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Life of Posts?

by jmh
20th Jul 2025
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Life of Posts?
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[-]habryka2mo50

When posts get curated, we show the time of curation. Hover over the date to get both dates. We have gotten lots of complaints both ways (when we didn't do this, people complained that they are seeing weirdly old posts on the frontpage and didn't understand why they are seeing these posts). My guess is at some point we will figure out a way to have it be less confusing, but this was the slightly less confusing option of the two, at least based on "rate of complaints".

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[-]abstractapplic2mo41

Curated posts get their dates reset to the time they were curated. I don't know why.

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[-]Ruby2mo20

My guess is because (particularly before the introduction of recommended posts that are older to the posts list) people would find it strange to see old posts highlighted on the frontpage.

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John Wentworth's Hangriness post is show is 1 day old. Clearly it is not. Is that normal behavior for some reason (some edit yesterday by John that I'm just not seeing or something). Or maybe it's something on my side; do others see this?