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Despite this post being dated December 21, 2022, I'm 90% I read this a long time back - 6 months or so maybe.

by andybak 4y ago

matkoniecz 4y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32909343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32909343
- ezekg 4y ago
  Knew it sounded familiar. But why would they republish it? The old post now 404s.
  - mormegil 4y ago
    Yes, that is not cool. By coincidence, a few days ago, I followed a link to an SO blog article, but the link was broken, I searched the article title on Google, which led me... to the same 404 page again. So I took to the great Internet Archive which fortunately worked. Only later have I found that because the article in question was so good they chose to republish it, all original links broke in the process.
    - franze 4y ago
      thats cause the date is part of the URL. so changing the date changed the URL, and so thereby violated nr 2 of the Cool URL rules: URL-Rule 1: unique (1 URL == 1 resource, 1 resource == 1 URL) URL-Rule 2: permanent (they do not change, no dependencies to anything) URL-Rule 3: manageable (equals measurable, 1 logic per site section, no complicated exceptions, no exceptions) URL-Rule 4: easily scalable logic URL-Rule 5: short URL-Rule 6: with a variation (partial) of the targeted phrase URL-Rule 1 is more important than 1 to 6 combined, URL-Rule 2 is more important than 2 to 6 combines, … URL-Rule 5 and 6 are a trade-of. 6 is the least important.
  - cma 4y ago
    To game search engine dupe detection maybe?
  - matkoniecz 4y ago
    To get the same benefit of posting article without writing new one. And it worked, it reached front page again. I wonder how often then recycle articles and post them with fake dates.
sixhobbits 4y ago
I thought exactly the same and was confused by the date. Thanks for the confirmation.
rdonovan 4y ago
SO blog editor here (and author of the piece). Sorry for the confusion, we're republishing our top ten posts of the year over the holidays, and I guess y'all picked this one up again.
- OJFord 4y ago
  So what does the date mean? Date last marketed? Not a great thing to do IMO... by all means resurface the good stuff to the top of the blog, but why change the date? SEO? I don't think there's a good answer?
- dagenix 4y ago
  Are you planning on fixing the misleading date?
  - dagenix 4y ago
    I understand if they need to update the date to get it to show up at the top of the blog. But, in that case they can just add a few words to the front of the article saying that they are republishing an item from September.
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- ezekg 4y ago
  Since the date is in the URL, you broke old links, and without a redirect at that. You should look into how you "republish" because it doesn't look like you're doing it ideally. Just some helpful advice. Without a redirect, SEO on the old post will go poof.
ProAm 4y ago
Gives new ad impressions with a new date.

Despite this post being dated December 21, 2022, I'm 90% I read this a long time back - 6 months or so maybe.

matkoniecz 4y ago

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32909343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32909343

ezekg 4y ago
Knew it sounded familiar. But why would they republish it? The old post now 404s.
- mormegil 4y ago
  Yes, that is not cool. By coincidence, a few days ago, I followed a link to an SO blog article, but the link was broken, I searched the article title on Google, which led me... to the same 404 page again. So I took to the great Internet Archive which fortunately worked. Only later have I found that because the article in question was so good they chose to republish it, all original links broke in the process.
  - franze 4y ago
    thats cause the date is part of the URL. so changing the date changed the URL, and so thereby violated nr 2 of the Cool URL rules: URL-Rule 1: unique (1 URL == 1 resource, 1 resource == 1 URL) URL-Rule 2: permanent (they do not change, no dependencies to anything) URL-Rule 3: manageable (equals measurable, 1 logic per site section, no complicated exceptions, no exceptions) URL-Rule 4: easily scalable logic URL-Rule 5: short URL-Rule 6: with a variation (partial) of the targeted phrase URL-Rule 1 is more important than 1 to 6 combined, URL-Rule 2 is more important than 2 to 6 combines, … URL-Rule 5 and 6 are a trade-of. 6 is the least important.
- cma 4y ago
  To game search engine dupe detection maybe?
- matkoniecz 4y ago
  To get the same benefit of posting article without writing new one. And it worked, it reached front page again. I wonder how often then recycle articles and post them with fake dates.

sixhobbits 4y ago

I thought exactly the same and was confused by the date. Thanks for the confirmation.

rdonovan 4y ago

SO blog editor here (and author of the piece). Sorry for the confusion, we're republishing our top ten posts of the year over the holidays, and I guess y'all picked this one up again.

OJFord 4y ago
So what does the date mean? Date last marketed? Not a great thing to do IMO... by all means resurface the good stuff to the top of the blog, but why change the date? SEO? I don't think there's a good answer?
dagenix 4y ago
Are you planning on fixing the misleading date?
- dagenix 4y ago
  I understand if they need to update the date to get it to show up at the top of the blog. But, in that case they can just add a few words to the front of the article saying that they are republishing an item from September.
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ezekg 4y ago
Since the date is in the URL, you broke old links, and without a redirect at that. You should look into how you "republish" because it doesn't look like you're doing it ideally. Just some helpful advice. Without a redirect, SEO on the old post will go poof.

ProAm 4y ago

Gives new ad impressions with a new date.