Editing an in-thread comment

I didn't mean to embarrass you - I was pretty sure that you could handle the fame. :-)

But back to this editing function - ok, it is fixed, but isn't it a kind of really unintuitive process? (Or is it just me?) For the uninitiated/newbies it may be a tad clunky. Which reminds me...

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I‘ve been using i-Tunes intensively for a couple of days - which re-defines 'unintuitive'. I use it because I am forced to if I want to use my i-Pod, but it is possibly the most clunky software in all creation (I'm trying to stay objective). Recently I started with a new computer and a positive frame of mind - I remain there despite the best efforts of i-Tunes to bring me down. I think that I am beginning to understand the logic. PC is to Apple as Chinese is to English? :-)

Bodawei you're embarrassing me. （*^_^*）

And yes, you confirm an edit by hitting Edit. "My method" (in which you still had to hit Edit the second time)--wasn't a method at all, just an observation of what happened when I hit Edit the second time, saw nothing happen, gave up and walked away. And yes it is outdated now, as Bob said. The function has been fixed.

nope, it didn't work for me (I added a second 'again') - I wonder what is going on. I am using the Zhenlijiang Method of just editing and then switching out; does that not work any more for others? There is no button to confirm an edit, right? Oh, I get it, the 'edit' button is working again - you hit it twice.

It would be nice if ChinesePod kept us up to date on these functions..

@gomanly

I better check again. :-)

Really?!?!? Let me give it a try.

Well, that is disappointing. Maybe it is some weird middle step in the improvements that are being made? Hopefully?

As I mentioned elsewhere, HTML codes don't seem to work when editing, so there is no way to reformat a comment.

test1 test2

'test1' should have been bold, so HTML also doesn't work when adding a comment to a thread.

(However, the above sentence was an edit, so edit does work - sorry bodawei)

She's one of them! It can't be true! They're trying to silence us!

*gank*

I wasn't claiming a conspiracy - it only takes one over-zealous Cpod employee to delete my comment.

zhen,

Yeah,initially it wasn't working at all.The way around this I found was to just copy what you'd written,delete the post,hit the reply button,paste,edit what you've pasted and then hit reply.Just a tip in case it plays up again.But yeah,it got fixed later on yesterday to the point where if you went elsewhere the edit function had worked.

Good on you Zhenlijiang. I actually wondered to myself if this was the go, but it is a somewhat 'disconcerting' method of posting, as you say. [Note to Microsoft: use the term 'disconcerting' when avoiding mentions of bugs, as in 'some users have found the new improved function disconcerting but after a little practice you will get in the groove.']

@go-manly. There you go on the conspiracy .. tch tch. You may have experienced the same as others - the post spontaneously disappears.

You're right! I see my edits did appear. I capitalized the "N" in nope and added "Edit 1" in a couple posts farther up.

Good catch zhenlijiang!

I posted a comment to this effect a couple of days ago, but someone deleted it within minutes. (And no, it wasn't in a lesson-related thread)

Nope. I can't edit either. I get the Edit box, but clicking the Edit button does nothing.

Must be a new bug.

(I'm using the same browser Firefox 3.5.8, NoScript with permissions set appropriately)

It's been working for me, so I'll give it try and see if it's something new.

Edit 1

Interesting, you were 'just' replying, adding another comment to the thread. I was trying to edit comments I had just posted. But maybe there is a common cause?

Ironically, I had similar problems when I tried to reply to you yesterday.