Add Auto Save Draft

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Dear Lang-8 users,

Thank you for using our service. I'm Kazuki.

One of the major complaints we've heard from our users is like "I spent the whole time to write an entry looking up every other word in a dictionary and accidently lost everything, had to begin again..."
To prevent such a tragedy, tonight we implemented Auto Save Draft feature.
This works like GMail draft save feature. It's been autosaved in every 30 seconds after you start typing. If you want to save manually just click "Save as Draft" button.
The computer goes down? Log back into "Write a new entry" page and choose the entry you were writing from "Drafts" corner in the left column(which I pointed out in the image attached this entry).
I hope, from now on, our users feel much relieved to spend lots of time in writing entries :)

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Kazuki,
Lang-8 staff
Nov 27th 2008 23:36 Kame Sennin

Awesome!
As usual, thank you for your hard work!
Nov 27th 2008 23:51 Thorrob

This will be very helpfull. Thank you!
Nov 27th 2008 23:59 bcs

Wow, awesome! Thank you very much! (^_^)
Nov 28th 2008 00:29 Quelsi ❀

That'll be helpful. Thanks!
Nov 28th 2008 01:04 ポール

What a great idea. Thanks for that addition!
Nov 28th 2008 01:12 i

Oh! This is great! Thank you!
Nov 28th 2008 01:32 Carola

Great, thank you!
Nov 28th 2008 05:02 havarlan

Works fantastic. Thanks!
Nov 28th 2008 05:10 koko12

Thank you.It's very helpful.
By the way,why did you name this website 'Lang-8'?
Nov 28th 2008 05:44

Lang-8 = Language Infinity = No end to Knowledge here
Nov 28th 2008 09:38 Fx Tio

I'm so glad that the Lang-8 team has always being responsive to adding requested features, and I know some of these must have been hard to implement.
Nov 28th 2008 09:55 maruko

すごくいいですね!ありがとうございます!
Nov 28th 2008 10:06 namoo

That's good idea! and it's very helpful to us
Nov 28th 2008 11:45 Fievel

/woot!
Nov 28th 2008 16:49 Kepani

Awesome! Thanks!
Nov 28th 2008 17:41 Focalist

< Lang-8 = Language Infinity >

The trouble with that is that the symbol for infinity is ∞, not 8. Whatever the intentions of the founders, I'd be prepared to bet that the vast majority of users call this site "Lang Eight".
Nov 28th 2008 18:01 Ruby

I'm fresher. I haven't suffered it. However, since wire speed in my place is always slow, anything can happen.
^o^ Thank you!
Nov 28th 2008 18:34 maki

Thanks!! Actually, My IE crashed and I lost my journal the other day...
Nov 28th 2008 22:15 fishmary

Please help me
Nov 29th 2008 08:34 Crystal

More than the journal entry page, I tend to loose my information when I'm writing feed back on other people's entries. After highlighting sentences, making corrections and writing explanations, I press the "backspace" key at the wrong moment and the whole thing is gone. (T_T)
Nov 29th 2008 14:42 ljgames1

That's Awesome now I don't have to worry about losing my journals now.
Nov 29th 2008 19:53 jude

Thanks! Actually I just save my first journal last night. (^ ^)
Nov 30th 2008 00:06 mokunakoi

yay
Nov 30th 2008 11:42 waterlove

great thanks a lot
Nov 30th 2008 22:08 sarkazein

Oh, it sure happens sometimes D:
This new feature is awesome, thanx!
Dec 01st 2008 03:26 Dan

wow, that's amazing. thanks!
すごい! ありがとうございます!
Dec 01st 2008 05:25 kourai

That's a good idea !
Thank you very much !
Dec 01st 2008 13:14 Tianming

挺好的,我希望自己的英语水平有显著的提高,如果有朋友想要教我,欢迎与我联系。
Waiting for you
Dec 01st 2008 13:19 Tianming

挺好的,我希望自己的英语水平有显著的提高,如果有朋友想要教我,欢迎与我联系。
Waiting for you
Dec 02nd 2008 10:14 yuki

hey..i want to know if i want to translate some writing by Janpanese ,what should i do? help help help me
Dec 02nd 2008 10:16 maki

