The landing's award column read two windows of the clock — today's votes and
this ISO week's — and both of them empty meant no column at all: no
[data-key="lp-award"], and the hero back to a single block of copy. That is the
normal state of the install, not an edge case. On the live data the newest vote
is 2026-09-22T09:48 and this week's window opened 2026-09-28T00:00, so
GET /api/highlights answered {"day":[],"week":[]} with HTTP 200 while
/api/photos handed out fifteen frames: the query was right and the clock had
simply moved past every vote.
So /api/highlights grows a third list, `ever`: every vote ever cast, top-rated
first, computed only when both windows come back empty — a day with one vote in
it pays nothing for the extra query. The column draws day, then week, then ever,
deduped by photo id, so a frame keeps the tighter claim it won. The label
follows the frame: `ever` claims no window — "Most-loved recipe" / "Công thức
được yêu nhất" — because dressing a month-old best as today's is a lie the page
does not have to tell. A vote in the window still reads "Recipe of the day" or
"Recipe of the week" exactly as before.
Verified:
backend npm test — 183 passed, 0 failed. Three new checks in the ratings
section: a vote older than both windows leaves them empty, the all-time
bests stand in for them, and with nothing ever rated there is no frame at
all. The aged vote is backdated in the throwaway database, because both
windows are the clock's and no API path can cast a vote in the past.
Live: GET /api/highlights returns `ever` with five frames (ids 12,13,51,50,3,
every one avg 5, n 1) and 8090's landing draws .lp-award 440px wide beside
the copy — 5 slides, 1 standing, 2 arrows, label "Most-loved recipe", score
"5.0★1 vote", meta #LC_LANDSCAPE_VIVID. The column stepped slide-12 →
slide-13 across one 5s clock, and the page logged 0 console errors.
frontend tsc --noEmit clean; the served asset index-DPZxk4Vo.js matches dist/.
ponytail: the fallback is a flat all-time list, not a walk back through the
weeks to the newest one that has votes — the query stays one line and the label
stays honest; when the column should also read "Recipe of last week", walk the
windows back instead.
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