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Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by letientai299 »

captn3m0 wrote: post #2

I recently did a rant on twitter[0] on how release/download pages of various languages/tools get it wrong, especially with respect to giving EoL Dates/policy and a list of supported releases. This is my attempt at solving the problem. If you have to every check the EoL date of anything, or if you have to verify that the version you have is supported, just visit endoflife.date/toolname. The website runs on Netlify, an…

I want to suggest a side-wide search feature. The site is now pretty small, but when it become bigger, this feature will be very useful.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by captn3m0 »

gruez wrote: post #42
xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #36

Lifecycles of the long term (LTSB/LTSC) versions of Windows 10 and Server would be a good addition to the list.

it's weird because LTS is in the "notes" section, but not mentioned elsewhere on the page.

I have it committed locally, will push.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by dmitriid »

brbcoding wrote: post #7
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #5

Suggestion: Relative dates are nice ("1 year and 7 months"), but I'd have an easier time reading it with absolute dates as well ("2019-12-34").

You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)

Mobile phones don’t have hover.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by dmitriid »

captn3m0 wrote: post #16
munk-a wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd still be nice to not have this tied to hover, relative dates are more useful to get a gist of how long you've got - those absolute dates are usually what you need to sell it to management.

I started with absolute dates, but my primary use-case is “How much time do I have?”, for which relative dates work better. I’ll see if I can do better.

It can be done as

   1 year 7 days (2020-06-03)
or

   2020-06-03 (1 year 7 days)
If/when you do absolute days, don’t use US format :) (I don’t know hiw it is right now, can’t hiver on mobile)

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by TeMPOraL »

brbcoding wrote: post #7
yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #5

Suggestion: Relative dates are nice ("1 year and 7 months"), but I'd have an easier time reading it with absolute dates as well ("2019-12-34").

You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)

It's an annoying UX antipattern. It doesn't work on mobile, and forces one to use the mouse instead of just seeing the information in its more useful form.

If anything, why not put the "N days from now" text in the title attr instead?

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by captn3m0 »

dmitriid wrote: post #54
captn3m0 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started with absolute dates, but my primary use-case is “How much time do I have?”, for which relative dates work better. I’ll see if I can do better.

It can be done as 1 year 7 days (2020-06-03) or 2020-06-03 (1 year 7 days) If/when you do absolute days, don’t use US format :) (I don’t know hiw it is right now, can’t hiver on mobile)

It is YYYY-MM-DD

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by captn3m0 »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #45

Hey, this seems like a pretty useful website, one quick comment is that it does not seem to be easily usable by colorblind people. Almost 10% of males are red-green colorblind, so while normal people can quickly scan through the lists using color, colorblind people have to manually read each 'Ends in ...' or 'Ended ...'. Not a huge issue in this case since generally you would lookup your product on the left side of t…

I picked the colorscheme from https://flatuicolors.com/palette/ca, and assumed it would work.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll improve upon this.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by captn3m0 »

runarberg wrote: post #35
brbcoding wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You get the abs date if you hover (it's set as the title attr)

I wonder why they didn’t use the ` ` element for this. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...

As far as I know, no browser actually does anything special with `` elements. Might be nice for screenreaders though, so I'll see if I can switch.

Re: Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything

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Post by captn3m0 »

shakna wrote: post #34

You might want to add: white-space: nowrap; To the CSS class 'page-link' to prevent the situation where a link is broken on a space, allowing it to simultaneously be at both the end of one line, and at the start of the next.

This made it even worse (everything was one line). I tried changing "Fedora Linux" to Fedora, and even that doesn't work.

CSS!

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