diff --git a/frontend_tests/node_tests/message_edit.js b/frontend_tests/node_tests/message_edit.js
index b0beecea70..49c3634a22 100644
--- a/frontend_tests/node_tests/message_edit.js
+++ b/frontend_tests/node_tests/message_edit.js
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ run_test("get_editability", ({override}) => {
     assert.equal(get_editability(message, 45), editability_types.TOPIC_ONLY);
     delete message.submessages;
     message.type = "private";
-    assert.equal(get_editability(message, 45), editability_types.NO_LONGER);
+    assert.equal(get_editability(message, 45), editability_types.NO);
     // If we don't pass a second argument, treat it as 0
-    assert.equal(get_editability(message), editability_types.NO_LONGER);
+    assert.equal(get_editability(message), editability_types.NO);
 
     message = {
         sent_by_me: false,
diff --git a/static/js/message_edit.js b/static/js/message_edit.js
index e7e71c3826..2ac9b2bbfc 100644
--- a/static/js/message_edit.js
+++ b/static/js/message_edit.js
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ export let notify_new_thread_default = true;
 
 export const editability_types = {
     NO: 1,
-    NO_LONGER: 2,
     // Note: TOPIC_ONLY does not include stream messages with no topic sent
     // by someone else. You can edit the topic of such a message by editing
     // the topic of the whole recipient_row it appears in, but you can't
@@ -149,7 +148,7 @@ export function get_editability(message, edit_limit_seconds_buffer = 0) {
     if (message.type === "stream") {
         return editability_types.TOPIC_ONLY;
     }
-    return editability_types.NO_LONGER;
+    return editability_types.NO;
 }
 
 export function get_deletability(message) {