backend/app/api/posts.py

@@ -207,6 +207,8 @@ async def rescan_associations():
     be within the window to exist at all); this is the button for a first run
     over a library that predates the feature."""
     async with get_session() as session:
-        result = await association_rescan(session)
+        # full=True: the button reaches the whole history, which the hourly
+        # sweep's 48-hour horizon never does.
+        result = await association_rescan(session, full=True)
         await session.commit()
     return jsonify(result)

backend/app/services/post_association_service.py

@@ -286,10 +286,28 @@ class PostAssociationService:
 
         paths_by_post: dict[int, list[str]] = {}
         hashes_by_post: dict[int, list[int]] = {}
+        # An image is counted under the post a reader SEES it on: a Discord
+        # message absorbed into a drop contributes to the drop, not to itself.
+        #
+        # Keyed on `primary_post_id` alone until 2026-09-24, which on the live
+        # instance meant a drop never had a name or a hash at all — its images
+        # are owned by its member messages, and the drop only claims them
+        # through provenance. The identity route therefore never fired there;
+        # the tests missed it because they attached images to the drop itself,
+        # which discord_grouping never does.
+        #
+        # Counting by the drop also makes the span honest: five wips of one
+        # piece posted as five messages and grouped into one drop are ONE post
+        # as far as "how many posts carry this name" is concerned.
+        owner = Post.__table__.alias("owner")
         rows = await self.session.execute(
             select(
-                ImageRecord.primary_post_id, ImageRecord.path, ImageRecord.phash
+                func.coalesce(owner.c.absorbed_by_post_id, ImageRecord.primary_post_id),
-            ).where(
+                ImageRecord.path, ImageRecord.phash,
+            )
+            .select_from(ImageRecord)
+            .join(owner, owner.c.id == ImageRecord.primary_post_id)
+            .where(
                 ImageRecord.artist_id == artist_id,
                 ImageRecord.primary_post_id.is_not(None),
             )
@@ -333,44 +351,81 @@ class PostAssociationService:
         self._corpora[artist_id] = corpus
         return corpus
 
-    async def _decided(self, announcement_id: int) -> set[int]:
+    async def _decided(self, announcement_id: int) -> dict[int, PostAssociation]:
-        """Payload posts already proposed for this announcement, in ANY status.
+        """Pairs already recorded for this announcement, keyed by payload.
 
-        Dismissed pairs are included deliberately: re-proposing a pair the
+        Linked and dismissed pairs are never touched again: re-proposing a pair
-        operator has already rejected on every subsequent scan is the single
+        the operator has already rejected on every subsequent scan is the
-        behaviour that makes a review queue get ignored.
+        single behaviour that makes a review queue get ignored.
+
+        A PENDING pair is different — nobody has decided it — so the caller
+        re-scores it. Otherwise a pair queued by an older, weaker matcher sits
+        in the queue forever even once the evidence is conclusive, which is the
+        chore the operator asked FC not to hand them.
         """
         rows = (await self.session.execute(
-            select(PostAssociation.payload_post_id)
+            select(PostAssociation)
             .where(PostAssociation.announcement_post_id == announcement_id)
         )).scalars().all()
-        return set(rows)
+        return {a.payload_post_id: a for a in rows}
 
     async def _candidate_groups(
         self, announcement: Post, *, window: timedelta,
-    ) -> list[Post]:
+    ) -> list[tuple[Post, datetime]]:
-        """Synthetic Discord groupings by the SAME artist, inside the window.
+        """Synthetic Discord groupings by the SAME artist with a message inside
+        the window — each with the time of its message CLOSEST to the teaser.
 
