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Need ability to edit past posts #6595
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Since there's no (obvious) way to upvote: 👍 It's very annoying having to delete a post, possibly with pictures, just to fix a typo or a couple of words. |
I'd like to hear from the tech community how challenging it might be to code an edit feature, which I assume would be based on what can be edited (a la TikTok)--images, videos, text, and tags. I suppose there's a philosophical reason other social media companies don't allow editing--probably their desire for posts to have an immediacy and permanence factor that they don't want altered? |
A valid argument against allowing editing is that a malicious user could post something, wait for comments and reposts, and then alter it to make it look like people were commenting on something else entirely. Perhaps a compromise would be to allow editing the most recent post only, within a fairly short time window, just to deal with those "doh" moments when you spot the typo right after pressing Send. In any case, there should be a flag visible on edited messages and a way to view the original text |
This is on the roadmap, please see #673 for discussion of this feature. Also please see the Record Versioning (Post Editing) section of the 2024 Protocol Roadmap: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/2024-protocol-roadmap#on-the-horizon
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I agree with this, maybe there could be a grace period... like you can edit for the first 5 min then it's locked in. I think a lot of us notice errors almost immediately |
@RobertSalm I wrote some thoughts on editing and a method we can use today outside of the Bluesky app There are certainly various social and philo aspects, which I touch on, but also with ATProto, we can experiment and have competition to see what does and doesn't work or resound with users. |
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Users need the ability to edit past posts. This alone would be a tremendous game changer to make BlueSky stand out amongst social networking services.
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