marccanter

thinks

that time should move towards the right

16 responses to this plurk

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  Jun 04, 2008 - 08:29PM

  dangrsmind

  shares

  kimtelaswelcome.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/arrow-of-time-vladimir-kush.jpg note the direction of the arrow

• 
  Jun 04, 2008 - 08:31PM

  shaf	Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Which way do you read ?

• 
  Jun 04, 2008 - 08:36PM

  choconancy

  says

  feels like it should move to the right to me as well

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  Jun 04, 2008 - 08:41PM

  shaf

  says

  he felt exactly the same when I first started with Plurk but not now

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  Jun 05, 2008 - 09:01AM

  ianbetteridge

  says

  I felt the same way initially, too. Still feels weird in that direction. Should this be a user option?

• 
  Jun 05, 2008 - 02:42PM

  davidpaulyoung

  we read left to right. just like plurk.

• 
  Jun 05, 2008 - 02:57PM

  dossy

  says

  davidpaulyoung, funny, I read top-to-bottom. who thought this side-scrolling timeline was a good idea should be taken out and beat.

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  Jun 05, 2008 - 03:02PM

  ianbetteridge

  says

  The side-scrolling timeline is straight from simile.mit.edu/timeline/. And I like it, a lot.

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  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:24PM

  cypher

  says

  We read left to right. 1st things happen at the start (lft) of a line & last things happen at the end (rt). Plurk should work the same way.

• 
  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:27PM

  karim

  thinks

  cypher doesn't read Hebrew

• 
  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:31PM

  ianbetteridge

  says

  Actually, I don't think I've ever seen a timeline that had the newest at the left. Newest is always at the right. Think of graphs.

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  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:37PM

  peterb

  says

  initially i totally agreed, but i'm starting to reconsider. Reading left to right makes sense. The longer I spend here, the more i like it.

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  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:38PM

  shaf

  feels

  he would be sick if he has to read from left to right and then scroll back in time in the opposite direction. It could create a time paradox

• 
  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:39PM

  shaf	and fook up the space time continuum

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  Jun 05, 2008 - 05:53PM

  karim

  says

  <Doc Brown>Great Scott! </Doc Brown>