Posted by Kim on October 1, 2017, 9:40am
You now have a 15 minute window to edit sent private messages, so you can catch and correct typos!
I've always mentally modeled PMs after emails or letters, where once you send it, it belongs to the person who received it. They can then keep it, refer back to it later, treasure it or discard it as they see fit. It becomes something privately sent, rather than publicly performed. This is one of the ways I distinguish forums and private messages.That said, I also understand that if you're going to send something that might become a keepsake, it's disheartening when you realize moments after it's too late that there's a glaring mistake in the middle of that message! So I'm trying to balance the keepsake idea with people's thirst to have typo free messages, by allowing edits to private messages for 15 minutes after sending.
Other updates
- Support for OOC chatter now continues to work even if you have quoted someone else's post before your OOC reply.
- Added a link to mark a PM conversation as unread, directly from the conversation. Look in the sidebar on desktop, or beneath the conversation messages on mobile.
- Added the ability to move a PM conversation to a new folder directly from that conversation, no need to go through the inbox any longer.
- Added icons to PM sidebar management links, for easier at-a-glance usage.
- File structure related to PMs has been changed slightly on my end, for example from https://www.rprepository.com/community/composepm.php to https://www.rprepository.com/community/pm/compose.php This was really just to make my programming life a little easier. Hopefully you won't notice any differences in how things work on your end!
- "Did you know?"s have been updated.
Comments
It gave me the spooks when I first saw the first edit appear, but definitely liking it~
@Thylonicus - You're speedy! There was only about 10 minutes between the patch being installed and the news post being published. 
You're right that five minutes would be way too short. The current threshold is fifteen minutes, though.
You're right that five minutes would be way too short. The current threshold is fifteen minutes, though.
I saw the changes to the PMs before seeing the update, and they're awesome! Thank you so much for your continued work.
I'd still like to tentatively ask for more than five minutes to edit, though. I try to catch my typos, but sometimes I don't until I reread it much later, with a "fresher" perspective. That said, I realize it doesn't really fit what you're going for and I know you've got a ton of other things to do, so.
I'd still like to tentatively ask for more than five minutes to edit, though. I try to catch my typos, but sometimes I don't until I reread it much later, with a "fresher" perspective. That said, I realize it doesn't really fit what you're going for and I know you've got a ton of other things to do, so.
Oh, thank you for this! I'd be looking over my PMs and catch a typo and then have to write another PM to clarify. This is an awesome update!
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Thylonicus
October 1, 2017
9:53am