I was wondering how to take the user tutorial for the forum. There’s a badge for completing it but I don’t know how to take the tutorial.
Also, is it possible to edit your posts after you’ve posted them?
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There is an extremely small window after it gets approved, where you are allowed to edit your posts. If you mess up, you may be able to ask @MakeCode to edit your post for you, or an easier way would be to just reply to your own post with the corrections.
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I’m not seeing any options to edit my post, so I might have missed the window, but thanks for the info anyways!
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@UnsignedArduino Is there anything you can tell me about the user tutorials?
Is that the one where you tell disco ot to begin the advanced tutorial
‘@discobot start advanced tutorial’ is the text to initiate it (please don’t start it discobot)
Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.
back in 2019 there was a user tutorial that I did. I don’t think its around any more
Appreciating that there are probably sound considerations and reasons behind the decision/setup to only being able to edit your post for a brief moment, I am wondering/suggesting/maybe requesting(feedback appreciated):
Especially posts about a game, extension or other particular topic where it is natural that there will be released updates later, it is a little confusing and hard to find such updates when they are hidden somewhere far down in a later post.
Could it be an idea to allow for only the first post from the topic author to be editable to accomodate for such updates? This is often established practice/coutume on a lot of other forums.
However, the need to update versions of something in a thread is not always constrained to the first post, where it could be positive with regards to the topics length to allow for updated versions only.
But this way edits would become more chaotic and all over the place. If no edits are allowed after some time here, what would be the best way to achieve this nonetheless?
- There are these special S-share links from when logged in, which I have used in classes, but are bit confusing and prone to inadvertently edit the already published link when that was not the intention or even when copying them.
- There is of course GitHub, which mostly works well, but is a bit complicated and I have also experienced problems like these
I therefore prefer the regular separate share links and would love to be able to update only these, but not the text, if this is important for the forum/preservation of history.
What are best practice/experience from the people on the forum and do the @makecode moderators have a view on this?
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