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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
You do realize the user can set a "last checked" datetime column with fff?  Might make things easier. |
It would absolutely be useful for manually checked books, certainly, because for them you can't always be certain of when you last checked for new updates.
For the vast majority of cases though, the hosting site probably has a mechanism for mail notifications. In those cases you know when you last checked, since you usually would batch-update directly from the mail notifications, and not check otherwise.
The column I've pasted tries to guess the publication frequency of the book and, from that and the date of last update, displays how many "deadlines" (and how many days) are missed. This is mainly so that you don't start checking every day for stories that only update every few weeks or months, or inversely so you know to check stories (or at least the website) that have a handful of missed deadlines.
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