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[-] Michal@programming.dev 41 points 16 hours ago

Sending a Correction is literally so much easier!

To edit message you probably have to long press on it, select Edit, then select the part of text to edit (which is famously easy on mobile /s) then erase and rewrite. There's no point putting this much effort into a chat message! There's a reason people don't capitalise or use punctuation in those.

Sorry I'm with the millennial on this one (being a millennial and a tech savvy person myself).

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

I've seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks that let you double tap your own message to edit and I really wish this would become the standard.
But noooo, seems most apps don't have a double tap action or only use it for Emoji Reactions. Wow, truly putting the most useful actions at our fingertips ๐Ÿ˜’

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I've seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks

*userscripts

[-] crazyduck@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

In discord you can edit messages by sending a subsequent message like this s/old/new

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 14 points 15 hours ago

I'm a millennial and I strongly prefer editing. It's much easier on the recipient not to have to cross-reference your correction with your message, and it usually doesn't result in a separate notification ping.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 3 points 6 hours ago

Notification ping? You guys don't keep your phone on silent?

You just outed yourself as a boomer ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

My phone vibrates for text messages, but even if it doesn't there's no need for two notifications in the tray if a simple edit is possible.

Also I'm talking about the recipient, not myself. I don't know what their settings are necessarily.

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