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    cfabbro
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    https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals#use-words-not-icons But overall I think your idea is a good one that is worth considering. I created a Gitlab issue for the suggestion:...

    https://docs.tildes.net/technical-goals#use-words-not-icons

    But overall I think your idea is a good one that is worth considering. I created a Gitlab issue for the suggestion:
    https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/367

    However I think instead of automatically applying this distinguishing mark to every comment, since in many (maybe even the majority) of cases it's not really relevant to know, it should perhaps be a comment tag option that only appears after the link has been modified. This would allow users to tag any comments in which the context of the link having been changed matters (e.g. meta discussion about the original source), without cluttering the interface with a bunch of useless tags.

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      1. cfabbro
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        Yeah, I think the amount of times a URL or title is edited to the point where comments lose some vital peice of context is so rare that this feature won't be a priority... But having a means to...

        Yeah, I think the amount of times a URL or title is edited to the point where comments lose some vital peice of context is so rare that this feature won't be a priority... But having a means to easily distinguish that for people (without them having to dig through the topic log) would be nice eventually.

        And yeah, the meta tag could definitely potentially cover some of these cases as well... although I think there are also some case where it won't, e.g. when someone is critical of something said in the original article that doesn't apply to the new one.

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  2. drannex
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    Building on /u/Meghan and /u/cfabbro's comments - Potentially we could use the existing topic log, and using words (not symbols) by having a notation of number of updates since the comment was...

    Building on /u/Meghan and /u/cfabbro's comments -

    Potentially we could use the existing topic log, and using words (not symbols) by having a notation of number of updates since the comment was made with a link to the topic log when clicked.

    So the user interface would say something like "(2 topic edits ago)"

    Or, have a symbol (¦) that links to the topic log and the hover text says "2 topic edits ago", but this breaks the words not symbols rule in the docs.

    3 votes
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    meghan
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    On posts where details about the post have been changed, there is a "Topic Log" on the sidebar that catalogs every change. See an example of one here https://tildes.net/~comp/ajs/

    On posts where details about the post have been changed, there is a "Topic Log" on the sidebar that catalogs every change. See an example of one here https://tildes.net/~comp/ajs/

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      1. tan
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        It should be possible to do this automatically by a Tildes enhancement extension, while we wait for this feature to land on the site itself. (sorry about the necro - not sure what the policy is on...

        It should be possible to do this automatically by a Tildes enhancement extension, while we wait for this feature to land on the site itself.

        (sorry about the necro - not sure what the policy is on that)

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