Also, I looked at how dates are written in a screenshot and thought that "2 days ago" would be so much better than "Tuesday". Because you do not have to compute in your head how many days ago Tuesday was.

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sudahtigabulan 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds reasonable, but IME apps that use relative timestamps switch to absolute time past certain threshold, and then I end up with two adjacent entries "14:38” and "15 minutes ago" and scratching my head.

Signal does that and I hate it when it happens.

	▲	aljgz 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There are other minor problems as well: - Screenshots don't age well: you need to know the screenshot time and do math - They need to be maintained, which means the screen keeps updating even if nothing else is happening
	▲	Mawr 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Claude Code: "Heads up. At this pace you’ll run out Sunday night, before the Oct 14 reset." It is silly to mix the two. I usually display the relative time and offer a timestamp on hover or if there's space, show both.

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pezezin 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate relative timestamps, I find it much easier to remember specific week days, so I very much prefer this style so I don't have to compute in my head which day of the week I got the text.

Anyway, I tried this application and it seems to mix different styles depending on how long ago you got the text: "yesterday", "Friday", "18 Oct 2026".