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Off-topic, but am I the only one that's annoyed by the lack of publish dates in blogs?

• inopinatus 4y ago
  It's in the URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/11/06/making-a-dns-query-in-ruby-from-scratch/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/11/06/making-a-dns-query-in-ruby-f... and the HTML source also includes a machine-readable element: <p class="meta"> <time datetime="2022-11-06T08:31:53" pubdate="" data-updated="true"></time> </p> For my own journal, I tuck human-readable metadata inside a <details> block (which defaults to hidden), with the title in the nested <summary> (which defaults to visible). Thus, it's available, if visitors activate the title to reveal it.
• speedgoose 4y ago
  You can blame SEO. Old content is not ranked as well as new content so it’s better to remove the date and pretend the articles are recent. The world may be a better place without SEO.
  • chillfox 4y ago
    It's only an issue because search engines use date as a proxy for if the page is still relevant instead of judging it by the content.
  • remram 4y ago
    The search engine can't tell it already has it in its index? Also a sibling pointed out that it's in the source. That doesn't seem right.
• deleted 4y ago
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• Lammy 4y ago
  I'm the opposite and am annoyed at the obsession with dates causing people to ignore anything written more than a year or two ago. Wait until you find out how old DNS is!