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Community => Council Room => Topic started by: ColdWizard on June 29, 2017, 06:50:52 PM

Title: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: ColdWizard on June 29, 2017, 06:50:52 PM

If so, I need directions/instructions. If not, it could be a handy thing for threads and posts. Sure, in theory, I could do it in notepad/word/whatever but that would also mean that I need to save it, and remember where I saved it, and it'd be less time spent here on AC2. Whereas if it were a feature and I could access it through the profile page, I could pop in and out and work on the post until it was ready for posting.

Title: Re: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on June 29, 2017, 10:18:19 PM

Paging Draz.  Paging Draz....

Title: Re: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: DrazharLn on July 05, 2017, 01:39:13 PM

You gotta email me or something or I don't see these :)

Lazarus: Form Recovery used to be the gold standard for this: a firefox addon that saved all of your inputs into forms. Unfortunately, it needs to be rewritten for the latest versions of Firefox.

If you are on chrome, you could try their chrome addon of the same name. Or (on most good browsers) any of the options mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5w9yxc/best_replacement_for_lazarus_form_recovery_addon/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5w9yxc/best_replacement_for_lazarus_form_recovery_addon/)

These addons have saved me tens of thousands of characters of rewriting.

If they don't suit your use case, let me know.

Title: Re: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: ColdWizard on July 06, 2017, 06:31:41 PM

Those would work too. I was just wondering if it'd be an option or other easy thing to implement for this forum software, as it is (or seems to be) at the other forum I visit (uses MyBB, apparently). Easier than plugins for the lazy (me) or less technologically confident (I'm not sure there's anyone here like that). Thanks for the link.

Title: Re: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: Buster's Uncle on July 06, 2017, 10:26:09 PM

It's just that hacking non-standard functions into the forum software is an awful headache, I'm told, come time for an upgrade/move/tech troubleshooting.  -And if our tech guys had time for anything but broke-forum emergencies, well, I decided to move hosting 3 years ago and it hasn't happened...

Title: Re: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: DrazharLn on July 06, 2017, 10:40:57 PM

It's unfortunate, but true.

Title: Re: Is there a save draft feature?
Post by: ColdWizard on July 07, 2017, 04:29:54 AM

I'm pretty sure non-standard and software should never be mixed.