A deterministic share of each day's genuinely free slots is presented as taken. The booking window runs about a week and a half out. The selection is seeded per host and day, so a refresh never reshuffles it, and the same function guards the booking POST so a hidden slot cannot be booked by hand.
Also called: too many open slots · availability looks empty · scarcity on the booking page
- 1Real appointments and Google busy blocks mark slots taken first.
- 2Of what remains, a seeded count between two and five is kept, chosen round-robin from thirds of the day so the open times look natural.
- 3freeSlots (which the POST validates against) filters the same grid, so display and enforcement cannot disagree.
Quoted in the library: a deterministic share of each day's open slots 'is shown as taken so the calendar reads like a busy shop'. The determinism and the shared guard are what keep it honest — the page cannot show one thing and accept another.
- An empty calendar signalling no demand
- Display and validation drifting apart
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