Sending a Correction is literally so much easier!
To edit message you probably have to long press on it, select Edit, then select the part of text to edit (which is famously easy on mobile /s) then erase and rewrite. There’s no point putting this much effort into a chat message! There’s a reason people don’t capitalise or use punctuation in those.
Sorry I’m with the millennial on this one (being a millennial and a tech savvy person myself).
I’m a millennial and I strongly prefer editing. It’s much easier on the recipient not to have to cross-reference your correction with your message, and it usually doesn’t result in a separate notification ping.
I prefer editing if and only if the recipient can see the edit history.
Notification ping? You guys don’t keep your phone on silent?
You just outed yourself as a boomer 😂
My phone vibrates for text messages, but even if it doesn’t there’s no need for two notifications in the tray if a simple edit is possible.
Also I’m talking about the recipient, not myself. I don’t know what their settings are necessarily.
I’ve seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks that let you double tap your own message to edit and I really wish this would become the standard.
But noooo, seems most apps don’t have a double tap action or only use it for Emoji Reactions. Wow, truly putting the most useful actions at our fingertips 😒I’ve seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks
*userscripts
In discord you can edit messages by sending a subsequent message like this
s/old/new
But clearly you start with the asterisk
No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.
Just edit the original message with [sic]
This is the way.
I’ve always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it’s easier for me to type that way.
Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown
*If you don’t put space
What kind of heathen doesn’t?
IT IS!!! ITS LIKE LYING
it’s like gaslighting people that you were correct in the first place.
Plus it makes those half attempts at correcting a word way funnier.
I’m a big fan of the ‘what the duck’…‘*fuck’ kind of texts. They always make me laugh.
GenX here, I second the morality of editing texts.
Problem is, edits don’t appear in notifications, and not everyone goes as far as opening the messaging app.
With Signal the edits show up in the notification.
Why edit and pretend to be perfect? A quick * shows everyone you’re smart enough to spot and fix mistakes *^_^
I could edit, but what if the edit doesn’t show up at the other end? I couldn’t live with that.
If I mispelled antidisestablishmentarianism, I’m not fucking rewriting the whole god damn word – I’m just editting.
If I mispell butts it gets and asterisk.
Edit: an*
Im surprised lemmy let’s you edit the title of posts you make. I appreciate it though as a mistake prone mess of a man. I’ve only seen one post use this feature maliciously so far so its a good run thus far.
It’s 2026*
You can edit a text? Hmmm.
I just checked, you cannot. One is a group RCS chat, the other is an RCS chat with just a single person. Neither allowed edits. I even check one with a friend where it’s an SMS only, no edit.
So it seems like it’s app specific and not texts.
I’m sure it’s illegal in several jurisdictions.
I don’t bother to correct it unless the person on the other side is mentally deficient or a grammar nazi.
Paper trail
I still do that way. I don’t plan to stop.
I remember back when I had my moto razor flip phone and I could t9 type with it hidden in my pocket still, I felt so cool and tech savvy. Now people emoji react to my text messages and I can feel my hair turning grey in real time. I’ll never give up my typo fixing *s or my ascii :)
