At 2/20/08 06:09 PM, RageVI wrote:
At 2/20/08 05:50 PM, liljim wrote:
At 2/20/08 05:36 PM, RageVI wrote:
What's the threshold of time passed before it starts showing the actual date of the topic? 24 hours?
I have mixed feelings about the whole year thing you've suggested.
Like how "2.5 years ago" wouldn't quite be accurate, and how "2 years 6 months ago" could be too much text?
I'm finding that as you move to the wider time span, the less you need the small denominations. For instance, when you make the jump to minutes, seconds becomes irrelevant; and when you move to hours, minutes becomes irrelevant. I'm specifically talking about the BBS here, where every post is sorted from newest to oldest.
So similarly, once you surpass a certain number of days, you should be able to use months instead.
But how far can you take it? Does years still work? My working theory is yes it would. Since when a post is three years old, knowing that is enough. There is no difference between 3 years, 3 months and 3 years 4 months, at least not on a broad view like the topic listing.