This really really bugs me when I am writing epic topics on meta, especially when I just need a tiny break and plan to get back to stuff.
I just committed this change, which was quite big.
Following it, we no longer pop open the topic draft, instead we show:
This means you can happily author a reply to a post while your topic draft is going. I find this flow significantly better, there are 2 minor edge cases that exist
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If you go to full page search it is not “draft aware” so it has a “New Topic” button, if you click that and start authoring you will nuke your topic draft (I feel this is pretty rare so am going to hold off on correcting it)
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if you close the composer and discard the draft we correctly switch to “+ New Topic” however if you are on the tags list page and then head back to
/categoriesor/latestwithout refreshing the browser an annoying+ Open Draftcan show up. This is cause I did not figure out a clean way of poisoning the store. Anyway it is quite minor.
@mcwumbly thoughts? This is deployed on meta.