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Source: #1179
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From a tagged visit to a counted bot start

DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft

PR: #1179

Head SHA: d29d4e06ebb019209df2771dc3dfaef22501779a

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Work report

A visitor who arrives on t27.ai from a tagged link and presses open in Telegram now reaches the bot with the same channel at the end of the start payload, so the bot counts that start by channel.

What changed

• trafficArrival.ts remembers the visit's utm_source in the session when the arrival is reported.
• carrySource puts the channel after a double underscore at the end of the t27ai_bot start payload, only for our bot and within 64 characters.
• main.tsx installs a capturing click handler that tags our bot links at the moment they are pressed.

Context and reasoning

A visit and a bot start were counted separately, with nothing tying one to the other.

The bot can only receive text through its start payload, so the channel rides at its end after a double underscore.

Only our bot is tagged, never past Telegram's limit, and never over a channel already present.

Reported verification

• [passed] Command: node --experimental-strip-types apps/website/qa/traffic-arrival-contract.mjs. Result: The contract ran sixteen checks and all of them passed.. Evidence: Output: traffic-arrival contract: 16 checks passed
• [passed] Command: Mutations: drop the 64 character limit, then allow any bot. Result: Each mutation failed the contract on its own named check.. Evidence: never past 64 characters; never somebody else's bot
• [passed] Command: tsc --noEmit --strict on src/lib/trafficArrival.ts. Result: The module type-checks cleanly under strict mode.. Evidence: exit code 0 with no diagnostics printed

Limits and open questions

• Only the t27ai_bot links are tagged; other bots and channel links are left exactly as they were.
• The start is counted by the bot service, which must already carry the split of the channel from the payload.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1179
• Reported head commit d29d4e06ebb0
• Merge commit 45e3c9ff00fc

Topic tags

#analytics #telegram #website

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