Fix the timestamps

[Randseed]

For God's sake, please change the date stamps in discussions and other things to include a year. Maybe if it is from this calendar year say "Nov, 15" but otherwise it's all just a misleading mess. Look at the discussions for some games that are basically dead and it looks like people are actively commenting.

[Ben Lubar]

They already do

[Zepondrax]

I noticed that! Some discussions ive seen in games say Jun/Jul or August....then its hard to tell if if it was this year or last year or 5 years ago

Originally posted by Randseed:

For God's sake, please change the date stamps in discussions and other things to include a year. Maybe if it is from this calendar year say "Nov, 15" but otherwise it's all just a misleading mess. Look at the discussions for some games that are basically dead and it looks like people are actively commenting.

[skOsH♥]

They should make it stand out more imo. Like put it in bolder font if it's past six months and isn't an active topic

[Zepondrax]

It would be good if they were in BOLD or something

Originally posted by skOsH:

They should make it stand out more imo. Like put it in bolder font if it's past six months and isn't an active topic

[Kargor]

Not sure what your problem is.

Forums display the date in the thread list, clearly visible; dates have a year if it's not the most recent month. And, frankly, what kind of confusion do you think people get when it says "Feb 8"? "Oh, so that thread is from Feb next year"? Really, the only thing that this can possibly mean is that it's Feb 2024 -- because otherwise, it would display something like "Feb 8, 2023".

Which is also an intuitive thing, because forum threads are always in the past, and if there's no year they will assume it's the "most recent" month with that name.

Also, it's not generally good UI design to emphasize old threads...

[Crazy Tiger]

threads with new posts should be bold, they need to stand out. Not old threads that are unlikely to be relevant anyway.

I also don't see the problem with the timestamps, it's general usage that's done on Steam.

[IFIYGD]

You hover over the timestamp on a thread topic or comment in a thread.
It tells you the day, the month, the year, and the exact time it was posted.
You don't even have to click anything, just... hover over it.
https://prnt.sc/7cQuQKSrj_K9
How is this a difficult or confusing thing? (Though it does seem to confuse plenty of Gamers™ anyway.)

Honestly, the thing I would like to see is clicking a notification taking me to the first comment I have not read yet, instead of the last one posted. Some busy threads in game hubs get 10, 20, 30 or more comments in a day and trying to find where the first new comment you haven't read yet can be "fun". Not sure why Valve changed this behavior with new unread comments, but I sure wish they would change it back.