Many threads seem to be being necro’d because of supposed editing today. Even some of my own posts are showing as edited today although when I look at the edit, I’m not seeing any.
The result is that these threads are now showing as unread for me and when I go to them, I’ve read every post.
A couple of examples I’ve come across…
And the list appears to keep growing.
Edit: WOW this is getting annoying. SO many posts showing up as unread but they’re just supposedly edited within the past hour or so. What the heck?! I mean, some of these topics are years old!
Are all of the affected posts ones with images? It’s possible that Discourse is re-compressing the images or something.
I know that when you post something with a link to an image Discourse goes in and downloads a copy of the image and edits the post to point at the local copy. If they’ve made some change to how they store images then there may be a similar automatic edit happening with all the posts. If so that’s super annoying.
over the last week or two I have been notified of at least four posts of mine which were “edited”, but no actual edits were made. The “edits” were made by someone who appears to be a new GF employee. Still figuring out how to use Discourse, maybe?
huh. Apparently it will actually save such a non-change. I just went and edited one of mine. I added a space on a blank line and then deleted the space. Then I hit the “save” button and it saved it as a new revision, even though there’s no change at all.
I noticed the same thing recently, and couldn’t figure out what, if anything was changed. I just ignore it now, but at least I’m not the only one. Maybe @anna.robinson can chime in.
There are a few more, those were just the ones that were sequential for a screen grab. I don’t think that anything changed on any of these that I can see.
From: Glowforge Management
To: @anna.robinson
Subject: Unread Messages
Welcome to Glowforge! Here’s your first task… We’d like evebody’s unread message count to skyrocket. Please see what you can do about that.
Sincerely,
Glowforge Management
I suppose I should say, to Anna who does not know me… I’m totally kidding. I don’t care if it was on purpose due to some practical function, or some complete accident. Nothing against you!!!
