'Remember saved draft' feature should remember access status

[vass]

Title:
'Remember saved draft' feature should remember access status

Area:
entries

Summary:
The 'remember saved draft' feature should, as well as remembering your text, remember whether your entry was private, filtered, access-locked, or public.

Description:
Here's the scenario: you are writing something you only want a few people to know. You select the correct access filter. You type your entry. Your browser crashes. You restore it, but forget to re-check the filters. Alas! The caching mechanism remembers your draft, but forgets that it was filtered. You hit post, and everyone who reads your journal can see the private post. All die, oh the embarrassment.

This should not happen. The 'remember saved draft' feature should remember your access level.

Poll #5571 'Remember saved draft' feature should remember access status

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 71

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Should be implemented as-is.
61 (85.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (14.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[syderia]

Won't the new update page take care of that ?

[azurelunatic]

Indeed!

A user is reading their reading page and sees an entry about something they know their friend would never post publicly about, and comments on it. Sadly, the comment contains their address, and a homicidal extremist visits. The resulting battle obliterates a nearby power station, which triggers a chain reaction and explodes all power stations. All die. O, the embarrassment!

[the_shoshanna]

This doesn't happen already? I would have thought it was a no-brainer. Eep.

[azurelunatic]

I think it entirely possibly might be more classifiable as "bug" than "lack of feature".

[sophie]

I'd say it was a bug, considering that we updated that draft feature from LJ to save all the other bits too.

[kareila]

Wasn't there another suggestion/bug recently saying we also overlooked the "Post to" field? These should probably be combined in the same bug, or at least reference each other so they can be worked on at the same time.

[marahmarie]

I love this suggestion. I have wanted exactly this since I was still on LJ, which also made no attempt (at least, not Back In The Day) to remember any such setting. :)