Why we show edition numbers on every post

A blog post is not a stone tablet. We fix mistakes, tighten advice, and sometimes change a claim when the product or the world moves. Hiding that rewrite is common. We refuse it.

Every public post on this site shows an edition number and a revised date. That is Kolanut policy, not a CMS quirk. The short rules live on our edition policy page. This post is the human version.

What bumps the number

If the substance you would act on changes, the edition rises. New steps. Corrected facts. A different product truth. A warning we should have written earlier.

If we only fix a typo, a broken link, or spacing, the edition stays put. The revised date may still move. You should not have to wonder whether the guide you bookmarked last month still means the same thing.

Language editions are part of the same honesty

Africa-first publishing means real pages in Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo, Kiswahili, Français, Nigerian Pidgin, and more as we finish them. Those are curated editions of the same article, not a translate overlay pretending to be finished work.

When a language is not ready, the language panel says Coming soon. You can recommend another language from that panel. We would rather show an empty promise slot than invent a live page.

Why this belongs on a company blog

Infrastructure companies talk about reliability. Writing is infrastructure too. If we teach self-hosting, classification, or classroom language packs, the page you cite should admit when the advice changed.

Edition numbers will not make every post perfect. They make our revisions visible. That is how we want to build.