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Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SuiGeneris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:18:36 GMT

Has everyone but me noticed the "Autosaved Drafts" section of your profile, when clicking on your poster name?

This site now "saves" partial posts, or responses that you typed and decided not to post.

You can watch the system "autosaving" in the upper right hand corner above the text box. It updates approximately every 60 seconds while you are typing your response.

So far, I've deleted at least four "autosaved drafts."

Anyone else?

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SusieQ_2 — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:29:47 GMT

I noticed it a few days ago. I'm such a techno-weenie that when I clicked on the "X" and it said, "Confirm yes or no," I wasn't sure which to click. I finally figured out that clicking yes would delete them for good.

This new board is making me feel stupid, and believe me, I don't need that!

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

NickNack1 — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:32:53 GMT

I like that feature. I very rarely start a response and decide not to post it though.

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

MacDUFF — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:35:18 GMT

Good catch, sui. I tried to delete mine in my profile, but got "failure" message (oh the irony of them sending me a failure message! lol!).

I'm also seeing a note on this screen "you have autosaved content from 01:26 pm, load or discard" (because I typed a few words until the autosave thingie came on to test it a few minutes ago).

I hit discard and will check after I post this to see if it deleted it from my profile that way.

Thanks again.

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SuiGeneris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:40:15 GMT

@SusieQ_2 wrote:
I noticed it a few days ago. I'm such a techno-weenie that when I clicked on the "X" and it said, "Confirm yes or no," I wasn't sure which to click. I finally figured out that clicking yes would delete them for good.
This new board is making me feel stupid, and believe me, I don't need that!

I first noticed the autosaver yesterday when it clicked up a minute and I caught it in my peripheral vision.

Oddly enough, I noticed the autosaved drafts in my profile [3 days ago] before I noticed the actual autosave timer.

It's backward day for me!

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

chickenbutt — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:41:25 GMT

I also recently noticed I had a couple.

I, too, got that error message when deleting, BUT the weird thing was - they deleted anyway. I deleted each one and each time got the message, yet each time it deleted anyway (?). Whatever, I guess, but it worked.

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SuiGeneris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:46:10 GMT

@NickNack1 wrote:
I like that feature. I very rarely start a response and decide not to post it though.

You must truly stand behind your convictions, NickNack!

I will sometimes type something incredibly sardonic when I see rampant stupidity, then think better of it and delete it before posting.

It seems as though the typing of it gets it out of my system before I "pull the trigger" and shoot myself in the foot!

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SuiGeneris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:48:30 GMT

You're welcome, MacDuff!

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SuiGeneris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:50:13 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
I also recently noticed I had a couple.

I, too, got that error message when deleting, BUT the weird thing was - they deleted anyway. I deleted each one and each time got the message, yet each time it deleted anyway (?). Whatever, I guess, but it worked.

It must be one of those pesky "bugs" they are still working out, chickenbutt.

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

chickenbutt — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:52:53 GMT

Yeah, that's what I figured - they are still working it out.

Every now and then I pound out a post and drop it. I will just have to remember to just delete the words instead of just backing out. I don't do it that often either, but would TOTALLY agree that it does the job. I'm pretty good about meaning what I say and saying what I mean but everything now and then it's just something that, while I wouldn't mind saying it anyway, doesn't need to be said. I guess it's being an adult and not letting everything fly out of your mouth before thinking what good it can do, eh?

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

SuiGeneris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:06:39 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
Yeah, that's what I figured - they are still working it out.

Every now and then I pound out a post and drop it. I will just have to remember to just delete the words instead of just backing out. I don't do it that often either, but would TOTALLY agree that it does the job. I'm pretty good about meaning what I say and saying what I mean but everything now and then it's just something that, while I wouldn't mind saying it anyway, doesn't need to be said. I guess it's being an adult and not letting everything fly out of your mouth before thinking what good it can do, eh?

Totally agree, chickenbutt!

I am sometimes afflicted with "foot in mouth" disease.

Re: Autosaved Drafts in your Profile

MacDUFF — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:14:49 GMT

SuiGeneris wrote: ...I will sometimes type something incredibly sardonic when I see rampant stupidity, then think better of it and delete it before posting. It seems as though the typing of it gets it out of my system before I "pull the trigger" and shoot myself in the foot!

>>>LOL!! I do the same thing. The horrible part is that, even when I clean it up...I'm generally not snarky, believe it or not...it comes out sarcastic! ARRGGHH! I'm blaming it on the New and Exciting Roll Out Meltdown of 2015, and hope it fades away eventually!

Copied and printed the cartoon and put it up in my office. LOL!