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This is a great post, but why doesn't it have a date? It's infuriating to see blog posts or even news that don't clearly display the publish date near the titl

by pier25 5y ago

This is a great post, but why doesn't it have a date? It's infuriating to see blog posts or even news that don't clearly display the publish date near the title.

mkr-hn 5y ago
Some marketing blog long ago said to remove dates so people can't tell when a post was written, and it's plagued blogging ever since. The idea is that "evergeen content" shouldn't need a date, but a date is context. No one is so good at writing that their writing has nothing anchoring it to the context of a point on a timeline.
- kevincox 5y ago
  I agree. You can always update the date, or add a "refresh" date if you do update the content (or just verify that it still applies).
yarinr 5y ago
The publish date is 2020-11-02, as appears on the articles list at https://nicholasreese.com/ https://nicholasreese.com/ I agree they should probably make it visible on the article page itself...
corobo 5y ago
Probably forgotten rather than whatever the other comments have heard haha. I didn't even realise my own blog was missing dates till just now Infuriating is a bit much
- pier25 5y ago
  > Infuriating is a bit much Ok maybe I was exaggerating :) but it really annoys me.
nickreese 5y ago
Hey, author here. I banged this out quickly and didn't update the template to include the date as an oversight. It was written in Nov 2020 as shown on the homepage.
- pier25 5y ago
  > It was written in Nov 2020 as shown on the homepage. Nobody visits homepages anymore. :)
  - nickreese 5y ago
    Not arguing that. Updated the article template to keep others from getting infuriated. ;)
    - pier25 5y ago
      Awesome!
tomjen3 5y ago
If it is a great post, why does it matter when it was written? How to win friends and influence people was written close to 100 years ago, but it is still recommended in plenty of places. The dragon book is older than me, but it is still one of the recommended books to write a compiler in. Why does a blog post have to have a date displayed on it? If it is about a specific version of some software, I can understand, and agree with you, why it should be mentioned in the post.
- pier25 5y ago
  > How to win friends and influence people was written close to 100 years ago, but it is still recommended in plenty of places. Because human nature hasn't changed. Front end stuff changes every day.

by pier25 5y ago

This is a great post, but why doesn't it have a date? It's infuriating to see blog posts or even news that don't clearly display the publish date near the title.

mkr-hn 5y ago

Some marketing blog long ago said to remove dates so people can't tell when a post was written, and it's plagued blogging ever since. The idea is that "evergeen content" shouldn't need a date, but a date is context. No one is so good at writing that their writing has nothing anchoring it to the context of a point on a timeline.

kevincox 5y ago
I agree. You can always update the date, or add a "refresh" date if you do update the content (or just verify that it still applies).

yarinr 5y ago

The publish date is 2020-11-02, as appears on the articles list at https://nicholasreese.com/ https://nicholasreese.com/ I agree they should probably make it visible on the article page itself...

corobo 5y ago

Probably forgotten rather than whatever the other comments have heard haha. I didn't even realise my own blog was missing dates till just now Infuriating is a bit much

pier25 5y ago
> Infuriating is a bit much Ok maybe I was exaggerating :) but it really annoys me.

nickreese 5y ago

Hey, author here. I banged this out quickly and didn't update the template to include the date as an oversight. It was written in Nov 2020 as shown on the homepage.

pier25 5y ago
> It was written in Nov 2020 as shown on the homepage. Nobody visits homepages anymore. :)
- nickreese 5y ago
  Not arguing that. Updated the article template to keep others from getting infuriated. ;)
  - pier25 5y ago
    Awesome!

tomjen3 5y ago

If it is a great post, why does it matter when it was written? How to win friends and influence people was written close to 100 years ago, but it is still recommended in plenty of places. The dragon book is older than me, but it is still one of the recommended books to write a compiler in. Why does a blog post have to have a date displayed on it? If it is about a specific version of some software, I can understand, and agree with you, why it should be mentioned in the post.

pier25 5y ago
> How to win friends and influence people was written close to 100 years ago, but it is still recommended in plenty of places. Because human nature hasn't changed. Front end stuff changes every day.