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The question list for Q&A on the Electrical Engineering site shows this entry:

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However, in the question (https://electrical.codidact.com/questions/279739), there is nothing indicating the question was changed:

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Clicking on "History" does reveal the change. I was expecting the little pencil icon showing a change, with "3 hours ago by Lundin" next to it.

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This is an edit to my own question. It seems the bug manifests itself when someone other than then original author makes an edit. Here is to find out what happens when the author makes an edit.

If this works correctly, perhaps someone else can add another edit to see if the bug appears.


This is a further edit by Monica, made at 23:29 UTC, to see how the "edited" indicator is affected.


This is a suggested edit from a user who can't edit directly.


The previous version exhibited the bug, confirming that the problem is with edits that have to be approved by a third party.

Here is a further test to see if the condition is reset due to an edit by the post author (which is probably only relevant because it doesn't require approval).

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Same here (Chrome, MacOS). I don't think this one is browser-dependent.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Here's another (recent) example of this happening: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279760. Question list shows an edit by Moshi, question doesn't, but the history does. It also shows that the OP edited once, and that edit doesn't show either (though I don't know if it did before Moshi's edit).

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

I saw another example on Judaism, and then checked this recent edit of mine where it shows up. Two differences: the missing ones are on questions, and the missing ones (so far) are third-party edits (not by the authors). Can we find cases to isolate those variables?

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago

@Monica: I just did an edit to my question, and I see the change notification "<1m ago". Now you or someone else should make a small edit to see if the bug appears.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Ok, it's not just third-party edits; mine showed up fine. New hypothesis: suggested edits produce this behavior. We need an edit suggestion from someone who can't edit directly. I have a sock; hang on.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago

@Monica: I was away from the computer between your two edits, so I couldn't see the result of the first. However, the second edit (that required someone else to confirm) caused the bug to appear. As it is right now, I don't see the edit indicator.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago

@Monica: I just tried an edit after yours, and that did reset whatever was causing the problem. I can see the edit indicator now, and I suspect everyone else can too. So this has something to do with the state left in the database after an approved edit, which is set correctly when an edit is done that does not require approval. I'm thinking this isn't hard to track down now that it can be reliably reproduced, and also reliably undone.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago

@Olin after my direct edit, the notice was updated correctly. (Should've logged that, sorry.) Then when I approved the suggested edit, it disappeared. It looks like it only manifests with suggested edits. I hope that, now that we know where to look, this won't be hard to fix.