Re: PHP.net Website Problem: age of posts
| From: | Sherif Ramadan | Date: | Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:47:21 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP.net Website Problem: age of posts | ||
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Mike Griffiths <mgriffiths@gmail.com>wrote:
> I agree, there are lots of instances where this is a very bad idea,
> especially when you consider the number of user notes which seem to be
> replies to other notes but not referenced as such.
>
PHP user contributed notes is not a forum or a discussion board. Notes that
reply to other notes for the sake of dialogue is normally discouraged and
should not be standard by which we display our notes.
>
> Mike (mikemike)
>
>
> On 17 January 2013 14:44, Booksort <info@booksort.com> wrote:
>
> > Why have you changed to label posts as eg '1 year ago'?
> > When reading User Contributed Notes and code suggestions on the site, it
> > is often essential to know exactly what order they were written in. This
> is
> > now impossible.
> > Especially when it seems the order of display can be voted for!
> > This seems like dumbing-down in the extreme, to cater for people who
> can't
> > work out in their heads that 17th January 2012 is a year ago.
> >
> > Please count this as a vote against it!
> > Ian
> >
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> Mike Griffiths
>
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