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How clean up Drafts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/summit@lemmy.world
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Do I have a habit of starting to write a comment, then go "nevermind why am I bothering". Or I started saying something that I decoded is dumb and aborted (you're all welcome). Well at this point I have hundreds.

I can't find a way to delete them other then 1 by 1 and hitting confirmation each time. Am I missing something?

I thought about backup and delete storage or uninstall, but the DB backup that has settings in it also backs up drafts... I tried toggling save drafts off and on but that only applies to new drafts.

I guess I'd rather just not have drafts than have a forever growing pile but something like a setting to delete after X time would be a great feature. But in the short term, delete all seems like it would be relatively straightforward to implement?

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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

Which of the features?

For templates I would think just long pressing a draft and then there'd be an icon to pin it next to the icon to delete it. Maybe pinned drafts are also on top of the draft list. I've used templates before for example in my posts about The International on the Dota2 community, where you need to post something very similar repeatedly.

For automatic deletion I was imagining it happening in the background. When you tap an unpinned draft from the list a silent condition is set, and if you press Send while that condition is set then the draft you tapped gets automatically deleted as you send the comment/post. Does that make sense?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Regarding my question, I meant if you could give me an example of how you would use template. I think I understand the use case (eg. posting game results which has a lot of boilerplate and distinct format). I actually worked on some template related features in Summit for a different use case. I can look into expanding templates to posts as well. Added to the roadmap.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    If you look at my recent posts for The International 2026, then those are perfect examples of what you can use templates for.

    It's also useful in comments some times, although of course a much less common use case. But there are definitely for example recurring questions that you give the same answer to every time that could be useful to have a template for. Or informative comments for example to new users where you have a collection of links etc.

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