Comment by 🕹️ skyjake

Re: "A nitpicky suggestion: When viewing comments, the final (..."

In: s/Bubble

I agree the comment timestamps could use a little reformatting and a separator of some kind... I was trying out different alternatives before but didn't land on anything that I really liked.

> Also, sometimes BBS does not add that line to a comment... What's that about?

This is actually intentional, although the execution isn't a 100% right. The idea is that if the timestamp of a comment is the same as the previous comment/post's, it will not be shown because it is redundant. For example, when viewing an old comment thread that occurred on a single day, none of the comments have timestamps, only the main post.

The problem is that I shouldn't omit the timestamp in every case, so that you'd have at least one timestamp shown at a time in the visible part of the page. Of course, the server has no way of determining that.

I'll probably tweak the timestamp omitting at some point.

🕹️ skyjake [mod, sysop]

2023-08-11 · 10 months ago

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🚀 stack [OP] · 2023-08-11 at 15:23:

Ah, that makes sense. Another idea: instead of thinking of timestamping commends, just insert time markers... For instance, after a day's worth of comments insert a

----- yesterday:

etc. It can switch to weeks if there is lots of action and/or time gone by, etc.

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🌒 s/Bubble

A nitpicky suggestion: When viewing comments, the final (generated) line that shows the date and 'days ago' runs right into the text. It would be a little more readable if it were indented, perhaps with a couple of dashes or one of those dots... -- 2023-07-18 3 weeks ago Also, sometimes BBS does not add that line to a comment... What's that about?

💬 stack · 2 comments · 2023-08-11 · 10 months ago