The date of the last message needs more space in the forum list

Unfortunately, there is no easy so solution for this, Spanish appears to be a bit too verbose here. The “long” variant generated by the ICU library is a lot longer than in other languages including but not limited to German and English. We cannot use the “short” variant because the result is less of a fit in other languages.

Increasing the column width is not an option either at this time because of the layout constraints that still exist there. We will take this into consideration for our planned overhaul of the thread list but for now there will be no change, I’m sorry.

I don’t know how we will solve this eventually because the short form is not necessarily the right choice in all places. We also cannot make the decision to use one variant or the other depending on the position and language – that would easily be a combinatorial explosion.

Given that we are now aware of the significant space requirements for dates in languages like Spanish we can address these by providing enough space in future layouts.

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Being able to decide via the language file how each date should be handled does not seem a bad way.

I can only imagine a general setting if the usage of the “long” format should be discouraged so that it will always use the “short” format. Everywhere.