How to put an "old content" warning?

HI @bas,

Thanks for getting back.

We will try to move forward with this.
Would custom CSS also be a valid option for what we are trying to achieve?

Otherwise I will have a look at how we can implement it with Webhooks. I have 0 experience in this field but will try to get some help internally :)

Interesting idea.. unfortunately CSS cannot target the content of html.

You could do this with a piece of javascript in TPS. Tricky to make it robust since you are doing string-matching, so good to consider failure modes. Performance would be something to keep in mind too.

Done!
The idea can be found here:
 

One brief Idea I had is to change the following phrases:

 

 

So if the content is over x Year or over 2 Years old, you could add an addendum like we did below in german 
“(Attention: old Content)”

 

 

 

But I’m not sure if this is visible enough, as it can be easy to overlook.

I think that is the simplest, least risky, but also most elegant solution in terms of results.
However, it’s not too visible.

I’m wondering if there is a way with custom CSS to make the years timestamp a bit bolder / highlighted / in a different color? (bonus: only if it’s older than 1 year, so only when the count is years.)

Can I change the looks of the years timestamp (which affects topics and comments) without having an influence on reply count and views?

Anybody is welcome to answer, but I’m tagging @bas just in case, as I know he’s one of the CSS experts. 

Not with CSS unfortunately. It can’t change depending on the content of the HTML (so it can’t see if it says “months” or “years”).

@bas thank you - 

Would I still be able to change the appearance of the timestamp only, by using CSS? (without taking into account the content of the HTML)

As in, to change the formatting of the date?
Yeah, that should be fairly easy, it has a class “qa-latest-post-time” so any CSS that targets it should work, e.g.

.qa-latest-post-time{ background: red };

Would result in the following ugly thing 😀

Hi @bas, thank you so much!

I agree the red highlight is a monstrosity. But a “yellow” highlight doesn’t look too bad 😇

 

old User-generated topics: add a label/disclaimer that it may be out of date, 
→ which would save a lot of work. If a user wants to ask that question again, they can ask a new topic or more simply just follow up in a comment to check if anything changed.

Any thoughts / clever solutions to this?

For example, the Guardian has this feature:
Basically, by putting this warning they can free themselves from liability, they don’t have to update the content anymore and the reader knows that the content could  be outdated.

 

 

Hi ​@Kenneth R

2.5 years later,
This question is becoming more & more relevant for us (as we have a lot more potentially outdated content in our forum, and also some old “evergreen” content) and we would like to check if there are any updates re: the feasibility of this.
Are there any workarounds we could use?
Any other product/Support Folks who could support us with this?

To sum up..​​​​​​​
End goal:

Find a scalable way to avoid confusing our community users when reading potentially outdated content.

How?

​​​​​​​When a topic is older than X months, display a custom message in order to make user extra aware of topic age and encourage them to use extra discretion or ask follow-up questions about a given question.