Saving Blogs for Later

[ThankGodItsFriday]

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.

[danalog]

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.

[ThankGodItsFriday]

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.

[LogicalDrm]

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.

[Biohazard777]

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.

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:

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:

And looks like it is borked, it didn't restore anything...
but clicking on "Add a description..." will actually display the restored contents:

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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PS
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.

[rikitikitavi]

 Out of curiosity, why don't you keep it local/cloud and then copy/paste into the blog when ready? Edit anytime, no worries of loosing progress.

[ThankGodItsFriday]

...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.

[LogicalDrm]

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.

[colonel_mortis]

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).

[GOTSpectrum]

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 

 

[ThankGodItsFriday]

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 

 

Ah, good to know! Thanks!