Hi, funny thing, one of my user who never posted but was registered something like 3 months ago posted today, and the system put a banner (visible only to the admin I guess): It’s been a while since we last saw braudpatrice. His last message was 34 years ago. Really , 34 years ago? :crazy_face: [image]

I googled for the username and found this [The image displays a screenshot of a webpage in French, with a highlighted link to an article titled "L'opérateur Dao et la machine à café". (Captioned by AI)] [image] Patrick EMIN: one of my user who never posted So that is incorrect… they did post, and I think you might have been editing the post date of all topics in “Histoire”.

That notice will be visible to TL2+ depending on what you have set for returning user notice tl Weird that it’s got 34 years written in it though. :thinking:

[image] JammyDodger: user notice tl Thanks, did not know about this setting.

Just as a bonus, there’s a companion one for the new user notice as well - new user notice tl You can also remove those post notices too using the post wrench if you need to. :+1:

Have you tried changing the language version? Maybe this is a translation error, like if days where translated to ans.

This is the text string I can adapt in French, the {time} variable is used, I do not know by what it is replaced: Cela faisait un moment que nous n’avions pas vu %{user}. Son dernier message remonte à %{time}.

Oh thanks so much, that’s right, I did change that topic date (and others). Mystery solved :smiley:

Hey Patrick, I know this is not the subject of the thread, but changing the date of posts is dangerous for SEO, if you care about that. Be cautious [image] Should You Change the Publish Date on Articles & Blog Posts? Should you update the original publication date or keep the publication date as is and insert the modification date? Learn more. Est. reading time: 4 minutes [image] Google Says Only Update Dates On Articles When Significantly Change Existing... Google's John Mueller said it only makes sense to update the date on a piece of content or article when you either "write something new or significantly change something existing." He said this on Twitter and it goes along with previous advice John...

Thanks for the links, in my case I posted the topic then changed the date, seconds after the topic was published, for a very much older date, 34 years before ! So because the topic was not on Google index and because the date is not newer but much older, I think I don’t fall under the uses cases discussed in the articles you mention. BTW, I think having the ability to set a topic date before posting would be a bonus. I don’t think it’s possible ?

34 years ago, really?

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David_Ghost August 21, 2024, 6:58pm 9

Hey Patrick,

I know this is not the subject of the thread, but changing the date of posts is dangerous for SEO, if you care about that. Be cautious

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34 years ago, really?

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