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Looks like you did the move. It's really weird because it changed the timestamps on all the comments... They are even different between my "threads" page and wh
by remram 3y ago
Looks like you did the move. It's really weird because it changed the timestamps on all the comments... They are even different between my "threads" page and what I see when I click through.
- dang 3y agoYes, sorry, I know it's confusing. I relativized the timestamps for 2 reasons: (1) if we didn't do that, commenters would start asking "why are there a bunch of comments here older than the OP they're commenting on?" - and our experience is that this leads to more confusion than the other way around; plus (2) it seems unfair to have all the comments on the earlier thread plummet to the bottom of the new thread because they're so much older. This topic comes up regularly in a slightly different context, which is re-upping stories that make it into the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). There are a bunch of past explanations here in case helpful: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20timestamps%20re-up&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....