), so the first thing visitors saw was not what
actually runs today. Make the operational-only card the bare URL and
move the full list to ?view=all. The variant is noindex with canonical
to the bare page, old ?view=operational links still land on the default,
and the admin dashboard tile follows the public default.
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The facts sentence reused the dialog's compact label, so it read
"Capacity: 63 MW · design." Put the capacity type in parentheses
when it appears in prose.
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A newly recorded incident only showed up in search once a crawler
happened to come back. IndexNow lets Bing, Yandex and the other
participating engines know about changed URLs right away.
Bingo::IndexNow posts the card URLs plus the affected datacenter pages
to api.indexnow.org, in a background thread so admin saves don't wait.
Incidents ping their datacenter. Edits ping the datacenter, or every
page when positions move (create, delete, reorder, sort). A deleted
datacenter's pages are included so the engines see the 404. BingoWeb
serves the key at /<key>.txt.
The key comes from the INDEXNOW Forgejo secret, written to .env as
INDEXNOW_KEY. With no key set this does nothing.
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The datacenter pages carry only generated sentences, which is thin
content to rank on. Migration 015 adds about_ru/en/uk, edited in the
admin form and rendered as paragraphs below the facts.
There is deliberately no fallback to ru: Russian prose on the English
page would hurt more than an absent paragraph.
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Everything lived on one URL per language, with each datacenter's
details and incidents inside a <dialog>. That page can rank for the
brand and a couple of head terms, but not for searches like
"Yandex Sasovo drone strike".
Add /:locale/dc/:slug for every datacenter, reserve included. Each page
has its own title (naming the latest incident when there is one), a
description built from the facts, canonical and hreflang links, the
photo as og:image, and JSON-LD Place + BreadcrumbList. It shows the
facts in a sentence or two, the incident list with sources, and
prev/next links by position. The slug never changes, so the URLs are
stable.
The card cells are now links to these pages. A plain click still opens
the dialog, while modified clicks open the page. The dialog and the
incident log link to the page too, and the sitemap lists every page in
all three languages. The layout takes title, description, alternates
and JSON-LD from the route, and the dialog and the page share the meta
and incident partials.
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The edge already redirects http:// to https://, but without HSTS the
first request of every visit can still go out in the clear. Turn on
Rack::Protection's StrictTransport for the bingo app: one year, this
host only, no preload.
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The "updated" date and the sitemap lastmod came from max(created_at),
so editing a datacenter, fixing an incident title or deleting an
incident left them stale. Google stops trusting lastmod once it is
seen to be wrong.
Migration 014 adds updated_at (backfilled from created_at). Saves set
it, renumbering bumps only the rows whose position actually moved, and
deleting an incident bumps its datacenter. The admin delete now goes
through the model so the hook runs. The sitemap gives lastmod as a
full timestamp and drops changefreq, which Google ignores.
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Each Place carried its info_url as sameAs, but sameAs means "this is
the same entity", and the URL is an operator page or news article
about the datacenter. Use subjectOf with a CreativeWork instead.
Incidents were missing from the structured data entirely. Add them as
Events at the place (name, start date, source URL), and give the
ItemList a dateModified.
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og:image pointed at the 1200px WebP dialog variant: no declared size,
a 16:9 frame that link previews crop unpredictably, and WebP isn't
rendered by every preview client. The alt text was just the site name.
Photo variants now include <slug>-<hex>-og.jpg, a centre crop to
1200x630, and the head declares its type and size. Migration 013 adds
photo_og so rows built before this keep using the WebP until "Rebuild
resized photos" is run. The alt text names the pictured datacenter and
city. resize and the new og_crop share one convert call.
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The favicon was an emoji in a data: URI and /favicon.ico was a 404.
Google only shows a site icon in results when the favicon has a
crawlable URL, and the emoji looked different on every platform.
Add an SVG (a 5x5 card with a crossed-out diagonal), a 16/32/48 ICO
and a 180px apple-touch-icon under assets/bingo/, served by explicit
routes because public/ belongs to asxp.io.
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/en/ answered 200 with the same page as /en. The canonical tag covered
it, but a 301 keeps crawlers and shared links on a single URL.
The All / Operational toggle links were rel="nofollow". The filtered
page is already noindex with a canonical back to the locale URL, so
nofollow on our own links only threw away internal link signals.
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The h1 was just the brand ("Datacenter Bingo"), so the page's main
heading carried none of the terms people search for. Add a per-locale
tagline inside the h1 and shorten the lead paragraph so it no longer
repeats it.
