should not link to nonexisting dates

[paulej72]

From @paulej72 on March 7, 2014 2:55

currently the right-link at bottom to the page for earlier articles, links to dates that don't have any articles if you go some page back.

The page http://li694-22.members.linode.com/index.pl?issue=20140212
links to http://li694-22.members.linode.com/index.pl?issue=20140211
to 20140210 to 20140209 etc...
that don't have any articles (the first article is 12 February).

the link to earlier articles should not be there on 20140212, or not be a link.

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[paulej72]

Message
Date: 2014-03-01 22:27
Sender: Eric Paul

Need to purge the starter stories from the DB.

[paulej72]

this is an edge case problem. The code that does the older stories links does not check if there are any stories in a given date before putting up the link. This would require a database hit, and we may not want to fix as it will only affect new sites.

[paulej72]

From @TheMightyBuzzard on July 23, 2014 12:6

I vote we don't fix it. Like you said, it's an extra db hit for an extreme edge case. Now if we weren't throwing stories out every single day it might be worth the hit to show the last day that actually has stories rather than auto-linking yesterday's date. But we are.

[paulej72]

Fix with #103