What's your opinion on works in progress/unfinished pages?

[gloomystudent]

I think it's better to publish an unfinished page than nothing at all. Empty websites that are perpetually under construction are disappointing but it shows that someone at some point wanted to create something there, even if it was never made. Broken links are annoying but they can happen even if the page is finished due to simple human error, but yes I personally find links that lead to empty pages or don't actually work (though they appear to be functional links) kind of annoying. But webpages with minimal content (e.g. blog with only one post or galleries with only a few images) is still something, and I don't find it annoying or disappointing at all. Even unfinished projects can be interesting to browse through.
For my website, I don't have a lot of time to update/add content to it so it's pretty barebones. I don't publish placeholder pages or empty links, so all my links work and each page has at least a little bit of actual content contained in it, but it's nowhere near finished. I think if I waited until it felt "finished" to publish it, I would just never end up uploading anything at all. From the other responses here I think this is pretty typical.

[Skykristal]

So here's my personal take on that:
Wips are fine! I even like them quite a lot. Seeing the process and different states is very interesting to see.

But I highly prefer that if a lot of things on a page, such as links, are incomplete, that they're designed in a way that tells me that nothing is behind it. Clicking through the entire menu to find a 404 is frustrating. PLEASE style those differently, make them none clickable or cross out. I'm not going to check if maybe one works and just close the site. I used to do that, and always found actual page in between 10 empty links.

Personally:
I almost never share WIPs. At least not very big ones. I love publishing the final product most. It's just a preference. I want to show it off in all it's glory for people to see. And not finishing it later when maybe one person stumbles across it, and everyone else saw the meh state. it's just bothering me lol

[Memory]

imo the best time to publish a page is when

1. the basic css is finished
2. everything is working fine
3. and most important of all when you feel satisfied/ready too