Refining the Data Layer for Content and Access Rules
Cleaned up the data rules governing reels exposure and entitlements to reduce future maintenance overhead.
The rules determining which tracks are available for free in reels, how invalid entries are filtered, and where user entitlements and payment status are stored are foundational to how content is exposed, recommended, and played. Because these rules are referenced and modified frequently, structural noise — redundant patterns and inconsistent formatting — directly increases the cost of each change.
This work focused on cleaning up the data rules that govern content exposure and the client-side code that consumes them, without introducing new functionality. Unnecessary whitespace and inconsistent formatting were removed, and filter conditions were restructured to make inclusion and exclusion logic immediately legible.
There are no observable behavior changes. For recommendations, discovery, and reels playback to operate reliably on a shared set of rules, the definitions of those rules need to be unambiguous. The goal was to lower the maintenance cost of future changes to this layer.