Anything with time sensitivity, context or relation to other events.
Haven’t you ever read something very differently that was written Jan 2020 compared to April 2020? They’re both “5 years ago”. Or sometimes people will reference current events in passing. If someone mentions “what trump just did” you need to know with more granularity than 1 year to understand.
More mundanely, “Indiana stinks this time of year” is meaningless without knowing the date.
I disagree with your premise that web developers “want to make it hard”, as that isn’t the motivation.
Yes that is fair enough it is unlikely to be a correct characterization. I was just annoyed and feeling persecuted by people who make a great platform that I love using.
If I had to make a general rule I would say relative dates for recent but precise for older. “1 hour” is good enough in a lot of cases but “2 years” is too vague.
A fancier UI could have a user setting for what dates to display, or if you click the date it changes to the other format. Maybe even for all dates on the page so it could be quickly toggled. Or clicking the date selects/copies it.
Admittedly a very marginal use case so for a small software, might not be a good use of time.
I think text on the page should be selectable but tooltips should not. Although I do generally appreciate lemmy’s overall use of user-select: none because it omits all the little icons like voting and reply which are unlikely needed and clutter up destination text file. I don’t always love how it skips the link icon because then I need to copy it separately. (Combining the timestamp with the link in the way of old blog trackbacks is still logical.)
I disagree that this software could be functional without some way to show the date. That is a basic functionality.
Having to hover over each individual comment or post rather than displaying on the page means it’s obscured. You can’t see it unless you do something, and then you can only see it for a moment. Even if you want to manually transcribe the date, you can’t type in one window and have that tooltip active in the other so you need to go back and forth unless you can memorize the whole thing at once.
Whether it is a good design decision as is another matter, I can see why you wouldn’t want the full date/time displayed in all situations. Maybe I’m just a freak for wanting to copy the dates.
Nice investigation. :)
If you will go as far back as LJ and phpBB I wouldn’t expect the dates to be relative because it would be extra work for the server. You would have to generate all the dates every time the page loaded? Using… perl? Sounds too demanding. And since everyone was browsing from a computer, not a tiny phone, screen real estate wasn’t at such a premium.
For disallowing selection, the support for user-select has only recently become fully supported across the board.
Fantastic I look forward to it.
I had a quick peek at the style.css:
.user-select-none{
-webkit-user-select:none!important;
-moz-user-select:none!important;
user-select:none!important
}
I know I could use Stylus or Greasemonkey to override that rule. It works when I try it in the inspector. But is there a way to get the full date out of "data-tippy-content" and redirect it to the displayed page?
but since there are 2 parties it complies with your request of
a rigorous definition of gerrymandering that isn’t just “I know it when I see it.”
elite nerds who use lemmy will be able to circumvent
if the snobs are fine, why care?
those people kvetching about how the endless September ruined everything will have their wish
I heard of a test that makes sense, minimally. If you reverse the vote of every single person, the opposite party should win. Apparently there are ways of organizing it where that isn’t the case.
I’m sure a lot (the majority) of people who are interested in selfhosting block ads. Need a different business model.
On the other hand a lot of people interested in selfhosting appear to have cash to throw around on their hobby. Might be better to
Email list tracking is much worse.
It gets me riled up because every email list does it. Even when I know that the people who run it have no interest in it. Non-profit, non-creepy organizations have it turned on by default. They may not even be aware of it.
It turns me off the whole concept of email lists because I have to be on guard to not click any of their links by mistake.
ublock doesn’t seem to strip refers. Try clicking this and see the URL bar: http://yahoo.co.uk/?illusionist
I didn’t ask the admin, I am asking the community for a sanity check
Yup the only place to post it. :D
Well it looks like just what I wanted! I’ll put it on my “when I get comfortable with Docker” list. Which due to it’s rapid growth, is becoming a “reasons to get comfortable with docker” list.
Looks pretty new, since June or July this year. I will admit I am suspicious of projects making claims like “Learning curve ✅ None”. I find they tend to assume a lot of prior knoweldge. I will check it out in a while, I think.
BTW the link you posted has tracking, not sure if that was on purpose.
So do you add the books in bulk to the library then use the iOS app to scrape and apply the metadata?
In a physical archive, effort is made to retain as much original relation between the materials as possible. The order of books on a shelf, items placed inside other items, etc. If there is an envelope containing a bunch of press clippings, notes, photos etc, you don’t disassemble it to be filed by date and type, completely apart from each other. You keep them together, in order.
in theory if you wanted to you could use hardlinks to retain the original file structure while also having a nicely organized version available. most of the Arrs support this although TBH I do not trust them with the files I wish to preserve in this way. Since there’s not too many of them I just zip up copies of anything I want to retain exactly and let the software work with a duplicate. And hardlinks of course would still be subject to editing like retagging.
Of course if you are accustomed to your library being organized in this manner and it suits you, then there is no reason to change. :)
I’m sure responsibility is variable but kinda sounds like could be a political issue rather than skill at least sometimes. They might be requesting data from elsewhere that comes to them all jumbled. And no authority to demand changes from the source.
Sometimes the chaotic sorting is very intentional, as with amazon. Cory Doctorow has written about how the sorting is one piece of their overall scheme: Amazon is a ripoff (06 Nov 2023)
Though once in a while I get prices sorted like $1 $10 $2 $200… If the coder was motivated they could’ve done better.