Ever Growing List of Drafts
Acumen
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This is a design flaw in Vanilla Forums. When writing a post or comment, the cancel button doesn't delete your draft, but rather just exits the form. Even if you complete the post, the last auto-saved draft remains. The list just keeps growing. Every so often, users can navigate to their Drafts page and delete them one-by-one. There is no "clear all drafts" button. Like most other basic features that should really be included straight out of the box, this requires an addon. Fortunately, one cool developer out there wrote one that does the job perfectly. It's called Draft Sweeper and you can find it HERE.
Here's a screenshot:
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Thank you! So annoying!
I wouldn't mind a check box system either where you can select which ones you want to delete and then [DELETE CHECKED].
Giving this a bump. Please install the Draft Sweeper plugin to make it easier to clear out drafts. Often, when I return to a post I already commented on, all of my text friends m my previous comment will still be there because the drafts hang around until I manually delete them on the drafts page, which has to be done one-by-one. It’s not a super big deal, but it’s also a pretty easy fix.