@meowski @lain

> a post on a microblog site isn't a personal email to your inbox. it also gets fetched in the future by others.

Yes: a mail server doesn't necessitate a quadratic deliveries table to track who has fetched what so that the edits actually do arrive at the servers that have the post. Different message contents mean a different message, which ought to (but on most servers does not) mean a different message ID.

> i was a resister for a while but do edit them sometimes now

Did games get better or worse once day-one patches became common practice?
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