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Does Stack Overflow have a draft saving feature? [duplicate]
Every time I type a question in Stack Overflow , I occasionally see a "Draft Saved" string under the question area. Does this mean that Stack Overflow has a draft saving feature? If so, how is it used?...
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Draft questions feature request [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting
Sometimes it takes really long time to write a question, so "draft question" feature will be really useful. ...
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Save incomplete questions [duplicate]
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Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting
Just wondering are there any plans to enable saving of incomplete questions, allowing you to finish them off and submit ...
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Old question keeps reappearing in the form for asking a new question [duplicate]
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Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting
I'd like to ask a new question on SO, but when I click the "Ask Question" button, the form is pre-filled with all my ...
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Ability to save partial answer as a draft [duplicate]
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Allow questions to be saved as drafts prior to posting
Some answers take a while to complete, and sometimes they require more than one seating for completion. It would be nice ...
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Refreshing when answering questions on Stack Exchange can save a draft? [duplicate]
I accidentally refreshed when I'am answering a question. Can that save a draft?
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How long is a draft question preserved, and where do I find it? [duplicate]
I hit the six question limit and cannot post my most important question of the month.
SE says my post is saved as a draft.
How long will it be accessible, and where do I fish it out to post it when ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Help us improve the user profile and settings
Update: Findings are shared here.
You might know the user profile and settings. It’s what appears after you click on your profile picture.
Maybe you come here to track your Q&A activity or to ...
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Stack Exchange Glossary - Dictionary of Commonly-Used Terms
What are the common phrases, words, abbreviations that are used on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Meta Stack Overflow, and the other Stack Exchange sites?
This is meant to be a very quick ...
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Add "Answer Later" Tab
I think it would be useful to add an "Answer Later" tab that would be similar to the "Favorites" tab so you could mark questions to answer at a later time. There are so many times I see a question ...
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Manually clear saved question drafts
I've seen lately that new question editing is stored somewhere for later use if we wander off the new question without posting it and then return back to the page. Which is a good functionality ...
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List all my drafts
In GMAIL you can list all your boss-tell-off and wife-cuss-out emails by clicking Drafts
I'd like to see my started-but-never-finished responses, possibly between x Answers and y Votes in /<<...
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Stackoverflow ate my answer
Um. That was really nasty. I just wrote an answer for a question on Stack Overflow, complete with JavaScript code. When I submitted it, I received a "down for maintenance" screen. When I hit the back ...
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"User X is writing an answer" - banner to appear when another user is writing too
Is there a way to notify me that another user is writing an answer?
Some (mainly simple) questions get duplicate answers just for that reason: A user starts answering while another user has almost ...
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Add an option to save drafts manually
Since manually saving drafts via shortcut keys was removed, I think it's appropriate to request a manual save button or other option now.
There really should be some option to force the save. I really ...
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Add a clear button when a saved draft is loaded [duplicate]
I can't believe this has not been asked, but I can't find it, so here it goes.
The save draft feature is cool, but I had a question that I figured out half way through. It would be nice to have a ...
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What are the details/implementation of the draft feature?
As per the title, curious about any implementation details that can be revealed.
I don't see any details in the StackExchange Data Explorer that indicate how they might be stored.
Particularly, I'm ...
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How do I delete the draft posting? [duplicate]
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Add a clear button when a saved draft is loaded
How do I delete these draft things? I wrote an answer to a question then decided not to post but the draft answer won't go away....
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Watch List in StackOverflow
I think it would be very useful if SO added a Watch List feature. More than once I have arrived at a question and wanted to reply but I had no time at that moment or needed time to prepare some code ...
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Which tags on stackoverflow do you think needs to be improved and how? [closed]
Based on your experience in the tags that you're active in, do you think that activities[*] in certain tags more than others need improvement? What do you think are the problems, and how would you ...
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What happened to the "discard" button?
Often I start typing a question on SO and then figure out the answer halfway through. I used to just click discard, but lately it seems to have vanished. Where did it go?
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Draft a question
Would it be possible to draft a post/questions, as this could be good in creating, editing and formatting questions prior to posting them.
I have searched the meta and found this post in reference to ...
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Confirm post preview for low-rep posts
Those of us who have been using SO (or any SE site for that matter) for a while know that the box where we type our text is not identical to what is posted (because of various markdown capabilities we ...
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Expand draft feature to allow multiple drafts
The draft feature was discussed a lot here and in other posts, but I didn't see much talk about the OP's mention of being able to have multiple.
Optionally, allow multiple draft questions and a ...
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Has pasting images directly into the upload box been dropped? Or is it just me?
Very recently (May 2014) it was possible to paste images directly from the clipboard into the SE "add an image" dialog. I'm not sure when this feature was added but it was probably after this question ...
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To whom is a saved draft visible?
I just would like to know if a question or an answer saved draft is visible to someone else, apart from the OP.
