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As I understand, per-site meta questions can become "hot". For example:
However, this event doesn't show up on their timeline. For the example above, its timeline shows:
This is unlike non-meta questions:
Feature request: Add a "became hot meta question" timeline event.
I'm not 100% sure if this is reasonable, since "hot meta questions" might have a totally different algorithm to "hot network questions". But I thought I'd propose it to check.
This feature request has been completed, per-site posts now have an event in their timeline that reads:
became hot meta post
as shown in the screenshot for this example post
However, the event is added to the timeline of posts going forward; it has not been added retroactively to posts that became hot meta posts before this system changed was deployed - as is the case of the example post in the question.
