Could you make “Save Draft” the default of the “Publish Now” button? Or create an autosave function? I sometimes forget to save drafts and would find this very useful.
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This has been requested before. I definitely want this too. Those extra two clicks to constantly save the draft can be nagging, not to mention having accidentally published early before since I misclicked x/
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Definitely annoying. I’ve taken to not drafting in the post editor at all. I write all of my content through Google Drive and then when it’s done, copy/paste insert images if needed and then queue up. That way I don’t accidentally early publish or forget to save.
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This has been requested MANY times over the years, and they refuse to do it for some reason they won’t explain. Maybe @reyna can get to the bottom of it? This would be a really EASY and HELPFUL change to make!
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at the very least for the love of all creators, make the SAVE DRAFT button a different color than the PUBLISH IMMEDIATELY button!
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I write my posts in google docs, and then cut and paste. I’ve lost posts to patreon glitching or me forgetting to save a copy before I’m done.
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I just had an instance, and I’ve had it several times before, where I was logged out while making a post. Luckily nothing was lost, I could make a new tab and re-login, then copy and paste everything over, but insane to me that this isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Once is unlucky, several is poor design.
An autosave could’ve helped there, or a way to re-login on the same page without refreshing (and losing my draft) would be nice too.
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Hi all, just wanted to jump in and say that this request isn’t being ignored. I know many of you know that our new Chief Product Officer is getting up to speed on creator requests, product updates, and the Patreon roadmap. There are a handful of requests, like a Save As Draft feature, that are top of mind and recognized as something creators are looking for. Please know we’re working on many improvements and will share more soon!
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I always forget the second confirmation click and screw up
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I feel like this is happening more often? I keep getting logged out when making posts. Really aggravating. I at least recognize the pattern now. (When it can’t save the draft, it means I’ve been logged out.) I’ve rarely been auto logged out in any other instance except when drafting a post.
Really would love an auto save. Any staff active on the forums that would like to chime in with updates about this?
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It seems peculiar to me that you’d be auto-logged out. One explanation to this, which I’ve seen from a separate issue, could be if you’re spending hours on the page, I think after two hours the site automatically refreshes (I may have botched the technical explanation here), in addition to saving frequently as a best practice, it’s recommend that you don’t have a tab/browser window open with a draft idling for more than 2 hours.
If you’re automatically being signed out, and you haven’t had the tab open for an extended period of time, it’s possible that you could be experiencing a bug (which can be reported to Support).
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It’s definitely this. At most it’s 30 minutes, but I save the draft often, every few minutes, which I would think (or hope) should reload my session? Or at least tell the site I’m still using it?
Thanks for the reply, I’ll submit a bug report.
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Please PM me your support ticket number, I’d like to follow along to get an understanding of what’s happening here, and if possible, help you get it resolved (or at least more details!)
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Hi all - This is great (and very relevant!) feedback. I’m happy to share that we’re actively working on the post creation flow right now and I’ve taken your thoughts around auto-saving drafts to the product team.
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