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On 7/24/2024 at 11:26 PM, colonel_mortis said:

Is this specifically for blogs, or for forum topics/posts? I believe blogs do support that (or at least used to, and I'm not sure if that's just a moderator permission or something, I would need to check if that is what you're asking about).

Yep. @ThankGodItsFriday As a user of the blog feature for folding events I've used this in the past... It is already built in... Here 

 

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I don't want to prematurely post a blog entry just to resume work later, nor do I want to leave it open on my PC for extended periods and risk losing everything. It would be nice to have a "Save to Draft" feature, where it saves your blog entry to your account without publishing the post publicly.

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The forum saves not-yet-submitted posts in your browser's temp folder, so you can close the page, come back, and your post will still be there. That's per-device, though - doesn't sync to the account.

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But to Tom, it's all foolery. 

 

 

 

 

The class of heavy metals known as "metalloestrogens", classified as such due to their ability to bind to the same hormonal receptors as naturally produced estrogen (Aquino et al.), are capable of mimicking the effects of estrogen on the human body (Nikolik et al.). Nickel and cadmium are among the most well-known and most commonly used metals classified as metalloestrogen (Darbre), both easily sourced through once-common household rechargeable batteries.

Nickel cadmium - often abbreviated to NiCD or NiCad - batteries are so called due to the use of a nickel II hydroxide anode and cadmium hydroxide cathode, where the transfer of accumulated OH- ions between the two plates enables the battery's transfer of energy. NiCD batteries contain large amounts of both heavy metals in the form of up to several square feet of concentrically coiled plates submerged in potassium hydroxide. Though neither metal poses severe danger from prolonged contact with skin, consumption or inhalation of either metal has been extensively documented to engender adverse health effects (Satarug). 

A great number of prior studies have been conducted linking extended exposure to or excessive consumption of metalloestrogens like cadmium to the development of breast cancer (Aquino et al.) - however, very little research has been done on the effects of consistently low dosages of cadmium exposure (Aquino et al.). Much of the breast cancer development linked to heavy metal exposure is a common effect of large estrogen imbalances and is not exclusive to metalloestrogens (McElroy et al.). Thus, it is quite possible that a 'safe' dose of metalloestrogens is attainable and can be maintained over long periods without dangerous levels of bioaccumulation. 

Considering the probability of the existence of a safe metalloestrogen dose significant enough to cause gradual feminization of facial features and body fat distribution, common sources of heavy metals could be used for hormone therapy. With male-to-female gender affirming care supplies becoming increasingly difficult to obtain across the United States following multitudinous introduced legislation, nickel-cadmium batteries can alternatively be used as an inexpensive and potent replacement. 

 

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      Aquino NB, Sevigny MB, Sabangan J, Louie MC. The role of cadmium and nickel in estrogen receptor signaling and breast cancer: metalloestrogens or not? J Environ Sci Health C Environ Carcinog Ecotoxicol Rev. 2012;30(3):189-224. doi: 10.1080/10590501.2012.705159. PMID: 22970719; PMCID: PMC3476837.

      Rollerova, E., Urbancikova, N. Intracellular estrogen receptors, their characterization and function (Review). https://www.sav.sk/journals/endo/full/er0400f.pdf.

      Nikolic J, Sokolovic D. Lespeflan, a bioflavonoid, and amidinotransferase interaction in mercury chloride intoxication. Ren Fail. 2004 Nov;26(6):607-11. doi: 10.1081/jdi-200037149. PMID: 15600250.

      Darbre PD. Metalloestrogens: an emerging class of inorganic xenoestrogens with potential to add to the oestrogenic burden of the human breast. J Appl Toxicol. 2006 May-Jun;26(3):191-7. doi: 10.1002/jat.1135. PMID: 16489580.

      Satarug S, Garrett SH, Sens MA, Sens DA. Cadmium, environmental exposure, and health outcomes. Environ Health Perspect. 2010 Feb;118(2):182-90. doi: 10.1289/ehp.0901234. PMID: 20123617; PMCID: PMC2831915.

