Thanks in advance, it will be much appreciated, to remove one of the more irritating of recent changes
Interesting that even though it keeps reverting to the cartooney out-of-order form with threads lacking new messages taking up half the blinking top of page [!], by your account a third of posters still faithfully click that 'classic version' link when necessary ... you have to wonder what would happen if, as i strongly advise, the order were reversed - have the system default to classic, and revert there continually, while you provide tiny unobtrusive link to 'bright shiney low-info version' ... or, ok, 'modern', and we'll understand it to be not in the more positive sense of the term
Got my daughter an iPad mini [why? - well because all the other ten year olds have one], and it's easy to see where these dumbed-down forms come from ... 'social media', good gawd almighty, what a colossal waste of time, for the most part ... the species has had social media for millennia, called 'speech' and 'writing', both developed to very high levels by people who applied some intelligence to do so, and who put in considerable time and effort ... it happens that right now i have up on this machine Keynes' Economic Consequences of the Peace from Project Gutenberg, the better to refute some erratic typing out of LatAm [oh no, there's someone wrong, on the internet], and was noticing again his writing ... now this dude was an economist, famous for skill with numbers far more than words, but his paragraphs on the styles and situations of Clemenceau and Wilson are very very well done, brings history alive, brief highly readable eyewitness account with not a redundant word or phrase to it ... written near a hundred years ago - can he be imagined poking at bright shiney blobs on an iPad? ... oh sure, he'd be fascinated no doubt for several minutes, inevitably however he would begin to assess quality of content, and you just know he'd be wondering if this whole business of species evolution may have passed the high point on its bell curve
The way time stamps are displayed on the subjectmarks page has obviously been copied from Facebook, who have it very wrong, they should have been almost copying the original form of SI in this regard ... 'almost' copying it, because SI had it slightly wrong in that odd north american civilian manner of stating date as month/day/year, putting the middle length on one end and shortest in the middle, when the rist of the world including north american military and serious tech people put date in logical order as day/month/year, or occasionally reversed in some government systems as year/month/day ... but the time of day currently, wow ... consider - it is either useful, or not useful, to display the time of posting on the subjectmarks page ... if not useful, then why put it there ... if useful, which i feel to be the case, then of what use is it to see 'an hour ago', when you know it won't be an hour ago, it might be 42 minutes 38.32 seconds ago or 89 minutes 59.99 seconds ago, but chances are it won't be an hour, and you need to look at the clock anyway and make a quick subtraction to make any sense out of this 'information' ... why? ... why put up something intentionally inaccurate, which would take extra work to make anywhere near useful? ... thanks so much for leaving the very logical hours/minutes/seconds on the posts, that can be useful when correlating to shareprice action on hot movers, but why go to the trouble of degrading time stamp on subjectmarks? ... i do know why, it is to copy the visual form of Facebook et al, who have become 'popular' by putting up bright shiney blobs on tiny screens for billions of fingers to poke at while huge corporations collect every bit of personal information they can get on the pokers ... oh yeah i understand, and accept it as well, it is the way of the world ... at the same time though, just look at that bell curve, the other side is sooo steep |
