# Users can change their preferences, not save them, and navigate away without warning

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-can-change-their-preferences-not-save-them-and-navigate-away-without-warning/26952>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Março 29, 2015, 7:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-can-change-their-preferences-not-save-them-and-navigate-away-without-warning/26952 "2015-03-29T19:23:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)\
**Post date:** [Março 30, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/users-can-change-their-preferences-not-save-them-and-navigate-away-without-warning/26952/4 "2015-03-30T14:17:13Z")

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> [@watchmanmonitor](#):
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> As a user, I can change my email preference, not see a Save button (despite them being at the top & bottom of the page) and navigate away from the Preferences page with no warning that my preferences weren’t saved.

I always wondered why the UX was so different for site settings vs. user profile settings. The next-to-field save/revert buttons in the admin tools are quite nice and ensures things are changed as desired.

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