Restore dates for notifications in Notification column

[pawelngei]

Continuation of already implemented discussion #9422 .

Was implemented and merged in #9423 , then after 20 days reverted by #9675 for "Issues with line breaks / clutter."

There are no details what causes the issues with line breaks / clutter. No screens and no feedback from the users.

I'd like to see this feature in Mastodon. Can you please tell me what was wrong with the last implementation?

[Gargron]

Hey, right. So the main problem was, you've got two values to watch out for: the username can be very long, and the date itself can be long. When the left part does a line-break, it's expected and unavoidable, but sometimes the right part would line-break, except it doesn't move anything out of the way, so it would just overlap with the text below.

[pawelngei]

Are you talking about any specific language for the date line breaks? What is the longest date we can display there?

[pawelngei]

https://mastodon.social/@moritzheiber/101238415992099076 original bug report

[trwnh]

Can't the components be styled such that the timestamp(s) take up as much width as they need, while the names and flavor text shrink and line-break as needed? This was a very useful feature and it's disappointing to see it ignored over what is a very minor issue.

[pawelngei]

@trwnh this shouldn't take more than a few lines of CSS, I already tested several possible modes when implementing this.

I don't want to re-implement it this time however, since I don't have the energy to deal with my code being merged and reverted without a comment. I'm leaving this thread to any further contributors and unwatching.

[deutrino]

I don't want to re-implement it this time however, since I don't have the energy to deal with my code being merged and reverted without a comment.

Yup.

[tenebrios]

This is from Feb 2019 and still not implemented?
Why is this taking so long to fix?
It's pretty straight forward.
Just add a time stamp to the notifications.
All the other apps have it.
Why don't we have it here?

[tenebrios]

Here's an example of someone that followed me.
Ok, it would be nice to know "when" that happened.
Notifications are also a way to moderate ones profile.
We need to see a sense of time in our Notifications.
Time stamps allow us to see how far back we need to scroll our Notifications to where we left off previously.

[tenebrios]

And if the server matters regarding this time stamp issue, it's mastodon.social

[tenebrios]

How is a feature like this not already implemented?
It's such a basic thing
Seeing WHEN someone liked, boosted or commented on a post is very important