 WP Comments do not support Revisions when editing, meaning there is just one date/time which represents the latest save, and no history of what was previously written. Do folks think it's important to keep a history, whether visible or not to the user? 5 comments
@liaizon afaict Mastodon will store versions and provide a UI to consult versions. It’s doable in WP with comment-templates, but I’m hesitant to step too deep into themes territory, though perhaps it will be inevitable for other features. @liaizon Using comment-templates might just be inevitable to display that a received fediverse comment has been edited.  I'm adamantly against versioning edits because sometimes people do this to scrub personal identifying information or personally embarrassing mistakes. In eleven years of providing edited posts, we've seen thousands of edits. I haven't yet seen an actual case of bait-and-switch edited posts requiring version tracking and history. And treating your "customers" like they're all schoolkids that can't be trusted is perhaps a self-fulfilling prophecy.
 Publish all revisions? No, that's not a good idea unless they're also publicly available through the web and such, which iirc in wordpress they are not. Add a timestamp when a post was last updated? Yes and the AP vocabulary even has an `updated` property for this exact purpose. |
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@django @activitypub yes I think it is indeed important to keep track of the history. Maybe following mastodons new edit history features so they are consistent between would be useful.