Yep, they're at it again. Did they learn nothing?

This was the echo of old bad decisions, not a new one. It wasn't intentional on our part, and we're working on a fix. (See my top level comment for more detail on what happened.)

Appreciate the response :)

Probably their VCs wanted more MRR rather than more respect of privacy, and it translated to this.

Ultimately they are optimizing for profit, not (profit*ethics), and all of their actions will be guided by that optimization.

The HN api includes the timestamp (unix time). For instance: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/23279837.json?pri...

I wish all sites that do the “x units ago” thing would put the time stamp in a title attribute.

If any accessibility experts are reading, is there a best way to do this? E.g. title attribute is best for mouse users to hover on desktop, but is there a way that works for all users on devices? Maybe the abbr tag?

So far I haven't seen an html-only solution that works on mobile.

Not an a11y expert but I imagine that's what the <time> element[1] is for.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...

I've been developing my new website and use "x days ago" which is a feature of most date libraries like luxon or moment. I modeled what GitHub does where you can mouse over the text and it produces the actual timestamp. On mobile that doesn't work, so I print the date in disabled text.

Not an accessibility or html expert, but in the AWS console you can switch between "x days ago" and exact timestamp by clicking/tapping the timestamp.