Has this always been like this?

Question

I have just noticed that asking to be taken to the last message of a thread takes one to the last edited post, not to the last posted message. Also, the edited message shows its original time in the list, but the date and time of the last edit when open.
Has it always been like this, or has a recent change been made? I ask because I don't recall having observed this before (which doesn't really mean much). And, regardless of whether this is a recent change or it has always been like this, I find it very confusing. Perhaps marking a message as edited should be automatic, and not voluntary as it is today?
I am thinking, for example, of the automatic addition at the end of a message of a note saying "Last edited by (name of the author or host/moderator) on (date and time)". The reason for the edit would be added only if voluntarily added by the person who did it. As I will do voluntarily at the end of this message immediately after posting it.
I think that if, at the same time, editing a message doesn't make it automatically become the last one, everything would be quite a lot more clear and logical.
Message was edited by: Claudio González on October 10 2009, 8:18 am. Reason: offering an example of my proposition.

Answer 1

jochemd wrote:
The checkbox is already there, it would seem it should be a simple thing to default it to being checked instead of not checked.
And how is that going to provide the requested timestamps? How is that
going to affect repeated updates? How is that going to affect updates
that don't go through the website but through the webservies?
I'm not a software developer, so that's not for me to work out.  The system is already in place to allow for the requested comment to be placed at the end of the message, that's all I was commenting about. By default the checkbox could be ENABLED and not be given the choice to disable it.
I am not sure if others are specifically looking for the timestamp, but clearly the system already has it in place, if it is taking a reader to the last *edited* message.  Since it's already there, displaying it shouldn't be such a tough thing for a software development company to do.
jochemd wrote:
I am serious. If you are the originator of 70 message thread on the
localization of times in these forums I expect you to apply the
knowledge obtained in that thread when you ask for something else at a
later time.
Beginning a thread does not equate to how many replies end up in the thread, so saying that an OP started a 70 message thread is not relevant.  Asking questions about timestamps and why the messages appear to have *wrong* timestamps, even when you are the originator of the message is quite different from asking about how the forum software is taking you to specific messages in a thread.
You said that the functionality has been there all along, to take one to the last edited message, but that has not been my experience here.  Maybe I just didn't realize it, or maybe, just maybe it wasn't always like that.
The real point here is:  we are not all programming gurus.  We're not going to install all the plugins, subscribe via email, do the footwork that Adobe should be doing.  We are users of the software and the forums.  We have questions.  Sometimes the questions can circle back to other questions, other times not.  But to berate the users for asking the questions, clearly because they don't understand the answers/reasons, is wrong.
I have always been taught that there are no bad questions, but that does not seem to be the case in this forum.