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Journal edit summary

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:icongdude2002:
=gdude2002 Feb 12, 2013
I've noticed that some journals are used as a sort of live blog post; edited often to add content. So, why not introduce edit summaries for journal entries?

Basically, this would be a little text entry box next to the "This edit is minor and won't notify my watchers" box. When the box is unchecked, the entry box could optionally be used to fill in a short summary of edits to the post, which would then be shown in the message the watchers get (instead of the first x chars of the journal). This would help watchers see what was actually edited, rather than having to re-read the entire post just to find new edits.

Any thoughts?
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:icon3wyl:
^3wyl Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
That sounds interesting, I have to say.. It would be cool if it kept the message too, perhaps, but I suppose it's not too much work to keep stating the same.
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:icongdude2002:
=gdude2002 Feb 12, 2013
Well, if the summary was limited to a line, maybe it could just be tacked onto the bottom of the original message?
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:icon3wyl:
^3wyl Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
Possibly. :hmm:
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:iconeitvys200:
=Eitvys200 Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
You could use the description of journal to add that.
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:icongdude2002:
=gdude2002 Feb 12, 2013
The description? All I see is this: [link]
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:iconeitvys200:
=Eitvys200 Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Use sta.sh writer
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:icongdude2002:
=gdude2002 Feb 12, 2013
Does that work with editing stuff you've already submitted, though?
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:iconeitvys200:
=Eitvys200 Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
If it was submitted with it then yes
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:icongdude2002:
=gdude2002 Feb 12, 2013
Hmm.. Then that is one solution.

However, it's still somewhat different from what I was suggesting here; putting an edit summary in would imply storing it somewhere else, perhaps including a list of them somewhere. In that case, putting them all in the description may be impractical, as the length of a message preview in the message center is limited.
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:iconscootabyte:
~Scootabyte Feb 12, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Well... you can always organize your blog posts in a way that makes changes easy to spot.
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