[nickjj]

How does everyone feel about only showing the updated date on the blog post itself but keeping the real / original published time in the meta tags?

I do that on my site mainly to keep things less cluttered. Every post has an "Updated on November 12th 2019 in #docker #flask" line at the top of the post and that date is either the original published date or the last time I updated the content in the post, but the meta tags are always the correct values (ie. I don't refresh the published date with the updated date).

But now it's making me think I should include both the "Posted on" date as well as a separate "Updated on" date in the presentation of the page itself to be crystal clear. My only concern with that is that will eliminate some vertical space on the page because I can't fit all of that on 1 line cleanly. I would have to break the dates and tags onto 2 lines. For example, this is what a current line looks like: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/make-your-static-files-produc...

[markosaric]

On some of my sites, I only list the updated date too. I prefer to keep it simple for the average visitor. The reason is that these topics are more time sensitive so I regularly update all the posts to list latest information, advice etc. Having the original date there might give a bad impression to some and they may think the content is old and outdated.