I could edit, but what if the edit doesn’t show up at the other end? I couldn’t live with that.
Developed country here, still mainly SMS for if you really need to reach someone.
Problem is, edits don't appear in notifications, and not everyone goes as far as opening the messaging app.
Im surprised lemmy let's you edit the title of posts you make. I appreciate it though as a mistake prone mess of a man. I've only seen one post use this feature maliciously so far so its a good run thus far.
If I mispelled antidisestablishmentarianism, I'm not fucking rewriting the whole god damn word – I'm just editting.
If I mispell butts it gets and asterisk.
Edit: an*
GenX here, I second the morality of editing texts.
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).
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 😒
I've seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks
*userscripts
In discord you can edit messages by sending a subsequent message like this s/old/new
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.
Notification ping? You guys don't keep your phone on silent?
You just outed yourself as a boomer 😂
Why edit and pretend to be perfect? A quick * shows everyone you're smart enough to spot and fix mistakes *^_^
IT IS!!!! ITS LIKE LYING
it's like gaslighting people that you were correct in the first place.
Plus it makes those half attempts at correcting a word way funnier.
I'm a big fan of the 'what the duck'...'*fuck' kind of texts. They always make me laugh.
I’m in this ~~photo~~ screenshot and I don’t like it.
Edit: a word
/s
Hrm... so you went with an edit after all... 🤔😂
Don't you mean "*screenshot"
A screenshot is just a photo of your screen
But it doesn involve capturing/recording photons afaik.
Paper trail
But clearly you start with the asterisk
I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.
No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.
Just edit the original message with [sic]
Editing is a power not all people should be trusted with.
You all know at least one person (or are the person) who would text a yes/no like "Did you see Dave today?" and then when you write "yeah" edit their message to "Can I borrow your car?" or something you wouldn't have said yes to.
....wait what?
I'm pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text...
Yes, am millennial... Lol
SMS messages, you can't (without two same apps with extensions).
RCS messages, you can.
These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of "text messaging". It's pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.
Google Messages doesn't seem to have an edit button despite specifically using "RCS message" as the placeholder text.
It's 2026*
You can edit a text? Hmmm.
I just checked, you cannot. One is a group RCS chat, the other is an RCS chat with just a single person. Neither allowed edits. I even check one with a friend where it's an SMS only, no edit.
So it seems like it's app specific and not texts.
I'm GenZ but the millennial has a point
I am millennial, and I prefer to edit. That said, I feel like people are less likely to notice the edit than they are an additional message.
Also creates the occasional “I could swear that said something different when I first read it…”
I’ve taken to editing my messages to strike through removals and [edit: italicize] additions/corrections, if I think it could cause confusion.
I like this kind of editing better than the normal type. Feels more fair
I edit it now. I'm sorry but I don't miss the days of 4 pings because I fucked up 4 times. Just edit it and dont crowd the chat.
I still do that way. I don't plan to stop.
I don't bother to correct it unless the person on the other side is mentally deficient or a grammar nazi.
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
