What the terminal knows—and what it does not.
Every headline metric has a defined source, unit, coverage denominator, and freshness state.
Board counts are terminalbid census observations of a canonical-host-deduplicated union: verified source memberships plus active Deep Feeds. outoutbid.lol supplies licensed rich metadata and reported takings; getloud.lol is used only to discover board URLs.
Every discovered URL is checked directly before publication for a public HTTP(S) host, same-host redirects, bounded HTML, bidding and ranking language, and a visible ranked price ladder. Challenged, parked, private, or unverifiable client-only sites are excluded. Verified independent boards are rechecked weekly and become stale only after three consecutive direct failures.
Independent board names and descriptions come only from the board itself. Alternate-directory categories, descriptions, and financial claims are never copied. Earlier outoutbid catalog counts remain visible before the marked verified-union transition; the sources are labeled and no cross-boundary change is inferred.
Deep Feed boards are declared in a version-controlled manifest and expose listing-level identities, ranks, currencies, bids, and clicks directly to terminalbid. New candidates require two successful, duplicate-free probes at least fifteen minutes apart before admission.
Complete parsers may identify dropped listings. Partial heuristic parsers may update visible entries but cannot declare unseen entries dropped. Seed placements with unknown paid amounts remain null and never inflate bid depth.
Cumulative money attributed exclusively to outoutbid observations.
These source-published claims are not audited revenue. Only recognized USD values enter the USD market total; other currencies remain in their original units.
Sum of currently visible, known USD bids on Deep Feed boards.
This can fall on reset or decay boards and is not interchangeable with takings.
Current known bid divided by source-reported clicks.
Useful for comparison, but not an attribution model and not a measure of conversion quality.