That's nice but do you think the benefits of not allowing editing make sense on the overall and makes sense in the current configuration.
Of the top of my head it promotes a continuous coherent narrative not full of annoying deletions and comments that don't differ wildly from original posts. No posting something incredibly inflammatory, waiting for the conflagration, and then replacing original post with something milder.
On the other hand I have definitely posted something from my phone and cursed when I realized I couldn't fix a typo or decided something could have been communicated better.
It feels like the edit window could at least be a little longer.
The editing window is at least an hour not a few minutes and people who misuse editing tend to get set straight pretty quickly - it's one of the more 'users hate this and do something about it' HN sins.
Of the top of my head it promotes a continuous coherent narrative not full of annoying deletions and comments that don't differ wildly from original posts. No posting something incredibly inflammatory, waiting for the conflagration, and then replacing original post with something milder.
On the other hand I have definitely posted something from my phone and cursed when I realized I couldn't fix a typo or decided something could have been communicated better.
It feels like the edit window could at least be a little longer.