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Not having dates is a bad idea... Even if it's just for context.

If this article was posted in 2018, things have changed a little bit since 2020...



yeah exactly, dates may not be important in some contexts, but we're talking about information display - on the browse... area of your blog or index page -- it may be important to the reader to know when something was written/posted. i.e. I went browse to see more posts on that site and saw a post called 'Work From Home', with no date. I wanted to know if it was written ages ago or perhaps very recently when working from home became very relevant to today's coronavirus society.

Also, I think for better or worse, as internet surfers, we've come to expect things to be somewhat sorted chronologically as default, so unless you're pulling some 'highlight' articles out to feature etc, we're conditioned to expect the list/index as date sorted for the most part....


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