Save as Draft

DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 12:48 3050 views 23 comments
Why isn't there a Save as Draft function for a discussion post? Literally just wasted 90 minutes of my life because this archaic forum doesn't have standard quality of life features... practically expected these days...

Comments (23)

fdrake March 18, 2025 at 13:13 #976708
No option for it on the back end. Can't be implemented.
T Clark March 18, 2025 at 13:21 #976712
On my systems posts are automatically saved as drafts unless you erase them. It took me quite a while to figure out how to do that.


fdrake March 18, 2025 at 13:39 #976719
Reply to T Clark

Some people have reported that not working in the past. I rewrote this post three times and it didn't recall this second sentence on one of them. The automatic save feature doesn't immediately save on quit, it saves on some other time period.
Deleted User March 18, 2025 at 14:14 #976725
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Outlander March 18, 2025 at 14:25 #976728
What are you in the Stone Age? Right Click (on you desktop) > New > Text Document.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 14:28 #976729
Well, thankfully, I remember the "form" of my post is like BGE 19, 24, 9, 19 something something BoT Through Will to P.

Reply to Outlander that is the stone age... and Im using my phone. Geesh, sitting at a desk pools the blood. And although I have a desk I can walk at and notes I can type in there on my phone... no... I think I'll raise the question as to why this place can't do save as draft functionality when comments are saved... I guess TFP is just hosted by a company not owned by the owner of TFP.

Personally, my experience with hardcoded is that you can often figure a creative way around the hardcoded limitations.
T Clark March 18, 2025 at 14:43 #976733
Reply to tim wood
Find the draft button. It’s in various places, depending on the particular device you’re using. Push on that and it will show the things that are drafts which you can then erase.

This took me a lot of time to figure out.
T Clark March 18, 2025 at 14:47 #976737
Quoting DifferentiatingEgg
I think I'll raise the question as to why this place can't do save as draft functionality when comments are saved... I guess TFP is just hosted by a company not owned by the owner of TFP.


Geez, this is a free service run by volunteers. To quote Sideshow Bob, what we need here is more thinking and Les Wynan.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 14:47 #976738
Reply to T Clark Ah, well, I suppose that could help.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 14:53 #976746
Reply to T Clark Getting to the bottom of why TPF doesn't have a standard Save as Draft function is the point. There's one post I could find about drafts and Jamal said he would see about getting it implemented...

So the only information I had to go off of was that Jamal could see if a save as draft feature could be implemented for the inbox... So I made the post to see if it could be implemented for the website.

Questioning something isn't whining dumbass. But I can see how a "Christian" could confuse the two...
T Clark March 18, 2025 at 14:58 #976748
Quoting DifferentiatingEgg
Questioning something isn't whining dumbass. But I can see how a "Christian" could confuse the two...


There’s a difference between asking a question and whining. And I’m not a Christian, with or without quotations.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 15:02 #976751
Reply to T Clark I'd wager you are, regardless. Especially since you attempt to throw around the foundation of their thought so readily... a quick search of a few key terms and yeah... you're knee deep homie... hence "Christian."
fdrake March 18, 2025 at 15:12 #976756
Reply to DifferentiatingEgg

God damn man, put the Nietzsche down and go outside.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 15:13 #976758
Reply to fdrake that has nothing to do with Nietzsche... and I've been reading everything but Nietzsche lately... because I've already developed a careful mastery of Nietzsche.

Besides, as T Clark says, the new discussions get saved as drafts in the drafts section.
fdrake March 18, 2025 at 15:27 #976763
Reply to DifferentiatingEgg

I implore you to release that syphilitic mustachoid from your heart.

Outlander March 18, 2025 at 15:30 #976764
Quoting DifferentiatingEgg
sitting at a desk pools the blood.


More Stone Age babble.

Get with the times mate.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 15:39 #976767
Reply to Outlander T Clark brought me up to speed. Already mentioned I have a walking desk.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 15:40 #976769
Reply to fdrake I implore you to actually read Nietzsche?
praxis March 18, 2025 at 15:57 #976778
Reply to DifferentiatingEgg

Worse, he’s hip deep in Taoism. :gasp:
T Clark March 18, 2025 at 15:58 #976779
Quoting DifferentiatingEgg
I'd wager you are, regardless. Especially since you attempt to throw around the foundation of their thought so readily... a quick search of a few key terms and yeah... you're knee deep homie... hence "Christian."


Matthew 27:45–47 - Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? And God replied 'what we need here is more dying and less whining.'
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 16:07 #976786
Reply to T Clark regardless, thanks for the tip about the drafts section. :up:
fdrake March 18, 2025 at 16:17 #976792
Reply to DifferentiatingEgg

I read BG&E, Genealogy of Morals and Zarathustra years ago. I enjoyed them.
DifferentiatingEgg March 18, 2025 at 16:37 #976810
Reply to fdrake Some people ready many books, some people read a quality selection of books many times. For example, since January Ive read and listened to Quine's Pursuit of Truth like 6 times. Once is never enough for my methodology.