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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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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This has also been an issue for me. I'd love a confirmation dialogue when exiting a comment/post window if you have typed something, like "Exit? Yes/No/Save Draft". And of course mass deleting saved drafts would be good. I do it manually in batches but it's quite bothersome.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago

    I saw your post actually - it would be a good way to address the piling up Drafts a tually, because I could just not save the draft unless I wanted to in the first place.

    TBH your proposal has more functionality amd avoids my issue altogether. Multiple birds one stone.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Added to the roadmap.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    While on the topic of drafts, I have some other ideas, and I might as well run this by you to see if it's feasible.

    I would love to have the opinion to "pin" drafts (to be used for templates for example), and for default behaviour to be that when you select an unpinned draft from your draft list, that draft is marked for automatic deletion if you end up actually pressing the "send" button.

    This way you could have the best of both worlds: you can keep your templates easily accessible while your temporary reply drafts kind of clean themselves out automatically.

    Don't know how technically feasible it would be to implement, though, or whether it'd be worth the hassle.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Can you give like a concrete example of how you would use this? It will help me figure out the best way to implement the feature. Thank you.

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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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    • [–] 3 points 2 months ago*

    Go to Settings --> Drafts and you should be able to set all your drafts there to delete them?

    Edit: oh ignore me you're asking about a mass delete. My bad.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I went overboard and I am adding two new ways to delete them in the next version. One where you can long press to be able to select multiple items to delete at once and also a delete all button.

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