Community Suggestion: Add a direct save button on articles


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Add a direct save button on articles

New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by IanoraDMs
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save safety articles autosave

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

If you make the mistake of writing a full article out on an adhd hyperfocus fueled kick of motivation and you click back to your article pages before the autosave pops up you lose all your work which is awful. plus its never a negative to have some redundancy in this kind of thing

How does this feature request address the current situation?

there's already save buttons on a lot of things and it always makes me feel safer to save it actively just in case.

What are other uses for this feature request?

it'd also let me save myself from crying after losing my work

The Team's Response

Thanks for the suggestion! Manual save buttons will not be coming back, and the ones that remain will eventually be removed too for consistency.   Articles and how they save are a core functionality of World Anvil, so we've done very extensive testing on this. We can only identify two reasons why work may be lost:
  1. An article is left open for a long time and the server logs you out (and therefore nothing can be saved). There's a clear warning that's supposed to appear if that happens, so we'll be running some tests to see if the warning is failing to show.
  2. You have the same article open for editing in multiple tabs, browsers, or devices. We might be able to do something about this in the future, but not at this moment (for technical reasons).
  The issues reported with auto-saving are not directly related to the saving system itself but to the two points listed above, which means that a manual save button would still cause the same issues (and more, which is why it was removed).
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19/300 Votes · +4600 points

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  • +300

    by KaeronD
    on 2025-02-17 09:21
    Yes please

  • +100

    by A Uncontrollable Cthulhu
    on 2025-02-15 05:56

  • +300

    by Kittymonster
    on 2025-02-14 17:23

  • +300

    by Gibsonb
    on 2025-02-14 02:59

  • +100

    by oaster2000
    on 2025-02-13 14:13
    I would normally vote this higher, but I do know that there are ways to manually re-add the save button for any guild members through CSS. Though I do think having a save button makes sense (hence why I have it on mine)

  • +300

    by LittleRaider
    on 2025-02-08 15:43

  • +300

    by Mochimanoban
    on 2025-02-06 21:23
    I will forever hope for the return of manual save... but I know it'll never happen. I've lost three whole articles thanks to auto save :(

  • +300

    by grinningsatyr
    on 2025-02-05 17:40

  • +300

    by AuraGuard
    on 2025-02-03 22:46
    Sometimes the autosave icon doesn't show up because of connection issues (which, connection issues from power lines going down is not a bug, and cannot be fixed with code), and having a manual save I can use would be good for peace of mind, because then I'll know if stuff is actually going through or not.

  • +300

    by Fearandramen
    on 2025-02-03 19:23

  • +100

    by Roboter09
    on 2025-02-02 18:19
    The save function can be quite buggy in general. Even in Quick Edit, the automatic save sometimes deletes paragraphs. I've lost whole paragraphs multiple times, which is very annoying and demotivating.

  • +300

    by Akmedrah
    on 2025-02-02 09:52
    The little bits and pieces of my sould that are left yearn for this.

  • +300

    by Sevvins
    on 2025-02-01 21:39

  • +300

    by Jupiter Melichios
    on 2025-01-31 22:11
    Removing the manual save function was a negative in literally every possible way for end users, and the autosave is buggy as all hell, but unfortunately this has been requested multiple times and they always deny it (without explaining why). Still upvoting though because maybe they'll eventually either listen or explain why they won't do it!

  • -1

    by A Adorable Orc
    on 2025-01-28 14:27

  • +1

    by WeStanNikolai
    on 2025-01-28 09:19
    I do, on principle, agree with this, however I think this has been suggested and denied before.

  • +300

    by A Cute Devil
    on 2025-01-27 17:36
    Not sure why they removed it. Like you said, even if it's redundant it doesn't hurt to also have a direct save button.

  • +100

    by A Mischievous Kitten
    on 2025-01-27 10:30

  • +300

    by A Enfeebled T-Rex
    on 2025-01-26 22:13
    This used to be a thing, until the devs decided to take it away from us.

  • +300

    by IanoraDMs
    on 2025-01-26 20:58

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