Due to popular request we’ve built a comment edit function which will soon get added to the blog. As it is brand new stuff we’d like some beta test volunteers to kick the tyres and take it for a spin into the nearest ditch etc…
The basics of the new function are this:-
– If you post a comment you will get 10 minutes to edit or delete it
– A separate timer is maintained for each of your comments
-You will see a countdown displayed during the 10 minutes for each editable comment
– NB: If someone replies to your comment within 10 minutes then you can no longer delete it but you can still edit it
– After the 10 mins has expired you’ve had it and your comment is set in stone unless you can persuade an mod/admin to change it
– That’s it..
The 10 minute time period is an arbitrary limit and can be changed by consensus
So if you can help by volunteering then just add a comment here .. er.. it is not active yet so no editing on here is possible yet 🙂
Thx
Rich
I for one can’t wart to use it.
Edith Fnuction walks among as at last. Thank you – that sounds very promising.
Paging @junior-wells.
Yes Junior walls wall live thus
As both Status Quo and Steamhammer told us in 1970:
Junior’s Wailing. None more British Blues Boom.
Steamhammer featured Martin Quittenton who went on to write songs (including Maggie May) with Rod Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s331iKZGf8
I’ve got one of their albums somewhere – untouched for decades.
They never really made it in Britain, but Steamhammer were a solid blues outfit who were popular in Europe
I’ve got a Dutch mob too who were a good blues rock act with an emphasis on blues but the name escapes me momentarily. Fairly sure Blues was in it. Come on JC!
Ha….I love Google….Livin’ Blues.
The Steams – bit of a lumpen racket, no?
Lurve me some Blues but i’m with Bob Disappointment when it comes to English white boy blues.
Ten Years Shack. Chicken Savoy. Even, sad to say John Measles’ Brownbreakers. Come to think of Edith Fnuction would make an excellent name for such a band.
Of course, to play the blues it helps if you’re a po son of a sharecropper born on the south side of bad luck with a no good mean mistreatin’ big leg woman for a wife.
However, you can be white and middle class but you definitely have to be American.
Exhibit A
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
Morning Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8h9qTquC0I
Steamhammer were more than a lumpen whiteboy blues band, and definitely proto-prog. They had a fantastic drummer – no, really – who could play polyrhythms. That’s pretty rare, I’m told.
Groat!
Holy fuck that was quick!
I guess I will now have to correct all my tyops.
Mini B will be disappointed – no more snarky commnets from her !!
Yes happy to be the monkey in the rocket.
Snarky? But Janet, I live year types!
I have a Tesco credit card which is free. Tesco want me to sign up for their ‘platinum’ card which costs £150 per year.
This post doesn’t need edited……they want £150 to ‘use’ their premium card……hahahaha!
WTF ?
It’s all to do with loyalty points. The new card gives twice as much plus a bonus. Points that is…not Pounds. Tesco’s points scheme is excellent, but I’ll stick with the free card….for as long as I can.
Teh Teh. Great band!
Ah yes, those Sole Minding and Inflected types…
Splundid nows
Ah, a Norfolk boy.
My secret is out,
(actually Yorkshire)
Sounds like a kiwi to me…
Happy to test the new feature.
I have trouble typing mnagement, addressing people called Amrk, and the difference between form and form.
I kept typing the aftreword for some birazze reason.
It’s all northern to me.
😀
*waves at @minibreakfast from the North*
*Waves at Nigel from further north.*
*wonders whether to concoct story about Arctic summer holiday*
Nothing wrong with that.
I am NFN by the way.
Could you make it 15 minutes? Thnak you very much.
“New edit function not as good as old one”, say old Word Blog fans whilst shaking their heads.
If you oidots read what you typed before sneding we wouldn’t need an idet function.
Does this spell the end for vinly?
Afr, very guid.
Nwo, any cahnce of a spel chekc fnucshun as wel?
If you need more testers, I have the uncanny habit of being able to break anything (a sort of negative Midas Touch)
Including the bank, apparently. Fifty quid on Discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Wolfhounds-The-Anti-Midas-Touch/release/7976325
All the commenters above have been ‘volunteered’ – many thanks!
The timeout limit has been changed to 15 mins by request.
The edit comment function has now been activated for all these brave souls – please PM me with all problems encountered or if I volunteered you by mistake..
This last sentence was added with the edit function.. 🙂
Thanks
Rich
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog
It works!
Took me a while to work out that to repost your corrected comment you click Edit this comment again.
yea I see your point – I’ve changed the text on the button 🙂
It works.
Splendid.
