1 minute grace period where you can edit a comment after submitting it without it showing up as 'edited' :implemented:

[jasty]

This is a feature found in other forums I use. My most common reason for editing a post is noticing a spelling / grammar error right after I submit. These edits in the first few minutes almost never change the meaning of what was said so showing a warning to others that the post was edited is unnecessary.

Basically having the comment being shown as "edited" feels like a cost that I would rather not pay just to fix a spelling error.

A grace period of like 2 or 3 minutes would be good.

 

[Teasday]

@jasty Agreed, probably should've written this ages ago since it was a pretty easy update to make. The grace period will be 5 minutes and the edit message not showing up will affect past posts as well.

Will be implemented as soon as Holo has time.

 

[Kaarme]

Isn't 5 minutes quite a long time? It seems to me 30-60 seconds would be plenty. If someone wrote a wall of text, it feels like correcting one or two spelling errors isn't their biggest concern anymore.

I might be wrong, but I think some forums have the grace period only if no new posts have been made in the thread. In other words, if someone else already posted while you were fixing your spelling, you'd again get the Edited text. That also seems like a smart functionality, though it's more work on the coding side.

Nevertheless, I as well thank for this implementation. I also have a bad habit of noticing an annoying spelling error or two only after having pressed Submit.

 

[Teasday]

30-60 seconds isn't always even enough for me to read through my own posts, lol. We decided on 5 minutes mainly on the basis that 1. it's still short enough that it shouldn't matter especially since we're not an especially active forum, and 2. it's easy to remember.

 

[BzzBzz]

@Teasday

A bit offtopic but related...

Can we get "preview" button next to "submit" like on some other forums?

It will help a lot to see how post will look (especially if there's many quotes/spoilers/whatever) and edit post before submitting if necessary.

 

[Teasday]

@BzzBzz As much as I'd like to do this I kinda feel like the forums software would need some fairly serious redesigning. Maybe I'm just too tired to think of it properly right now though.

 

[FireFish5000]

@BzzBzz
While you are waiting for that, here is a userscript! https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/381831-mangadex-preview-post
If you have a user-script manager, that should work wonders. I could also turn it into a bookmarklet, but don't currently see the need.
Wrote it a few months back, and even discovered several funevil formatting bugs bc of it.

On a related note. This is awesome! Finally, I can make post that don't have 'edited' below them!
@Teasday Feel free to steal any of my terrible code (though I think MD's formater stuff needs to be patched up a bit more first, like nested spoilers, center in spoilers, other stuff that uses divs in spoilers). Current issues with it....
1) Spoilers buttons often do not work. I will probably fix it latter (broke during one of the updates).
2) Can be slow on larger posts, or posts with large images since it rebuilds the entire post as you type. I planned on fixing this originally (only replacing elements that were changed in the ast), but didn't get around to it. Generally fine, but the evil post I linked would overload the preview builder (it now temporarily itself off if previews take too long to generate because of that post).