         Same-artist is the identity signal and it is free (see the module
         docstring on E4). It is also a hard filter rather than a scored one:
         two different creators posting minutes apart is a coincidence, not
         evidence, and letting it score at all would mean a busy hour across the
         library could out-vote everything else.
+
+        Measured on the MESSAGES, not the drop's own date. A drop is dated by
+        its first message, and since #4390 merges a creator's trickle into one
+        drop, that can be days before the release the teaser announces —
+        "Very early Marin" on Sep 7, `MarinaraSauce_base` on Sep 11. Matching
+        on the drop's date would put every merged trickle outside the window.
         """
         at = _post_time(announcement)
-        sort_key = func.coalesce(Post.post_date, Post.downloaded_at)
+        member = Post.__table__.alias("member")
-        return (await self.session.execute(
+        member_at = func.coalesce(member.c.post_date, member.c.downloaded_at)
-            select(Post)
+        rows = list((await self.session.execute(
+            select(member.c.absorbed_by_post_id, member_at)
             .where(
+                member.c.artist_id == announcement.artist_id,
+                member.c.absorbed_by_post_id.is_not(None),
+                member_at >= at - window,
+                member_at <= at + window,
+            )
+        )).all())
+        # The drop's own date counts too — the first message's, so it adds
+        # nothing for a real drop, but it keeps a drop with no member rows
+        # (hand-built, or one whose messages were removed) matchable.
+        own_at = func.coalesce(Post.post_date, Post.downloaded_at)
+        rows += (await self.session.execute(
+            select(Post.id, own_at).where(
                 Post.artist_id == announcement.artist_id,
                 Post.synthesized_by == DROP_GROUPER,
+                own_at >= at - window,
+                own_at <= at + window,
+            )
+        )).all()
+        closest: dict[int, datetime] = {}
+        for group_id, when in rows:
+            if group_id not in closest or abs(when - at) < abs(closest[group_id] - at):
+                closest[group_id] = when
+        if not closest:
+            return []
+        groups = (await self.session.execute(
+            select(Post).where(
+                Post.id.in_(list(closest)),
+                Post.synthesized_by == DROP_GROUPER,
                 Post.id != announcement.id,
-                sort_key >= at - window,
-                sort_key <= at + window,
             )
-            .order_by(sort_key)
-            .limit(MAX_CANDIDATES)
         )).scalars().all()
+        ranked = sorted(groups, key=lambda g: (abs(closest[g.id] - at), g.id))
+        return [(g, closest[g.id]) for g in ranked[:MAX_CANDIDATES]]
 
     async def _claimed(self, announcement_id: int, payload_id: int) -> bool:
         """Is either end of this pair already spoken for by an accepted link?
@@ -415,8 +470,9 @@ class PostAssociationService:
 
         made = 0
         scored: list[tuple[Post, float, dict, float]] = []
-        for group in await self._candidate_groups(announcement, window=window):
+        for group, group_at in await self._candidate_groups(announcement, window=window):
-            if group.id in already:
+            prior = already.get(group.id)
+            if prior is not None and prior.status != "pending":
                 continue
             named, token = shared_identity(
                 here,
@@ -435,7 +491,7 @@ class PostAssociationService:
             identity = max(named, copied)
             circumstantial = {
                 "proximity": proximity_signal(
-                    _post_time(group) - _post_time(announcement), window,
+                    group_at - _post_time(announcement), window,
                 ),
                 "declared": declared,
                 "marker": marker_overlap(
@@ -494,6 +550,16 @@ class PostAssociationService:
             status = "linked" if group.id == auto_id else "pending"
             if status == "linked":
                 linked += 1
+            prior = already.get(group.id)
+            if prior is not None:
+                # Re-scored in place: a pending pair keeps its row (and id),
+                # and only an upgrade to linked counts as news.
+                prior.score = score
+                prior.signals = signals
+                if status == "linked":
+                    prior.status = "linked"
+                    prior.linked_by = "fc"
+                continue
             self.session.add(PostAssociation(
                 announcement_post_id=announcement.id,
                 payload_post_id=group.id,
@@ -573,8 +639,17 @@ class PostAssociationService:
         return out
 
 
-async def rescan(session: AsyncSession, *, now: datetime | None = None) -> dict:
+async def rescan(
-    """Score every recent non-synthetic post against nearby groupings."""
+    session: AsyncSession, *, now: datetime | None = None, full: bool = False,
+) -> dict:
+    """Score recent non-synthetic posts against nearby groupings.
+
+    `full=True` scores EVERY post by an artist who has Discord drops at all —
+    the manual button's job, for history that predates the feature or that a
+    trickle merge (#4390) has just rearranged. It used to share the sweep's
+    48-hour horizon, so the button described as "a first run over a library
+    that predates the feature" could not reach that library.
+    """
     settings = await ImportSettings.load(session)
     if not settings.discord_link_enabled:
         return {"enabled": False, "scanned": 0, "proposed": 0, "linked": 0}
@@ -586,6 +661,18 @@ async def rescan(session: AsyncSession, *, now: datetime | None = None) -> dict:
     # a full-library rescan is the manual button's job, not the sweep's.
     horizon = now - timedelta(hours=window_hours * 2)
     sort_key = func.coalesce(Post.post_date, Post.downloaded_at)
+    if full:
+        with_drops = select(Post.artist_id).where(
+            Post.synthesized_by == DROP_GROUPER
+        ).distinct()
+        ids = set((await session.execute(
+            select(Post.id).where(
+                Post.synthesized_by.is_(None),
+                Post.absorbed_by_post_id.is_(None),
+                Post.artist_id.in_(with_drops),
+            )
+        )).scalars().all())
+        return await _score(session, settings, ids, window_hours)
     ids = set((await session.execute(
         select(Post.id).where(
             Post.synthesized_by.is_(None),
@@ -605,14 +692,28 @@ async def rescan(session: AsyncSession, *, now: datetime | None = None) -> dict:
     # That is #4392's third cause, and it is the one that left a measured 0.800
     # pair with an empty review queue on the live instance. The other two were
     # about scoring; this one meant nothing was scored at all.
-    drop_times = (await session.execute(
+    #
-        select(sort_key).where(
+    # The times are the drops' MESSAGES, not the drops' own dates: a drop that
+    # grew today by a trickle merge (#4390) is dated by its first stage, days
+    # earlier, while the teaser sits beside the message that just joined.
+    recent = (
+        select(Post.id).where(
             Post.synthesized_by == DROP_GROUPER,
             func.coalesce(Post.last_grew_at, Post.downloaded_at) >= horizon,
         )
         .order_by(func.coalesce(Post.last_grew_at, Post.downloaded_at).desc())
         .limit(MAX_RECENT_DROPS)
-    )).scalars().all()
+    )
+    member = Post.__table__.alias("member")
+    drop_times = set((await session.execute(
+        select(func.coalesce(member.c.post_date, member.c.downloaded_at))
+        .where(member.c.absorbed_by_post_id.in_(recent))
+    )).scalars().all())
+    # Plus each drop's own date — its first message's, so a duplicate for a
+    # real drop, but what a drop with no member rows is placed by.
+    drop_times |= set((await session.execute(
+        select(sort_key).where(Post.id.in_(recent))
+    )).scalars().all())
     # The interval arithmetic is done in Python rather than SQL: a handful of
     # literal ranges is portable, and `now - INTERVAL` is not.
     ranges = [
@@ -629,6 +730,12 @@ async def rescan(session: AsyncSession, *, now: datetime | None = None) -> dict:
             )
         )).scalars().all())
 
