You Should Know @lemmy.world Astrealix @lemmy.world 1y ago

YSK that you can edit titles on Lemmy, unlike Reddit.

Why YSK: You might be used to Reddit where you can't edit titles. This is important both for the errant poster, but also for the person coming from ages in the future who might stumble upon it.

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This makes me realize that Reddit development got stale, this should have been an updated feature years ago.
- Reddit development got stale when, unfortunately and tragically, their best dev killed himself in 2013
  
  I have been reading about him. He deserves a movie, and a good one.
  
  If he was alive today to see the censorship that he stood so against.. I shudder to think about it
- They, like Twitter, had good reasons for not allowing it, such as the risk of users editing posts after the fact, and the risk of abusing that privilege to scam other users, so on.
  
  But their development did get stale some years back, and they probably know it, given that Reddit started chasing trends and implementing mostly-unwanted features some probably when they started focusing on trying to keep users on the site, and adding things like image/video uploading (which probably did terrible things to their development costs).
  
  That makes sense, thanks!
Hopefully one happy side effect of this is that it won't become a cultural thing on the Fediverse to put a typo in your post title and then have a comment section full of people all calling attention to the typo instead of the actual question/topic of the post.
- Although I'm curious about how they might address the "clickbait" issue of people having a massively upvoted/boosted post, and then changing the post to say something else entirely.
  
  That seems like it might be a problem if people are allowed to edit titles.
  
  '*Title edited' small text could be added maybe. And if title is edited after a day or week or month then specify that too.
  
  ~~Honestly one probably should have ability to edit titles after max two days pass or even one. I can't think of a good reason you would want to edit a title after a day or two~~
  
  Maybe through moderation?
  
  Just like being able to embed images inline in comments. They're really handy features, but they can be abused easily. Perhaps this is where Lemmy relies on mods instead?
  
  Is it really a problem tho? If it would happen then the only thing that sucks is that you just got pranked. There are no karma points here to sell. I have more faith in ppl here to not do such things too. But even if they did there wouldn't be a big deal. I think it is much more worth it having it then not having it. Like ruud (admin at lemmy.worls) change his titles from "updating the server" to "[all done] updating the server". Also I am a believer in creating rules if it becomes a problem, to give everyone a chance to be believed in.
Are comments marked in some way to show when edited like reddit was?

Are titles?

Like could I write a post/comment "how often do you call your parents" and after everyone comments, once a week, once a day, oh god never, etc,

Edit the post/comment to say "how often do you eat poop"

And then sit back and chuckle softly to myself? Or would it say *(edited)

It should.

Edit: edit check
- I'm on lemmy.world and I can see the time and date your comment was posted and same for edited.
  
  Kbin doesn't show it though, so not every software will show the edit tag.
  
  EDIT: Turns out that Kbin doesn't seem to have implemented that yet.
  
  seconding this, i am also on lemmy.world and can also see it. although i did have to look around for it a little bit
- When a post is edited (title or otherwise), a little pencil icon is shown to tell you it’s edited, just like comments.
  
  Sweet good to know.
  
  Doesn't seem to show that for me on jerboa but ehh
  
  It would be a nice feature to see the change history so that you can see that it was a typo fix or clarification or complete replacement.
- I'm looking at this comment through kbin.social and I am not seeing any indication that you edited it.
  
  Hopefully the developers work on that.
- I'm not seeing any indication on kbin
- There doesn't seem to be any indication on kbin, for anyone wondering.
- Doesn’t seem to show any indication of editing on Mlem yet.
- Using Jerboa on Android and I think I see an edit timestamp, but it is rather discreet and not super useful for your edit since it was so close in time. It looks like it lists: timeOfPost (timeOfEdit), so for example:19h (19h).
  
  A more prominent indication of an edit would probably be good to have.
  
  Edit: spelling
- on Lemmy.world if I hover over the little pencil icon I see Created: [date] Modified [date] Non-modified comments in this thread show no pencil. That's pretty slick.
You can also add your personal text in a text box when you create link posts, another thing you can't do in reddit.
- It's as though this is the logical progression- more freedom.
More than half of my titles and descriptions have typos in it so it's a blessing
I read the title of this thread as "YSK that you can edit TILES on Lemmy, unlike Reddit." I spent far longer than I should trying to figure out wtf tiles were. Yes, I'm dumb.
- interior designers hate this one weird trick
Apparently you can also post pics in replies too!

Random pic from my phone
- The NSFW side of Lemmy already seems to be using this feature for makeshift image galleries.
  
  Wow that's actually pretty neat!
That's an excellent feature I had no clue about!
kbin, too
I'm confused. Wasn't this posted on kbin.social? It seems odd to me to tell lemmy users they can edit titles, from kbin
- Nah mate this is posted on lemmy.world lol
- Kbin.social currently attributes every post like it was local. That's not intended and will probably be fixed soon.
  
  Previously we could not federate due to cloudflare issues, now we're federating properly but the front end doesn't show the correct source of linked posts.
  
  Kbin is a work in process, lol
  
  Kbin is currently in Vanilla Ice mode.
  
  Thanks. Felt like I was going crazy with other people replying to me that this is on lemmy
- This post is on @youshouldknow, not Kbin. Kbin can edit titles too though, we're not left out!
Thank you for this. Pretty annoying feature on Reddit, to be fair.
Whoa that's awesome!

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