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ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Surprised that people still use chatgpt

Personally I use all of them all the time and chatgpt is still on top

I just don't know how anyone who uses Gemini can say this.

It just isn't even close at this point for my uses across multiple domains.

It even makes me sad because I would much rather use chatGPT than Google but if you plotted my use of chatGPT it is not looking good.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#163
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

There's a github project which converts them to markdown which works fairly well too.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#164

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So, do you you think all dev teams are sufficient at UX, or UX doesn’t exist ?

I say that 99.5% of the UI/UX blog posts I've read in the last 10 years were all hogwash. Gloating about spacing, gaps, unnecessary I know this better mantra that leads to nowhere. And it shows. Show me a platform where you have proper user experience and not some overgeneralized ui, that reeks of bad design. Also, defaults used everywhere.

> Show me a platform where you have proper user experience and not some overgeneralized ui, that reeks of bad design. Also, defaults used everywhere.

Could you say this another way?

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I say that 99.5% of the UI/UX blog posts I've read in the last 10 years were all hogwash. Gloating about spacing, gaps, unnecessary I know this better mantra that leads to nowhere. And it shows. Show me a platform where you have proper user experience and not some overgeneralized ui, that reeks of bad design. Also, defaults used everywhere.

> Show me a platform where you have proper user experience and not some overgeneralized ui, that reeks of bad design. Also, defaults used everywhere. Could you say this another way?

Ask an llm. Good luck.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#166

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> Show me a platform where you have proper user experience and not some overgeneralized ui, that reeks of bad design. Also, defaults used everywhere. Could you say this another way?

Ask an llm. Good luck.

Well, hey, thanks for wasting my time - and countless readers’ - with your poorly constructed comments.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#167

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Ask an llm. Good luck.

Well, hey, thanks for wasting my time - and countless readers’ - with your poorly constructed comments.

Well, stop whining, the gist is there.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#168

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Not if you actually read what the extension does and drag and drop it into chrome yourself. Don't install from the web store. Those ones can auto-update.

Your suggestion is to not use the platform as intended, and to understand the source code of the extension. That advice is not actionable by non-technical people and does not help mitigate mass surveillance.

LLMs can pretty easily read source code and tell you what it does. It's completely actionable for any motivated person.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

#170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your suggestion is to not use the platform as intended, and to understand the source code of the extension. That advice is not actionable by non-technical people and does not help mitigate mass surveillance.

LLMs can pretty easily read source code and tell you what it does. It's completely actionable for any motivated person.

Still sidestepping around the inherent need for some level of technical capability and motivation. The average person has no idea what "source code" is, and an LLM is not going to make them meaningfully understand in one conversation. If the LLM just says, "trust me bro you're good", now we have just moved the problem of trust to something even more inscrutable.
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