User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1317169-20121230232535/@comment-188432-20130131202815

I'm not wholly opposed to the idea existing in some form, at some future date, on the wiki. But it won't be the front page, which has already been delayed for far too long.

You're stressing the design objection, but if you'll note I put the important objection first: it's a bitch to program. I would think it would take fully a month of hard work to get the idea to work, because we haven't set up our timeline pages to accommodate this possibility.

We'd have to create 366 individual templates, and populate each of those templates with information, in order for it to work. That's a lot of work that could be put to better use actually writing and improving our main content.

The easier solution is just to put up a graphic that changes each day, displaying the current date. Then we could link to, say, 31 January and there ya go. That way, improvements to the date pages would be improvements to this feature, and nobody's wasting time on a non-content feature.