Blogwashing - Hackdot

Re:Blogwashing by thrower123 on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:53AM (#21514048)

Please, for the love of all that is holy, publish new information as a new post, don't silently update old content. You never know when some obscure bit that is contained in the old post that appears to be superseded by new material will turn out to be invaluable.

Enough old content disappears from the internet organically.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Blogwashing by rchaud on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:12PM (#21518742)

> publish new information as a new post, don't silently update old content.

But the new post likely wouldn't rank as well as the old post, so you are less likely to find it using search. It would be a better user experience if the original post had a clear indicator stating that it was updated with new information on X date.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Blogwashing by geocrasher on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @08:06PM (#21520132)

I agree, and will be cross linking posts accordingly.

[ Parent | on HN ]