Persistent text composition box in different instances of Discourse

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

@d_p

When I open a new instance of Discourse, the same text composition box that I have open in the first instance rears its persistent little head in my new instance.

This will only happen if your new instance is opened to the same topic as the one in which you’re composing a reply. Instead try something like Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click) on the site logo, you’ll get a new tab on the topic list, and the composer window will not be open in the new tab.

I think that should address the main issue here.

The only other cases I can find where this might break down are:

1. when you attempt to reply to 2 separate posts within the same topic.
2. when you attempt to do “Reply as new Topic” in two different topics.

For case #1, the recommended practice is to use the quote-reply feature and make one post.

There’s no current workaround for case #2:

@erlend_sh

At least part of the problem is that discourse doesn’t seem to support multiple New Topic drafts. I can have several drafts saved at the same time for replies, but it seems like there can only be one new topic draft saved at a time.

Is this limitation by design?

@codinghorror

Yes that is by design.

There are a number of topics discussing this so its clear there’s a desire among some segment of users to maintain multiple new topic drafts. Personally, I find it rarely needed though there have been a few occasions where I wish that feature existed.