[danilafe]

Thank you for your thoughtful comment!

> But again, the page doesn't make use of the feature it is extolling the virtues of!

I said I loved the feature, not that I had the energy to implement it -- though I definitely should. :-)

> Yes, though I might argue that such links, or a link to a ToC page for the group, belong in a more general list of related links.

This is a good idea, and in my ideal world my site (and others) would support this, but it's more difficult to do automatically. Stitching together a series TOC and connecting sequences of articles is easier to automate.

> I'd stay away from an icon per target site/type though - that could quickly get confusing as you essentially have many icons for the same thing (an external link), and every site will use its own preferred set of icons, so the difference won't help generally identify things at a glance.

Yes, I'm not sure that I'd advocate for this in general. Another issue is that I personally get a little confused by some of the icons (what does "SAMA" stand for, if you don't know about OpenAI / Sam Altman already?).

> I'd like all articles to carry an obvious date of publishing and/or last update

Definitely, though as others in the comments have suggested, it may be that Google downranks pages like this. Not that I care much for my search ranking.

[dspillett]

> I'd like all articles to carry an obvious date of publishing and/or last update

Definitely, though as others in the comments have suggested, it may be that Google downranks pages like this. Not that I care much for my search ranking.

I've heard the same but I've not seen trustworthy documentation stating that is an issue. It might be plausible that a date older than a certain point will make something be considered out of date, or more so than an article with a newer date, but if you think about it deeper it could be a bad indicator. How do you compare to articles without dates? I'd argue a dated article is better all else being equal, because the extra context makes it potentially more informative, some information doesn't date badly (at least not quickly), and how would the algorithms know what to do with pages containing multiple dates?