too many times I've accidentally gone to another page while writing some post, or my internet went out when i clicked "submit" while trying to create a post. it would be nice if a "current draft" could be autosaved so i could come back and finish/submit the post without having to retype it all over again

huh my browser is doing this already. :o if i accidentally close the tab at least and reopen it.

my guess is that kleeder's example might be happening because of a browser-specific feature to retain form data. but it's actually not hard at all to just do onchange() on the textarea and tell it to store the draft in cache. depends on puke's design sensibilities i think

probably should make it so it only stores one unsaved message instead of assigning one for every thread. but i have no idea what the standards on that are

dsf asdf asd fasdf asdf asdf asdf asdf

the last post was a test

i think i have this working

its all based on your current machine / browser
aka not tied to your account

uses localStorage

for what it's worth - it saves my comment if i navigate away, but if i navigate away *again* having changed my comment to something else, it still uses the previous comment

like i tested it with "afsdfasfs" and it worked, then changed it to "working for me" and tried again and it still brings back "afsdfasfs"

maybe kind of an edge scenario but i thought i'd mention it :)


edit: also i'm on current google chrome in win10 if that's useful

i just tested that and couldn't recreate what you were saying

might need a hard refresh? ctrl-shift-r?

i tried in both firefox and chrome on win10

hey this seems to work great, thanks! and yeah localStorage is what I was thinking too tbh (this isn't really as necessary cross-machine? lol)

and yeah @dami I can't reproduce what you're saying either. I'm on firefox mobile for android lol

i tried again and it works as intended this time (even without hard refreshing), so i'm not sure what happened! perhaps just something happened with chrome after all, thanks for checking though