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An updated is a post that has been edited by the author. It should have dt-updated with the datetime of the update.

Why

There are numerous reasons you may want to update a post, and indicate to others that you want any copies updated, hoping they will update any caches of it, from displays of your responses to reply-contexts in reply to your original posts.

Use Case

A user updates a post and wants any copies of that post (i.e. if it was a reply post) on other sites to also be updated.

Contents 1 Why 2 Use Case 3 Handling 4 IndieWeb Examples 4.1 bear 5 Silo Examples 5.1 Facebook 5.2 Flickr 6 Brainstorming 6.1 Update POSSE copies 6.2 Notifying Responses 7 Issues 7.1 Threaded Comments Problems 8 See Also

Handling

How to handle updated posts, i.e. implementation details:

• When a post is updated by the user, implementations should:
  • send a webmention to all URLs that were either in the previous version of the post or the new version
  • update any POSSE copies of that post. See POSSE Update for details.

• When the permalink of a post that has been updated is requested, implementations should return:
  1. an HTML h-entry with a dt-updated with the date the post was updated.

IndieWeb Examples

Not sure who explicitly supports proper "updated" posts with dt-updated and automatic sending of webmentions to all URLs whether in the previous or new version of a post.

If you think you support updated posts properly, try http://webmention.rocks/ Update tests, if you pass them all, add yourself here with citations of your updated post(s).

bear

bear has implemented updated posts support on his site bear.im since 2016-04-15.

Example URL of an updated post:

• https://bear.im/bearlog/2016/106/testing-webmention-rocks-updates.html

Silo Examples

Facebook

Facebook supports editing posts and shows that a post has been "edited".

Flickr

Flickr supports replacing the photo of a photo post, without changing its permalink, comments etc.

Brainstorming

Update POSSE copies

When you update a post, you should update its POSSE copies too if you can.

Notifying Responses

• send a webmention to all responses to the post (so the responses can update their reply-context, per reply-context CRUD, possibly notify the responder so they can update or delete their response).
  • Note: this is subject to the issues documented re: reply-context CRUD

Issues

Threaded Comments Problems

Similar to deleted posts, but perhaps less disruptive, and updated post or comment may impact the relevance / meaning of subsequent replies.

See Also

• deleted
• posts
• webactions
• comment