Foursquare users often create venues using their mobile devices and then wait until they get back to a desktop computer to enter the full venue information like address and phone number. In yesterday’s design update, a key part of that process was lost: the edit button. There is a workaround, however, that works — at least for now.

Under the old design, users who created a venue or became the mayor of one could click a pencil icon to edit the venue information. Under the new design, that button no longer exists and the “Edit Venue” link only appears for superusers.

If you’re not a superuser, you can still edit the venue information for venues you’ve created or are mayor of by adding “/edit” to the end of the venue URL, like this:

http://foursquare.com/venue/481909/edit

You’ll be taken to the “Super User editing tools” page, where you can choose “edit venue details” to add the address, phone number or Twitter account.

DISCLAIMER: This trick works as of this writing, but it’s possible foursquare plans to disable editing ability for anyone who’s not a superuser. The title of the page — “Super User editing tools” — hints that editing may move solely into the hands of superusers. In my opinion, that would be a mistake; regular users are used to having the ability to correct information they’ve added on a mobile device and removing it could have some ugly consequences when it comes to keeping foursquare’s database clean.

UPDATE (2:40 pm): Foursquare has updated the new venue pages again and the “Edit Venue” link now appears at the top of the page for anyone eligible to edit the venue. They’ve also fixed the “Claim here” links so they now point to the proper claim page.

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