I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.

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    Saying “1 week ago” or “1 month ago” instead of just saying the date. Dude, I want to know if this happened in August or September.

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      The fact that venmo does this shit when I’m trying to see what date I paid for something is absolutely infuriating

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          I think in the transactions list on mobile it shows date always, but I tend to look when I’m reviewing my transactions every week on my PC, and I couldn’t find the transactions view there

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      Both are useful, but at different times to different users. It should be easy to toggle between relative and absolute expressions of time.

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        Yeah, I can see that this comment was made 15 hours ago. I don’t want to be given the date and time and have to do the math.

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          I think “15 hours ago” is fine. That one is quite precise. Showing date as “1 year ago” is not helpful. It could be anything between 2021-10-06 and 2022-10-05. It’s a huge span. In that time Ukraine got invaded and the Queen died.

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            That makes sense to me. Maybe it should measure up to 48 hours, up to 8 weeks, and up to 24 months.

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          FYI if you’re using the standard lemmy UI, you can hover over (or long press on phone) the “15 hours ago” to get the precise timestamp.

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      I like them as long as they let you tap it to get the actual timestamp. If they’re being used to obfuscate the actual time, it’s just annoying

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        It’s a well-accepted (but not always followed) unwritten UI design rule that if you show a relative timestamp like “two weeks ago”, it should show the exact timestamp on hover, plus an affordance for non-mouse usage (mobile, people that use keyboard navigation, etc) such as being able to tap/click it.

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      God I hate any attempt to make the computer personable. Like windows saying “Hi. We’re setting some things up for you”

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        I’ve been ranting about this for years. Microsoft word used to be like would you like to save this document? OK or Cancel. And now it’s like Wanna save? Sure or nah

        FOH with that Microsoft, you’re not my friend

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          It’s just a trend though, maybe it will go back the other way…

          request for user authorization to write to hard drive: approve / deny

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          Windows 12 will be like “want me to scribble these bits for you, bro? On God? Bet, cap”

          Stop, Windows! We’re not friends, you’re not even an AI 🙃

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      Very annoying for screen shots. You’ll see a tweeter post on reddit or here that says 1 week ago but of course it’s a repost and was actually 2 years ago.

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      Google’s chat programs (Hangouts and Texting) are the worst at this. Not only do they put fuzzy timestamps to messages (5 minutes ago, 1 hour ago) they group messages together. Bring back chat clients that had an exact time stamp on every message.

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      Online it’s even more annoying (to me, anyway), because we have the time element specifically for this kind of thing and no-one bothers to use it.

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      I’m thinking of Jira right now. October 1 rolls around and a comment from yesterday is suddenly “last month”. Very often not helpful. I just want to see when it was made!