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cuddlyogre
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I can't begin to express how utterly useless timestamps like "Today, about 15 minutes ago" or "Yesterday", or "Monday", or "Two Weeks Ago" are.

Those aren't times. Those are relative descriptions of times and are utterly useless.

If I don't know the current date for any number of reasons, such as when viewing a screenshot, it's a worse description than not having one at all.

Again, I am stymied by Apple's insistence to make everything that much less useful for literally no gain.

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  • 2
    178d
    They are perfectly fine for looking into metrics _now_. But utterly useles for retention purposes
  • 1
    178d
    Isn't it also due to SEO practices? I think google at some point was believed to promote this.
  • 1
    178d
    @msdsk like "the most popular SEO tips posted TODAY"?
  • 3
    178d
    What bothers me is if a website offers no method to recover the lost accuracy and get an exact time. For a post about an event of significance sometimes it's important to know at what hour the post was made.
  • 1
    178d
    I'm certain contexts it's way more useful than a formally written, absolute timestamp. But in more serious, data-driven contexts it's pretty frustrating. If I see a transaction that happened "a month ago" I will shoot myself
  • 0
    178d
    @AlgoRythm The problem is that there are very few apps that can assert that they will not host a serious context.
    Pretty much the only ones I can't imagine having an official discussion on are dating apps and Snapchat.
  • 0
    177d
    Windows managed in I think 10 to offer calendar weeks in the calendar....

    Most wanted feature for obvious reasons.
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