No "Edit Post" button on iPad 2

[TheOfficialBren]

I went to edit a post to add something but alas no edit button.

iPad2, Safari
Latest Software, I believe.

[Steve Ashton]

Bren, the version of X Marks that you are viewing on your mobile device is probably the desktop version and not the mobile version.

How do I know this? Simply because there is no mobile version of X Marks.

X Marks is viewed by the majority of its members on desktop computers. While it is becoming more and more common for members to open and browse the forum on their mobile devices, creating a mobile compatible X Marks would be a VERY big job. Perhaps many hundreds of hours of code work.

The reason for this is that X Marks, as you see it on a desktop, is far from a plain vanilla version of vBulletin. Our forum is highly customized from the Tartan background to the 386 sub-forums to the placement of our advertisers ads with the embedded code to their websites.

A mobile version of X Marks would, in fact, be a complete, stand alone program. It would not only need to look and act like our standard forum but it would have to work seamlessly with the desktop version to keep in sync and up to date.

X Marks is a large forum. Our 17,000+ member and 1 million+ posts attests to that. But in the world of forums there are the real big forums. The really huge forums are about Gaming, Computers and Cars in that order. I know of Gaming forums in excess of 20 million members. I,m a member of a Car forum with in excess of 2 million threads. (not posts, threads)

So while our members can be very proud of the community we have built, X Marks, like our topic kilts, is a niche in the world.

Have you noticed that X Marks does not have any Google ads? No flashing, in your face, advertisements for anything other than kilts? Have you noticed that there are almost no spam posts from Indonesia or China with embedded links to porn sites or Viagra sales? Have you noticed that the members here have a quiet, respectable place where they can spend a few hours with their family?

Well, those are the things that our members say that they want. That is my one, sole, overridding concern and goal with X Marks.

Yes, I could buy and create a mobile version of X Marks. It will come. But not this week. Sorry.

[Hawk]

I'm working off of an iPad and have had no problem since I became a member here Steve.....Editing, Aye'ing, adding photos etc......

Hawk

[Grizzly]

I view this forum on an ipad 4, safari and latest software with no problems.

[Couper]

I read and post (this and other forums) primarily with my iPad II and have never had a problem. However, I don't recall having to go back to edit a thread.

Edit: I did just come back to edit - with my iPad.

[Couper]

@ Bren - is it possible you were attempting to edit an older post? Not sure about X-Marks, but most forums that I frequent disable the "edit post" function (as they should) after a relatively short period of time.

[Couper]

OK - 40 minutes later and I cannot get into either of the above two posts - the edit button has disappeared (has been suppressed). I am trying on my "real" computer this time (Sony Vaio Laptop).

[Steve Ashton]

That is a good point Couper, and one I forgot to mention.

If anyone is interested, there is a time limit on editing your posts, along with some other limits.

Here is a short breakdown.

A post must be at least 10 characters long.
A post cannot exceed 40,000 characters.
There is a limit on the title of a thread of 85 characters.
There is a limit of 10 pics or images per post.
There is a limit of 3 consecutive characters in capitals to prevent shouting.
There is a two minute time limit between posts to prevent spammers from flooding the forum.
There is a 10 minute window to edit the title of your thread.
There is a 10 minute window to edit the text of your post.
There is a 1 minute window to adding a poll to a thread.
After 1 minute a post will display "edited by" if you edit your post.

[ASinclair]

Good to know. Thanks, Steve.

[TheOfficialBren]

Thank you, Steve. I just wanted to condense a longer post in a previous thread from earlier. No big deal.

I assume that some of these limitations are new additions? I recall being able to edit a post that was several days old in the past.