# Allow multiple ‘new topic’ drafts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-multiple-new-topic-drafts/194427
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** drafts
**Created:** [June 19, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-multiple-new-topic-drafts/194427 "2021-06-19T23:24:46Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2022, 10:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-multiple-new-topic-drafts/194427/10 "2022-01-14T22:11:55Z")

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I have a Discourse for Teams customer asking about the fact that it is possible to have multiple topic _replies_ in flight at the same time but you can only have one _new topic_ in flight at a time. I myself have often found myself in the position when I am in the middle of writing a longer new topic and want to hit the pause button so I can add a reply to something else.

The current workarounds appear to be to do one of the following:

1. cancel and copy/paste post into a text editor elsewhere
2. cancel and copy/paste post into a PM to yourself
3. save as [shared draft](https://meta.discourse.org/t/shared-drafts-allow-staff-to-collaborate-on-posts-before-publishing/83493) (if you are staff and happy to have other staff see your draft before it is published)

These are all fairly unwieldy and unfriendly to the user, especially in a Teams context where users may be working on several new topics at a time and also may not be very comfortable or happy about workarounds. Is there a particular reason why this is not currently possible? Could we build it?

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