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The hidden delete draft button
Somebody mentioned this awhile back on the board.
Has anybody found it on an iPad? The instructions I remember sounded like how to do it on a desktop PC using a mouse. And I tried it with my finger on my iPad, didn’t work.
And it would be nice if I could do it at the end of the thread where I thought about posting something, but decided not to. Rather than go into the drafts page, click on the draft, find the hidden delete draft button...
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@levander, I found this in another thread. Good luck.
The same thread has these instructions from @Palm_City_Dawg for deleting drafts from a computer....
Thanks Dirt Dawg. It looks like I got the desktop version of the web site on an iPad. So there’s no X for each draft on the drafts page.
But for whatever reason, the PC instructions where you just click at the empty space on the top right are working now. Not sure if I did something wrong or if something changed from before..
But I’m going through and seeing how much patience I have to keep clicking delete on drafts. I’ve already gotten rid of a bunch of them. I’ll see how many more I’m willing to delete before I get sick of it...
Thanks Guys!!!! I just deleted 15 Drafts....
Weird, when I left the Drafts page to respond to Dirt Dawg, it seemed like I had an endless supply of drafts to delete...
But I went back to that page and there were only 14 over there...
All gone!
Thanks Dirt Dawg.
Good stuff I’ve been wondering.
Thanks. Goodness it even created drafts when I'd accidentally pressed the quote button. 20+ drafts.
Yeah, overall I like the software. But it’s pretty clear whoever inside Cox wrote the software doesn’t use it. Because there are some lingering bugs that are just annoying.
I get the sense that there’s a layer of bureaucracy between the journalists who work their ass off every day to make this a great site and the engineers who are responsible for the technical end. Biggest example was Jeff getting it done for us, but it took him like a month to get tiger unbanned when he was accidentally banned. Kind of Kafka-esque The Trial type stuff.
Does anyone know what forum software this site is running? I haven’t noticed it yet. My guess is they started with an off-the-shelf package like phpbb or something, then modified it heavily. Hence the functionality I don’t see on other sites as well as the bugs.
@Hank @DirtDawg
@lavender - I've been known to read other boards (like when Cade Mayes flipped and when Quay Walker tossed his hat). I usually leave with a good laugh. I always leave knowing the DawgNation board works better than theirs.
vanillaforums.com is what this site probably uses. the direct link to ignore sent me to a weird confirmation page with a vanilla logo and a link to that site
There are way worse forums out there that are almost unreadable. I haven't been here long but it's easy to navigate. Only problems I have here are drafts and how useless ignore is
This is what I see in “Full Site” mode on an Iphone 6s.
I don’t see any x’s but tapping the far right corner of each draft will delete it.
Yeah, usually I’m able to ignore the couple of lingering bugs. But occasionally they’ll really start to irritate me about this place for a couple of days... They’re there. Usually I can ignore them.
Wow, $599/month if they’ve subscribed to the cheap package!
https://vanillaforums.com/en/plans/
Don’t think I’ve ever used commercial software on a message board before. This is probably the only site I’ve ever used that had for-pay message board software...
Well, Morningstar.com I used to hang out on. They’ve got a in-house built system that’s really behind the times. They need to 86 and go with an off-the-shelf system. People like have to email the board administrator (a Morningstar employee) if they want to communicate privately with anybody. And it was like if they both agreed, he would send them both each other’s email addresses. There’s no PM functionality on their board.
Above average journalism on Morningstar.com. Christine Benz is stellar. If you’ve got financial questions, I recommend seeing if she ever wrote anything about it. They’ve got a few goofballs floating around trying to look professional. And they’ve got a really annoying economist always trying to predict what’s gonna happen. Bob something or other. Then there’s all the behind the scenes people that aren’t journalists but are financial analysts. When they come out of writing reports and show up occasionally in the media area, those guys are usually really interesting.