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Saying β1 week agoβ or β1 month agoβ instead of just saying the date. Dude, I want to know if this happened in August or September.
The fact that venmo does this shit when I'm trying to see what date I paid for something is absolutely infuriating
Actually not seeing that issue in Venmo. Are you looking in your transaction list?
I think in the transactions list on mobile it shows date always, but I tend to look when I'm reviewing my transactions every week on my PC, and I couldn't find the transactions view there
Both are useful, but at different times to different users. It should be easy to toggle between relative and absolute expressions of time.
The first email was sent on 1/1 but I haven't heard any update in a month.
I think β15 hours agoβ is fine. That one is quite precise. Showing date as β1 year agoβ is not helpful. It could be anything between 2021-10-06 and 2022-10-05. Itβs a huge span. In that time Ukraine got invaded and the Queen died.
FYI if you're using the standard lemmy UI, you can hover over (or long press on phone) the "15 hours ago" to get the precise timestamp.
I think the reverse of that is the exact perfect behaviour for a timestamp. Otherwise the timestamps are useless in a screenshot or any archive that can't display the hover text.
Tooltips don't help mobile users.
Why not? As I just said you can long press on phone to show the timestamp.
God I hate any attempt to make the computer personable. Like windows saying "Hi. We're setting some things up for you"
Iβve been ranting about this for years. Microsoft word used to be like would you like to save this document? OK or Cancel. And now itβs like Wanna save? Sure or nah
FOH with that Microsoft, youβre not my friend
Windows 12 will be like "want me to scribble these bits for you, bro? On God? Bet, cap"
Stop, Windows! We're not friends, you're not even an AI π
It's just a trend though, maybe it will go back the other way...
If you group by time in Windows, it has "a long time ago"...
...in a galaxy far away...
Very annoying for screen shots. You'll see a tweeter post on reddit or here that says 1 week ago but of course it's a repost and was actually 2 years ago.
Google's chat programs (Hangouts and Texting) are the worst at this. Not only do they put fuzzy timestamps to messages (5 minutes ago, 1 hour ago) they group messages together. Bring back chat clients that had an exact time stamp on every message.
I'm thinking of Jira right now. October 1 rolls around and a comment from yesterday is suddenly "last month". Very often not helpful. I just want to see when it was made!