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The exact URL/title was posted one hour earlier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20743260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20743260
by Fnoord 7y ago
The exact URL/title was posted one hour earlier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20743260 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20743260
- dang 7y agoNo, matt_d's was earlier. The IDs tell all: 20736713 < 20743260. The reason this was confusing is that we put the earlier post in the second-chance queue (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380), which temporarily modifies the timestamps on re-up as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614. This confusion comes up periodically but I don't know a globally better solution than how we currently do it.
- saagarjha 7y agoWould marking second chance submissions as such help?
- dang 7y agoMaybe, but how would we do that in a minimal way that would still be self-explanatory?
- messe 7y agoThe alt-text/hover text of the timestamp would be the perfect place for it. That way it wouldn't bias anyone who doesn't go looking for it explicitly.
- dang 7y agoBut then the vast majority of users will never know about it, which is not self-explanatory. Also, out of curiosity, how does that work on mobile? I know it's a naive question but I've never figured that out.
- saagarjha 7y agoIf you stick a title attribute on an image, it will show up when you long press on it in Mobile Safari. This doesn't work with links, though, because it'll show the destination instead. Might I suggest just putting the submission time in parentheses, like "1 day ago (resubmitted 3 hours ago)"?