It could be a coded message intended for certain people, now you ruined it
A conspiracy...
One of your comments was with and one without a dot, so it's not about who posted it.
Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
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Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
That random wikipedia link is awesome. Didn’t know you could do that.
What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
The mental habit of seeing connections?
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#23Different files / functions / methods / views (pick your name) on the server rendering timestamps in a different way?
Also my iOS client does it.
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#24Maybe it is due to load balancing and different templates/release versions used in nodes?
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#25Load balancing, but only the some node(s) were updated with a new template?
Automatic worker process cycling, only some processes have cycled and loaded a new template?
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#26Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#27Yeah, this one does. Some others on the frontpage don't. Interesting. If I were to hazard a guess -- it looks like a templating bug. Some template has a period in it.
Except that this one does on the front page too, so it's not like 'front.template' has no full stop and 'submission.template' does.
Similarly in 'threads' some comments do and others don't. 'tis mildly curious.
Edit: I went back to front, and this submission now doesn't have it. :shrug:
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#28Interesting! Did a Google Image search for „Hacker News“, those full stops do not appear in any image. It must be rather newish.
It's new. Noticed it when I woke up this morning (CET time)
Re: Ask HN: Why do some timestamps on HN have a full stop at the end?
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the name of the effect that when you click on something random you still end up on something related to you and you think "it's not that random". Because I got that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbridge
The mental habit of seeing connections?
Dot here.