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.
This makes me realize that Reddit development got stale, this should have been an updated feature years ago.
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!
Reddit development got stale when, unfortunately and tragically, their best dev killed himself in 2013
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
Apparently you can also post pics in replies too!
Random pic from my phone
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.
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.
