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I don't think this is a bug. In the endless quest for eyeballs, they must keep your attention trained on the latest thing. Long attention spans lead to reading articles offsite, and that would reduce eyeball capture...

Am I being too cynical here?

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It probably begins as a bug, but left it there by the reasons you mentioned. Or saw it as good enough and doesn't care about users who wants to know more than what happened in the last day/week/month.

I think you just gave a solid reason for the dev team to close the bug as "won't fix"/"not a bug" and that with the backing of the marketing team.

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