It's still nice to see someone else's "birthday" alongside their posts when you're in conversation on a message board.
Beside, the current 9-character 'mmm dd yy' representation is more compact than '10 months ago' (13 characters). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jorden van der Elst" <[email protected]> To: "Richard Haselgrove" <[email protected]> Cc: "David Anderson" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:20 PM Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Add country to forum profile > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Richard > Haselgrove<[email protected]> wrote: >> David Anderson wrote >> >>> My inclination would be to simplify the "user info" box even further, >>> e.g. to remove the credit stuff, >>> and replace "Joined: Aug 8 08" with "Joined: 10 months ago" or something >>> -- David >> >> Please don't. People rather like celebrating their BOINC "birthdays", >> especially in this tenth anniversary year of SETI. > > Richard, > > All that information is still available when clicking on the person's > name and going to his account page. It's just the right pane in the > forums that's affected. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
