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Add a Version Control to Articles to see the last 10 Saves

New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by Darknavigator
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Version-Control Articles Recover-Work Data-Recovery -DM World-Management

The Foundation of this service is counting on the work you do being available when and how you need it

  I just lost about 6 hours of work on writing up a combat report from a game session. I am not sure how it happened but only the most recent changes (conclusion) are on the article and all of the combat is not. This is deeply concerning as the entire reason I use and subscribe to this service is to have access to the content I am making.  If I cannot count of this being stable and recovery friendly it is hard to rationalize the cost. Version control solves this problem.   
I was surprised that I could not roll the saves back to another save time stamp.  
This is incredibly cheap technically since this is all just text based. It should be easy to implement as well.   
My suggestion is adding a tab (as seen above) that when opened would allow you to see the last 10 (or more would be great) time stamp saves of an article.  It would give you the ability to roll back the changes you made to that point.

The Team's Response

Please read previous requests before submitting.   As a clarification to Toblin's note - we are working on something like that in the future.
Current score

3/300 Votes · +800 points

Votes Cast

  • +300

    by Toblin
    on 2022-08-01 23:32
    As much as I know this is going to get shut down, I would still like to voice my support for this.   I don't even need versioning-control á la Github. All I need is a rollback to last save or maybe even last two saves. Just so I can get my work back from that goddamn autosave wiping my articles every so often.
  • +100

    by BCGR_Wurth
    on 2022-08-01 22:30
  • +100

    by Tijmuhn
    on 2022-08-01 22:03
  • +300

    by Darknavigator
    on 2022-08-01 21:30