Ancestors

Written by Alex Schroeder on 2025-01-29 at 11:56

Minor annoyance: developers want to add relative time to their user interface and they don’t have much space. So now I see stuff like 7m and 7mn. What does it mean? Nobody knows. The better solution would be 7min and 7mo or something unambiguous (in English). Anyway. Just in case that’s you. 🙃

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Toot

Written by Alex Schroeder on 2025-01-29 at 13:47

Timestamps: Look at somebody's profile on fedi and think about the timestamp that you'd like to see next to every pinned toot.

This is my suggestion: Just the year for the toots that are more than a year old (YYYY); a date for the things that are more than 24h old (YYYY-MM-DD); something longer for things that happened yesterday (YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM), a timestamp for anything older than a minute 24h (HH:MM); "just now" for anything up to now.

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Descendants

Written by Kelson on 2025-01-29 at 15:53

@alex Maybe also include the month for things that are between 1 & 2 years old?

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Written by Alex Schroeder on 2025-01-29 at 15:57

@kelson Maybe? I feel like I wouldn't need to know and I suspect that YYYY-MM would be weird enough to give me pause if I saw it.

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Written by Kelson on 2025-01-29 at 16:44

@alex I'm just imagining seeing a 2024 date on something today, and having to figure out whether it was from last month or older, and possibly not knowing the context that everything back through February of last year would still have more information than just the year.

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