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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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Post by smelendez »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #7
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?

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

Make it a toggle then, like a lot of popular chat apps?

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by kingforaday »

Just like on a piece of hardware that doesn't have a RTC, we rely on NTP. Maybe we just need an NTP MCP for the agents. Looks like there are several open-source projects already but I'm not linking to them because I don't know their quality or trust.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by noisem4ker »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #11
intrasight wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an easy browser extension

Someone has already made a browser extension for Chrome to show the timestamps. https://github.com/Hangzhi/chatgpt-timestamp-extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/kdjfhglijhebcchcfkk...

For Chrome and Firefox.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by andai »

baby wrote: post #19
PunchTornado wrote: post #8

Surprised that people still use chatgpt

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

Could you elaborate on your experience with the different ones? What you use them for and how they compare. Thanks

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by Y_Y »

smelendez wrote: post #21
Workaccount2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Make it a toggle then, like a lot of popular chat apps?

There's only one thing they hate more than numbers...

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by andai »

logicallee wrote: post #10
PunchTornado wrote: post #8

Surprised that people still use chatgpt

what do you use?

For conversational use, which is the main way these things are used, I personally found Claude to be the best.

Claude Sonnet is my favorite, despite occasionally going into absurd levels of enthusiasm.

Opus is... Very moody and ambiguous. Maybe that helps with complex or creative tasks. For conversational use I have found it to be a bit of a downer.

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by vasco »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #7
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?

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

> Regular people hate numbers

What does this even mean

Re: ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests

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Post by falcor84 »

bobse wrote: post #15
Workaccount2 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Should they be allowed anywhere near a computer?

I actually agree there's an issue here. I feel we've been dumbing down interfaces so much, to the extent that people who in previous generations would barely write and who wouldn't affect anyone outside their close friends and family, now having their voice algorithmically amplified to millions. And given that the algorithms care only about engagement, rather than eloquence (let alone veracity), these people end up believing that their thoughts are as valid regardless of substance, and that there's nothing they could gain by learning numeracy.

EDIT: It's not a new issue, and Asimov phrased it well back in 1980, but I feel it got much worse.

> Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'.

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