thought 3.10 had it and was removed in 3.2, which is when the hook was made.

I was given something along these lines as an explanations in one of the threads or support emails. I'm pretty sure that there was a feature and then removed.

We have never had a post edit history as a feature in our stock software release (I believe there have been third party addons for this sort of functionality in the past, but I am not positive). I apologize if you were given any wrong information. This is not something that was removed, as it was never available.

This feature is really needed, one of our rouge staff member mass edited topics to "ABCD" now there is no way of going back except restoring the database by which we will lose hundreds of new registrations and posts.

If you configure your notification emails to include the posted text, then you could have a record of the original on your own email archive. But aside from indicating that the post has changed it wouldn't be hugely useful.

When IPB prepares the notification email it could store the text in a server folder "edits" similar to "uploads" - i.e. the text would not be in the database. The database would just have references to the material in "edits". This would be only a small increase in database size. (No free lunch - the disk usage on the server would increase).

It really is not the size of the database at all. So that is not a concern for many. It is the fact of no easy trail of edits and their needs to be "just in case". Every post that has an edit should have a way to see the post edit history when viewing a post. (Based on permission settings that is.) And a way to revert if needed.

I'd be happy to see this feature added to the core. So will this be in 4.0?

I'd be happy to see this feature added to the core. So will this be in 4.0?

It's been hinted that it will probably maybe.

Modify the notification function to optionally send a notification of each edit result. This would be a much simpler implementation and the space consumed would be on the user PC.

Currently if you are subscribed to a topic the text of a new post is sent in the email notification, and you have a record of the original post in your email client. This has often been useful to us.

Optionally have another notification with text when a post is edited.

The only thing that would need to be added to IPB is the option to notify when post is edited. This would be in My Settings > Notification Options for mods and admins.

My opinion is that it sounds like a nice feature, but could cause large databases to grow in size greatly. This (database size) can be a real problem for very large boards.

How about something like the folliowing:

1. Add a flag to post table has_edits
2. create new table for edited post history
3. Only join the table if there is an edit

Surely that would negate most of the performance impact on any forum. Appreciate it would increase the size of the database however so would have the ability to switch it on or off, but I gotta admit I would like this on my forum even with the increase in database size.

EDIT: Bare in mind was a very quick thought and not really thought much further into it LOL

It's been hinted that it will probably maybe.

And probably it will be hinted again after 4.0 that it will probably maybe...in 5.0

One solution is to disable edits after X minutes. This would stop members. Not sure what could be done for staff.

I really hope so to see post edit history in IPS 4. There is already a mod for that that I personally use but still build-in support would hint that could be used in every corner of IPS if needed.

If it ever gets in the core, please set it to disabled by default or give a warning so admins don't inadvertently blow up the database, :)

If it ever gets in the core, please set it to disabled by default or give a warning so admins don't inadvertently blow up the database, :smile:

If properly implemented, there would be no concern over such a thing happening.

This is not a "server killer" as previously mentioned.

Hope we will see it in 4.x.x

If properly implemented, there would be no concern over such a thing happening.

This is not a "server killer" as previously mentioned.

In that case, it doesn't seem so bad.

Any news if this is being implemented for IPB 4.0?

Any news if this is being implemented for IPB 4.0?

I was beginning to think I had came late to the party. :)

Any news if this is being implemented for IPB 4.0?

Would love to know as well.

Forum specific?

Member group specific?

We haven't talked much about the changes coming to the forums yet for the 4.0 suite. Stay tuned to our blog for updates. :)

Good idea. For large database, we can make more options like:

• Limit the times for edit (notice them when they click edit button) in the group setting, 5-10 times is the best.
• On/off this funiction in certain forum.
• ...

We haven't talked much about the changes coming to the forums yet for the 4.0 suite. Stay tuned to our blog for updates. :smile:

Having just had a big issue with anonymous editing of posts (thankfully I can see who did it in the DB) this feature would have been extremely useful in pinpointing why moderators were making changes without recording the reasons why.

I'm hoping your post implies this feature is going to make it in to IPS4... :flowers:

There's a screenshot from a feature on IPS4 that shows a link (VIEW EDIT HISTORY or something)... It will be there.

There's a screenshot from a feature on IPS4 that shows a link (VIEW EDIT HISTORY or something)... It will be there.

You have good eyes as I missed that! Well spotted and thanks Adriano. :)

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Unless it is a specific feature from Reviews and Comments... Which I don't believe!

:)