Will a copy of a saved draft remain visible even after it has been deleted? Who has ...
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Seeking to reduce Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange suspension period? [closed]
I've been suspended for a week on Stack Overflow.
Is there any way to reduce this suspension period on Stack Overflow or any suspension period on any site in the Stack Exchange network?
I've ...
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"Holding queue" for questions over the rate limit
Is it possible to have a holding queue for questions that are over the rate limit?
User perspective: I just found out today that there is a rate limit of 6 per day. It's a hurtful discovery after ...
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Oops something bad happened? When will this happen?
I was answering a question, and suddenly I got the following error twice in a row.
Why is this error occuring? Can I do anything to avoid it?
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Don't warn about leaving the page if the text in question has a draft saved
Now that there's a draft feature, it seems unnecessarily annoying to warn about leaving the page for answers that have been saved as drafts, when they can be trivially recovered.
While drafts are ...
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How do I recover my unposted draft message if my computer crashes before I've posted it?
AFAIK, my question is different from Recover an accidently deleted post [closed].
When I'm composing a post at SO, I've noticed at some point in time there will be a message that appears above the ...
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Users should be able to save an answer draft on a closed question if it's edited for reopening
I recently came across a question that had been closed for being unclear, but I think I knew what the asker meant, so I edited the question and checked the box to have it reviewed for reopening.
I ...
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Better drafts feature for questions [duplicate]
The current draft functionality is at best quite lame.
I think it would be easier to ask better questions if I could draft my questions and have any number of drafts I like, like in a standard email ...
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Are answer drafts kept if a question is deleted?
Say I am writing an answer and it is successfully saved as a draft. Then the OP deletes the question before I post my draft. What happens then? Is my draft available anywhere? Will I see it if I am a ...
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How long do saved drafts exist?
When I type an answer to any question and suddenly decide I have better things to do, the answer gets saved as a draft.
If I return to that question say a week later, will my draft still exist? I ...
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Draft is lost way before the one week limit
I have found my page apple.stackexchange.com/questions/ask empty.
I had started to write a question, my draft was at most 3 days old. My draft was way younger than 1 week. So it was supposed to be ...
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"Ask a Question" question box has previously asked question
I asked a question yesterday and today I have another, but when I click on the "Ask Question" button the text box where you type the contents of the question is filled in with the previous question. I ...
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Is the save draft keyboard binding broken?
Ctrl+S doesn't work for me on any of the sites.
When my cursor is focused in the textarea and I hit Ctrl+S I get the browser default of saving the entire webpage rather than saving my draft.
I'm ...
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There should be an Ask Question with delay feature
Its know that certain times of the day are better for asking questions than others. Sometimes someone has a very strange question, or has another good reason to game the time the question gets asked. ...
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Ask Question description box filled with default message [closed]
Is this something new?
When I go to "Ask Question" my editor has a default message "Have you seen http://superuser.com..." loaded into. Here is a screenshot of it:
I have never seen my editor ...
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Create local temporary answer cache
I've just spent 15 minutes writing a reasonably detailed answer to a question on CSS. I scroll down to click post and I get a damn access violation error that crashes the browser and kills my answer. ...
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Min time allowed to edit a question before closing it [duplicate]
Hi
Look at the bellow question. It was asked just 2 mins before and was closed immediately. I think the user was not given enough time to edit his/her question. alt text http://img535.imageshack.us/...
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Why can't I immediately self-answer as a community wiki?
Why is it not possible to self-answer your own question immediately while marking it as community wiki?
As I understand it, with a community wiki answer you won't get any points out of it, and it's ...
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Ask question bug [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Ask a Question” question box has previously asked question
I meet a little strange event today: while I'm editing a question, suddenly I remember that I have ...
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'Ask Question' button on Stack Overflow populates with a previous question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Ask a Question” question box has previously asked question
IE7, Windows Server 2003 (Terminal Server)
And
IE8, Windows XP SP3
As usual I opened up Stack Overflow ...
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Please reduce the timer for _cross site_ consecutive questions
The time limit between asking questions is 40 minutes!!. This applies to all sites alike. I am on some 5 sites [linked with one account]. Asking the question on one site sets the clock ticking on all. ...
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Does SO, et. al. now remember partially entered answers between page loads?
I wasn't sure if this was a new feature I was seeing or a quirk in my browser/session. I was answering a question on SO and decided not to finish it (I realized I didn't know as much about the ...
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Autosave for draft not working properly on Puzzling
I was working on my latest puzzle for Puzzling.SE, and I decided to take a break and do something off-computer. Having had some minor difficulties with the draft auto-save on the SE network before, I ...
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Support saving self-answered questions as drafts
Drafts of unsubmitted questions and answers on Stack Exchange are automatically saved every 45 seconds. However, saved drafts don't support self-answered questions. This means if you leave the ask ...
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