That reminds me: we should demand Fediverse stuff display proper timestamps. Even now, your comment is showing as “41m [ago]” for me viewing it in Voyager, which is just being part of the problem for no good reason.
I suppose there’s no reason it couldn’t show both, or let you toggle, or even provide a built-in screenshotting function that includes an absolute timestamp even while the normal UI displays relative time.
That’s intentional, and it’s why ALL of these ridiculous social media companies do it this way.
Only the present matters. Why would you have anything to gain from seeing history? /s
That reminds me: we should demand Fediverse stuff display proper timestamps. Even now, your comment is showing as “41m [ago]” for me viewing it in Voyager, which is just being part of the problem for no good reason.
in terms of compactness, it’s faaaaar more verbose to display time and date
i’m not necessarily disagreeing, but it’s a significant change and would likely need more than a simple text change
But then I have to know what time and date it currently is
I suppose there’s no reason it couldn’t show both, or let you toggle, or even provide a built-in screenshotting function that includes an absolute timestamp even while the normal UI displays relative time.