日本語で失礼します。すごく便利になったのですが、「確認画面」がなくなったような。できれば復活して欲しいです。
Dec 03rd 2008 01:21 Nori

私も「確認画面」の復活希望です。

普段ワープロソフトで文書作成してスペルチェックをかけてから、コピーしていますので、「確認画面」機能がなくなったせいで逆に不便になりました。

できれば復活をよろしくお願いします。
Dec 04th 2008 09:06 seanvol

That's a very clever idea!
Dec 04th 2008 12:54 yutian

谢谢
Dec 04th 2008 14:45 N : ♥ : O : ♥ : Y

thank you ka
Dec 04th 2008 21:02 limit

Very Useful
Dec 08th 2008 04:01 Dan

I love the draft feature, but one little thing I think should be changed is that the button should say "Save draft" not "Save as draft" because (I think) "Save as draft" gives the feeling that it's going to close this page by clicking it. I was scared to click it at first... wwww
Dec 10th 2008 10:03

I accidentally clicked on a link while writing. I clicked back and now everything is gone. It would be nice for the input text boxes to NOT have an initializer that sets the text boxes to "" (blank).

The autosave did not work for me, and i spent over 5 minutes.
Dec 13th 2008 22:53 赵陆(JOE)

很实用,不错,辛苦了
Dec 18th 2008 19:16 Ivy

恩恩加一票~很實用
Dec 19th 2008 05:53 TOMMIT

今日役に立ちました!日記書いててPCの電源が勝手に落ちたんです・・・;

でも何事もなかったかのようにDraftsの所にデータが残ってて、嬉しかったです!
あと、不意にページが戻ってしまったりする時があるから、そういうときに
ワンクリックで復帰できるのは助かります。ありがとぅ!
Dec 21st 2008 19:02

とても便利な機能です。ありがとうございます。
できましたらメッセージもdraftがあればよいと思います。
たまにメッセージを消してしまい、がっかりすることがありますので。。。
よろしくお願いいたします。
Dec 26th 2008 14:26 joyful

Best wishes to you all for Christmas Season !
Jan 06th 2009 23:15 Alan K H

great!! thanks!
Jan 07th 2009 19:06 ✖Jorgen✖

real life saver :D
Jan 11th 2009 10:01 sumayya

オートセーブもドラフト保存の機能も「使えれば」助かります。
しかし。
Draftsのカラムは、エントリを書いているときにしか表示されません。
しかもタイトルのリンクに見えるところはどこへもリンクしていません。
だいぶ探しましたが、他にドラフトへの入り口はなさそうですね。

先日、初めて、書きかけのエントリを「ドラフト保存」しました。
今のままでは、あのエントリは、ゴミになりそうです。

ちなみに利用環境は MacOSX(10.4.11。Tigerです)、Firefox3.0.5です。
Lang-8だけのために、Safariに乗換えるのはちょっと勘弁願いたいです。
May 21st 2011 19:07 Teacher Luz

  • Add Auto Save Draft
  • Add Auto Save Draft

 

  • Dear Lang-8 users,
  • Dear Lang-8 users,

 

  • Thank you for using our service.
  • Thank you for using our service.

 

  • I'm Kazuki.
  • I'm Kazuki.

 

  • One of the major complaints we've heard from our users is like "I spent the whole time to write an entry looking up every other word in a dictionary and accidently lost everything, had to begin again..."
  • One of the major complaints we've heard from our users is that, "I spent the whole time to write an entry looking up every other word in the dictionary, and accidently lost everything, and had to begin again."

 

  • To prevent such a tragedy, tonight we implemented Auto Save Draft feature.
  • To prevent such incident to happen, tonight we implement the Auto Save Draft feature.

 

  • This works like GMail draft save feature.
  • This works like Gmail "draft save" feature.

 

  • It's been autosaved in every 30 seconds after you start typing.
  • It will autosave your documents every 30 seconds after you begin typing.

 

  • If you want to save manually just click "Save as Draft" button.
  • If you want to manually save your document just click the "Save as Draft" button.

 

  • The computer goes down?
  • If the computer automatically shuts down,

 

  • Log back into "Write a new entry" page and choose the entry you were writing from "Drafts" corner in the left column(which I pointed out in the image attached this entry).
  • Log back on the "Write a new entry" page and choose the entry from the "Drafts" corner on the left column, which I pointed out in the image attached on this entry.

 

  • I hope, from now on, our users feel much relieved to spend lots of time in writing entries :)
  • I hope, from now on, our users will be more encouraged to spend more time writing new entries.

 

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