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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?
Aug 11 · 5 months ago
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.
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.