Product Update: drafts & previews come to the post editor

We’re constantly amazed at the brilliant blogs posted by CTzens to Car Throttle every week.

We’re constantly amazed at the brilliant blogs posted by CTzens to Car Throttle every week.

One of the things we’re proud to work on behind the scenes is creating the tools that enable everyone to create interesting and entertaining content easily. Today, we are announcing a new incremental update to our post editor which will allow you to save your in-progress posts and resume your writing later on.

There’s no limit to how many drafts you can have, and you can pick-up editing the post in any web browser (including your phone!). It’s not supported on the mobile app just yet.

In addition to saving a post for later, you can also tap “preview” to see how it will look and feel. You can even share a preview link with anyone if you need someone to proof-read it.

When you come back later to the post creator screen, you can resume editing a draft by tapping the blue “drafts” button in the toolbar.

You can now tap
You can now tap
You can come back later to edit a draft. From there you can preview the post, save it, or publish it to CT.
You can come back later to edit a draft. From there you can preview the…
Tap the blue button to see your in-progress posts.
Tap the blue button to see your in-progress posts.

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Comments

ah00t13

Wooooooooo! No more lost articles!

03/29/2016 - 17:54 |
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Anonymous

Where are the drafts saved? Do they affect the performance of the website.

03/29/2016 - 17:56 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

They can be accessed from the toolbar in the post creator.

No, the number of drafts you have do not affect the regular performance of the website. It’s stored server-side, your browser doesn’t do anything extra.

03/29/2016 - 17:57 |
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The Adolescent Petrolhead

INNOVATION!

03/29/2016 - 17:57 |
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THAT EXCITES!!

03/29/2016 - 20:30 |
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Anonymous

This is absolutely stellar.
My dear mother lost me an entire article recently by picking up the laptop and clicking everything away. This will definitely soothe the pain.

I even reverted to copying the text into a Word article for later use.

03/29/2016 - 18:03 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Sorry to hear that! Looking forward to reading more from you, Dylan!

03/29/2016 - 18:04 |
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icebreakertech

What about the ability to post multuple images in one post?

03/29/2016 - 18:04 |
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This is possible in the website post editor - you can add multiple images inline to the post, or you can add any number of image galleries.

03/29/2016 - 18:05 |
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Already can

03/29/2016 - 18:05 |
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Crawlerer79

I have been hoping for this for so long. In fact, yesterday I was considering putting up a post asking for it!!!!

03/29/2016 - 18:04 |
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ORANGE_

i love it :D

03/29/2016 - 18:05 |
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TheMainstreamCarGuy

Wow. Now my electricity can do whatever it wants

03/29/2016 - 18:13 |
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Jordan Mellinger

The most anticipated feature, I can’t tell you how many posts I had to redo or gave up on after accidentally closing the tab.

03/29/2016 - 18:26 |
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It’s been demanded a surprising amount. Which is funny because it’s almost trivial to implement. Since we let our editors (CT staff) save drafts we already have the capability. It took me a couple of hours earlier today to add the buttons to the website front-end :)

03/29/2016 - 18:30 |
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Freddie Skeates

Praise the lord! The amount of times bloody windows 10 has restarted itself while I’m writing stuff…

03/29/2016 - 18:32 |
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