Suggest Edits Feature
RiversideRocks proposed a feature to suggest edits to posts, allowing users to recommend improvements that can be accepted or declined by the OP or forum admin. This feature, similar to StackOverflow’s, would enhance post quality and readability.
toraritte expressed enthusiasm for this feature, highlighting its potential to address issues like link rot and unreadable formatting. They also shared an example of a readability feature, collapsible/expandable sections, discovered on another Discourse forum.
However, sam noted that implementing this feature would be a massive project, requiring significant bandwidth. Having implemented the original feature for Stack Overflow, sam cautioned that it would not be feasible in the near or mid-future.
One of my favorite parts of StackOverflow and the StackExchange family of sites is the feature to suggest edits to a post. It allows posts to become better and easier to read.
Would it be possible to add something like this to discourse? A forum user could recommend edits to a post. These edits could be only accepted and added to the post by the OP or a forum admin.
If a user sent a spam suggestion, it could simply be declined by the OP or staff.
This feature would be very welcome indeed.
For example,
there are many posts where images are posted as links, instead of embedding them into the post (link rot usually sets in pretty fast, taking a huge chunk of article context with it)
there are tons of readability features that casual users never heard of (e.g., collapsible/expandable section; I found out about this from the Prolog Discourse :))
I am not against adding this feature, but it is a massive project and we simply do not have bandwidth to head down this path in the near / mid future.
I implemented the original feature for Stack Overflow and it took quite a while to get right.