I say improve timestamps as follows:

Don't show timestamps on each line, particularly for scenario B (spontaneous chats). Too ugly and unclean.

How about whenever there is more than a minute between a chat line, append a new line saying "Sent at 10:30PM on Wednesday".

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pacheco commented

agree totally on cenario B

must try that on cenario A to be convinced, but sounds good

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pacheco commented

just did the first commit on that
think it improved a lot

tks Dave!

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Fixed

thanks paulo :-)

i've committed some fixes for this, and i'll add some configurability to it soon.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

added per-chatroom configurability for this. its now possible to set how long before a "* Sent at " message is written to the chat.

please test. note there is a schema change - an additional column in chatroom table.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)