EVE Information Portal

Fun fact: It is not visible, but still there.
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Further confirmation that I am correct to avoid both of those like the plague.

Hey all,

I agree with the social media functionality you're going for, and the influences. mobile is definitely a thing.

Something I've always had difficulty with at the bottom of forum pages is navigating back to a section (such as EVE Information Portal). Specifically, clicking the section I'm currently browsing from the drop-down like this is unresponsive, and getting back to an overview of the section takes several actions such as using the Top button then selecting "EVE Information Portal" from the forum tree, or hitting back a few times... but I think you meant for the navigation function to be there in the drop-down.

o/

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any chance you might include a "Post to Twitter" button? Could see that getting used, and not just by Dev types.

Let's seeif that works ... it does. Do you see the missing space between "see" and "if"? These are 2 links and in the text editor I have a normal space between the two words, however, in the actual post, this space is removed for some reason. Only if I put a non-breaking space (Alt + 0160) in between the 2 links, the space appears (even 2 normal spaces are ignored). Only if I include the space in the url-tag, the normal space shows.

I find it easier to read the date because it gives me an idea when it was made during the day. If a post was made on afternoon it can be easily seen from the timestamp rather than working out what the time was 17 hours ago.

If I leave the house for 8 hours at 0800 and start reading the posts at 1600 the relative time doesn't still give me any additional information. If the timestamp is on my regional time or at least some easy to convert such as the UTC, the about 8 hours is as accurate as the hour where I dropped off reading. I can just start reading the posts made after 8 whereas with the relative time I need to guess how the time gets rounded and work from there.

Even further, should someone want to archive a post by screencapping, a solid date is way more convenient than "4 hours ago".

The relative time from post is great, but only for a few hours. After that it the convenience is lost.

Please make the Mail and Notification icon orange again. This pale-white is absolutely not eyecatching and requires effort to see if there's a number or not. Used to be a lot better with the old, orange font color.

For the love of god please just add

background-attachment: fixed;

to your body CSS code. Do it now or I will will be forced to download some shady browser add-on to do it myself

This is just my personal opinion but...

"[x] [timeunit] ago" is to me a very imprecise way of displaying data that by nature is accurate. I get the impression that the entity to whom the forum (or whatever) software belongs to doesn't really care for their customers. They're doing their work halfheartedly.

Twitter and Facebook are popular yes, but is the reason for their popularity the way they display timestamps? I don't think so.

How about this. Make a configuration option where the forum user can choose which way of presenting time is their preferred one a use that for the 'always shown' timestamp and use the other way for the tooltip. How does that sound?

Edit: After reading a few more posts in the thread I noticed this: "Posted: a day ago" That made me go LOL.

As far as I understand English language that alone is a rather vague time period. It can be used for a 12 hour period (for example from dawn till dusk) or for a 24 hour period. So when it says posted about a day ago what does that mean? 8 hour ago? 12 hours ago? 17 hours ago? 21 hours ago? 26 hours ago? What? This really is a bad way of displaying time. Please give us a choice to use the precise timestamp, thanks.

Despite CCP's constant desire to be different from everyone else, the obvious solution would seem to be a system in which users could set the time zone of their choice.

Y'know - like 99.999999999% of the rest of the Internet.

thinking in UTC/GMT is not a bad thing

<--former air traffic controller (radar)