The forums "edit" function

[Terran]

Has anybody else noticed that sometime you can edit your own old postings and sometimes not?
E.g. I started a thread in the joebot forum and couldn't edit the first posting after I answered to that thread. But a few minutes ago I read another old thread and there I was able to edit old postings...

[TruB]

never had the problem

[edit]
nop.. not even now

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

I don't know... I know there is a certain delay after which you should not be able to edit a post, but perhaps there are other circumstances too...

[@$3.1415rin]

never noticed something like that

€:and I often edit posts just after posting them

[Terran]

Just right now this happens again, I can't edit the first posting in this thread...


[edit]
yes, i can edit this one after the new post below.
but I still cannot edit the first posting...
[/edit]

[Terran]

Just a test to see if I can edit the last posting after writing a new one...

[Terran]

I've an idea what could be the problem. I use two computers, one at my office and one at home. I can only edit those postings I've written at the same computer...

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

This might be a cookie issue then. Your cookies are updated only on the computer from which you submitted your post. It sounds logical as I don't know how the forum software could behave otherwise.

2 things for me:
- Perhaps this forum leaves a cookie on your computer, but I'm sure it keeps one for the server, because when I use another computer, I only see new posts. And that's great!
- for the edit problem, there's a max time to edit a post, but also, (not sure of that, I never really took care) but I think you can only edit the last post you submit.

Let's test now!

Damn, no, you can edit more than one post. Only a time limit?

[Terran]

Hmm, I can't edit postings which I've written yesterday at the same computer. The only thing that has changed is my IP address...