From 11b72122c5fe8c952dc40ac6bde20cfb9ea8f0c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vinta Chen <vinta.chen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:21:39 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat: drop the build date stat from the hero stats lines

The hero "Updated on" stat only restated when the site was last built.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 website/build.py             | 2 --
 website/static/style.css     | 2 +-
 website/templates/index.html | 3 +--
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/build.py b/website/build.py
index 9ab5e472..1697e6e5 100755
--- a/website/build.py
+++ b/website/build.py
@@ -833,7 +833,6 @@ def build(repo_root: Path) -> None:
             total_entries=total_entries,
             total_categories=len(categories),
             repo_stars=repo_stars,
-            build_date=build_date.date().isoformat(),
             sponsors=sponsors,
             category_urls=category_urls,
             filter_urls=filter_urls,
@@ -937,7 +936,6 @@ def build(repo_root: Path) -> None:
     hero_stats: list[str] = []
     if repo_stars:
         hero_stats.append(f"{repo_stars}+ stars on GitHub")
-    hero_stats.append(f"Updated on {build_date.date().isoformat()}")
     (sponsorship_dir / "index.html").write_text(
         tpl_sponsorship.render(
             hero_stats=hero_stats,
diff --git a/website/static/style.css b/website/static/style.css
index 8d9de77f..50409547 100644
--- a/website/static/style.css
+++ b/website/static/style.css
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ kbd {
   letter-spacing: 0.02em;
 }
 
-/* Keeps a stat whole, so the date never breaks at its hyphens */
+/* Keeps each stat whole when the line wraps */
 .proof-stat {
   white-space: nowrap;
 }
diff --git a/website/templates/index.html b/website/templates/index.html
index b1dd5bd7..73c35419 100644
--- a/website/templates/index.html
+++ b/website/templates/index.html
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@
         <h1>Awesome Python</h1>
         <p class="hero-sub">{{ subtitle }}</p>
         <p class="hero-proof">
-          {% if repo_stars %}<span class="proof-stat">{{ repo_stars }}+ stars on GitHub</span>{% endif %} {% if repo_stars and build_date %}<span class="proof-sep">/</span>{% endif %} {% if build_date %}<span class="proof-stat">Updated on {{ build_date }}</span>{% endif %} {% if repo_stars or
-          build_date %}<span class="proof-sep">/</span>{% endif %} <span class="proof-stat">Maintained by
+          {% if repo_stars %}<span class="proof-stat">{{ repo_stars }}+ stars on GitHub</span> <span class="proof-sep">/</span>{% endif %} <span class="proof-stat">Maintained by
           <a href="https://github.com/vinta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@vinta</a>
           and
           <a href="https://github.com/JinyangWang27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@JinyangWang27</a></span>