On my local instance, freely.modspil.dk, I wanted to edit an article.
I messed up and accidentally deleted the text of the article. It autosaved, and now when I try to “Edit” the article all the MarkDown is gone! I understand that this is a feature, that it allows you to continue drafting a new version of a piece and still keep the original published, but …
Is there an easy way to get it back? I suppose I could cut and paste the HTML and reformat the Markdown in a text editor, but maybe there’s a sneaky, perhaps command line-based, method to revert to the current _published* version?
As long as you haven’t actually published the changes so that they’re updated online, you can always get the original Markdown by adding .md to the post’s published URL, e.g. https://write.as/blog/re-opening-free-accounts.md – this will show the raw text behind the post. Then you could copy and paste that into the editor. Would that work?
Loved your talk at Fosdem, by the way - it was very good to hear your own perspective on why you made the platform and made me even happier that I’ve chosen it for my blogging.
