It does work, but not for the title posts, that is the posts that are the first in the topic.
So, from now on, to post a new log, create a new topic where the first post says nothing much, and then put the log in the second post of the topic. Then you can edit the log whenever you wish.
where **** is the title of the post with hyphens in for spaces. It’s easiest if you just navigate to the post you want to edit and add “/edit” to the end of the URL