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Notices
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!identica !sn It'd be nice if notices were editable for a short time after posting. Let's say for 1 hour. Important as char limits extend.
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@dread "Important as char limits extend." http://status.net/2010/02/15/identi-ca-character-limit-results
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@greggish great idea! then the dog house #buzz trick can also work on !identica / !sn. http://is.gd/8xHM3
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@greggish No. It's microblogging. It's spontaneous. We are not writing fucking essays or literature here. The odd typo is inevitable and OK.
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@greggish nothing stopping you running your own statusnet server with unlimited characters & writing a patch to support editing
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@greggish Have you seen http://status.net/wiki/Ostatus & http://status.net/wiki/OMB_over_PuSH ? If the subscriber's server has to cache &...
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...distribute notices, that might make it harder to recall them for editing? (That's my understanding. Someone please correct if wrong.)
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@120new "Recall" was a bad choice of words. Makes it sound like someone is going to gather them all up and change the text by hand.
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@120new It may be that editing is unworkable on a federated system. I'm just asking the question. Longer char limits make this an issue.
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@andyc I didn't know it was possible to recall emails. That's bad knowledge for me. I usually want to edit EVERY email afterwards.
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@120new Only in closed systems, like a single Exchange. Amazingly, people want to standardize it for the Internet.
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@120new My 'recall' dent was a piss take of all those idiots who use Outlook and try and almost always fails to 'recall' an email message.
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@dwd Okay. Thanks. I'll stop thinking about it.
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@120new The amusing thing is that cross-system recalls would serve to highlight that something was wrong with the original mail.
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@dwd Yeah it's normally a merchant banker telling his mates he 'pulled a cracker last night' that he mistakenly sent to 'bankers-europe'.
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@greggish editing can work in a federated system, especially with OStatus. It's just not something we're designing around.
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@dwd ISTR that NNTP has some kind of distributed deletion mechanism.
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@greggish I'm interested to see how effective that would be. If most readers see your notice in <1m, what does 1h of editing get you?
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@evan The Cancel, yes. But, IIRC, that affects removal from a feed, rather than removal from your personal mailbox or archive.
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@greggish I think smaller-limit sites (140-300 char) won't need editing. Longer-limit sites would have fewer, longer msgs and editing helps.
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