Bug Edit option sometimes disappears

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Users are experiencing intermittent issues with the edit function disappearing from their posts, regardless of the posts' age. The current edit time limit is confirmed to be 700 minutes, or approximately 11 hours and 40 minutes. Some users have reported being unable to edit posts that are well within this time frame, indicating a potential glitch. This issue appears to be inconsistent, with some users able to edit older posts while others cannot edit newer ones. The problem seems to resolve itself after a while, suggesting it may be a temporary technical issue.
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I've noticed recently that I randomly loose the ability to edit some of my posts. It is not consistent which posts will loose the edit, I have some posts that are quite old that I can still edit and some from just yesterday that are now un-editable.

Any ideas as to why or how I could fix this?
 
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All posts should become un-editable after some time, not sure what the current limit is. Edit: 700 minutes.

If there are old posts that you still can edit, that's obviously something wrong.
 
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Here's what someone told me.

Fredrik said:
I think the current limit is 11 hours and 40 minutes (700 minutes).
 
Yes, I just checked in forum configuration, 700 minutes it is.
 
Cheers guys
 
ryan_m_b said:
I've noticed recently that I randomly loose the ability to edit some of my posts. It is not consistent which posts will loose the edit, I have some posts that are quite old that I can still edit and some from just yesterday that are now un-editable.

Any ideas as to why or how I could fix this?

I ran into this problem last week, on some posts that were just a few minutes old, very much under the 700 minute limit. This happened to me in one of the math homework forums, but it did not occur in a different section (Computer/Programming forum, not the one in the homework section).

A little while later, things were back to normal, and I was able to edit previous posts of mine that were under the 700 minute limit.

I don't have any more details, so this information might not be very helpful. If I run into this problem again, I'll try to provide more details.
 
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