# 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: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 11:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-multiple-new-topic-drafts/194427/20 "2022-05-12T23:45:32Z")

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It is a fundamental limitation of the current design and would require multiple weeks of engineering to amend. Not in our priority list for now.

It gets extra complicated cause how do you even start reasoning about multiple post drafts on a single topic, the cognitive overhead is huge.

> [@amundo](#):
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> It seems that the correct way to make a new topic (i.e., unconnected to the draft) is to select and delete the content in the editor — all the text and all the drop-downs.

I think this all stems from the expectation that a topic can have N drafts. Given the underlying limitation where topics can only have 1 draft, this is the only way to solve it. If we allowed you to start a second new topic it would override the existing draft, as currently implemented.

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