Feature #15647
closedImproved "date" column in group forum display
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From #15646:
1. Post Dates: In the main group forum listing, the right-hand column lists the "last post" for a given topic, but does so by offering a temporal comparison from the current moment -- e.g. "20 hours, 19 minutes ago." This gets less and less useful as one goes back in time -- right now, for instance, I'm looking for a post I made in January, but I'm having to sort through temporal markers like "3 weeks, 2 days ago," which require calculation on my end. I think it would be a lot simpler if we just listed a time/date stamp instead for when the last post was made.
Moving away from relative timestamps seems like a straightforward and sensible change.
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Updated by Boone Gorges about 2 years ago
- Related to Feature #15646: Forum improvements added
Updated by Raymond Hoh about 2 years ago
What if we show the relative time if the last post is still less than a week old? Anything older gets the absolute time. For absolute time, does a format of "Mar 16, 2022, 12:00pm" work?
For relative time, we could also change the title attribute to use the absolute time instead of the not-very-helpful topic title when you currently mouseover the last post time.
Updated by Boone Gorges about 2 years ago
For relative time, we could also change the title attribute to use the absolute time instead of the not-very-helpful topic title when you currently mouseover the last post time.
This is a great idea.
What if we show the relative time if the last post is still less than a week old? Anything older gets the absolute time.
This had occurred to me too. Matt, do you have a preference?
Updated by Colin McDonald about 2 years ago
This sounds good to me. Adding Matt as a watcher here, if that helps get his view on the relative time interval to show.
Updated by Matt Gold about 2 years ago
What if we show the relative time if the last post is still less than a week old? Anything older gets the absolute time.
This had occurred to me too. Matt, do you have a preference?
This seems like a fine solution to me, unless it's simpler (and less computationally intensive) to just go all-absolute time, which I also think would be fine. If page load speed is not an issue, then this suggestion sounds good to me. Thanks to you both for thinking this through.
Updated by Raymond Hoh about 2 years ago
- File relative-date.gif relative-date.gif added
- Status changed from New to Staged for Production Release
Done in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/1d03c8ae72bafe4e97c9b91fd6283f0d3e9b58e2.
See attached GIF.
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 2 years ago
- Status changed from Staged for Production Release to Resolved