The default sort is "Newest to Oldest by Recent Activity". Any old content was imported on 1/24/2017 and will show on your content page with recent activity on that date because it was imported then. There was no way to avoid this. The actual last comment might have been before that.
If you resort the page by "Newest to Oldest by date created" then it will put it in the order of most recent you created to the oldest and the really old ones will disappear.
If you see a recently updated date on a post that is newer than 1/24/2017 then it was actually commented on more recently then the day we migrated the content from Elgg to Jive. This was a one time thing so those migrated posts will disappear into the past and you won't see them unless you go back a page or more when sorting Recent Activity Newest to Oldest.
As far as the related and recommended content that you see at the bottom of the page. That is content that is similar by title or body content. The content at the bottom is brought up automatically. It doesn't have anything to do with date. Just by relevance as determined by Jive. It may be helpful at times to click into it as you may find valuable related info. Jive is just trying to help you find the most relevant info to you. If, for instance, you were looking at a thread on Cold Turkey it might show other threads that have discussions about Smart Turkey or Cold Turkey. There is no indication of date as date doesn't necessarily determine if it is relevant or not.
There is also another widget that will appear and show "incoming links" this is a piece of content that has a link into the content you're viewing. For example. The daily Freedom Train posts may be linked to a document that explains the freedom train. If you looked at the /blogs/ShawnP-blog/2016/04/26/what-is-the-freedom-train you would see that a lot of freedom trains have incoming links.
If there is an old blog that has a topic that is interesting... I do think it is appropriate to comment on it. There have been some that I've commented on that were before my time but definitely touched me in a personal way or made me wonder how someone was doing or wanted to see them around the site. With any old post there is a chance there isn't anyone active on it any longer, but who knows, perhaps a lively conversation can spark from a discussion that started but ended before it should have on Elgg.
Mark
EX Community Manager
EX Community Admin Team
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