Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?
> I feel like I'm encountering more and more sites and articles where I can't seem to find the date.<p>It seems to me that its become standard practice on marketing type blogs for corporate websites to remove the date from their posts. I think its because (from personal experience) the company will go though a burst of "blog productivity" create a load of content but then not touch it for years, they don't want that content to look out of date or their website to look stagnant.<p>Removing the date from their posts, or any other content, hides how old it is and therefore obscures how active they are at crating new content.<p>Most companies try to use their blogs to attract new customers, a new customer may visit their website once or twice and will never see the blog again, it's not important that they do. They don't want it to look stale.<p>As a counter example, an interesting thread from yesterday [0] was about how CloudFlare use their blog not as a marketing tool but for technical content and attracting employees. They very regulally use their blog, and so keep the date on it showing how fresh it is.<p>0: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070422" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070422</a>