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Twitter has been working on an Edit button since last year
- adolph 5y agoWhat’s their malfunction, performance? Edit is just another type of edge to vertices.
- throwmeariver1 5y agoThat’s what I would say when I just stole an idea from a Musk poll./s I could swear we heard something about editing or edit buttons since 2009-2011 and it was always just 6-12 months away. If someone working in design at twitter reads this: Wtf is your startpage about either it’s a 5 year old picture with login or a searchbar that doesn’t really work when not logged in. Does it really perform better than showing trending tweets or something useful for new users?
- rektide 5y agoIt's hard to imagine a company sabotaging their primary purpose as actively. This is such a tough situation. Every user wants to be able to update their stuff, rewrite their words. But the public function, the utility of twitter is as a system of record, a forum for interaction. Edit threatens to blow up the primary value of the network, it's attestability. What happened when. Mastodon has this right: it's "Delete & Redraft". Start over. You don't get to keep your timestamp. When you say something is as important as what you say. Letting this blur together, destroying Twitter as a part of the record would be an incalculable loss to the platform. Yet it's something that countless users all want and demand. Technically fairly uninteresting: but this is a very hard product trade off to make.
- mdotk 5y agoWhole lotta fuss about an edit button