Community Suggestion: Local (recent) article version history / revision history
Local (recent) article version history / revision history
New Feature Addition · Articles & templates · Created by Adeom
declined
articles versioning revisions qol
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
After deleting/changing content and leaving the page, there is no way to revert the changes (or see an older version). It's very easy to accidentally loose work without a way to restore it. By having an option to view the old version of the page, it would make it easier to recover. Lets say something along the lines of time based history (how the page looked 1 min ago, 5 min ago, 30 min ago, 1 hour ago). Version history updates could be tied to auto-saves, and stored only localy and for text only. While this would likely be limited by the storage allowed by the browser, with text only it should still improve QoL when working on a specific article for a longer time.How does this feature request address the current situation?
It allows for a way to undo/recover unvanted changes relying on other tools.What are other uses for this feature request?
This could apply to other types of text based entries (other then articles).Follow up
For clarrification: This only suggest VIEW option (not an abillity to revert changes), and everything only stored locally. Along the lines of simply storing, and being able to view, past contents of the page as sent via the POST request when saving the article (just with a probably better UI then the devtools).
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! While we understand that this could be a useful feature, this is being declined for the same reason as past version history suggestions: it's a very complex feature to pull off. We'll definitely keep having conversations within the team about this, as we know many people would like something like it, but for now we can't accept it.
Current score
19/300 Votes · +4002 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by BCGR_Wurth
on 2023-09-19 02:13 -
+1
by tjtrewin
on 2023-09-14 13:09 -
+300
by Linyoa
on 2023-09-14 05:44 -
+300
by Slipshod1
on 2023-09-12 22:15As someone who recently had a player article get "oops" by an accidental update (I think the player still had the page up in the background after they told me to finalize and publish), it would be really handy to at least be able to see the previous text and copy it if it's not possible to have actual revisions.
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+100
by Pete Nelson
on 2023-09-11 20:37Versioning of articles has been suggested several times. It's much harder to implement than it might appear. However, the limited sort of versioning being suggested here would be easier to implement than full-up version control. There are still significant complications that would need to be thought through before implementing this.
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+300
by pumpkinofdiscord
on 2023-09-10 01:44 -
+300
by sunnybirdboi
on 2023-09-05 22:09 -
+300
by Shonuff
on 2023-09-04 16:38 -
+300
by ChroniclerWabba
on 2023-09-02 22:07 -
+300
by hwcarver
on 2023-09-02 10:04Versioning might be too demanding to implement now, but I very much hope it will be done eventually. It does not make sense to me to make the versioning data local. If you use a binary difference strategy, the extra storage used should be very small. In addition to a few recent versions, e.g. 30, 60, 120, 240 minutes, it would be good to have 24 hours ago. I would also like the option to create a permanent version to enable me to go off on extended romp that I'm not quite sure about and step back to the start when it goes wonky.
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+300
by Kingdom Spades
on 2023-09-02 05:14 -
-1
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+300
by Mr_mal
on 2023-08-30 03:47 -
-100
by Zeer Gales
on 2023-08-29 23:58They have already said this is something they are looking to add, but only after they get out of Beta. So expect this in the future! But it isn't something they will implement anytime soon.
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+300
by Ailill Blackwood
on 2023-08-29 20:33 -
+1
by A Roaring Velociraptor
on 2023-08-29 08:58 -
+300
by Drawkill Dragon
on 2023-08-29 03:27 -
+1
by Rilameth
on 2023-08-29 01:50 -
+300
by EBJ
on 2023-08-29 00:46 -
+300
by Adeom
on 2023-08-28 22:27
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