I’m apparently affected by the “premature posting” ailment in various communication, non-chat-focused apps.
Primarily emails (Gmail) and Discourse.
What happens is that I write my message, and I accidentally send it. This inconvenience happens too often for my taste, and it’s probably because of a keyboard shortcut, like Ctrl + Enter, or (perhaps more commonly?) Tab ↹ then Enter.
I can manage it on Gmail: there’s a short window where you can cancel the email sending. Yay! 
To completely avoid sending my post while I’m writing, I don’t fill in the recipient input. I do that last, just before sending the email.
But on Discourse, for non-PMs, it’s not possible. I tried removing the default category from the Category selector, so I would likely face a “category can’t be blank” message when sending my post, but alas, I can’t.
It’s embarrassing to prematurely submit a topic or a reply. I can delete it right away, but the content remains visible to others (they just have to click the edit icon) because this is Discourse’s default behavior. And I can’t complete the content while it’s deleted, to revert the deletion afterward.
In the end, either I keep my post incomplete (usually in the middle of a sentence or a word 
) and patiently edit it, which I don’t like because I’m also slow to write, or I delete it and write a new topic/post instead.
Since it often happens on long messages, or those I have to put a lot of thought into, I’d be happy to have a toggleable lock 
icon that completely prevents message sending.
I’m not particularly suggesting a Discourse feature for this… Unless it happens to many users 
It’s more about sharing this experience, the subsequent embarrassment of premature sending in Discourse, getting other members’ opinions, and sharing ideas to prevent it.
As for me, even a userscript would do the job. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to prevent Discourse’s keyboard shortcut from sending a post, and neither does the AI.
Are you affected by premature posting?
- Yes
- No
Would you like to be able to “lock” a composer in Discourse?
- Yes (built-in)
- Yes (third-party)
- No—I like to live on the edge
Eager to hear your thoughts!