+    return await _score(session, settings, ids, window_hours)
+
+
+async def _score(
+    session: AsyncSession, settings: ImportSettings, ids: set[int], window_hours: float,
+) -> dict:
     svc = PostAssociationService(session)
     proposed = 0
     linked = 0

tests/test_post_association.py

@@ -950,3 +950,156 @@ def test_the_duplicate_threshold_sits_inside_the_measured_gap():
     justifies it: 20 bits was the widest true pair, 108 the nearest unrelated
     one."""
     assert 20 < DUPLICATE_MAX_DISTANCE < 108
+
+
+# --- drops shaped as the grouper actually writes them ----------------------
+#
+# Every test above hand-builds a drop that OWNS its images. discord_grouping
+# never does that: a drop's images belong to its member messages and the drop
+# claims them through provenance. Against that shape the matcher saw no names
+# and no hashes at all, so the identity route could not fire on the live
+# instance — and nothing here could have noticed.
+
+
+async def _real_drop(db, artist, discord, *, stages):
+    """Messages, each owning one named image, grouped by the real grouper and
+    merged by the real trickle pass. `stages` is [(at, name), ...]."""
+    from backend.app.services.discord_grouping import group_source, merge_trickles
+
+    for i, (at, name) in enumerate(stages):
+        msg = Post(source_id=discord.id, artist_id=artist.id,
+                   external_post_id=f"{artist.slug}-msg-{i}", post_date=at)
+        db.add(msg)
+        await db.flush()
+        vec = [0.0] * 1152
+        vec[i % 1152] = 1.0
+        db.add(ImageRecord(
+            path=f"/images/{artist.slug}/20260901_{1234567890000 + i}_01_{name}.png",
+            sha256=f"{artist.id:08d}{i:056d}", size_bytes=10, mime="image/png",
+            width=10, height=10, origin="downloaded", primary_post_id=msg.id,
+            artist_id=artist.id, siglip_embedding=vec,
+        ))
+    await db.flush()
+    await group_source(db, discord, max_distance=0.10, window_minutes=60)
+    await merge_trickles(db, discord, gap=timedelta(hours=168), min_images=2,
+                         cooldown=timedelta(hours=24))
+    await db.commit()
+    return (await db.execute(
+        select(Post).where(Post.source_id == discord.id,
+                           Post.synthesized_by == DROP_GROUPER,
+                           Post.absorbed_by_post_id.is_(None))
+    )).scalars().all()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_drop_whose_images_belong_to_its_messages_still_links_on_its_name(db):
+    """The live shape. `0-k` on the teaser and on the drop's MESSAGE, nowhere
+    else — conclusive, so FC links it without asking."""
+    artist, patreon, discord = await _artist_with_channels(db, "liveshape")
+    now = datetime.now(UTC) - timedelta(days=5)
+    (drop,) = await _real_drop(db, artist, discord, stages=[(now, "0-k_base")])
+    teaser = await _teaser(db, artist, patreon, at=now + timedelta(hours=20),
+                           body="new one", names=["0-k"])
+    await db.commit()
+
+    made = await PostAssociationService(db).match_post(
+        teaser.id, threshold=DEFAULT_THRESHOLD, window_hours=WINDOW, auto_link=True,
+    )
+    await db.commit()
+
+    assert made == (1, 1)
+    assoc = (await db.execute(select(PostAssociation))).scalar_one()
+    assert (assoc.payload_post_id, assoc.signals["identity_token"]) == (drop.id, "0-k")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_merged_trickle_is_found_by_its_latest_stage(db):
+    """A trickle merged by #4390 is dated by its FIRST stage — four days before
+    the release the teaser announces. Matching on the drop's own date would put
+    it outside the 24h window."""
+    artist, patreon, discord = await _artist_with_channels(db, "trickleshape")
+    start = datetime.now(UTC) - timedelta(days=10)
+    (drop,) = await _real_drop(db, artist, discord, stages=[
