Thank the Organizers

Last Updated: 2026-06-13

Implemented — Epic 7.4

# Overview

Attendees said they had no way to say thank you. After an event, any attendee can send a one-click thank-you to the volunteer organizers, optionally with a short note. It is the one contribution where friction hurts most — so it is the one contribution that is deliberately not login-gated.

# Gating — anonymous allowed

Unlike the other contribution features, the thank-you is open to anyone, logged in or not. Instead of a login, it is protected by an abuse guard:

• Anonymous thank-yous increment a clap-style counter and are protected by Turnstile + a rate-limit (per session / IP) to prevent inflation.
• Logged-in attendees are deduped to one thank-you per event (submitting again does not double-count; an existing note may be updated).

# How it works

Any attendee, after an event (live / completed)
        │  POST  { note? }  (+ Turnstile token if anonymous; JWT if logged in)
        ▼
event-management-service
        │  logged in → upsert (unique: event + username)
        │  anonymous → validate Turnstile + rate-limit → increment counter
        ▼
Aggregate appreciation counter (public)  +  notes (organizer-visible)

The thank-you lives on the public event / archive page. A missing or invalid Turnstile token, or exceeding the rate limit, is rejected without incrementing the counter.

# What attendees and the public see

• A public aggregate appreciation counter — how many thank-yous an event received.
• Free-text notes are organizer-visible only. There is no public note wall and no approval queue.

# For organizers

On the appreciation surface you see the aggregate count for an event and any notes attendees submitted. There is nothing to moderate or approve for the count itself — it just accumulates.

# Story 7.7 — Curated Thank-You Marquee

In Progress

An upcoming extension lets you feature selected thank-you notes so they intermingle into the public homepage partner marquee — surfacing genuine attendee gratitude alongside partner logos. You curate which notes appear (they are not auto-published). This is in development and not yet available; the rest of Thank-the-Organizers is live.

# What’s in scope (and what isn’t)

# Related

• Post-Event Q&A → — the companion post-event touchpoint
• Attendee Experience Overview →