autosave comments on macrumors

[applefan8254]

kind of wish macrumors had an autosave function for comments. I'm typing this on my phone. Before this though I was typing a reply to a post. I went to another app related to the comment I was making. Came back and my message was there for a second before the webpage reloaded and the comment was deleted. So I guess I figure it would be nice if the comments and posts would autosave to avoid issues like that. Like even now I'm going to press the post button because I don't want to lose what I'm typing here accidentally.

 

[applefan8254]

Edit/ update - I went back just now to the thread in question and my comment reloaded. So maybe the site already *has* the autosave feature. Unless it's browser based. Not sure. Either way, I got it back, so potentially "never mind" to this post but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Weaselboy]

the forum software does autosave drafts. You can manually manage this under the three dots on the right side of your post.

 

[chown33]

To me, the "Save draft" menu is often too fiddly to access, so I click the Preview button that's shown above it in the screenshot. Doing so always saves the current draft.

It's one click vs. three (meatball menu > floppy icon > Save draft), and the Preview button is larger than the meatball menu or the floppy icon.

Preview is also much simpler to use if you're in "raw" mode (the [] icon), in which the BB tags appear directly.