Hmm, your post was at the top two days ago, and now it’s at the top of today’s posts. Does editing adjust the post date forward? This seems like a bug that many people will want to exploit :-)
Huh, weird. Right now we reset the postedAt date when you move something out of your drafts, so maybe Stuart or a mod accidentally moved it into drafts and then out of it again?
The general pattern of moving things into drafts and then out again seems like a fine thing to have, especially if someone does significant revision in the meantime, but we do want to avoid people abusing it.
The whole drafts thing is weird. I have a draft I can’t delete, with someone’s comment stuck on it.
Oh well. This still doesn’t compare to the royal annoyance of how clicking a comment permalink makes it show up above the post. Every time I fall for that, I have to remind myself that life is short and the world’s brokenness will outlive me.
Ah, yeah. We should make a proper delete available.
And agree that I would like to improve comment linking at some point. Sorry for the suffering that appears to be causing you. Actually curious about what aspect causes the suffering.
No worries Oliver! You’ve done a ton of good work too and I should say thanks more often, not complain all the time. And sorry for dragging this thread toward meta.
The annoyance is mostly because the current system is strictly less useful than showing the comment in full context right away. I will want to read upthread and downthread. Let me do that by looking and scrolling, don’t make me click a small target first.
Ah yeah, agree with that. I actually just had an idea for how I might be able to implement that without annoying technical changes. I will give it a try now (30% on it working out, but no promises).
Hmm, your post was at the top two days ago, and now it’s at the top of today’s posts. Does editing adjust the post date forward? This seems like a bug that many people will want to exploit :-)
I think that’s because it just got curated.
Huh, weird. Right now we reset the postedAt date when you move something out of your drafts, so maybe Stuart or a mod accidentally moved it into drafts and then out of it again?
The general pattern of moving things into drafts and then out again seems like a fine thing to have, especially if someone does significant revision in the meantime, but we do want to avoid people abusing it.
The whole drafts thing is weird. I have a draft I can’t delete, with someone’s comment stuck on it.
Oh well. This still doesn’t compare to the royal annoyance of how clicking a comment permalink makes it show up above the post. Every time I fall for that, I have to remind myself that life is short and the world’s brokenness will outlive me.
Ah, yeah. We should make a proper delete available.
And agree that I would like to improve comment linking at some point. Sorry for the suffering that appears to be causing you. Actually curious about what aspect causes the suffering.
No worries Oliver! You’ve done a ton of good work too and I should say thanks more often, not complain all the time. And sorry for dragging this thread toward meta.
The annoyance is mostly because the current system is strictly less useful than showing the comment in full context right away. I will want to read upthread and downthread. Let me do that by looking and scrolling, don’t make me click a small target first.
Comment links now do the reasonable thing! Sorry for the confusion in the meantime!
Works great, thank you!!
Thanks! :)
Ah yeah, agree with that. I actually just had an idea for how I might be able to implement that without annoying technical changes. I will give it a try now (30% on it working out, but no promises).