[wp-forums] Re: Post Dates

[Handy]

On 11/11/06, Michael D Adams <mikea at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Handy wrote:
> > However, if I'm really the first one to suggest this for bbPress...
> > well,
> > I'll just shut up and offer another round of apologies to everyone for
> > cluttering up the mailing list and offending multiple people in the
> > process.
>
> You're not the first, just the first on this list.
>
> My thoughts: whenever the user needs to know how long ago something
> happens, we should format it as "2 days ago" (or whatever).  If there
> are places where we don't do this, we can make sure to change them.


Right, like what's currently at the top of a thread (post?  whatever our
terminology is).

In the post list, though, my opinion is that it doesn't matter when
> things happened as long as you know the time interval between posts,
> for which one timezone is just as good as a user specified one.


Ok, I won't argue with that.  So if we showed the interval between posts
instead of the time stamps, I personally think it would be more useful.  At
least, we'd be doing less "clock math" which is a nice alternative to what I
was originally look for and really, gets the same end result.

Are the forums unusable without it?  Nah.  It would be nice, is all.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.