0.1.7 - Features Galore!

This release brings a bunch of new features, UI improvements, and bug fixes.

  • 💾 Drafts will now autosave every 6 seconds (this interval can be adjusted in user preferences) if any fields in the composer have change. Autosave can be disabled in user preferences.
  • ⬅️ Full support for reply drafts and Byobu Private Discussion drafts has been added
  • ⏰ The ability to schedule drafts to post at a later date has been added. This can be disabled by admins in site settings. To make this actually work, admins will need to enable a cron job to run the laravel scheduler script. Please note that validation DOES NOT happen at the time of scheduling: If your draft is invalid (missing content, not enough tags, not enough private recipients, etc...), it will fail to post, and an error message explaining the validation error will be shown next time you check your drafts. This will only happen after the scheduled time.
  • 📱 Buttons for saving your draft have been added to the composer on mobile.
  • 🗯️ Intrusive alerts have been repoaced with a nicer save button loading animation. This is largely to make autosave more user friendly and avoid spamming alerts.
  • ❌ The annoying permission denied bug for non-logged-in users has been fixed, thanks to @wloot for that great fix!
  • 🗑️ The UI for deleting drafts and closing the composer has been improved, see a full list of changes here

You'll need to disable & re-enable the extension for the scheduling assets to be copied over.

I just noticed a bug,
If you save drafts;
On desktop screen size, saved Drafts shows up on NotificationGrid and is working. But,
On phone screen size which involves drawer routing to ./drafts , the number of saved drafts is shown on the icon but it says "You haven't saved any drafts".

I enlarged the screen and noticed that the problem is that Drafts doesn't show up on routing to ./drafts

Recreate the problem on your end, by;
Saving a Draft, then route to yourforum.​com/drafts, you would see "You haven't saved any drafts".

    Operator This is due to some changes I made yesterday to improve the draft loading mechanic - previously they all loaded right after the page loaded. It will be fixed soon.

        Thanks for those wonderful updates !
        Unfortunately I have a « something went wrong » at the first auto-save attempt. The log is very long...
        Does this seems easy to fix ?

        • IanM replied to this.

          ornanovitch you need to run

          php flarum migrate

            Error when viewing the forum as a guest:
            Error

            • IanM replied to this.

              datitisev Another bug, I don't know if it is a known issue as the previous one. But,

              When editing post reply that has already been posted before, the auto draft feature automatically saves a new version with empty discussion title.
              I thought pressing Send without filling any other details would update the reply, but, No, instead it tries to create a new discussion, and when I want to close the Composer editor, the close button becomes disabled.

                  Operator On phone screen size which involves drawer routing to ./drafts , the number of saved drafts is shown on the icon but it says "You haven't saved any drafts".

                  Operator When editing post reply that has already been posted before, the auto draft feature automatically saves a new version with empty discussion title.

                  I've opened a PR to fix both these issues here: FriendsOfFlarum/drafts27, thanks for reporting!

                      Kyrne https://istihbarat.club/ is another forum is t on the same server. And I can use it without any error.

                      My assets folder is not under public folder at erasmusplus.club/tr (forum is installed at subdirectory). It is at main path. I moved it to up.