A thread title can be edited

[dgfoster]

This is strictly a test. If the title says "can't," I was unable to go advanced and edit the title after posting it.

This question just came up in another thread.

Since it now says "can" I was able to edit the title by going to "advanced." Thanks for the tip Ray Behner.

Denis

 

[ewlsey]

There is a short time limit.

 

[dgfoster]

Easley, that makes sense as I was sure I had tried the same in the past and failed. And, ineeded, I just now tried and the title is no longer editable---if that is a word.

Denis

 

[Sea Farmer]

Oh we all have to eat our words occasionally.

 

[Ray Behner]

This is strictly a test. If the title says "can't," I was unable to go advanced and edit the title after posting it.

This question just came up in another thread.

Since it now says "can" I was able to edit the title by going to "advanced." Thanks for the tip Ray Behner.

Denis

Yes and no. You can change it on your post, but not on your thread, so it's still kinda useless.

 

[dgfoster]

Ray,

I did change the title of the thread by going to the advanced mode very soon after posting this test thread. But later, I was not able to alter the thread title. Post titles are editable for what, a couple days after posting just like posts themselves.

And I see autocorrect changed " ewsley" to "Easley." Ah, these electronic marvels....

Denis

 

[Marty Feldman]

It shouldn't be hard, I would think, to just remove the time constraint and let posters edit any time they feel it necessary, such as when "SOLD" could usefully be added to a FS post's title. What is the rationale for the present time limit?

-Marty-

 

[morsetaper2]

You have an hour to edit the title. 24 hrs for text in the body of the post. That's what I recall.

 

[Monarchist]

It shouldn't be hard, I would think, to just remove the time constraint and let posters edit any time they feel it necessary, such as when "SOLD" could usefully be added to a FS post's title. What is the rationale for the present time limit?

-Marty-

VB as-implemnted on, for example, jaguarforums.com has exactly that feature set.

OTOH, if I had to guess, (and I DO have to guess..) that forum has perhaps one-tenth-of-one percent of PM's traffic. If even that much.

VB devel's commitment to a fragile alleged RDBMS (MouseSqueal+InnoDB) is the limitation.

PostgreSQL (or IBM IMS)) cudda handled the extra workload without a whimper, MSQL, not so easily.

Hints are one DB maintenance run per 24 hours ceased to be good enough 'a while' ago. There is a LOT of 'stuff' in PM after all these years, and it is more an 'object' - even hierarchical - DB challenge than Relational.

Indexing all that effectively has to be getting harder by the week.


Bill