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bjoern_schulze
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February 11, 2020
Discovery

Show "Last edit" timestamp and username in frontend

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  • February 11, 2020
  • 4 replies
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Currently the only indicators for any content (question, discussion, article, comment) in the frontend are the publish date and time, as well as the author’s username. There is no way for anyone to see if (and when) content has been updated after the initial publishing. inSided communities rely on the users’ manual addition of something like (“edited on 11.02. to add information”) within the text body.

We propose that any piece of content gets an additional info field below the text body that shows the following information if content has been edited after publishing:

  • phrase “Last edited”
  • timestamp with date and time
  • last edit’s username
  • optional: number of edits made in total
  • optional: reason of edit (e.g. “Fixed a link”, “added information”, “typo”)

The benefits are:

  • better transparency
  • make it harder to manipulate content without anyone noticing
  • less effort for users and moderators to manually add this information

This is one idea of how it could look like:

 

4 replies

Larry
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
March 20, 2026
OpenDiscovery
Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
Larry
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
March 20, 2026

Thanks for this idea, transparency around content edits is something we want to address.

We're moving this into discovery as part of broader content lifecycle improvements, which includes surfacing edit history and timestamps in the frontend. We'll keep this thread updated as we learn more.

Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd
Contributor ⭐️
August 5, 2026

Hi ​@Larry, do you have any updates on this feature request?

Larry
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
Gainsight Employee ⭐️
August 11, 2026

@LauridsP We do have this planned in our backlog and expect it to be prioritized soon but we don’t have a definitive timeline just yet. Will update once we do!

Larry Imgrund || Senior Product Manager & Community Nerd