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Re:Show HN: The Timeline of Everything – see the history of ... by milst on Thursday May 22, 2025 @08:01PM (#44068450)

thanks! Any ideas on how to get around overlapping titles? Was thinking maybe truncate with ellipses like "Some long titl..." but often there are too many events too close together for that to make a difference

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Re:Show HN: The Timeline of Everything – see the history of ... by mdp2021 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @08:17PM (#44068532)

A first idea could be, if you are using "nowrap", to have two event title rows. So it could be, top to bottom: event_year, event_rowabove, event_rowbelow, event_bullet, rounded_years.

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Re:Show HN: The Timeline of Everything – see the history of ... by JamesHist on Friday May 30, 2025 @04:52AM (#44134262)

I feel your pain on the overlapping titles. When creating a timeline application, there's usually only a short time between 'let's connect to Wikidata' and needing to deal with live label clustering and deconfliction.

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