ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui

Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by codedokode on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:09AM (#50410564)

Also, I looked at how dates are written in a screenshot and thought that "2 days ago" is so much better than "Tuesday".

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Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by sudahtigabulan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:04AM (#50411066)

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.

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Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by aljgz on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:52AM (#50411246)

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

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Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by Mawr on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:33AM (#50412018)

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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Re:ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui by pezezin on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:18AM (#50411362)

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".

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