[realitydrift]

The lack of visible timestamps feels small, but it actually creates a subtle fidelity problem. Conversations imply continuity that may not exist. Minutes, hours, or days collapse into the same narrative flow.

When you remove temporal markers, you increase cognitive smoothing and post-hoc rationalization. That’s fine for casual chat, but risky for long-running, reflective, or sensitive threads where timing is part of the meaning.

It’s a minor UI omission with outsized effects on context integrity. In systems that increasingly shape how people think, temporal grounding shouldn’t be optional or hidden in the DOM.