There’s no edit button, I can’t find it. This happened today.
I believe this is because the last edit was too old or something like that, so the reproduction steps would be like this:
Create a post
Edit it (optional)
Wait minimum 5 days
You will not be able to edit again
Also, if this is an intended feature, let me know. Because as far as I remember, I could edit posts of mine that were older than the 5 days.
Expected behavior
You should be able to edit posts regardless of how many edits they had, or how old they were.
This would help me editing posts like Devlogs, where editing the post is really important to show your progress.
I was about to make a thread on this. I can’t edit replies/topics that are over 7 days old, this started happening a few days ago.
A lot of times I’ll send private messages to myself, typically as a more advanced “draft” system for longer posts, but I can’t edit any of those messages anymore.
And yeah this is pretty detrimental to any public resource sections.
We are limiting editability of posts in certain categories to better protect discussions, particularly for bug reports, feature requests and help & support threads this is really important.
Is editing going to be opened back up in any other categories? If not, can it at least be allowed in private messages if you’re the only person with access to the thread?
I understand the need to protect bug reports but this still seems like a really strange way of going about it? There was way more applications of being able to use such a basic feature like the edit button indefinitely than just updating old bug reports and this isn’t really even a type of abuse I’ve seen a whole lot. Just seems like a weird solution to me more than anything.
If the goal is to stop people from editing all of their posts to something like “Delete this now I’m quitting forever!!” (which I have seen before) just limit the amount of times posts can be edited before it’s blocked to something like 2 or prevent people from editing two posts to have similar content (so if I edit two posts to be identical and say like “Delete this delete this delete this” it will instantly be blocked)
It seems like whenever there’s a problem on the forum, the solution is always to tighten some pre-existing setting, almost as if there’s hesitation to make deeper changes to the internal systems themselves. It’s why a lot of bug reports in Forum Help > Forum Bugs that would require actual changes to the forum’s code tend to go unanswered.
It just feels like instead of meaningfully addressing underlying issues, restrictions get tightened across the board. Kind of wish there was a dedicated team focused specifically on forum issues, rather than (seemingly) one person just adjusting permissions and limits instead of implementing proper fixes.
Hell, it was bad enough previously where you couldn’t even delete a PM if you accidentally sent it to someone or no longer needed assistance. And now we can’t even edit our own messages.
Appreciate the feedback and yes there are definitely other solutions that require more engineering investment.
We’ll keep monitoring the thread / other threads for feedback on the edit restrictions, so far there doesn’t seem to be much of any impact outside of the few people who posted here.
Any reason why i cant edit my post’s title anymore?
This is my post but it seems i am unable to edit the title of the post eventhough i previously could.
I used to edit the title with the current version number so users could see when a new update was released instead of having to press on the discussion each time, any reason as to why i cant edit the posts title anymore?
I can’t edit my post title either, I keep the version updated in the title but can’t do that anymore. Do I need to keep creating posts for the same topic? Cascade UI Animator
