This quick update aims to address some, but certainly not all, of the smaller concerns that we've been seeing.
- the title field when submitting a post is now a textarea
- textareas now auto-expand in height as necessary
- Twitter embeds will now respect your theme (dark mode users will see a dark embed)
- removed captchas for new users (previously, very new users would have to complete a reCAPTCHA before submitting posts and comments)
- added an error message if saving an edit fails, rather than loading forever
- fixed an issue where "continue reading thread?" would sometimes appear when there are no further comments
- reduced requirements for long term users with regards to the "recently joined" handshake flag.
- original revision in edit history will show as having 1 score rather than its score immediately prior to being edited
- added new rate limits for login attempts
- added robots.txt
Additionally, we've reset all save folders that had been renamed to "" (nothing) so that they are accessible again.
Does this mean that all upvotes and downvotes will disappear after an edit? And does this include edits done within the first couple of minutes after a comment is first submitted (whatever the length of time is before the comment will be tagged with "edited")?
I don't like to see anything discouraging corrections to grammar, spelling, missed words, unclear wording, bad links, etc. Though I also see the benefit of not allowing trolls to accumulate upvotes and then go back and insert something like "not" to reverse the meaning of the comment, and retain all the upvotes that help them pass as legitimate pedes.
Also, I don't know if this issue is unique to Linux, but in the comment field, I often (it's not consistent) can't see text I've highlighted or a cursor I've moved, and this results in more typos than I usually make (and of course if I spot them later, I edit to correct them). Using Linux Mint Rosa with Firefox.