We only can see the date of the latest reply, not the original posting date. Sometime, when an old thread pops up because of a recent reply, it would appear as new “breaking news”. It should be indicated in the feed that it is old.

If you don’t care about replies you can bookmark https://discuss.privacyguides.net/latest?order=created to sort by post creation date.

I might care about replies, but I should know that the topic isn’t new.

I experienced this just now with a Bitwarden post, thinking it was very recent. [image] I wonder if there is a way to put the original date (like month + year) somewhere near the title or tags area in small font?

For post older than a month, I think it could be put below the category section.

Not to my knowledge, but if anyone knows of a Discourse theme component which adds this functionality I’d be happy to add it. It doesn’t appear to be a configurable setting that could be changed without a custom component.

I have experienced this problem as well tbh. I would just say that those who are regulars (trust level 3) can consider adding [OLD] or smth to the title if necessary.

I would really prefer not to do that since edits would also bump the post lol I did just discover that if you hover over the activity timestamp on a post it shows the created date though, if that is useful to anyone.

[image] jonah: I would really prefer not to do that since edits would also bump the post lol I suppose but I find this is mainly a problem when a post appears at the top of the feed because it is already being discussed for some other reason.

To me I never have a problem with this because if there is a recent post then it probably must be relevant since otherwise why would someone post a reply? I’ll want to read that reply either way… so I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the actual problem here. It scrolls you down to the latest…

It’s not actually a massive issue but sometimes a topic is both relevant and being actively discussed while having a title which portrays a sense of urgency which was appropriate when it was originally posted. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a good example of this right now.

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Here is an example. Commission unveils ProtectEU – a new European Internal Security Strategy - #13 by Blackbird

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