How do I ensure my draft will be saved when I can no longer see the "save draft for later" button?

Thanks for telling me. I cannot see texts that appear on hover on my tablet, that’s why I didn’t know about it, but that’s also why it doesn’t really help me.

But I am curious: What does the button say when you click “new topic” and enter only a few characters into the composer? Discourse doesn’t save drafts with less than the minimum required characters, so I wonder what the text on hover says in this case. Does it still say “save and close” then, and does it really save your draft in that case? Or does it simply say “close” without “save”?

I know this sounds like I would also lose only a few characters in that case, but actually you can quote quite a few posts and enter only a few characters and decide to continue later. Since Discourse doesn’t count characters in quotes, I sometimes stay below 20 characters before I decide to continue later. That’s how I lost quite a few drafts, and finding all those quotes again is not that fun. That’s why I prefer to ensure my draft actually gets saved.

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