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yellowjacket/backend/explore
yonlu 48acede1bc feat: 5-tier search index with library + similar artist expansion
Rewrite SearchIndex with tiered background build:

Tier 1 — Sitewide instant (<5s, 12 calls): top artists, recordings,
  and release groups across 4 time ranges. Searchable immediately.

Tier 2 — Sitewide full discog (~16min, 2881 calls): top 20 RGs +
  top 100 recordings per sitewide artist (~1440 unique artists from
  all_time/this_year/this_month/this_week union).

Tier 3 — Library artists (~4min, 664 calls): match local library
  artist names against known MBIDs, index their full discographies.
  Catches the user's personal taste that sitewide misses.

Tier 4 — Similar artists (~24min, ~4300 calls): fetch similar
  artists from LB labs for each library artist, index their
  discographies. Fans out into the user's taste neighborhood.

Tier 5 — Organic growth (0 calls): BrowseReleaseGroups now writes
  to the search index in a background goroutine. Every artist page
  view adds that artist's discography to the index for free.

Other changes:
- indexRGsPerArtist bumped 10→20 (96% vs 88% coverage)
- indexRecsPerArtist bumped 10→100 (track-name searchability)
- indexMinPopularity = 50 (cuts noise from long tails)
- Dedicated 3 req/s rate limiter for indexer
- Labs similar-artists endpoint at labs.api.listenbrainz.org
- Each tier marks index as ready on completion so search improves
  progressively during the ~44min total build
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