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What should an ideal change tracking incorporate?

How should the post revisions viewers be improved?

The diff view for posts has some shortcomings. The differences between the before and after views are [hard to distiguish](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282698), and the mobile version is [hard to read anything at all](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287758). (I think the tag-diff is fixed now.)
~~If the edit history and diff view was up for complete replacement, what would Codidact want for it? I'm asking more for specifics than for general themes, but I'd take general ideas, too.~~
Some ideas to consider:
- Accessibility
- Multiple diff formats (inline, word-diff, unified, side-by-side, rendered)
- Good semantic element use of `<ins>` and `<del>`
- Portrait mode suggestion on mobile
- Tags
- Title
- License change (if this is a thing you can do)
The current diff view actually makes a lot more sense when you recognize that it's doing a line-by-line analysis and highlighting the *whole line* as deleted or added when it changes. Since whole Markdown paragraphs are often written on a single line this over-emphasizes large sections whose inline changes are hard to see.

The diff view for posts has some shortcomings. The differences between the before and after views are [hard to distiguish](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/282698), and the mobile version is [hard to read anything at all](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/287758). (I think the tag-diff is fixed now.)
If the post edit history page, suggested edits page and diff view were up for a redesign, what changes are needed? I'm asking more for specifics than for general themes, but I'd take general ideas, too.
Some ideas to consider:
- Accessibility
- Multiple diff formats (inline, word-diff, unified, side-by-side, rendered)
- Good semantic element use of `<ins>` and `<del>`
- Portrait mode suggestion on mobile
- Tags
- Title
- License change (if this is a thing you can do)
The current diff view actually makes a lot more sense when you recognize that it's doing a line-by-line analysis and highlighting the *whole line* as deleted or added when it changes. Since whole Markdown paragraphs are often written on a single line this over-emphasizes large sections whose inline changes are hard to see.

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