My apologies, I did some digging and it looks like the feature is actually listed in the changelog for 0.18.3. I'm not a blockchain developer so it's sometimes hard to keep up with individual changes to the back end (steemd). It was designed to require an active key to prevent defacement of accounts who's posting keys may have been compromised. So, this could be implemented in the UI but may require a little thought as to how to implement it with best user experience in mind.
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No apologies necessary, my friend! Very kind of you to do a little digging! Thank you.
I care not a whit for "best user experience" at this point... I would gladly accept any means of access, no matter how byzantine.
And so, please correct me if I'm wrong, but:
If I am understanding you, it would be possible right now (given the right tools and documentation) to write a standalone utility that would give me the ability to edit any or all of my old posts, provided that I supply my active key as part of the process?
Yes.
There are several blockchain features that condenser could but does not yet support: things like escrow, delegating your Steem Power to someone else, powering down to a different account, powering down less than 100% of your steem power (we're close to releasing this one), editing old posts, et c.
Some of these will make it in, some won't; we're working on several huge projects right now and have to choose our battles for the moment as we scale up the team.
Thanks for commenting and reaffirming that this ability already exists, apart from a necessary UI tweak. And, it is a tweak, isn't it? Or is there some hidden complexity that makes this change way harder than I imagine it could be?
The extremely frustrating thing for me is that the promise of edit access has been dangled in front of me for six months now, but still remains out of reach. :O
My friends behind the curtain: if there's any way to work post editability into the mix sooner, rather than later, you'd have at least one wildly cheering fan out here, thanking you profusely.
We're working on it, but you don't need us to do it. Anyone can build this tool or UI.
Thanks...
I guess I need to learn how to code for blockchain access...
Can you give me any pointers to how to set up a simple, basic IDE or build environment and what coding tools to use for accessing the Steemit blockchain?
Any basic Steemit development article references?
TIA...
@Justinw looks like this this may be a good subject for your next blog post.