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Why are we adding (2016) to current year submissions now?
by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Why are we adding (2016) to current year submissions now?
- maxerickson 10y agoWhy is ~1 user doing it is the question. I guess there is a good chance they just prefer it.
- rfreytag 10y agoBecause when searching in 2017+ knowing the year of the article might be nice. With the Wayback Machine and its ilk around the Internet is not ephemeral.
- ajanuary 10y agoMost posts are contemporary, which means you can use the post date to figure out the year of the article without clogging up the list of titles with (2016)
- overcast 10y agoSo time travelers feel more comfortable. You know how offended everyone gets these days.
- curiousgal 10y agoTrigglypuff jumps to mind.
- pingswept 10y agoGoddam fateless tickers. Why can't they just stay put?
- slazaro 10y agoAt first sight I thought the movie was from 2016, since "Title (Year)" is a very common way of mentioning movies, but this movie is from 1992, so that's not it.
- fnordsensei 10y agoI haven't seen the movie, so I went looking for a movie named Sneakers that was released this year. It turns out that it was just CGI /so advanced/ that it took humanity 24 years to reproduce in real time.
- slantyyz 10y agoWow, I didn't realize it came out in 1992, I thought it came out a few years later. Now I'm really starting to feel old. In 1992, I was still using the Hayes command set to connect to the broader world. +++ ath
- dang 10y agoWe're not, so we've (belatedly) taken that out.