How a launch gets from somewhere on the internet onto the chart.
Launches arrive three ways: saved searches that run continuously, a browser extension used to capture something on sight, and manual entry. Reddit is the only source wired up so far, which is a limit of the plumbing rather than the scope. Other platforms get added as the collectors for them are built, and entries carry the source they came from.
A category is defined by the search terms that feed it, so defining one and deciding what belongs in it are the same act. Categories are broad on purpose: the claim being made is that a great many similar things launched close together, not that any two are identical. Where a launch could sit in more than one category it goes in the one describing its central mechanic.
Nothing publishes automatically. Every candidate lands in a queue with a machine-generated guess at its category and a note explaining why that guess was made. A person then confirms, corrects, or rejects it. The published record and the machine's opinion are stored separately, so a correction stays visible as a correction.
Dates are the moment a launch was posted, not the moment we noticed it. Almost every entry now carries a timestamp read from the source itself.
A few do not. Where an entry reads approximate, the source has since been deleted
or removed, so its exact time can no longer be verified and the timestamp shown is inferred from
where the post sits in Reddit's own identifier sequence. The ordering is still real. Those entries
say so on their own record rather than quietly rounding.
Some launches announce their earnings. Those figures are recorded as claimed and nothing more: they are what the poster said, not anything that has been checked. The running total on the front page is a sum of claims, and that is the whole point of the number.
Send a correction and it gets applied. Removals are granted on request from the person who made the thing.
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