movielens: always exclude unreleased movies from explore-catalogs

[Arcitec]

Summary

Apply maxFutureDays=0 globally to all "explore" catalogs, to prevent unreleased movies from ever appearing in search and recommendation results.

They were still appearing in several previously unhandled situations, such as "minYear=2026" (which then easily surfaced plenty of future "2029" releases). Instead of trying to catch every scenario (maxDaysAgo, sortBy=releaseDate, minYear=2026, etc), let's just universally exclude them from exploration catalogs.

Unreleased titles cannot be streamed or even be watched in cinemas yet, and they lack meaningful ratings/tags, making them catalog noise.

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[Arcitec]

An easy way to test this:

• Create a catalog with these parameters:
• Sort By: Prediction (personalized)
• Min Year: 2026
• Then go into your streaming app's discover feature, and set Genre to Animation.
• Without this pull request: You'll see Coco 2 (2029) and other noise. With this pull request: You only see movies available in cinemas or at home. Thus improving the recommendation catalog quality.
• The maxFutureDays parameter is still manually settable, if a future update ever wants to expose it to the user. However, it's unlikely that unreleased movies would ever belong in these recommendation catalogs, since nobody has seen/rated/tagged them yet, so they're just noise.

[0xConstant1]

Can you fix the linting error real quick?

[Arcitec]

@0xConstant1

Can you fix the linting error real quick?

It seems like it's just complaining that I removed the #linked issue section of the PR template. I re-added it already but it didn't re-evaluate the PR. So no I don't think I can do anything about it from here. :/

[0xConstant1]

@0xConstant1

Can you fix the linting error real quick?

It seems like it's just complaining that I removed the #linked issue section of the PR template. I re-added it already but it didn't re-evaluate the PR. So no I don't think I can do anything about it from here. :/

I was talking about the missing semi-colon in your code.

[Arcitec]

@0xConstant1 Oh on the isExplore line! Fixed!

[0xConstant1]

ty for your contribution 👍