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I am considering enabling Amethyst to write a replaceable kind 1 (new kind:30111) to allow users to edit their past posts at will.

It would work in a similar way Habla News works, but using Kind 1's style of small posts instead of markdown and long-form content of kind:30023.

Of course, we could also write kind:30023 (blog posts) directly, but it would pollute most of the Blogging interfaces with short posts.

What do you all think?
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Matt Lorentz 2y ago

My initial reaction was sure, why not. Delete is important, and edit is just like deleting + posting + some UX sugar.

But on the other hand much of Nostr’s power is its simplicity. Adding another kind puts a little more burden on new clients. Maybe good enough delete is good enough. Twitter didn’t have edit for a very long time.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

The issue with delete is that some clients dont delete yet. So, if their user is only they end up seeing 2 posts. Which I think it is worse than not showing some new kinds yet

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Matt Lorentz 2y ago

Hm, good point. But I think most of the clients that don’t support delete do so for philosophical reasons. So are they more likely to display the kind 300111 maliciously and not respect the edits or to not show it at all? I think in the long run if 300111 gets traction they will just show it without edits and we’ll be back to square one. It’s an assumption though.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

17 years?

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Matt Lorentz 2y ago

Is Twitter really that old? Yikes that makes me feel old.