Previously we switched to displaying dates as soon as 24h passed. This is however potentially confusing for users:
04-08 16:00 -O> Some message
17:00:00 -O> Some other message
Was "Some other message" sent today or yesterday? To answer this question the user must:
Check the current time
If it is after 17:00:00, it was today
If it is before 17:00:00, it was yesterday
With the new behavior, we prefix the times with a date as soon as we cross the day border. This way it requires no awareness of the current time to determine on which day a message was received: All messages without a date are today, all messages with a date are yesterday or earlier.
Additionally the rendering of old messages changes only once per day. Previously it was kind of irritating if you were using jackline around the same time on multiple days without clearing the history since every once in a while a single message further up changes because its timestamp is suddenly rendered differently.
hannesm
commented
4 years ago
Previously we switched to displaying dates as soon as 24h passed. This is however potentially confusing for users:
Was "Some other message" sent today or yesterday? To answer this question the user must:
With the new behavior, we prefix the times with a date as soon as we cross the day border. This way it requires no awareness of the current time to determine on which day a message was received: All messages without a date are today, all messages with a date are yesterday or earlier.
Additionally the rendering of old messages changes only once per day. Previously it was kind of irritating if you were using jackline around the same time on multiple days without clearing the history since every once in a while a single message further up changes because its timestamp is suddenly rendered differently.