Re: PHP.net Website Problem: age of posts

On 17 January 2013 17:47, Sherif Ramadan <theanomaly.is@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > No, I agree. But that does not mean that there are not any useful notes that are replies. Discouraging discussion board behaviour is important though, so maybe you're right. I appreciate that a sort feature may be difficult to implement in an aged system, thought I would suggest it any way - I'm not as up to speed with the code behind the user notes as others. > > >> >> 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 >> > >> > -- >> > PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> >> Mike Griffiths >> >> mgriffiths@gmail.com >> > >