The daily meter charged 100 credits for every day a campaign was shown,
with no end date. It produced 74-day queues, and worse, each new campaign
added 100/day of charges while adding no inventory: on 18 September, 15
campaigns were charged 1,500 credits against a platform that had produced
367 login impressions in its entire life. That had stopped being a pricing
inefficiency and become members paying for delivery that did not exist.
Now: 3,000 credits buys 30 days of unlimited impressions, charged once at
purchase, with no delivery promise — the model Marty wanted, matching how
ClickBaitPays sells theirs. The price is deliberately identical to 30 days
at the old daily rate, so nobody pays more than before; they just get a
known end instead of an open-ended drain.
It reuses the `featured` shape, which was already a flat up-front buy that
runs to `expires`. Both daily meters — MySQL and JSON — now skip any
campaign with an expiry, so a slot can never be metered. The existing
sweep closes it on day 30 and returns anything unspent.
qa/login-slot.mjs, 9 checks, including that the slot price still equals
30 days at the old rate and that neither meter can touch a slot campaign.
Member walk clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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