A post was moved to an old date, now has a "stuck" clone in the present (fixed)

On my blog, there’s this post: https://taonaw.com/2024/09/01/published-scripting-in.html (let’s call it post A). It’s a post that I originally wrote in 2019, so after I published it, I edited it and “scheduled” it to the past where it belongs in 2019, here: https://taonaw.com/2019/09/03/bash-script.html (let’s call it Post B).

Now I have two posts. Post A, which has the wrong date and already includes comments, and Post B, which is in the past. I want to get rid of Post A since I have Post B… but post A is absent from my lists of posts on the micro.blog. Something went wrong when I changed the date and instead of deleting the original, it just made a copy of it in the past… thinking it did, I guess?

How do I get rid of Post A? Will rebuilding the blog help?

Rebuilding almost always helps in these cases, because the new post is probably cached somewhere. However, Id on’t know how the wrinkle of their being comments will impact things.

Thanks. It looks like that fixed it. I’ll leave with losing these comments (I replied in Mastodon) :slight_smile: