I think there might be a lesswrong editor feature that allows you to edit a post in such a way that the previous version is still accessible. Here’s an example—there’s a little icon next to the author name that says “This post has major past revisions…”. Does anyone know where that option is? I can’t find it in the editor UI. (Or maybe it was removed? Or it’s only available to mods?) Thanks in advance!
Actually never mind. But for future reference I guess I’ll use the intercom if I want an old version labeled. Thanks for telling me how that works. :)
(There’s a website / paper going around that cites a post I wrote way back in 2021, when I was young and stupid, so it had a bunch of mistakes. But after re-reading that post again this morning, I decided that the changes I needed to make weren’t that big, and I just went ahead and edited the post like normal, and added a changelog to the bottom. I’ve done this before. I’ll see if anyone complains. I don’t expect them to. E.g. that same website / paper cites a bunch of arxiv papers while omitting their version numbers, so they’re probably not too worried about that kind of stuff.)
I think there might be a lesswrong editor feature that allows you to edit a post in such a way that the previous version is still accessible. Here’s an example—there’s a little icon next to the author name that says “This post has major past revisions…”. Does anyone know where that option is? I can’t find it in the editor UI. (Or maybe it was removed? Or it’s only available to mods?) Thanks in advance!
It’s available for admins at the moment. What post do you wanna change?
Actually never mind. But for future reference I guess I’ll use the intercom if I want an old version labeled. Thanks for telling me how that works. :)
(There’s a website / paper going around that cites a post I wrote way back in 2021, when I was young and stupid, so it had a bunch of mistakes. But after re-reading that post again this morning, I decided that the changes I needed to make weren’t that big, and I just went ahead and edited the post like normal, and added a changelog to the bottom. I’ve done this before. I’ll see if anyone complains. I don’t expect them to. E.g. that same website / paper cites a bunch of arxiv papers while omitting their version numbers, so they’re probably not too worried about that kind of stuff.)
I think probably we don’t have that great a reason not to roll this out to more users, it’s mostly a matter of managing UI complexity