Testing testing – This is comment number one isn’t this a lot of fun – altered
Working on Firefox…and let’s move over to Firefox for Android and see if I can edit – -YES WE CAN!
I want to edit other people’s comments.
Here – edit mine:
ernietothecentreoftheearth hav a face like a squished tomato
Hang on my etch a sketch doesn’t appear to have the edit toggle!
Worked for me huzzah. Thankee kindly Edith.
All Together Now:
Der Der, Der-Der-Der-Der – Der Der Der-Der
IF I GOTTA LOVE EDITH, BABY1
Please Edith that 1 to an exclamation mark 🙂
dammit Janet, can’t edit the 1 that should be a !
Soz Billy but Edith is currently only available for people who’ve already volunteered to test .. I will activate her for everybody from tonight (UK time) if all goes well today… 🙂
Cool beans Rich, and thnak yuo
http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/edith-fnuction_zpsqhgvcldf.jpg
Oops. © 2016 GCU Grey Area. Uses vintage artwork from the ‘artist’s’ own collection.
Wonderful. Can you do a ladies fit, medium, please? 😀
No prbolem.
Dear Edith, just checking that you are fully fnuctional.
And you are!
Eye wint it, end eye wint it noo.
Yesterday I genuinely saw someone describe a lack of success using the phrase “to know a veil”. Autocorrect, I wonder? I do hope so.
Let’s see if I can break it?
Edit: No I can’t (yet)
Edit2: And it’s still there when I close and re-open the page
I tried to break it, and failed.
My plan was to leave doing an Edit until the last 5 seconds and see if the Afterword imploded.
It didn’t, just ended the edit session.
Bloody big thumbs up – a definite enhancement to help silly sods like me making inaccurate, badly spelt or just plain gobbledygook comments
Edit: can delete images too (but you probably already knew that)
Ooh! Ooh! Can we have an image copyright detector? Can we?
No cpoywright problums wtih thsi oen…
I cnduo’t bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghhuot slelinpg was ipmorantt! See if yuor fdreins can raed tihs too.
Taht is the msot sneisble tinhg ayonne has eevr pstoed on hree.
Actually I raced through that apart from the word ‘spelling’ – ironically- which my brain mis-translated as sleeping!
Thanks to our new admins for the edit function – makes you wonder what the hell those other slackers were doing all this time. ?
Accordion to research, 9 out of 10 people don’t notice when you replace words with random musical instruments.
Yeah. You can walk around all day with your junk hanging out without any significant difference to yourself or others, but it’s considered good form to put some strides on.
Plus, you need pockets to “do the elephant” at children’s parties..
Thanks to all testers … as there was no discernible wailing nor gnashing of teeth from anybody today I’m pleased to say that Edith is now active for everyone 🙂
As before .. please PM me if anybody has a problem
Thanks
Rich
‘Edith For Everyone’ – they had the misfortune to release their debut EP the week that Belle and Sebastian’s ‘Tigermilk’ came out, and that must be my coat. . .
My problem is I am no longer in the edit clique and must now join the hoi polloi of the Afterword.
It worked fine for me with one notable exception. When I edited a post with both a YouTube clip and a imgur picture embedded, instead of showing up in the post again they both turned into links
Thanks, and yes I have spotted that problem and will look into fixing it… the workaround (admittedly not a very good one…) is refreshing the page once you’ve edited your comment and the images should be restored in place of the links
Thanks. I got round it by copying the entire post, deleting it, then pasting it into a new post, at which time all was restored. But I’ll try your solution too.
FYI I just released v2.0 which should (hopefully!) have fixed the video/image link problems … 🙂
Well, I don’t know. Call me a sentimental old fool – beat – but I have fond memories of the old days, when a simple typo could result in a stream of good-natured drollery at the commenter’s expense. Oh, I suppose we have to move with the times, but there’s part of me that thinks this is a tiny step towards jackboot authoritanism and the denial of individual liberty; commenters chained to their desks, fingertips bleeding, while the mods sit back in their executive VIP lounge and watch the money being pushed through the windows.
Now Edith is restored, could we next have the return of the whooshy arrow button that takes us to the top of the page, please? I’m getting too old for lengthy scrolling.
Young people these days – cuh!
On iPad you tap the top of the status bar to go to the top. Probably similar shortcuts on Android?
Ctrl + Home on a PC
Many thanks, chaps. But I do miss the whooshy button…..
I hear you Ms B, but you must understand the washing machine was not principally designed for you to sit on in your marigolds..
Yes, if it was specifically designed for this I wouldn’t keep sliding off 😀