Add editing in personal friend's chat/chat groups

[Psycha]

Currently if I wanna correct a typo in a chat with a friend or a group chat I need to delete and re write the post.

Simple feature that should have been added years and years ago.

[Aachen]

Publicado originalmente por Psymon²:

this would be a good improvement, catch up with other modern messaging clients.

Quite a few contemporary clients also do not allow for editing sent messages, even insofar as one assumes “catching up” is desirable or necessary.

[Psymon²]

Publicado originalmente por Aachen:

Publicado originalmente por Psymon²:

this would be a good improvement, catch up with other modern messaging clients.

Quite a few contemporary clients also do not allow for editing sent messages, even insofar as one assumes “catching up” is desirable or necessary.

sorry, my mistake for asking for improvements in a suggestion/idea forum.
i'll go away and think about what I've done.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

As someone who came of age on the internet using IRC, I don't see this as a necessity.

Would it be nice? Sure. And I know Discord lets you do that. But I wouldn't agitate for it.

[Psymon²]

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

As someone who came of age on the internet using IRC, I don't see this as a necessity.

Would it be nice? Sure. And I know Discord lets you do that. But I wouldn't agitate for it.

don't you fall into the "need" trap as well 😆

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por Psymon²:

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

As someone who came of age on the internet using IRC, I don't see this as a necessity.

Would it be nice? Sure. And I know Discord lets you do that. But I wouldn't agitate for it.

don't you fall into the "need" trap as well 😆

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I do frequently edit my forum posts, since they're meant to be polished. My chat lines, on the other hand, show you that I often don't type perfectly the first time, but I let it slide.

I do edit my lines when using Discord/Slack, but in most cases it's not something that can't simply be replaced by just typing out the replacement and sending a second chat line. The only exception I can think of is when you have something that's meant as a pinned notice, like a line of chat used to say the rules. But there's a way around that too; on IRC, people would just host the rules on a separate webpage and stick its URL in the chat topic.

[Mad Scientist]

Existing discussion less than a day old:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3047235828274055222/

For direct messaging, it's not really a standard as most people in direct messaging would abuse this for scamming purposes, and Discord is full of people that target and scam Steam users so it's not the best example.

For posts/comments and things likely to be seen and reported if an issue it makes sense, direct messaging is just "double check before hitting send".

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Existing discussion less than a day old:
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3047235828274055222/

For direct messaging, it's not really a standard as most people in direct messaging would abuse this for scamming purposes, and Discord is full of people that target and scam Steam users so it's not the best example.

For posts/comments and things likely to be seen and reported if an issue it makes sense, direct messaging is just "double check before hitting send".

It's neither standard nor necessary, though it's a nice thing to have.

That said, the ability to edit messages wouldn't make scamming any worse than it already is anyway.

[Nx Machina]

Ah! Discord the "scammers" haven.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Imho, I don't see this happening for chats as they tend to go by too quickly to be worth editing, but the ability to edit comments I could see being needed.