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by 3JPLW 1913 days ago
As an administrator at Julia's discourse, I'd be really curious if this was the reason. Discourse's default "short date" format is super problematic. By default, they display something from 5 days ago as `Mar 20` and something from a year ago as `Mar '20`. We've changed that to have the year+ old posts display as `Mar 2020`, but maybe we should also change the recent display to be something different; maybe `20 Mar`? The UI doesn't give us too much space, unfortunately.
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> The UI doesn't give us too much space, unfortunately.

I don't see where it's cramped, there's a lot of room on my screen.

Another option is "June 20^{th}"

That same format string is used in multiple places, and unfortunately I don't think the text engine they expose to us is smart enough to do the ordinal 1st 2nd 3rd thing.

Edit: oh, we can do that. Changed experimentally.

LGTM
Thanks for the suggestion!