How the current collection is ordered
The homepage presents a lightweight, editorially ordered window of catalog entries. It does not ingest a live social feed, calculate a viral-coefficient score, or make a claim about what is popular right now. Search and cuisine filters operate against the published static catalog.
Freshness and fallback
The most recent published-record date currently in the catalog is . If a future data source is unavailable, ViralEats will retain this editorial collection rather than showing a fabricated live rank, engagement count, or update time.
Standard for a future trend feature
Before publishing a trend label, ViralEats will document the source categories, scoring boundaries, update cadence, owner, limitations, and a visible last-updated time. Until then, we use plain editorial catalog language.