IMPORTANT NOTICE: Matters can revise published work!

Revised published works have been a frequent request from authors since Matters was founded.

Now this feature is live!

After you publish a work, you find that there are errors in the article, and you want to modify it, you only need three steps to complete:

1. Find the article you want to revise, click the "..." button at the bottom of the page, select "Revision Work", and then click "Start Revision".
2. modify articles.
3. After editing, click Publish.

The post-published article is the revised new version, and the original text's appreciation, comments, associations, etc. remain the same.

There are three important reminders here:

1. Because articles published in Matters will be uploaded to (IPFS) distributed nodes to achieve distributed permanent storage, so the old version still exists in IPFS nodes , but the article page seen in Matters has been modified, and after the modification The new version of , generates new IPFS nodes.
2. Each work can be revised up to 2 times, and the upper limit of each revision is 50 characters . On the revision page, you will be reminded how many characters have been revised. If it exceeds, the revision cannot be completed.
3. After revision, the original content will be overwritten on the site. If you need to keep the old version, please back it up.

Those of you who are familiar with Matters know that there has been a lot of debate in the community about whether to revise articles or not (talented developers have also created various ways to revise Matters articles ⚡️). Once the works on Matters are published, they are stored on distributed nodes and cannot be deleted at will. This also means that when the article is revised, the old and new versions exist on the (IPFS) distributed nodes at the same time, with their own independent nodes.

This is why we are very cautious about modifying functions and limit the number and magnitude of modifications.

But at the same time, we are also very aware that authors have a strong need to revise their works, which is an important source of creative security .

On the premise that Matters works can be preserved forever, the Matters team has conducted a lot of discussions on how to effectively and concisely realize the function of revision of works . The current version is easy to operate, and at the same time ensures the comments and appreciation attached to the original text , The association is not affected by the modification, which is an ideal result after many attempts. I hope this can help creators to create with more peace of mind.

Thank you for growing up with Matters, and I wish you a happy creation.