Edit history for messages

Even apple text messaging has this now haha. image

Slightly different to what Frenzeldk - I propose that you can edit at any time, but edits within the first five minutes do not show in edit history

• If I accidentally send a secret etc. I can still retract it within 5mins
• I can't frame someone later as edits after 5mins show the prior message/s

Can always delete the post to hide the secret while you rush to change it but I see your point. Someone might not realize people can see the history and the password is still being shown. Perhaps instead the new history entry is hidden for a delay before it is revealed in the list. I think the best solution would be to have a dedicated "I leaked a secret" button or something like that. So when it happens Fluxer can hide the history for a set amount of time so they have a chance to change their password or w/e. Moderators can override this with an audit entry in case they need to resolve some situation in a hurry. Though, that's a lot more than this task was supposed to be. Honestly, people will get used to it over time and learn to delete their message instead of editting it to hide a secret. Or even better, stop sharing passwords over chat... P.S. There have been times where I have editted a message for good reasons many days or months later.

"stop sharing passwords over chat"

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Haha, yeah.. I know.. people will do it anyways.

Also most of the time I just edit my typos, markdown or something else so there is no need to fill database with my drafts. So yeah "3 second rule" is nice

@DitherDude you are of course right, but I would honestly always expect anything that I type into an input field to be logged and stored server side even before hitting submit/send. But I am of course a developer / power user / privacy activist and as such my expectations don't match those of the average Joe/Jane.

The question is also how to release this feature - like in GCs/DMs fine everyone can see all edits, but in a Guild - may only Admins see edits? Or everyone following a specific constraint (and Admins can still view regardless)? Can guilds ban message editing (this is a tangent ik)?

Slightly different to what Frenzeldk - I propose that you can edit at any time, but edits within the first five minutes do not show in edit history

• If I accidentally send a secret etc. I can still retract it within 5mins
• I can't frame someone later as edits after 5mins show the prior message/s

this is the best overkill solution, if this feature is implemented past the simplest way of doing it. the tooltip for the basic edit time info should be there regardless as well. As for moderation I think it'd be best that the behaviour stay the same, it's not like other platforms collapse for a lack of "moderatable" edit history.

• if something is going on in a group where someone is being accused of continually posting weird messages and then disappearing them - which is probably the reason for the barad-dur-moderators arguments - then the solution should just be to have some mod tool have the capability to treat the edits as "offences" and temporarily/permanently disable their ability to edit messages instead of having everyone's potential mistakes auditable or smth

"the tooltip for the basic edit time info should be there regardless as well"

The timestamp of the last edit is already part of the message blob - when this value is set is how a client knows to print "(edited)" next to the message