RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.

Inspired by the thread voting does update, I have made a change -- experimental at this point -- to test the viability and desirability of separating the edit your post capability out of the normal threaded view; the vote on posts capability would remain in the normal threaded view as it is.

To check it out, find and view a root post of yours in the Obfu section. (You can find a list (if you have any) here.) Currently this change is only in effect for that specific scenario: root Obfu posts.
You'll see two differences:

The textarea labeled "Your obfuscated code", where you could edit the content, is gone;
There is now an "Edit" link above your post, on the far right side.

If you click on that 'Edit' link, you'll be taken to a page which, like original post/preview pages, allows you to edit your post but does not show you the rest of the thread, nor to vote on posts in the thread.

Note: janitors (and other authorized members) will see this 'Edit' link on any post* to which they have edit permissions, not just ones they own.

* Currently only Obfu root posts, as I said above.

I think this change, if adopted across the board, would have the desirable side-effect of suppressing, however slightly, the tendency of monks to edit their posts later. What are your thoughts?

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread. (yay, but...)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 09, 2016 at 23:10 UTC

I like the idea at least "in general". It would be good to discourage the casual editing of already-posted nodes. I fairly often navigate (to a parent node, to a domain where I don't have a cookie, etc.) just to get rid of the edit box because it gets in my way when reading.

Note that we should also mitigate duplicate posting, however. When we have previously had node types with an "edit" link and no textbox, those node types had a higher rate of people not noticing the "edit" link and eventually figuring out that the brower's "Back" button made an textbox appear.

- tye

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Re^2: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread. (yay, but...)

by jdporter (Chancellor) on Mar 09, 2016 at 23:51 UTC

we should also mitigate duplicate posting...

Sort of a "Whoa, cowboy!" Do you have any ideas on how to do that?

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Re^3: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread. (cached previews)

by tye (Sage) on Mar 10, 2016 at 01:26 UTC

The 'add' field gets a hidden GUID which, on preview, is used to upsert a row recording the most recent "preview" for each such session. When you post, the new node_id gets recorded in the preview row. Posting when a node_id is already in the preview row either updates the linked node or perhaps offers to.

Preview rows from a week ago get purged. One day users can reclaim unposted previews.

- tye

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Re^4: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread. (cached previews)

by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2016 at 01:28 UTC

Re^3: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread. (yay, but...)

by LanX (Saint) on Mar 10, 2016 at 12:53 UTC

> > we should also mitigate duplicate posting...

> Interesting. Do you have any ideas on how to do that?

maybe a nonce like discussed there -> Avoiding accidential reposts?

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Re: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.
by Discipulus (Canon) on Mar 10, 2016 at 08:12 UTC

root

Is this new edit page overriding the user prefences related to eight and width of the textarea ? i find myself with a withd 100% but with a too little height; i've played with On-Site CSS Markup: that now is set to textarea { width: 100%} but i got overlapped textarea with height 100%

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Re^2: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.

by jdporter (Chancellor) on Mar 10, 2016 at 19:05 UTC

Is this new edit page overriding the user prefences related to eight and width of the textarea ?

No. Same as always. Our code hard-codes the size to 80x30 (characters).

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 10, 2016 at 13:06 UTC

<h3>Edit the node</h3>

Maybe it's because of my CSS settings, but I'd suggest a <hr> after the current html of the post and deleting the <br> after the <h3>

update

I'm confused ... something changed right?

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Re^2: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.

by jdporter (Chancellor) on Mar 10, 2016 at 19:06 UTC

I've made some more changes; please take another look and tell me what you think. Thanks!

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Re^3: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.

by LanX (Saint) on Mar 10, 2016 at 22:20 UTC

Cheers Rolf
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Re^4: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.

by jdporter (Chancellor) on Mar 10, 2016 at 22:29 UTC

Re^5: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.

by LanX (Saint) on Mar 11, 2016 at 11:54 UTC

Re: RFC: Edit your posts in a separate page, rather than at the top of a thread.
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 11, 2016 at 12:18 UTC

Or at least to harmonize the interface of links.

Below the root node of a partial thread we'll find a bar with links

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but all other non-root posts have links to the right of the text. I think that's very confusing for beginners.

Personally I'd prefer buttons, but even if we continue with links, we'd need to find a way to place the edit-link into the bar.

Cheers Rolf
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