Posts aren’t abandoned from the abandon post prompt.
Clicking cancel in the draft successfully abandons it though.
Reproduced here on meta.
AI-generated summary
Can’t dismiss post.
Stephen reported an issue where clicking “abandon post” does not actually abandon the post. codinghorror requested eviltrout to investigate. Stephen provided more details on how to reproduce the issue, but eviltrout couldn’t reproduce it. tgxworld was able to consistently reproduce the issue by creating a draft post, navigating elsewhere, and then hitting the back button. tgxworld submitted a pull request to fix the issue on GitHub. The issue was confirmed and a solution is in progress.
Hmm can you have a look @eviltrout?
What are the steps to reproduce? Did you click reply, fill in text and then click edit to trigger the abandon post prompt?
Most recently it was with a draft response to an existing thread thread. When I browsed back to the thread in question with my reply minimised a prompt asked if I wanted to abandon my draft. Clicked to abandon the draft, but it persists.
Still occurs now.
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I’ve had this happen to me when I am using the shortcut C key to edit a post. @steve_pd are you editing the post by using a shortcut or by clicking the buttons?
Hmm why is there a prompt to abandon when you navigate back to the topic? There must be an action to trigger the prompt. 
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I’ve tried to reproduce this but can’t seem to do so. Can you give explicit steps to follow to get it to happen? I’ve tried going into a topic, starting a post, entering another, hitting reply, then abandon and it works.
The more specific the better 
Would love to fix it.
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Ok I just ran into this and am able to repro consistently.
- Create a draft post and wait for it to be saved
- Navigate somewhere else
- Hit back
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Submitted a PR here
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3773
Guess who broke it 
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Hurrah! So I wasn’t imagining it? XD
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