Quote from: hilariousetc on January 27, 2019, 10:31:54 AM

Quote from: aliashraf on January 27, 2019, 07:54:55 AM

I just lost like one hundred lines of text including a data sheet I was preparing to start a new topic in development & technical subforum because of the naive way the draft feature is implemented with.

The only thing that is naive here is you relying on the forum to be a permanent archive of your various writings.

Quote from: aliashraf on January 27, 2019, 08:52:59 AM

14.3 is nothing, I do a lot of edits and 7 days is nonsense.
For a serious writer it is completely possible to suspend writing a post for a while for may reasons, doing more research, finding some lost reference material, carrying out some calculations, re-thinking some points, ... it is more important use-case compared to simple redo. A compromise would be keeping a maximum of 3 last versions and removing the 7 days window for new posts/topics that are not committed yet.

If you're serious about writing anything then you shouldn't be relying on the forum to save all your work for you, especially not ones 'in progress' and being constantly revised. Use a word processor like everyone else then preview it here to see how it looks. You should always have back ups of anything digital that is important and this is nobody else's fault other than your own.

Not my style. Writing for me is not such a 'cold' process. I need to feel the temp and the atmosphere I use word processors for writing articles not forum posts, it just doesn't work for me. Additionally I use a lot of formatting features, I mean a LOT.

As of what is naive I think implementing a feature in the most trivial and lazy way is naive. Once you are ready to allocate 100 post space for drafting you need to define and implement it better than what is done here:
"Push either preview or post buttons and I'll push some garbage on the pile of other garbages for you and it is called drafting in my dictionary"
Lame!