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Do you think HTML pages should be uneditable after a period of time? Regardless of your opinion there (since I can see the merits), the rest of the web isn't ex
by eatonphil 5y ago
Do you think HTML pages should be uneditable after a period of time? Regardless of your opinion there (since I can see the merits), the rest of the web isn't exactly founded on immutability.
- nkozyra 5y agoI see the argument, though. Edits in a conversation break context and flow.
- bombcar 5y agoHN has edits, in conversation and flow, and it does break sometimes, but in general it's a good. Discussion forums have had edits forever; reddit famously lets you go and delete all your existing posts at anytime by replacing them with "edited by autodeleter9000".
- mushyhammer 5y agoBut Twitter doesn’t want to be just another webpage. Tweets and its dates are used in court and by historians. That’s basically why Twitter has been hesitant to allow edits. I kinda wish they let people add some text instead of allowing editing, like: Wouldnt it be nice? Added: * wouldn’t I know deletions are still allowed, but they don’t lead to different content.
- eatonphil 5y agoI'm sure that web pages and their dates are used in court and by historians.
- awb 5y agoThe web has archive.org for that. Or, ‘download webpage’ from a browser.
- unholiness 5y agoArchive.org works on twitter too?
- zimpenfish 5y ago> Archive.org works on twitter too? Maybe if you're a famous celebrity etc. but it's scraped mine 5 times since 2007 (and the "expand conversation" links don't work) and I promise you that it has been fairly active ever since I signed up.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoIs it Twitter's responsibility to be an accurate archive for courts and historians?
- mushyhammer 5y agoIt’s not the responsibility, but if you read their post it’s obviously their concern.