The system for page expiration and page publish is a really good system. This functionality should be kept.
I have made changes (corehacked) in the SQL statements (in pages and news plugins) to still see the article (even though publication is on the future)
I use something like: page author can always see all pages he/she made (also the ones in the future).
So when an article is published in the future... the author still has the ability to get to that page....
Ow and another thing.... I also show pages to the author that havent been approved yet.. !!!
hope this helps. (I think it is just some smarter SQL statements)
@Trustmaster:
The administrators off these systems know that old pages will go offline.... The expiration date is pretty clear functionality.
Just mention it in the release notes that this could happen in a new version.
