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It’s an old engagement trick. The classic advice is to hide publish dates because you might lose some people who don’t want to read old posts.

Which isn’t helpful if you’re a person who doesn’t want to read old posts.

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I'm actually biased towards older articles, given the rise of SEO oriented writing, and now, LLM generated content. Standing against the test of time should be a badge of honor. But readers like me may be the minority.

That's a good point, though it doesn't help if you're researching a new technology unfortunately.

Yes, unfortunately. I hope though that LLM's reliance on training data would at least give human writers an advantage when it comes to novel content such as new tech.

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