Edit comment in chat messages.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I know its been asked before so I'm raising it again. Please allow edit comment for chats.

[Mad Scientist]

I could see how easily abused this could become...

For editing typos I would love it, but features tend to get very abused on Steam. Good intentions are one thing, how something is actually going to be used is another. Only because of the potential for massive abuse, going to say "pass" unless Steam records the pre-edit in case people are reported for sending scam links n such only to edit it as if they did nothing wrong.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

I don't see why chats need an edit. Just retype something with * as an edit, etc.

[Gwarsbane]

No, just retype the word you messed up. You have already sent the text, they have already seen it, its too late.

Learn to double check what you are saying before you hit submit/post.

[Aachen]

Out of curiosity, is there a messenger/chat app that allows one to edit the history/log?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Aachen の投稿を引用：

Out of curiosity, is there a messenger/chat app that allows one to edit the history/log?

Some modern ones do, such as Skype and Discord, where your chat stays on (and can only be accessed by logging into) the remote server.

It's traditionally not a feature in chat platforms, because normally lines of chat are simply sent to the receiver, rather than re-retrieved every time someone loads it. Basically, you need a way to modify something that's already been sent to and arrived at the reader's computer, and one way to do that is to have a platform that maintains all the chat logs itself.

(I guess it might be possible to have the sender queue an action to modify a prior chat line and send this action to the receiver the next time they connect, and to have the receiver receive this action and edit it on the receiver's end. Could mean many such messages for a large group conversation, but just one for a one-to-one chat. I don't know whether there are any chat platforms that do it this way, but this seems like a way that doesn't require a centralized server. Regardless, Steam does have a centralized server so it could potentially do it the other way.)