+        (start, "svtt_wip1"), (start + timedelta(days=2), "svtt_wip3"),
+        (start + timedelta(days=4), "svtt_drench_b"),
+    ])
+    teaser = await _teaser(db, artist, patreon, at=start + timedelta(days=4, hours=1),
+                           body="new one", names=["svtt_teaser"])
+    await db.commit()
+
+    made = await PostAssociationService(db).match_post(
+        teaser.id, threshold=DEFAULT_THRESHOLD, window_hours=WINDOW, auto_link=True,
+    )
+    await db.commit()
+
+    assert made[0] == 1
+    assoc = (await db.execute(select(PostAssociation))).scalar_one()
+    assert assoc.payload_post_id == drop.id
+    # Timed against the closest message, an hour away — not the first, four
+    # days away.
+    assert assoc.signals["proximity"] > 0.9
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_pair_left_pending_is_linked_once_the_evidence_is_conclusive(db):
+    """Nobody decided a pending pair, so the matcher re-scores it. Otherwise a
+    pair queued by an older, weaker matcher waits for a click forever."""
+    artist, patreon, discord = await _artist_with_channels(db, "pendingshape")
+    now = datetime.now(UTC) - timedelta(days=5)
+    (drop,) = await _real_drop(db, artist, discord, stages=[(now, "0-k_base")])
+    teaser = await _teaser(db, artist, patreon, at=now + timedelta(hours=2),
+                           body="new one", names=["0-k"])
+    db.add(PostAssociation(announcement_post_id=teaser.id, payload_post_id=drop.id,
+                           score=0.61, signals={"proximity": 0.9}, status="pending"))
+    await db.commit()
+
+    await PostAssociationService(db).match_post(
+        teaser.id, threshold=DEFAULT_THRESHOLD, window_hours=WINDOW, auto_link=True,
+    )
+    await db.commit()
+
+    assoc = (await db.execute(select(PostAssociation))).scalar_one()
+    assert (assoc.status, assoc.linked_by) == ("linked", "fc")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_a_dismissed_pair_is_never_rescored(db):
+    artist, patreon, discord = await _artist_with_channels(db, "dismissedshape")
+    now = datetime.now(UTC) - timedelta(days=5)
+    (drop,) = await _real_drop(db, artist, discord, stages=[(now, "0-k_base")])
+    teaser = await _teaser(db, artist, patreon, at=now + timedelta(hours=2),
+                           body="new one", names=["0-k"])
+    db.add(PostAssociation(announcement_post_id=teaser.id, payload_post_id=drop.id,
+                           score=0.61, signals={}, status="dismissed"))
+    await db.commit()
+
+    assert await PostAssociationService(db).match_post(
+        teaser.id, threshold=DEFAULT_THRESHOLD, window_hours=WINDOW, auto_link=True,
+    ) == (0, 0)
+    assoc = (await db.execute(select(PostAssociation))).scalar_one()
+    assert assoc.status == "dismissed"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_the_full_rescan_reaches_history_the_sweep_does_not(db):
+    """The "Scan now" button. It used to share the sweep's 48-hour horizon, so
+    it could not reach the library it was described as being for."""
+    artist, patreon, discord = await _artist_with_channels(db, "historyshape")
+    long_ago = datetime.now(UTC) - timedelta(days=400)
+    (drop,) = await _real_drop(db, artist, discord, stages=[(long_ago, "0-k_base")])
+    # Authored long ago too. A drop FC wrote TODAY is exactly what the sweep
+    # follows back to its teaser (#4392's third cause), so it would find this
+    # pair without the button.
+    drop.downloaded_at = long_ago
+    await _teaser(db, artist, patreon, at=long_ago + timedelta(hours=2),
+                  body="new one", names=["0-k"])
+    settings = await ImportSettings.load(db)
+    settings.discord_link_enabled = True
+    await db.commit()
+
+    assert (await rescan(db))["proposed"] == 0
+    await db.commit()
+    result = await rescan(db, full=True)
+    await db.commit()
+
+    assert (result["proposed"], result["linked"]) == (1, 1)