On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 9:54 PM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday, April 20, 2018, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> >> * A lot of the technology in this stack is particularly old, and lacks a >> lot of the modern day affordances that newer things have. An example is >> being able to edit a discussion post to fix typos that can hinder the >> ability of others to actually understand whats being talked about. In your >> typical mailing list or IRC there’s no mechanism by which you can edit an >> already sent message, so your only option is to either let the problem ride >> and hope it doesn’t trip up too many people, or send an additional message >> to correct the error. However these show up as additional, later messages >> which someone might not even see until they’ve already been thoroughly >> confused by the first message (since people tend to read email/IRC in a >> linear fashion). > > > Issues, Pull Requests, Wikis, and Team Discussions are all editable. > Though one thing I've noticed is that a lot of issues get created and responded to via email clients that hide the existing message so someone will say "I agree" or worse, +1, and then there's 400 line of email. I don't know if GH has fixed the display on those things yet. FWIW. -W >
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