Nice. Profile pages are much cleaner now.

That actually sounds like a very good reasoned choice. Love it

The rationale is clear. However, I have found it useful in other #socialmediaenter to follow arenas to have a total-post-count of the user on show as it easily enables me to avoid following people who favour quantity over quality. Even a posts-per-day number would do the same job.

The numbers simply confuse, create bias and competition. Now you simply go to their profile, read their notes and decide by their content if that person is interesting to you. Having no place else to judge the focus necessarily turns to the content. That’s what matters most.

It is, up to the point that you accidentally follow someone who posts 300 times a day and totally swamps your timeline :-)

We’ll see, if it becomes an issue then we deal with it :) Plus when you unfollow their messages are removed from the /for-youtextlogenterA quieter place for your thoughts. tab.

Interesting... So if I scan through the feed and reply to some interesting posts, you will see like maybe a dozen of my posts back to back without even following me though 🤔

Also removed the relative timestamps and reply counts. We’re number-free. Numbers introduce unnecessary bias. Now the focus is on the content.

No reply counts I could get used to, but no timestamps? Now we're in uncharted waters...

Why do you need it? It’s just for stalking when someone was online and might bias to ignore older posts that could still be in /hottextloghotA quieter place for your thoughts. —not knowing the time also makes it easier to reply whenever you feel, less pressure. I don’t have time on my desktop either, hate time :p

Hm idk, various things. If someone finds posts from months/years ago, timestamps put them in context (what "current events" are on their mind &c). Also hints if it's still fresh in mind when you reply, or if it'll be a blast from the past. (Arg for YYYYMMDD, perhaps not HHMMSS.)

That’s what I’m hoping for! Resurrecting old interesting discussions based on their content. And also not ignoring posts that are not fresh, e.g responding to a “good morning” post. If you see “5h” you would ignore it. Now you don’t know. Let’s see how it goes for a few days.

I want to avoid the “rush” of living on the edge all the time. Want to slow things down, put some thought, make browsing a profile look like reading one’s thoughts like a book. To feel timeless.

I think this is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist on this platform. I would predict that any sense of "timelessness" will come from #tlogenter to follow's plaintext-centricity and feature minimalism, not a lack of timestamps.

@stagascreative technologist creator of textlogenter to follow If anything, a lack of timestamps would reduce the value of historical posts on here. Without a timestamp, I have no idea that I'm looking at a historical post to begin with.

I hear you. What about approximate time? just wrote: ~30mins replied to you recently: ~6h replied to you earlier: ~2d wrote some time ago: ~30d wrote a long time ago: older

I'd advocate for relative up to a threshold (1 day?), then just show the timestamp.

Makes sense to me. If you wanted to do A/B testing maybe show and hide the timestamp on the list page while still showing it on an individual post to see if it drives clicks 🫣

Honest question, not meant as a slight: does textlog have enough users yet to make A/B testing useful? IMO early stage apps/projects are best designed through the intuitions of the creator(s). User feedback is a critical input to those intuitions.

Good point and no I don't think five hundred total users is big enough. Speaking of which, do we have a public tracker with dau mau etc? 🤔

yes! we have /statstextlogstatsA quieter place for your thoughts.

Nice! Thank you

Not enough users for A/B to be useful, I follow my intuition and I think about what users tell me a lot. The metric here for the timestamps change is if we see replies to older posts that would otherwise be buried, but since it’s so little activity it can be monitored manually.

agree

I personally enjoy the lack of timestamps. But if this becomes a problem, maybe vague descriptions would be useful. "fairly recent", "sometime ago", "this is ancient", etc.

+1. The timestamp is critical context for a tweet. Microblogging is fundamentally a chronological log of messages. Removing timestamps from logs makes them unusable and inherently breaks the medium.

Thank for keeping it cool @stagascreative technologist creator of textlogenter to follow. Unfortunately this is a message that doesn’t add much to the conversation, but I still want to express my appreciation for avoiding things that leads to a strive for more, more, more.

I love this.

love this. makes me think what other “default/normal” features we can remove

this became the catalyst to join! I can already see that this is the type of place I at least want to lurk.

This is what convinced me to join. There's no noise, there is only text.

i like it