Save post/thread as draft

[henriquemaia]

I was trying to complete an howto the other day and I found it to be a very big task to complete it in just one session/time available for that day.

I know I can prepare the whole thing using the word processor or a text editor (which is the way I now use), but I was wondering if if you guys think it is a good idea to have an option to save as draft the post/thread you are creating. This would be specially helpful when you are creating a post using the WYSIWYG method, since you could keep your changes until you decide it is good for publishing.

If size/demand on forum server would certainly more demanding, you could also create a quota of drafts one could keep.

[mattheweast]

Personally I think that when you are preparing a long post on a forum, wiki, blog or any other online service, you should do it offline - you never know when something is going to go wrong in your browser, or with the software the website is using, or with your internet connection. It's a lot safer to prepare offline.

Matt

[aysiu]

I agree with mattheweast on this one.

Most posts that are long and worthwhile should have a copy offline anyway (just for your own records).

Long posts are few and far between, and long posts that are worthwhile are even rarer.

[henriquemaia]

Personally I think that when you are preparing a long post on a forum, wiki, blog or any other online service, you should do it offline - you never know when something is going to go wrong in your browser, or with the software the website is using, or with your internet connection. It's a lot safer to prepare offline.

Matt
Yes, I know that. As I said on the post " I know I can prepare the whole thing using the word processor or a text editor". But, sometimes, you are not expecting the text to become big. Or you are to publish it and you have to go out for some reason. This option would just allow you to save the work to publish other time.

As a matter of fact, if you have session saver in Firefox, this happens (but not in a very controled manner). When I was writing the HowTo (and saving it on the word processor), I quited Firefox and on Firefox startup, there it was my non published post - but not entirely. I had this idea because of that. But I don't know if this would be practical to have on a forum. I just wanted to share the idea with you.

I agree with mattheweast on this one.

Most posts that are long and worthwhile should have a copy offline anyway (just for your own records).

Long posts are few and far between, and long posts that are worthwhile are even rarer.
You are quite right. Good advice.