Possible bug in newly-released status
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Hi, I recently started this article, and edited it over a few days and then published it. As far as I could see it never made it to the Latest Articles bit. Looking at it, it has an "Updated" date set long before the publishing date (even though I updated it just before publishing). :suss: My guess is that when I published, whatever compiles the list of articles for the category looks first at the Created date to see if it's new, rather than the Published date, and if it's not deemed new then then it looks at the Updated date, which is the right idea but doesn't appear to be have been stamped totally correctly if an article's been in draft status for a while. I do accept it's perfectly possible I'm just coming up with an elaborately creative way to assure myself this is why my article seemed to be tucked away from the word go. If it's purely because it sucks then I'll be quiet and I'm sorry! Thanks.
In the beginning there was nothing. Then the lord spoke, and he said, "Let there be light!" and behold! There was still nothing but you could see it better.
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Hi, I recently started this article, and edited it over a few days and then published it. As far as I could see it never made it to the Latest Articles bit. Looking at it, it has an "Updated" date set long before the publishing date (even though I updated it just before publishing). :suss: My guess is that when I published, whatever compiles the list of articles for the category looks first at the Created date to see if it's new, rather than the Published date, and if it's not deemed new then then it looks at the Updated date, which is the right idea but doesn't appear to be have been stamped totally correctly if an article's been in draft status for a while. I do accept it's perfectly possible I'm just coming up with an elaborately creative way to assure myself this is why my article seemed to be tucked away from the word go. If it's purely because it sucks then I'll be quiet and I'm sorry! Thanks.
In the beginning there was nothing. Then the lord spoke, and he said, "Let there be light!" and behold! There was still nothing but you could see it better.
We'll check out what happened. I'm sure it's us, not you :) [Edit: it was us, not you. Our editing system allows us more control than you guys get, and one of those controls is to not upset the dates. In this case the dates should have been updated. We're fixing it to reduce foot-shooting situations.]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP