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xkcd #3245: Results Age
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/
I hate when apps say "3 years ago" or whatever and don't make it easy to see more specifically when. Just put it in an on-hover popup please. (Lemmy-UI does this just fine, but there are plenty of sites out there that don't.)
I was saying the same thing just the other day, although in my case it was for something that was ”2 days ago" - totally unhelpful if you need to know the time it was posted! Just put an absolute date and time (and a timezone stamp if necessary).
I would argue that even on-hover popups are insufficient, because they normally don't make it into screenshots and that's the use-case where you're most likely to really want to know the absolute timestamp.
Many times you can inspect element and the actual date is right there, they're just choosing to display it poorly.
Screenshots of social media posts are already untrustworthy without also adding in that it could have actually been 5 years ago instead of 5 hours.
I assume there's some evil enshittification reason that they do this, though I don't know what it is.
That's when they remove the age entirely, like on YouTube
158 weeks ago