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cheald on Aug 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why you should not be displaying relative dates.

Ding ding ding. Machine readable and user-friendly.

If you're making your users' experience worse out of a fear of breaking the relative value of screenshots you might need to re-examine your priorities.

mmahemoff on Aug 24, 2012 | [–]

And cacheable too.

jonhendry on Aug 24, 2012 | [–]

If it stops one long-since-debunked urban legend from being propagated via a screenshot of an old, relative-dated post, it's probably worthwhile.

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