Is there any chance of including (or is it already there somewhere) the date that a product was added to Paizo.com?
Sometimes I see a preorder or out of print item I'm interested in and decide to watch it or the company for a while - if I see it's been sitting there with no change for ages and ages, it would help me in terms of keeping tabs on potential (re)releases.
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This is kind of a tough one. We track a fistful of dates for each product (date added to database, distribution release date, subscriber release date, retail release date, scheduled availability date, etc.), including a "make this product live on the website" date.
But we don't have reliable information for a lot of those—mainly they're for Paizo products—and 99% of products aren't "scheduled", which is where the "make this product live" date comes into play. Also products are added to our database in advance of when they actually become live on the site, and products can be made live, then not-live, then live again if availability changes enough over time. So it's not a super simple thing to add.
We'd have to add a new date to track for products, and we could track it going forward with new products, but for older products we'll have to think a bit about if it's possible to come up with a reasonable default date.
This is kind of a tough one. We track a fistful of dates for each product (date added to database, distribution release date, subscriber release date, retail release date, scheduled availability date, etc.), including a "make this product live on the website" date.
But we don't have reliable information for a lot of those—mainly they're for Paizo products—and 99% of products aren't "scheduled", which is where the "make this product live" date comes into play. Also products are added to our database in advance of when they actually become live on the site, and products can be made live, then not-live, then live again if availability changes enough over time. So it's not a super simple thing to add.
We'd have to add a new date to track for products, and we could track it going forward with new products, but for older products we'll have to think a bit about if it's possible to come up with a reasonable default date.
No worries. I don't think it's worth wasting brainpower on - I just thought I'd mention that if the date was there somewhere in your database and could be easily included, it could actually be useful information even though it might not seem such to you. It's pretty rare that it would matter though so I'd only do it if it were easy. Cheers.