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I just asked ChatGPT and there are some decent ideas out there apparently: The discussion around how to handle relative times in user interfaces and communications is an interesting one.... Me too. Though, I’m really excited for emoji react reacts, if we implement them. It feels like a unique feature of the platform I could totally see others copying.
How much control do we have over the relative times
There are numerous posts on this across the internet, but by and large the central design of these does not mimic what humans expect. For instance, 2 weeks ago is anywhere from 7.00000001 to 14 days.... Err, maybe that is this AI with a prettier front-end.
Something to consider before putting substantial work in here is whether the change is likely to survive a switch the new twitter/tree hybrid screen that will be mocked up and implemented over the next month or so.... Read the full postthats a good idea—it’s not auto-top posted, but you’re taken there
really wishing for boosts, to add simply an emoji to this
Confusion navigating the conversation tree
"Collapse all replies" "Collapse to 2 immediate replies" "Expand 1 top-level comments" "Expand all 2 comments" All make sense if I think about them, but I have to really pause and think about them and the result is I don’t use them and they just jumble up the screen.... yeah, a tool tip explaining it in a sentence, and probably a different icon. I’m dying for a full UI makeover
- Either a different ordering, or some way for me to make sense of the front-page ordering
- b_b...
Inbox view proposal/request for feedback
I’m supposed to put this on basecamp too, probably, but since I’m here I’ll put it here first. I’m envisioning we could maybe quickly and easily have another view (in addition to the current home page, and in addition to the imagined twitter-ish view) based on our current Inbox....