Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
See also discussion on #1340. The user creation date on the user profile page is currently a datetime that will for everyday use be more information than required, and slower to read:
User since 2024-05-11 12:51:22 UTC
Describe the solution you'd like
We could show a less accurate but easier to read time elapsed, for consistency with other datetimes, with the full datetime shown on click or tap. This could use the time_ago_in_words function to show:
User for 16 days
Additional context
I've recommended that the format change on click or tap, rather than on hover, in order to make the more detailed datetime available on mobile. It might be helpful to extract this functionality so that it can be used elsewhere, to gradually change more parts of the user interface to have detailed datetimes available on mobile. Ideally a second click/tap would return the format to its default shorter state.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. See also discussion on #1340. The user creation date on the user profile page is currently a datetime that will for everyday use be more information than required, and slower to read:
Describe the solution you'd like We could show a less accurate but easier to read time elapsed, for consistency with other datetimes, with the full datetime shown on click or tap. This could use the
time_ago_in_wordsfunction to show:Additional context I've recommended that the format change on click or tap, rather than on hover, in order to make the more detailed datetime available on mobile. It might be helpful to extract this functionality so that it can be used elsewhere, to gradually change more parts of the user interface to have detailed datetimes available on mobile. Ideally a second click/tap would return the format to its default shorter state.