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@erkan So you'd like an indication for threads with >1 posts? That should be a quick fix.
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In (at least nightly) !gnusocial the "about x hours ago" link goes directly to the conversation. To the single notice, there is instead a "[permalink]". @erkan's problem is that both are always visible - so there's no way to tell if there actually _are_ more posts in the conversation.
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Hover your mouse over the link and you'll see the full, absolute and verbose timestamp. ;)
The problem with adapting timestamps for users are:
1: timezones (which to show? has the user really configured it? should we really ask the browser which timezone we're in?)
2: Confusing and verbose. Lots of text. Many numbers. Not very appealing to the average user. Such undoge. Not wow.
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The element even uses the #HTML5 <time/> and is, I believe, properly marked up for #microformats2 ;)
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Aye. But that's pretty unusual. Also, given that you can much more quickly get a sense of how recent a post is - or how heated a discussion is (rather than parsing numbers in your head) there is a clear usability improvement by presenting relative timestamps as opposed to absolute timestamps. But you're of course free to modify and run your own implementation of !gnuso…
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Also, as mentioned, metadata is there. So there's no need to actually run a modified !gnusocial codebase. Just implementing a #GreaseMonkey script or something to replace the relative timestamp with the absolute one should be trivial.
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@mk Just do it with some #GreaseMonkey scripting. All the data is there in the <time> tag. .)
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