I edited a post and the previous text seems to have disappeared. How do I find the edit history? I have searched the help for “history” and explored the buttons near the post.
AI-generated summary
To view the edit history of a post, click on the pencil icon located at the upper right of the post. However, this icon is only visible if there are edits made outside the 5-minute grace period after posting. kgreed initially couldn’t find the pencil icon, but codinghorror explained its location. kgreed was still unsure, but then realized the pencil icon appears only when there are actual edits to the post, as demonstrated when they added a picture and the pencil icon became visible.
Edits made within the grace period immediately after posting are not considered formal edits. The grace period defaults to 5 minutes but you can change it to be more or less in your site settings.
For edits made outside the grace period, they are accessible via the pencil icon at upper right of any post.
Ah ha, I see the history button now in the post where I just added the picture. I guess it does not show if there is no history. Which is kind of what you said @codinghorror, but it wasn’t clear to me that the pencil would only be visible if there were edits. Though now I think about it, this does make sense.