Opening Articles counts as an "edit"

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· World management ·
By Isaac Thompson on 11/21/2025
· Assigned to Dimitris

When opening articles in edit mode in the new Athena viewer, articles will save, resulting in them being put to the top of the recently edited list.   Occasionally (such as after a hard-refresh of the page), the first article to be opened will not prompt a save, but all subsequent articles will trigger an auto-save ~1 second after opening.   These erroneous "edits" clutter the recently edited list and making rereading older work for continuity/refresh more complicated.

Steps to Reproduce

  • Open WA
  • Open article/world manager
  • Click on an article and make no edits
  • It will auto-save
  • Operating System

    Windows

    Browser

    Firefox

    Related Entity

    Athena dashboard viewer (/desktop)

    History

    Graylion @ 21 Nov, 2025 08:19:45

    This will have an impact on articles after a competition like Summer Camp and World Ember closes.

    Dimitris @ 23 Nov, 2025 05:46:04 Assignee

    Hey guys - this was the case but we fixed it days ago.

    I cannot replicate this behaviour any longer - can you?

    Which editor are you using?

    Dimitris @ 23 Nov, 2025 05:46:07 Assignee
    Assigned Dimitris
    Isaac Thompson @ 23 Nov, 2025 05:52:50

    This behaviour is definitely still occurring for me (I would not have made the report otherwise, and no updates have been published since I submitted it).   I use the Euclid advanced editor

    Dimitris @ 27 Nov, 2025 05:35:45 Assignee

    This is related with the fact that the "display all prompts" feature is activated. We are working to fix this but you can always disable it to fix it temporarily

    Isaac Thompson @ 27 Nov, 2025 07:35:41

    Glad to hear you've narrowed in on what feature is impacting this!   Unfortunately, I already had that feature disabled before I made the report, and re-disabling it hasn't had an impact. I'll look forward to the fix in future :)

    Dimitris @ 28 Nov, 2025 04:02:13 Assignee

    Isaac, I took the liberty to run some tests to your account and I can confirm that on our end this is not happening.

    Can you please try to access your account via incognito mode or another browser?

    Isaac Thompson @ 28 Nov, 2025 05:32:45

    The edit saves continue to occur in an incognito Firefox window, but didn't occur when I tried it on Edge. I'm not currently sure what possible combination of browser settings and win11 fuckery is causing it to occur in Firefox for me, but at least I know there is a (very unideal) workaround.