Topic on Talk:Timestamp position modification

So is anything coming out of this?

The e3 team ran a series of experiments around it. The research is available here. I don't know about plans for productization, though.

The mobile team is working on a last modified feature that will appear on all articles on .m Wikimedia sites – should be deployed next week to Beta :)

The short answer is that it definitely seems to be of use to readers and editors, but because our goal is to focus on things that directly aid editing, we're not making it permanent right now.

Thanks for the answers. Stay tuned, I guess.

That's such a shame that it's not going to be followed up with... It's a really good, simple idea, it's been shown to be useful to editors and readers, the design and research work has been done, and it's not going to affect anything else (AFAICT). Can you put a call out to the volunteer community to run with it rather than simply shelving the whole thing?

For others passing by: this was answered at m:Research talk:Timestamp position modification.