doublevr I prefix the filenames of the videos I download with "yymmdd-<actresses>-...". That way I get them sorted, so it works like a queue when I watch them later. It's also nice to know approximately which year and month the video is from, based on the filename, even if you can't always trust that.

Maybe you could have the exact date as a tooltip, when hovering over the "X months ago"?

    Philip It doesn't seem to be a typical usecase. We can't have everything.
    I find a new format much more convenient for using

        I also vote to get the date back (for whatever that is worth). A lot of people use date info to rename scenes. SLR is currently on a staggered schedule skipping every other Weds, so it’s also useful to have dates when trying to project where the upcoming lineup falls on the calendar.

        doublevr Well, given that we are the users, not you...

        It is also useful for file versions when you make corrections. Hard to understand why you insist on making arbitrary changes that annoy the customers you are trying to attract and then fail to justify them.

          doublevr

          Timespan is garbage, nobody has a "feeling" what is X months ago, but everyone has an immediate association on "January this year".

          This is the very first setting I change in every Git GUI, because they all think it is a good idea to show you X days ago.
          Nobody knows what they have done X days ago.

              ibins Writing my own reply above, I couldn’t quite get my thumb on the reason you just articulated here for why I also would prefer to see hard dates come back, but yes, yes, and yes to everything you said here 👍

                doublevr

                So it seems a lot of people on this thread disagree with the thought process here. Maybe we are all missing something.

                Can you help us understand SLR point of view? What was the business case/ use case / user story used for this change?

                Was it obfuscation?
                Is it a change leading to a new feature?
                Was it a side effect change to a different bug fix?
                Or maybe a “hey let’s try something new” dev whim?

                Perhaps there’s a happy medium here. On the details you could show
                “x days/weeks/months/years ago” but in the default download file generator and tool tip you show an exact date. Albeit that seems like a lot of extra code for something as benign as a publication date that is likely stored and just as easily displayed.

                  5 days later

                  I don't mind the "X duration ago" on the thumbnail list pages and can understand that's actually more useful for a quick check of how old a scene is. But the actual release date should be included on the scene page for sure. Like some others have already mentioned as well, I too change the filename to something like Studioname.YY.MM.DD.etc... for better file organisation and sorting.

                  I suggest this solution, only on the scene page itself just show both as there's plenty of room: pun intended kek

                  This change should be very minimal as the datetime is already added in the code here anyway.
                  Thankfully because it's an actual time element (thx webdev) I had immediately changed it like this for myself with my userscript but most people won't be able to do that. So I agree with everybody here it should be visible on the scene page at least.

                    2 months later

                    Please bring date back. I use date to rename downloaded files by performer so that I can watch video for any specific performer in chronological order. It's fun to see how the performer ages and improves.

                    4 months later

                    Count me in the group that would really like to see the release date in the video details. I think I have found a work around, though. If you google search the exact title, the hit that links to the scene on SLR usually includes the date the post was made.

                      This topic and discussion remind me of the new Twitter... one person wants it the new way, even if employees and customers don't like it.

                      I think they want it this way because if a video is 1 year 364 days old they can still say it's a year old. It makes everything sound newer.

                      jonsinvr thats the date the page was first indexed by the search engine... not necessarily the actual release date