Proposal: add datetime attribute to threads

[sansfontieres]

Currently, threads are ordered by their id. It would help to order the index by the datetime of the last post of a thread.

This is not something to encourage social media-like behaviors, but the simplest/lightest way to have a sneak peak of what one may have missed since their last visit. To limit the noise, I don’t think that we should show a snippet of the last post, but a simple indicator like last post: 20XX-XX-XX would be enough.

Currently, we only save the date to posts, maybe a full timestamp following RFC339 on the UTC timezone could help with collision too.

[cblgh]

Thanks for writing this up @sansfontieres :)

I've been meaning to add a little select element so that people could change from the default threads index sorting—by latest post being one such view ordering.

Going back to the indicator, are you thinking something like:

[sansfontieres]

Going back to the indicator, are you thinking something like:

Showing something like this would be enough I think.
A full datetime timestamp (not necessarily shown on the frontend) could still be useful if we all feel talkative :)

[cblgh]

i think this is in the spirit of what you asked for @sansfontieres (and what i'd planned originally :)

live at 👉 https://forum.merveilles.town/?sort=posts

[sansfontieres]

Oh that looks good 👍