      McElroy JA, Shafer MM, Trentham-Dietz A, Hampton JM, Newcomb PA. Cadmium exposure and breast cancer risk. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2006 Jun 21;98(12):869-73. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djj233. PMID: 16788160.

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3 minutes ago, da na said:

The forum saves not-yet-submitted posts in your browser's temp folder, so you can close the page, come back, and your post will still be there. That's per-device, though - doesn't sync to the account.

It doesn't work with every browser, either. Also, closing your web browser to save on CPU and RAM will clear the temp folder, as well.

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For now (as I don't know whether this is something tgat can be easily done), you could use Test Posts. Since blogs use same formatting as other forums and test Posts are only visible to you and the staff. You could have one thread with each entry as single post and then do edits to them. Before copypasting it to blog entry.

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10 hours ago, da na said:

The forum saves not-yet-submitted posts in your browser's temp folder

10 hours ago, ThankGodItsFriday said:

It doesn't work with every browser, either. Also, closing your web browser to save on CPU and RAM will clear the temp folder, as well.

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It is not saved inside a "temp folder", but inside "Local Storage",
which is a fancy name for a key & value pair inside an SQLite database.
(regardless if it is Chromium or Firefox or Safari browser, they all use pretty much the same mechanism)
And it looks something like this:
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Key: editorSave.blogs-new-blog, you can also see I have another editor key (this reply I'm typing right now)
Value: in this case is an array where the 1st element is the contents/description of the blog and the 2nd element is the unix timestamp (when it was saved).
Note that Category & Name aren't saved anywhere.

Now with all that being said, resuming work on a blog can be very unintiutive IMO.
You start writing a blog, navigate to a different page or close the browser,
navigate back to creating a new blog and it will say:
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And looks like it is borked, it didn't restore anything...
but clicking on "Add a description..." will actually display the restored contents:
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11 hours ago, ThankGodItsFriday said:

Also, closing your web browser to save on CPU and RAM will clear the temp folder, as well.

Typically clearing cookies also wipes local storage, and obviously using incognito / private window will not persist local storage between runs.
 

11 hours ago, da na said:

That's per-device, though - doesn't sync to the account.

Yep, per device & browser though.
I can have Chrome & Firefox on the same device and each will have its own local storage.

Also there are ways you could sync local storage accross all of your devices and browsers... but that is another topic.

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Test Posts is a simpe workaround as @LogicalDrm already mentioned... but if for whatever reason you wanted to you could also back up / edit it using the browser Dev tools GUI, or with JS.

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...So, in other words, you guys don't care for such a feature.

 

(shrug) Okay, then. I will just make sure my posts are saved by typing out my work mostly in a word processor first, then doing copy-and-paste. I also will likely not use the blog feature very much at all. Seems pointless to have a blog if you can't save your work more effortlessly, but whatevs.

 

It's not that important to me, anyway. Nothing lost. Nothing gained.

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4 hours ago, ThankGodItsFriday said:

...So, in other words, you guys don't care for such a feature.

None of the people who posted are in charge of development and thus can give answer. Which is why I wrote "for now". To know whether this is easy or hard to add, you have to wait for those who know about the development. And if it's hard to implement, then you can say that it's about caring.

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Is this specifically for blogs, or for forum topics/posts? I believe blogs do support that (or at least used to, and I'm not sure if that's just a moderator permission or something, I would need to check if that is what you're asking about).

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On 7/24/2024 at 11:26 PM, colonel_mortis said:

Is this specifically for blogs, or for forum topics/posts? I believe blogs do support that (or at least used to, and I'm not sure if that's just a moderator permission or something, I would need to check if that is what you're asking about).

Yep. @ThankGodItsFriday As a user of the blog feature for folding events I've used this in the past... It is already built in... Here 

 

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16 hours ago, GOTSpectrum said:

Yep. @ThankGodItsFriday As a user of the blog feature for folding events I've used this in the past... It is already built in... Here 

 

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Ah, good to know! Thanks!

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