Man is this ever annoying to me this morning. I’m apparently having issues with typos, so I hit “publish” notice a problem, go correct it, publish again, notice another problem, etc.
Got told I’m publishing too often, which just made me mad, since what I really want is a way to preview what I’ve written. Any chance of getting a preview one of these years?
Ugh. I also ended up with six “posts” for this one post, two of which are un-deletable.
Edit to add: They’re deletable after five minutes. Another one of those “don’t work so fast!” features, apparently.
There’s a longstanding feature request for post preview.
Yes, from 8 years ago.
I’m just trying to find out if it will be implemented before my next five-year renewal comes due.
@matt Any chances of bumping the priority of this feature a little bit? The lack of post preview is Achille’s heel of Write.as.
Hey guys, this is at the top of my priority list now. Totally understand how frustrating it is, and yeah, there’s no reason we can’t just build it into the editor.
Luckily half the work was done when we were trying to go the route of building an extension. So I’m just gonna add a button on the Plain Text editor that brings up a preview. Let’s say that’ll be done this week.
Also, in case you notice these issues with pages not updating in the future, just note that you might need to do a hard refresh (shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+R, or Cmd+Shift+R on Mac). You shouldn’t see this issue much while logged in, but the reason for the slow-seeming update is how we cache things on our end.
Thanks, Matt.
FWIW, I need to refresh every time I tweak a page currently. I’m running on iOS 18.7.3 and whatever ChromeOS is current on my new Chromebook. I don’t think I have to hard refresh often today, but it’s just frequent enough that I habitually do anyhow, because that’s faster than refreshing, noticing the page didn’t change and then hard-refreshing.
Okay, thanks for the info. It might be that our caching is still too aggressive on blogs and posts, and I need to tweak it some more. Once I get through the preview changes, I’ll take a look at that.
Post preview is live now!