Winter Rant

WordPress is able roam/federate the edit timestamp, for when a user edits a published blog post. Edited posts on the Mastodon web client show up with an asterisk (*) next to the pretty-printed time stamp. In the screenshot below, you know that the post was edited after publishing, because of the asterisk next to the “2h”.

Hovering over the timestamp seems to confirm this: it shows this post was edited at 3:31pm on Dec 26th.

This is neat! What I am unclear about is of any limitations on this: can edits that I make to a blog post 24 hours later also show up? What about 24 days later? If they do, will this be a workaround the 5-minute edit timer that Threads has setup (for then Threads federates)?

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Edit/Update: turns out that edits are getting reflected well past any 5 minute marker. Here is an edit I made just a few minutes ago (on the same blog post showing the screenshot above/earlier) … and now it shows that latest edit timestamp of 7:05 pm (it is 7:11pm at the time of this writing):

– vijay, taking out the trash 🚮