• yarr@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    @Martineski@lemmy.ml META: I don’t know I’d bother adding the ‘date’ of the source material unless it’s 1+ year ago.

    I’ve seen a few of your posts and they are suffixed with (x days old). I don’t think it’s needed. Also, a few months in the future they will still say “2 days old” but they will be far older then.

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      1 year ago

      Dunno why I started doing that tbh, I will start doing it for things that are week or older. Thanks for bringing that to my attention because I was doing that without thinking lol.

      Edit: and my tag is @Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml

      What you tagged is my first acc that I abandoned right after creating because I learned about the devs being tankies

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      1 year ago

      Actually, fuck, I’m stupid. I could have just wrrote dates in the title and not how old it is at the date of posting so instead of (x day old article) it would be (article from xx.xx.xxxx). But now that would be longer though and space for the title is already very limited, ugh… If they make max lenght of the title longer then I will start writing full dates and edit all my previous posts, if not then I will stick with I’ve been doing till now but will write it only if thing is older than 7 days.

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        1 year ago

        If you stick to what you are doing now, you have the same problem that in 6 months, all your posts will list the “wrong” date, as they will have aged. If you MUST add the age of the linked story, I would encourage you to use an absolute date, rather than a relative one, as if you list X days ago they will instantly be wrong the next day.

        Personally, what I do, is if the story is older than 1 year, I put the year in parenthesis (2012). If it’s from this year, I don’t bother. Many sites use the same pattern.

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            1 year ago

            Sure, but if you post a link to an article today saying

            “Cheese is great for you (3 days old)”

            well, after 2 days, that headline is no longer accurate.

            if you post saying

            “Cheese is great for you (2023-06-20)”

            that headline is great forever