The discussion revolves around the placement and behavior of the reset button in the Admin Settings panel. rewphus suggests moving the reset button to a different location to avoid accidental clicks, which could cause loss of settings due to loading times or twitchy fingers. An alternative solution proposed by kensims is to have the reset button reset to default values and present the save/cancel buttons, requiring an additional step to overwrite existing values. erlend_sh suggests adding counter-measures, such as a confirmation dialog or a temporary dimming of the reset button, to prevent accidental clicks. Steven shares a personal experience of losing settings due to the reset button and provides a workaround by retrieving the old list from the Staff action logs.
Excuse me if there is an existing post for this, but I couldn’t find one.
I don’t believe that the reset button in the Admin Settings panel should appear in the same location as the confirm/cancel buttons as it could easily cause you to lose your setting with a simple double click brought on by loading times, twitchy fingers, etc…
This just happened to me for that exact scenario. I had a long list of whitelisted onebox domains, and lost them all because of a funky loading issue/impatient fingers. I actually don’t remember reset auto-confirming either, meaning that when you click reset, even though it flashes the confirm/cancel buttons it doesn’t actually allow you to choose one. I can’t say I have used it enough to remember how it always performed, however. If it’s always been that way, I’m not sure that it should be.
It’s not a top priority, but I would recommend simply moving the reset button to a slightly different location to avoid this potential issue, and maybe not auto-confirming on reset?
Maybe the reset button should just reset back to the default values and present the save/cancel buttons, so you would have to press reset and then have to save values to actually overwrite your values.
And this part also so that you would have to move the cursor to get from the reset location to the save location.
It doesn’t need to be moved. There could just be some counter-measures added in:
If reset is clicked within 1 second of saving, it will trigger a “are you sure? yes/no” confirmation dialog instead of friction-free rollback.
OR, make the button dimmed-out and unclickable for the 1st second (as opposed to completely hiding it, as that might induce a feeling of unresponsiveness).