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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?
2023-08-11 · 1 year ago
🕹️ skyjake [mod...] · 2023-08-11 at 15:18:
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.
🚀 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.