Per Jay: don't surface stories people can't read without paying — it's off-brand
("no paywalls") and pointless. Paywalled is source-level (domain rule, admin-
overridable): just 3 sources today (Nature, New Scientist, MIT Tech Review),
~5.4% of accepted articles.
- queries.paywalled_source_ids(conn): live source set (admin override wins).
- queries.feed gains include_paywalled=False (default) → adds `a.source_id NOT IN
(…)`. One chokepoint covers Latest/tags/sources/moods/topics/search/since AND
the brief top-up. Source-level + SQL → paging stays exact, no frontend change.
- brief(): filter the cached/home pool by the same rule; replacement already
avoids paywalled and now rides the feed exclusion too.
- Dropped the now-moot "paywalled below readable" demotion sort.
- Saved/history keep showing items you saved (their own queries, not excluded).
- test_source_paywall_override updated: paywalled source → excluded from the feed
(was: shown with a badge); 'free' override → returns, no badge. 418 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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