[Forum request] Display initial date of threads

[efege]

I never used a forum as intensely as I'm doing now with this vBulletin for Ext JS. I find this experience very satisfying, and Jon's dedication to keep this working smoothly is also very appreciated.

Something that I'd like to see is the initial date of threads, displayed next to the name of the user who started it. This would allow us to know at a glance how old a thread is, which is sometimes useful.

I attach a pic that shows how dates could be displayed.

What do you think?

[jon.whitcraft]

Take a look at the forum listing now...

[efege]

Hey Jon, I'm glad you implemented my suggestion :)

It's working ok when listing threads by forum, e.g. http://extjs.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=3

But it's not working (only a dash, no date) when listing search results -- and "New posts" is my most frequent search.

Regarding style, you may want to wrap both date & time with a span tag, and apply to it a lighter color, such as #999999, so that this date info does not compete with author info. Note that the time is currently within its own <span class="time">, with a not so light color. I did a quick test with this markup (using inline style):


<span style="color: #999999;"> &middot; 05-30-2007 08:03 AM</span>

and the result is in the attached pic. I also like middot more than dash as a separator, specially when dates have their own dashes.

Thank you!

[brian.moeskau]

I thought something was different when I was looking at the forum earlier, but I couldn't pinpoint what it was. Looks good -- nice suggestion :)

[jon.whitcraft]

Ya it's easy to look over but adds a lot.