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iionly/friendly\_time
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Tries to improve upon the default Elgg friendly time display.

1.9.3(10y ago)248GPL-2.0PHP

Since Sep 20Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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Enhanced Friendly Time plugin for Elgg 1.9 - 1.12 and Elgg 2.X
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[](#enhanced-friendly-time-plugin-for-elgg-19---112-and-elgg-2x)

Latest Version: 1.9.3
Released: 2015-09-20
Contact:
License: GNU General Public License version 2
Copyright: (c) Ademola 'PHPlord' Morebise (Original developer) / iionly (for Elgg 1.8 and newer)

Description
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[](#description)

Instead of the default Elgg behaviour of displaying the date of older posts as 'XX days ago' this plugin will show the posting date in 'date month year' format'. For entries younger than two weeks it will show the date in several step from 'just now' to 'last week' until 'about 2 weeks ago'.

I've included the months' names in the language file to allow for internationalization. If you want the names of the months showing in your preferred language, you can easily create the appropriate languge file on your own.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

1. If you have a previous version of the Enhanced Friendly Time plugin installed, first remove the old friendly\_time folder from your mod directory before copying/extracting the new version to your server,
2. Copy the friendly\_time folder into the mod folder of your site,
3. Enable the plugin in the admin section of your site.

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3893d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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