CONNECTING FROM HERE: August 2016

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

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Okay, they don't care about authenticating posting dates and want to leave telling when a post was updated to the user himself, as unusual that as it is, why then confuse people that you are authenticating those dates by involving yourself with arranging posts according to the date of publishing? You leave the user free to set the time for when the post was published then arrange posts according to those dates? Why the long circle? Why not leave stating when a post was made entirely to the user like anything else he may wish to write about and instead ask him directly to put a sequence number for his post?

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When they save files to their computers, what operating system did those guys from google use where setting the date is in the hands of the person making the change to the file? So why should this be different and one can change his entire post and still keep the same creation date and without a modification date?

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

304

I don't know what they were thinking because I would rather not allow any modification for an already created post except deleting it than to show meaningless posting dates like that. There is no comparison between making a new post for the update and losing your entire posting date history.

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Google's practice of no authenticity for the posting date would look even more strange when one takes into account the time history google puts on the side of the blogs. What does it think that when a person clicks to see posts made in, for example, June 2013, he is counting on whose authentication for that?

Monday, August 29, 2016

302

Did not want to spend efforts or resources on enabling that dating the updates capability? No problem, they could have replaced it with this simple thing that would still have enabled authenticating dates of posting. For updating a post it can be done by creating a new post and referring to the one it replaces. For authenticating the posting date they could have enabled the user creating a post to choose if his post would accept modification after its creation or not. That choice should then be shown with the post. Choosing to make your post unmodifiable would leave only the option of deleting it.

There is a difference between a toy and a tool and I was counting on blogging here to be more of the later. Years of posting and now I cant prove that I really made the posts I made on the dates shown.

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Seriously, Google?! That is the product of a company with such budget?

In posts I made yesterday I made links to posts I made earlier trying to use them to support something I was saying. But then I wondered about how would that prove to the reader that I did not change those posts later. And shockingly, it seems that there is no solution to that and Google's blogging software does not enable showing when a post was last updated. Can you believe that? Is this really such a fancy feature? This is more important to me than all the formatting they offer combined. I would rather have just simple text and this capability.

Had I realized that there would be no way for me to prove I did not change a post there is zero chance I would have depended on Blogger to keep record of my postings.

Years of posting have no proving record now.