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egeozcan ◴[] No.42463511[source]
This is very cool. BTW, when developing single HTML file apps, instead of localStorage, one can use the HTML as the source of truth, so the user can just save/save-as to persist. I had mentioned my quick and dirty attempt at an image gallery that is a self-contained html file and some really liked the concept, if not the "app" itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41877482
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xandrius ◴[] No.42463631[source]
Wait, so every time I make a change I need to remember to save or it's all lost? Or am I missing something?
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breakfastduck ◴[] No.42464221[source]
My god this comment made me feel old.

God forbid you have to remember to save your work!

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1. mock-possum ◴[] No.42464506[source]
I mean - yeah, honestly, god forbid. Requiring manual saves with limited change history (or none at all) was the bad old days. That was bad UI/UX, literally everybody had a “oops I forgot to save” and a “oops I saved and I didn’t mean to” horror story. Things are better now.
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2. jjeaff ◴[] No.42464784[source]
I wouldn't say it was totally awful. At least, prior to having an Undo option or perhaps an undo but that can only go back 3 steps, saving as before making any large changes was a pretty common workflow. I might end up with 50 versions of a document numbered incrementally by the time I was finished. that is still a necessary workflow for certain types of documents. I don't necessarily want everything saved automatically all the time.
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3. xandrius ◴[] No.42466448[source]
I love my paper notebook to save everything automatically, I don't long for it to all disappear if I forget to press a button and give it a name.