Why do we need the "Modify Date" column?

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
August 8, 2012
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The subject says it all. Why do we need that column? It just occupies real estate.

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

In the days of the fair forums, it was a simple list of threads, each with just the Title, one line for each, no separation.

Threads (with posts) that were unread were shown in bold with a red flag.

On a normal size screen about 40 threads could be seen at the same time.

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Dave Merchant

Legend

Modify date is affected by any moderation change and a user edit of a message - so it's usually the same as last post date but not always. The sort orders and RSS feeds need both columns as they see 'new content' differently.

Noel Carboni

Legend

I don't mean to be critical of you, Dave, but a "That's just the way it is" response leads to apathy, and apathy leads to junkware, and junkware leads to hate...

Nobody needs the modification date to be on the screen.

-Noel

John Waller

Community Expert

Noel Carboni wrote:
Nobody needs the modification date to be on the screen.

Seconded.

It's a waste of screen real estate.

pwillener

Legend

It seems to contain the same as the Last Post column. It does not really matter to me, as I am on a wide screen PC. But people on narrower devices (as your iPad in the other topic) may find this waste of space stupid.