We're All Here. Now What? (Basic Tutorial)

[needscoffee]

@Doug_K

I do not like that “feature”. At all. There are times when I’ll start writing a reply to something, then after reviewing my response before submitting deciding it’s better to just let it go. I do not want the system to be able to “see” what I was writing until I submit it. If it’s saved somewhere, that means someone can read what I decided I didn’t want to say after all

Doesn’t your email program save your drafts until you explicitly send or delete them?

[Doug_K]

@needscoffee

Doesn’t your email program save your drafts until you explicitly send or delete them?

Not automatically. If I close the window before sending it will ask if I want to save a draft. And then it only saves it on my computer, not on a server where someone else could potentially see it.

[Eyebrows_0f_Doom]

Well then that’s just another antiquated piece of software. Every email program I use saves drafts automatically without asking, and if I sign into my account on a different computer, the draft is still there.

[Yookeroo]

@Doug_K

If it’s saved somewhere, that means someone can read what I decided I didn’t want to say after all.

You really think anyone cares enough that they’ll be looking through your drafts?

@Doug_K

I guess Discourse thinks phone users can’t understand words and need pictures on the buttons.

Maybe it’s to save space? Phone screens are smaller than computer screens.

[Doug_K]

@Eyebrows_0f_Doom

Well then that’s just another antiquated piece of software. Every email program I use saves drafts automatically without asking, and if I sign into my account on a different computer, the draft is still there.

No, it’s not antiquated. It’s a modern mail client. Saving to “the cloud” without asking is a horrible security risk.

@Yookeroo

Maybe it’s to save space? Phone screens are smaller than computer screens.

It doesn’t save any space. In fact, there’s a bunch of empty space next to the button on the phone interface. You could fit the words “Discard your reply” in there and still not crowd the UI.

[needscoffee]

@Doug_K

@needscoffee

Doesn’t your email program save your drafts until you explicitly send or delete them?

Not automatically. If I close the window before sending it will ask if I want to save a draft. And then it only saves it on my computer, not on a server where someone else could potentially see it

I’m only familiar with Outlook, Gmail, and Yahoo, all of which save your draft for you, and have done so for many years. At first I found it annoying, but quickly came to appreciate not losing my work in the event of a crash.

[Doug_K]

Gmail and Yahoo are both webmail interfaces, not email clients. I use Gmail for my provider, but I access my mail using a real mail client. Usually Apple Mail when booted in MacOs, or more rarely Thunderbird when booted in Windows. (My system can dual boot.) Apple mail will save drafts on the server if that’s how you set it in preferences, but I don’t. It’s actually not recommended to let it save drafts on the server, because it can cause weird sync issues resulting in multiple drafts for the same message.