This is becoming a major nuisance. In a multi-page thread, when someone makes an edit to a post on anything other than the last page (which can be different for different users, since there's no fixed posts-per-page setting), clicking the 'x new' link from the Recent Posts page takes you to the edited post, and clears all the (new) flags on the truly new posts, even on the last page that has not been viewed yet. This needs a fix. Either the (new) flags need to stay set until the posts have actually been displayed on your screen, or something more drastic like locking out edits after some reasonable amount of time, say 1 hour, to fix typos or minor goof-ups. Anything more than that needs a new post at the end of the thread, quoting the old post if necessary for context, and make your corrections/updates there. It's making some threads impossible to follow.
PLEASE let's figure out some way to make this fair for everyone.
Actually, I see an easier way. Simply don’t flag ‘new’ unless there is an actual new post. Allow editing, but don’t bring attention to it. If someone really wants to draw attention to an edited post, say Johnny Mac’s list on the Eagle Eye GB, they can make a new post linking back to it. That way, a somewhat long-ish post doesn’t have to be repeated every time there is an update to the information contained in it, but it doesn’t confuse people looking for new posts only.
Another thing, the fast-growing megathreads like group buys and such, the updates really should be in the original post, not the first reply ('reserved' garbage). Editing the original post does not affect the flags and does not redirect you there whether you want it to or not, but editing/adding updates in the first replydoes. Plenty of people add a new post at the end of the thread, "updated info in OP" and the like, and it works just fine.
Actually, I see an easier way. Simply don’t flag ‘new’ unless there is an actual new post. Allow editing, but don’t bring attention to it. If someone really wants to draw attention to an edited post, say Johnny Mac’s list on the Eagle Eye GB, they can make a new post linking back to it. That way, a somewhat long-ish post doesn’t have to be repeated every time there is an update to the information contained in it, but it doesn’t confuse people looking for new posts only.
+1 on this idea. It's important to be able to edit.
An example. One time I posted the prototype of a parallel cell mod. Later I decided that the picture I posted might lead others to copy it and potentially create a short (even though I warned of the safety issue in the prototype above the picture). For the sake of safety, I went back and deleted the picture. This was many months after I first created the post. I would prefer that the edit not be highlighted as new as it was just for potential future readers.
So quote the old post in a new reply and explain what happened, then delete the old one with the mistake if necessary. It's the people going back to something they said a week and a half ago, correcting an apostrophe or something, and then everybody after gets redirected to a post that at a glance looks exactly identical to the original one. It's getting really bad and it's utterly pointless.
By the way, that's one of the recent 'big' threads I had to unsubscribe from because it was impossible to follow, even though it's one I really do need to be involved in. For myself and for others. I've also unsubscribed from the K50 GB thread, a GB I participated in.
Also what about an option to mark a thread as read forever, so that it doesn’t ever show up in “Recent posts”? We can subscribe to posts, why not be able to hide them, too?
Im not sure of the details, but I think there are limits to the software, and changing is not an easy task. Not without losing the history and content that makes the forum what it is. Dont quote me on that, but I seem to recall it being mentioned by SB or someone a while back.
1+ keep ability to edit without a time limit.
A solution is needed but without killing edits. We need to know what options are available for the forum software. We can think of lots of ways to fix the (new) flags but we need something that can actually be implemented here.
A “Next New” button that advances to each new post would be cool…that way you could see any edits if you want and go to the next new post on any page without losing the new label…make sense :quest:
I think this sounds good and I wouldn’t mind if it worked like that! I suspect that if SB can’t get whatever forum software this is to handle direct links to posts, your suggestion will be just as impossible :-(. <span class=“Simple. value. page the ignore should post# and page both for value GET a contain which links Direct page. proper the get to up result the round and page per posts by number that divide Now forum. the by employed method normal the by thread in # post determine then # post unique by DB Query matter. simple very a is sitting I’m where From software. in this handling of “difficulty” the about you tell will here others what ignore”>
