Not sure who the admins are, but since @hhariri created this channel, may I bring this to your attention? I’d very much like to have the possibility to edit messages like we used to have

Sorry I may be missing something? How do you mean edit like you could? We’ve not touched any permissions or options regarding message editing, and I see for instance your message from Friday is edited.

Yes, it’s possible to edit messages, but only in a short timespan. Definitely it is shorter than 3 hours, because the option to edit wasn’t there after 3 hours as seen above. I first hit this problem on Friday, when trying to make a 4h old code snippet compile and couldn’t. On the other hand, I think I used to edit messages a lot older than that during the 2 years I’ve been here (although I can’t really check that now to make sure). Anyway, is there any contraindication to make it possible to edit messages indefinitely?

Perhaps Slack updated all defaults? Docs here: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/115004868646-Manage-message-editing-and-deletion#h_85f196cf-21ae-4c10-b9f4-6cd61a1234a0 I can see justification for restricting edits, and only allowing 'typo' changes so that history isn't altered too much after fact by someone trying to cover up, but hopefully that's not an issue here.

Not sure if it’s really a problem? I mean if you need to edit at a much later date, just post an update

3h is not “much later date” IMO, often times 3h later you don’t even get one reply yet

I’ve set it to 24 hours

Thanks, much appreciated 👍