Extremely recent times like "0 seconds ago" and "2 seconds ago" are silly
Bug #147428 reported by
Matthew Paul Thomas
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Low
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Steve Kowalik |
Bug Description
Every time I report a bug the resulting page says that it was reported "0 seconds ago" or "2 seconds ago" or "5 seconds ago" or something. This is silly, because it varies only according to how fast the server happens to be at the time, which is an implementation detail.
This could be fixed by reporting how long ago something happened as "just now" if it was less than, maybe, 30 seconds ago. In comparison, Twitter uses "less than 5 seconds ago", and Facebook uses "a moment ago". Reddit embraces the silliness and says "137ms ago".
Related branches
lp:~stevenk/launchpad/in-a-moment
- Steve Kowalik (community): Approve (code)
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Changed in launchpad: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
affects: | launchpad-foundations → launchpad-web |
tags: |
added: easy removed: infrastructure |
description: | updated |
Changed in launchpad: | |
assignee: | nobody → Steve Kowalik (stevenk) |
tags: | added: dublin |
tags: |
added: qa-ok removed: qa-needstesting |
Changed in launchpad: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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I completely agree. I noticed this on Facebook and immediately came over to suggest it for Launchpad. It is significantly better.