Help. I just realized that I am suddenly unable to edit posts that are older than 30 days. Obviously, this is a huge disadvantage as this means, among other things, I will not be able to update the original posts on my WIP threads.
You can see in my screenshots below that a post from two weeks ago can be edited, but a post from June cannot be edited. Up until recently, I was able to edit posts no matter how old they were. This is also the case on all of my comments, not just ones in certain locations.
Same for me, just went through my activity feed to test it. While this doesn’t affect me since I haven’t created a thread, I can see why this would create problems for authors. Hope this gets fixed for you.
Discourse default settings mean that you can’t edit posts that are older than two months old. It’s the forum software’s fault.
If anyone wants a post edited we’ve a couple of ways we can get around the software. The first is just PM a mod with the post link and what you want edited in. The second is we can switch posts to wiki format, which allows anyone to edit them.
You can make your changes, and then we can switch it back to a normal post. (I think, I’ve never turned one back before.) Or you can leave it open and hope all of the other forum members are responsible enough not to take advantage of the fact they can edit the post. The last option’s probably the easiest if you plan to be frequently editing your post.
There are several threads dating back to 2012 exploring this situation, so hopefully this time, the settings issue will be resolved as before.
Don’t know, I’m afraid I’ll only find out through a day of heavy posting, which is why I was hoping @RETowers would look at the settings, cause if there’s been a mandatory reset that seems likely to have been reset too.
I noticed I couldn’t edit my WIP post which is definitely less than 30 days old so I’m not sure what that’s about…same for more recent posts though the one I made earlier today to test it showed up for editing. Bit frustrating when I wanted to post my update!
