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Discussion on: The Dev.to Feed Algorithm 🤖

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Emma Goto 🍙

Fetch a collection of stories that have been published some time in the last 2 to 6 hours and score above -15

I set up an RSS feed from my website and was using that to publish to DEV, but since I don't have timestamps set up properly on my RSS feed when it published to DEV it would immediately show as published "20 hours ago". Once I started going in and manually modifying the timestamps it seems like more people have been viewing my posts. I guess this is why!

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Justin Mancinelli

Definitely. This reminds me of a PR I saw not too long ago

Ability to backdate a post #3455

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Unable to change publish date. I personally wish to back date a post, but there is no way to set the publish date (or time) for a post.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a custom variable for publish_date

Describe alternatives you've considered Time travel?

Additional context In lieu of being able to delete/edit comments on an old post I have duplicated and republished it as a new post, but the date does not/cannot reflect the origin publish date.

Semi related to #3274 and #1363

And @jess posed a great question

if a post is backdated, would we still surface it as new content?