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July 22, 2021
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'Last updated' timestamp

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  • July 22, 2021
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When posting topics in a KB and surfacing them in the Featured Topics widget (as part of the new KB landing page), the presentation seems odd to me.

Here’s an example:

As you can see in this example, the content displays the title of the article (or of the question/conversation), some of the initial text, the user icon, the date the content was published, the number of views, and the number of comments.

In my view, KB content works best when it communicates when it was last updated, not when it was published. And it makes little sense to display the number of comments when the article is not open to comments. So here’s some specific changes I’d like to suggest unique to content published in the knowledgebase

  • Where the content says 2 months ago this is the publish date, replace this with the date last updated. So if I made a change to this article today (which I did) it should display the date last updated. For example, it could read as “Updated today” (if today) or “Updated X days ago” if past that date

I’ve also suggested that we remove the comments bubble and count if the article is closed to comments I have added this as a separate idea here so vote on that too!

30 replies

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
March 22, 2022

love this idea especially with out featured topics. Would like for the date to update when a new conversion or comment is made. So it looks active. 

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 10, 2022

@Cristina has this changed? in a quick investigation it looks like @Scott Baldwin ‘s original suggestion is live.

This topic is an example of it, as it was created 1 year ago but the card shows “6 months ago” which was the comment above

 

Cristina
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 10, 2022

Hi @beneditacss! Nothing changed regarding this idea. 

Scott’s suggestion is around showing the last update or text edit made to the initial content piece. In the screenshot you highlighted the “6 months ago” is the timestamp of the last comment added to the thread, namely the hbailey1’s comment above, which was the last activity on the thread. Let me know if this explanation is not clear. 

Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
October 10, 2022

@Cristina thanks for the quick clarification. Makes sense and that’s perfect because it is one of the things that is high on our wishlists :) 

Cristina
Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
February 15, 2023
The following idea has been merged into this idea:

All the votes have been transferred into this idea.
JayS
Helper ⭐️
February 21, 2024

We’re just getting our community ready to launch and have thought of this as well. Some content is evergreen, but having a date that the user sees be 2+ years ago doesn’t inspire confidence in the data.

I’m in the process of creating an asset management process to review our Knowledge Base content so nothing is older than 12 months. The ability to review, confirm everything is still accurate, and update the date would be ideal.

cc: @woodlande @JPKelliher @Lake1211 

Jay Sherwood
JeppePeppe
Helper ⭐️⭐️
February 22, 2024

+1, this is very needed in our community aswell.

tah-dah
revote
VIP ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
April 26, 2024

Any news here?

Larry
Helper ⭐️⭐️
March 20, 2026
Open→Released
Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
Larry
Helper ⭐️⭐️
March 20, 2026

This has been completed and will be rolling out soon!

Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd