Can no longer edit my old posts

[Rebecca G]

I use the post editing feature quite a bit in book discussions. Right now, I need to update my intro post to the Joan of Arc discussion with the links to the newest posts. However, the "Edit" button has disappeared. I first noticed this a few weeks ago. I still have an "Edit" button on the new Joan of Arc post I made today, but it's gone from the post I made just two weeks ago, which also needs updating. Anyone know why this is happening and if there's a way to fix it?

[MaryFrances]

I know this is a recent change with forum software updates. If Kathy Livingston doesn't see this and respond, I'll ping her about it in the Moderator thread. Kathy had the powers to adjust this, I believe.

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[lklivingston]

Let me see if I can change this just for posts in that area.

[Sandy O]

Is there a reason for the lack of edit feature and it’s current rules for use?

[lklivingston]

You can edit your posts for a week. After that, editing is disabled. That's because the conversation will have progressed with the original words, and editing can make other replies seem off. After a week, what has been posted stays.

[lklivingston]

I use the post editing feature quite a bit in book discussions. Right now, I need to update my intro post to the Joan of Arc discussion with the links to the newest posts. However, the "Edit" button has disappeared. I first noticed this a few weeks ago. I still have an "Edit" button on the new Joan of Arc post I made today, but it's gone from the post I made just two weeks ago, which also needs updating. Anyone know why this is happening and if there's a way to fix it?

Can you not just add replies with the new links?

[Sandy O]

Rebecca, maybe replies might be more helpful than edits anyway?. That way people will see that something new has been added. I’ve been missing some of the posts for new discussion threads on our book. If you add a post to a thread I’m already subscribed to I’ll definitely see it.

[Rebecca G]

Can you not just add replies with the new links?

This really wouldn't work well for the master thread, where I make a "table of contents" for the whole discussion with links to each thread. If I were somebody trying to use the Joan of Arc discussion for pre-reading help and saw this in its current state I would never think to scroll through all the other comments to find the missing links. I'd just assume somebody quit doing the work halfway through.

I also put links at the head of each thread to help with navigating through all the threads in order. This thread should have a third link at the top for navigating forwards in the series. I can't add that link now. The "forwards" links can only be added after the next post has been made, and I'm posting two weeks apart.

When I am backfilling narrations I do it through editing, which I need to do in this post and now can't. That post also needs the link forwards added at the top.

Sandy, what I've been doing is adding a comment reply after all the narrations are filled in an old post to bump it up for visibility.

[Sandy O]

Your tables of contents *are* beautiful. 

What does this mean? “Sandy, what I've been doing is adding a comment reply after all the narrations are filled in an old post to bump it up for visibility.”

Do you mean at the end of the book discussion?

I am subscribed to the original thread by email so every time a new post is created I should see it. That would point me to look for a new thread to subscribe to. If this is what you’re doing though I need to come up with a new method. I am not on the forum often enough to catch them when they pop up. And my forum skills are super basic. Still learning.

Just mulling aloud here….

[lklivingston]

When you subscribe by email, it will only notify you once until you go look at the thread. So subsequent posts won't generate an email unless you have been out to look at the thread since the last email.