I’ve just confirmed with, well, myself, that comment editing on OSNews finally works again. We’re finally free. Our trying times are behind us, and we can begin to rebuild.
Stay safe out there, and be kind to each other.
I’ve just confirmed with, well, myself, that comment editing on OSNews finally works again. We’re finally free. Our trying times are behind us, and we can begin to rebuild.
Stay safe out there, and be kind to each other.
That’s a good change. Will see if editing works. End of Message.
Edit: Yes it does.
Many of us have been missing this…thanks!
Knock on wood it doesn’t break again after another wordpress update.
Edit: I see you are using a different wordpress plugin this time. The buttons look huge on my screen, haha. No matter, as long as it works
Yes!
Thank you.
And… can you also give us some code markup? A tt or pre would be awesome. If if has syntax highlighting, doubly so!
Test: test
Test: test
Woot woot! (A vast improvement over my original edit. Just kidding — that gold is 1st time home run.)
Thanks a lot Thom!
I’m always surprised comment editing isn’t a standard WordPress feature.
Edit: Huh, so it’s 5 minutes. I don’t know how to feel about it.
If I recall correctly, way back when we had comment editing after the move to WordPress, it was on a five minute timer. I’m getting old, and I honestly don’t recall much about the custom site we had before the WP switch, or the one before that when we could sign up for accounts way back in 2005 or 2006 (I think I was user #92 to sign up or something like that?). I do recall the original OSNews site back when Eugenia was managing editor, and comments were not threaded at all and accounts didn’t exist.
I can actually increase the timer, but I really only want editing being used to fix typos and such. A longer timer might lead to people comment-sniping and such, which, even unintentionally, will make reading OSNews comments much messier.
Do you know if this ever happened on the old site that had a 20 minute editing window?
The old old site?
Want’s that shut down due to a some security issue? I think all accounts were hacked at one point.
sukru,
Yes, that one. Editing was allowed for 20 minutes. Another aspect some people here probably remember is that it handled deeply threaded discussions a lot better than wordpress does now. We could also sort the comments chronologically, which I missed enough to develop a workaround.
Osnews didn’t use it, but I prototyped a client side toggle button on the comments that switches between threaded and chronological mode to recreate the capability that the old website had.
http://vocabit.com/osnews/sort_comments_2.html
Alfman,
Don’t get this wrong, but where do the checkboxes come from in that example?
sukru,
Sorry, I don’t follow what you are asking. Checkboxes?
The link was a prototype using client side scripting to rearrange the comments in chronological order without making any changes to wordpress itself. In the example every comment is supposed to have a link at the top right, the idea being that you can click on it to toggle the threading mode without loosing your position.
The motivation was to improve the situation with wordpress making it extremely cumbersome to identify new comments in threaded view. The old website didn’t have this problem because there was a chronological sorting option which listed all new posts at the bottom.
Annoying when a comment section or forum does not support editing.
That’s great! Now it’s more comfortable making comments.
EDIT: I forgot to mention I use Arch Linux.
The 5 minutes timer is fine for me, I realise there are potential issues if the Edit Timer is too long, you get posts changing after others have commented. I notice some sites implement a feature that delays publishing of a comment until after the timer has expired, I’d be happy with that option too if anyone thinks it is needed.
But I do use the Edit function a bit different to others, in that I deliberately post a draft then perform the revision.