Peertube: Ability to edit comments

[ChameleonScales]

Would it be possible to give users the ability to edit their comments after posting them ?

[Ealhad]

I guess we should be able to delete them as well.

And when the comment is part of a thread, it's probably better to just mark it as deleted without completely removing it.

[ChameleonScales]

Comment deletion is already available, although they always completely disappear, unlike what you suggest.
Side note : deleting a comment that has replies also deletes the replies. Maybe that's not ideal. @Ealhad's idea of marking as deleted seems good and I think it deserves its own issue so I took the liberty to add it : #507

[Ealhad]

Oh, right, sorry, I didn't check while logged to an account 😅

According to the API, the route for editing a comment already exists. Is it just not used yet, or not implemented at all?

And while I think about it, an edited comment should have some kind of glyph or text to indicate it has changed (also maybe when it has, if we store/decide to store this information).

[Chocobozzz]

The route you linked is to create a comment :)

[Ealhad]

Oh, my bad, it’s to answer to a given comment — I thought maybe it was to edit a comment, because of the {comment-id} thingy.

I guess the route we need should use the PUT verb?

[Chocobozzz]

yep

[Chocobozzz]

Closing, because we don't want that users edit what they said. They should delete and recreate the comment instead (like on Mastodon).

See https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/507 regarding comment deletion

[ChameleonScales]

Ok, then how about a "Delete and redraft", just like on Mastodon?