On the Modern Web, the Absence of Recent Activity Greatly Diminishes Value

Due to the consumerist nature of the modern web, we expect a perpetual stream of activity from web content. For example, going to someone’s personal blog and seeing the last post was 2 years ago leaves the impression that it is not relevant and abandoned so it must not have been that good. Another example is open source software. The dreaded ‘Still alive?’ issue implies that the value we assign to something we can consume on the internet is proportional to the frequency it is updated.

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• Reverse chronological content took over the web shows expectations of perpetual activity was not always the case