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Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Editing/Make edits auto-recoverable if the editor's network crashes

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Make edits auto-recoverable if the editor's network crashes

  • Problem: An WP edit is lost when the editor's network goes down.
  • Who would benefit: Any editor who doesn't develop a post off-line.
  • Proposed solution: Like GMail, routinely autosave an editor's in-progress work.
  • More comments: Again, like GMail, create periodic saved-data (a snapshot of work to date) that can easily take over from the lost data of whatever type (message, article text, etc.)
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: BrettA343 (talk) 23:36, 20 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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