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The admin was one shared HTTP Basic login: no way to give someone
partial access, revoke one person, or tell who changed what. Add a users
table and a session login form. Passwords are scrypt hashes from Ruby's
OpenSSL, so no native gem is needed. Sessions carry a per-user version
that is bumped on password change, which logs that user out everywhere.
ADMIN_USER/ADMIN_PASSWORD now bootstrap the first superuser on an empty
table and afterwards only work while no active superuser exists, as a
recovery path that re-creates one. Until per-area permissions land,
non-superusers only reach the dashboard and their own password page.
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/admin redirected to the invoice list, which stopped making sense once
the admin also ran the bingo. Make it a dashboard with one tile per
area: invoice totals, outstanding amount per currency, overdue count and
the five latest invoices; the bingo score, reserve size, latest incident
and card cells still missing a photo. A shared nav links the sections.
Tiles are per area so they can follow user permissions later.
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"MW" on the card mixed IT load, connected power, total site power,
design capacity and even MVA (Oxygen, Sber Yuzhny Port). Record which
one a figure is in a new mw_type column; the dialog tags the number
("64 MW · design") and MVA replaces the unit, while cells keep the bare
figure to stay readable. Add a "planned" status for projects not yet
under construction; like "building", it is left out of the operational
view.
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The card mixes facilities in service with construction projects (Sber
Balakovo at #1, MOS7, MOS11, Yandex Vladimir-2), which is fine for a
bingo but not when you want to compare what actually runs today. Add a
toggle that builds the card from operational rows only, in the same
ranking, with bingo lines recomputed for that card. The filtered view is
noindex with canonical to the plain locale URL, so it does not compete
with the main page in search.
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aws-sdk returns object bodies from a plain StringIO, so S3.get handed
back a UTF-8 tagged string and Photo.sniff's binary prefix comparison
raised Encoding::CompatibilityError: "Rebuild resized photos" died on
the first photo with a 500. URL imports had the same flaw via a UTF-8
read buffer. Treat image data as binary at the source and in sniff, and
let one failing photo no longer abort the batch (errors are reported in
the admin flash and logged).
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The bingo host fell through to asxp.io's public/, so crawlers got
asxp.io's robots.txt pointing at asxp.io's sitemap (and the keys and
invoice JS were served too). Turn static files off for BingoWeb and give
it its own robots.txt and a sitemap with hreflang alternates.
The card loaded 15.6 MB of full-size photos as cell backgrounds. Derive
480/1200 px WebP variants with ImageMagick on store (memory/area limits,
input coder pinned to the sniffed type), render cells as <img> with lazy
loading past the first two rows, and add an admin action that rebuilds
variants from the stored originals.
Head gets per-locale titles and descriptions carrying the live score,
og:image from the latest hit, Twitter card, og:locale alternates,
JSON-LD WebSite + ItemList, and Vary: Accept-Language on the redirect.
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The card was fixed to the 25 seeded rows, so a new site such as
IXcellerate MOS7 (34 MW, under construction) could only be shoehorned in
by overwriting an existing row. Add create and delete (cascading to
incidents), make position an insert that shifts the rest, and keep
positions dense. More than 25 rows are allowed: the card shows the first
25 and the rest wait in reserve. "Sort by MW" re-ranks by the parsed
power figure, unknown last.
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Photos are served byte-for-byte, and the Commons shot of Medvedkovo
carries GPS coordinates in its EXIF, while the card is meant to stay
city-level. Drop Exif/XMP/IPTC/comment segments from JPEG, text/eXIf
chunks from PNG and EXIF/XMP chunks from WebP on store; pixel data is
left alone and malformed files are rejected.
upload.wikimedia.org answered 429 to the generic agent; its policy asks
for a tool name and contact, so send one.
Add a "re-import all" admin action so photos stored before this change
get re-fetched and stripped.
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Add a second public site to the same process: a 5x5 card of the 25
largest Russian datacenters where a cell is crossed out once an incident
with a public source is recorded (Yandex Sasovo and Kaluga drone strikes
on 2026-10-08/09 are seeded). config.ru dispatches by Host, so it rides
the existing container, DB and bucket instead of a new deploy.
The card is localized ru/en/uk with per-locale columns falling back to
ru. Content is managed from /admin/bingo on asxp.io, reusing AdminAuth
and CSRF. Photos go to the existing bucket under bingo/ and are proxied
by the app, so the bucket stays private and storage needs no change.
The seed data was fact-checked against operator sites and press on
2026-10-10; several entries in the original list were wrong or vague.
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