Yeah, I know it doesn't seem like entries in comms and personal journals are any different, but "backstage", they handle time/date stamps very differently -- it's an old LJ quirk that carried forward to us. That's the "boring historical reasons" I mentioned! I would explain it, but it really is long and it really is boring to nonprogrammers.)
Anyway, we've never really fucked around with it because people doing imports is usually an infrequent thing -- it's not worth the development time it would take to retool everything, especially since "pick what goes on the reading page" is one of those very old code paths that's been optimized to hell and gone for performance and messing around with it is highly dangerous. (We tried to change something about how the reading page was rendered back in closed beta to eliminate that "if you're on the front page of your reading page, hit ?skip=20, and five people have posted since you loaded the front page of your reading page, 5 entries will be duplicated on ?skip=20 since the other 5 entries pushed them down", and promptly had three weeks of a heisenbug where some stuff wouldn't show on the reading page at all COMPLETELY AT RANDOM and we COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY. The reading page is deep magic with which it is not wise to fuck.)
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Yeah, I know it doesn't seem like entries in comms and personal journals are any different, but "backstage", they handle time/date stamps very differently -- it's an old LJ quirk that carried forward to us. That's the "boring historical reasons" I mentioned! I would explain it, but it really is long and it really is boring to nonprogrammers.)
Anyway, we've never really fucked around with it because people doing imports is usually an infrequent thing -- it's not worth the development time it would take to retool everything, especially since "pick what goes on the reading page" is one of those very old code paths that's been optimized to hell and gone for performance and messing around with it is highly dangerous. (We tried to change something about how the reading page was rendered back in closed beta to eliminate that "if you're on the front page of your reading page, hit ?skip=20, and five people have posted since you loaded the front page of your reading page, 5 entries will be duplicated on ?skip=20 since the other 5 entries pushed them down", and promptly had three weeks of a heisenbug where some stuff wouldn't show on the reading page at all COMPLETELY AT RANDOM and we COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY. The reading page is deep magic with which it is not wise to fuck.)