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# Rising
## Route
- URL: `GET /discover/rising`
- Controller: `App\Http\Controllers\Web\DiscoverController::rising()`
- Service: `App\Services\ArtworkSearchService::discoverRising()`
- RSS feed: `GET /rss/discover/rising` via `App\Http\Controllers\RSS\DiscoverFeedController::rising()`
## What the page reads
Like most Discover surfaces, this page ranks via Meilisearch and then hydrates the result IDs from MySQL for presentation.
If the search-backed query throws or returns no items, the controller falls back to a direct MySQL query against `artworks` + `artwork_stats`.
If the page receives a non-empty result set but every item has zero `heat_score` and zero `engagement_velocity`, it switches to a low-signal fallback policy instead of pretending that the zero-heat order is meaningful.
The RSS Rising feed now follows the same low-signal policy and the same adaptive lookback window, so it does not drift to a stale zero-heat ordering when recent engagement is sparse.
Primary ranking fields:
- `heat_score`
- `engagement_velocity`
- `published_at_ts` as the final recency tie-breaker
## Search query
`discoverRising()` uses:
- filter: `is_public = true AND is_approved = true AND created_at >= cutoff`
- sort:
- `heat_score:desc`
- `engagement_velocity:desc`
- `published_at_ts:desc`
The cutoff comes from the same adaptive time-window service used by Trending.
## Rising formula
`heat_score` is produced by `App\Console\Commands\RecalculateHeatCommand`.
Current formula:
```text
raw_heat
= ((views_delta * 1)
+ (downloads_delta * 3)
+ (favourites_delta * 6)
+ (comments_delta * 8)
+ (shares_delta * 12)) / window_hours
age_factor
= 1 / (1 + hours_since_upload / 24)
heat_score
= raw_heat * age_factor
```
The heat command smooths deltas over a trailing lookback window, rather than relying only on the last single hour.
That matters on low-traffic periods, because a pure 1-hour delta often collapses to zero for almost every artwork.
An artwork still needs at least two snapshots inside that window for the smoothed heat delta to count. A single snapshot without an earlier baseline does not count as momentum.
The `views_1h`, `downloads_1h`, `favourites_1h`, `comments_1h`, and `shares_1h` columns are still stored from the previous-hour comparison for diagnostics and dashboards.
## Data sources
The page depends on:
- `artwork_metric_snapshots_hourly`
- `artwork_stats.heat_score`
- `artwork_stats.engagement_velocity`
- artwork publish timestamps
In zero-signal periods, the fallback policy also uses a 24-hour snapshot delta rollup from `artwork_metric_snapshots_hourly` and then falls back to `published_at DESC`.
`engagement_velocity` is not part of the heat command. It comes from the ranking engine and acts as a secondary momentum signal.
## Intended background jobs
The intended pipeline is:
1. `nova:metrics-snapshot-hourly`
- captures hourly totals into `artwork_metric_snapshots_hourly`
2. `nova:recalculate-heat`
- computes `heat_score` from snapshot deltas
3. Meilisearch picks up the updated score after indexing
## Runtime schedule
Rising depends on two active Laravel 11 runtime jobs in `routes/console.php`:
- `nova:metrics-snapshot-hourly`
- `nova:recalculate-heat`
If either one disappears from `php artisan schedule:list`, Rising will quickly drift toward stale or low-signal ordering.
## Active jobs that still affect Rising
- `nova:recalculate-rankings --sync-rank-scores` every 30 minutes updates `engagement_velocity`
- `skinbase:flush-redis-stats` every 5 minutes keeps all-time stats fresher
## Cache behavior
- Cache key: `discover.rising.{windowDays}d.{page}`
- TTL: 120 seconds
If Meilisearch sort settings are missing or the search result is empty, the controller falls back to the DB query instead of returning an empty page or a 500.
## Notes
- If Rising looks frozen while Trending moves, the first place to check is whether `nova:metrics-snapshot-hourly` and `nova:recalculate-heat` are actually being executed in production.
- The page no longer uses `GridFiller`, so it should not pull in unrelated older artworks when the real result set is thin.
- If all heat and velocity values are zero, Rising intentionally behaves like a low-signal discovery feed: recent activity in the last 24 hours first, then newest published artworks.