ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

Post by DangitBobby » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

make3 wrote: post #143

drdaeman wrote: post #113

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I’m sorry but this really sounds like a made-up idea. Is there any actual repeatable research that could back this claim?

It's just the "cognitive load" UX idea, with extremely non-technical people having extremely low limits before they decide to never try again, or just feel intimidated and never try to begin with. It's the Apple story all over again. https://lawsofux.com/cognitive-load/

Post by sh4rks » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

milowata wrote: post #100

Valid3840 wrote: post #2

ChatGPT still does not display per-message timestamps (time of day / date) in conversations. This has been requested consistently since early 2023 on the OpenAI community forum, with hundreds of comments and upvotes and deleted threads, yet remains unimplemented. Do any of you could think of a reason (UX-wise) for it not to be displayed?

It’s better for them if you don’t know how long you’ve been talking to the LLM. Timestamps can remind you that it’s been 5 hours: without it you’ll think less about timing and just keep going.

Post by DANmode » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 4:18 AM UTC

lofaszvanitt wrote: post #154

Workaccount2 wrote: post #7

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Regular people hate numbers. Not a joke. To capture a wide audience you want to avoid numbers, among other technical niceties.

UX/UI research if it exists at all is akin to religious healers who touch you on your head and bam you can suddenly walk after spending 25 years in a wheelchair. Hogwash.

Post by baby » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 4:54 AM UTC

malfist wrote: post #32

baby wrote: post #17

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I was using a continuous conversation with chatgpt to keep track of my lifts, and then I realize it never understand what day I'm talking to it, like there is no consistency, it might as well be the date of the first message you sent

What purpose does logging your lifting with chatgpt achieve?

Post by tomzx » Sat, Dec 27, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

gnyman wrote: post #119

zbycz wrote: post #57

If you download a Data export, the timestamps are there for every conversation, and often for messages as well. The html file is just a big JSON with some JS rendering, so I wrote this bash script which adds the timestamp before the conversation title: sed -i 's|" " + conversation.title + " "|" " + new Date(conversation.create_time*1000).toISOString().slice(0, 10) + " @ " + conversation.title + " "|' chat.html

This is a bit of sidetrack, but in case someone is interested in reading their history more easily. My conversations.html export file was ~200 MiB and I wanted something easier to work with, so I've been working on a project to index and make it searchable. It uses the pagefind project so it can be hosted on a static host, and I made a fork of pagefind which encrypts the indexes so you can host your private chats whe…