# Allow multiple ‘new topic’ drafts **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Hifihedgehog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hifihedgehog/32/140207_2.png) [@Hifihedgehog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Hifihedgehog)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-multiple-new-topic-drafts/194427/15 "2022-01-28T14:51:13Z")
Out of curiosity, I started playing around with the draft feature since my forum is trying to restart and resume decades of popular threads. So it seems the functionality is already there to have multiple drafts if the drafts are replies to preexisting threads. The gotchas are these: The first is if you are wanting to draft up multiple new threads. There is where the interface will only let you resummon your one and only one thread draft. I can see why people might be frustrated about that. In some ways, that seems counterintuitive given how you can have multiple reply drafts, albeit only one reply draft per thread, which itself is another downside I will touch on later. Since you are reviewing this multiple drafts functionality, let me offer a solution and some suggestions. Can we just have unlimited drafts, both at the forum level and at the thread level, period? From the thread level, you might be responding to different conversation paths. That is one instance where you might be having multiple drafts going. You are responding to posts with different subtopics or different users under that thread topic and want to break it up into multiple, easily digestible posts. Responding in a single megapost might not be the best solution especially when it could quickly become a wall of text. The reasons for having multiple thread drafts is already abundantly clear: different threads being drafted. Here is a proposed solution: when you hit the new topic or the reply button in the forum and thread views, respectively, maybe offer these four options in a dialog box: - Resume draft - New draft and keep old draft(s) - New draft and replace last draft - New draft and delete all drafts If that is too many options, that was intentional. I erred with going with too many options rather than too little. I believe design-wise it gives you guys more considerations given the diversity of workflows there might be. Then again, you might be 1000 steps ahead of me and already have a solution forming internally that adequately resolves all of this. And if not, and if you are thinking this is probably more of an edge case, maybe this functionality can be toggled either via a future admin or user setting that is intentionally disabled by default and/or only brought in via a plugin? --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-multiple-new-topic-drafts/194427)._