Hover for exact read time

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not-ethan proposed adding a hover feature to display exact read time (e.g., ‘2 days, 14 hours, 38 minutes’) on user profiles, as the current system only shows rounded values and requires downloading data daily — a cumbersome process, especially for users chasing read-time badges like on the Codecademy forums. not-ethan added that data downloads are rate-limited to once per day, making real-time tracking impossible. not-ethan later confirmed the feature was implemented via a merged PR (#16501), suggesting the issue can be closed.

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Continuing the discussion from Exact Read Time:

Currently, there is no easy way to view your exact read time if you have more than 1 hour of reading time. The only way is to download your data from the activity tab and add up your read time. Most of the time is a pain to do if you just want to look quickly and if you want to check it often you need to do everything I said before again. So it would be a lot easier to just be able to hover over your read time on your profile to view the full thing. Eg 2 days, 14 hours, 38 minutes. This is very useful for forums that have badges for read time such as the Codecademy forums.

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To add on you can only download your data once a day. So if you are getting close you can only calculate it once a day so you cant see exactly how much you have after you spent some more time reading.

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I think we can close this. A PR for this was merged. UX: Add title to read time stats from user page by nbianca · Pull Request #16501 · discourse/discourse · GitHub

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