edited comment notifications in the DW inbox

[ratcreature]

Title:
edited comment notifications in the DW inbox

Area:
comments

Summary:
When a comment is edited the original notification in the inbox changes and also shows the edited version, but you still get a new notification with the edited comment. So basically you get duplicates with no value. I think that should be changed, so that only one notification with the edited comment is there.

Description:
With the email version of the notifications it makes sense that you get two, because one shows the old comment, the second the edited one, so you can see the edit. But in the DW inbox the notification reflects the current state of the comment (or entry), so the first notification itself is edited and changed to say "edited comment by" exactly the same as the second one.

So if the first is already updated the second is superfluous clutter. I don't think there would be any drawbacks to not having two of the same.

Poll #5578 edited comment notifications in the DW inbox

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 57

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Should be implemented as-is.
22 (38.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (10.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (10.5%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (38.6%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.8%)

Comments

[marahmarie]

My thought is any Dreamwidthian might run into various dramaz where they would need to know exactly what they wrote before, say, they edited it out.

If the comment already in your Inbox before edit(s) is changed automatically, there is no versioning. Thus no need to get a new copy of it.

Which leads me to what might be another suggestion: the possibility to see the original version via a link to said version in the Inbox (for instance, the updated comment would start displaying a link in the bottom right corner that says: "original version", and clicking would actually cough that up).

If you receive copies of your own comments via email then hey, you already have versioning, but not all of us get copies, plus checking an email inbox means signing or staying signed into another site...hmm...

[matgb]

My original suggestion for comment editing, way back when on LJ, included keeping the text of the original comment on the database. I designed the spec to get it through serious objections from some on the then LJ staff who thought comment editing in general was too great an invitation for drama, hence I put huge numbers of safeguards in that I didn't necessarily want but that would ameliorate the objections.

Despite all this, it took ages to push it through, and as far as I know the assumed drama that would be endemic never happened.

Howeever, keeping copies of the original text was, apparently, not technically possible without a major redesign of the database structure itself, so that aspect of the safeguard was dropped.

Which is, I think, partially a shame, as of all the bits I said would be ueful, that was one I actually liked.

Essentially, your idea isn't possible.

[marahmarie]

Which is too bad when we both like the idea so much. Thanks for the history on that, either way. :)