Modding on the Spectrum

This is done via the DB Auto Draft extension. When you write a new post, the draft is auto-saved into the database. If your post got lost somehow (e.g. you experienced a power outage while writing your post), you can load the recent auto-draft from the database. The draft can be found in the "Load draft" tab below the Preview/Submit buttons. As soon as you submitted your post successfully, the most recent auto-saved draft will be deleted automatically.

I edited the last sentence and added words "the most recent" to it. I noticed that when you take a lot of time to write a long post and use the preview feature very often, there are a lot of auto-saved drafts. I had about 40 at this post. So I'm not sure anymore if should keep the extension. Because I fear that it bloats the database too much if the users don't check the "Load draft" history of the posts in question.

Shouldn't all the saved drafts be automatically deleted when the post is finalized? I may use the change history feature of Word when I'm typing an article, but I never considered using it for a basic forum post.

That's what I thought too when I tried the extension for the first time (in the test forum). Now after writing a couple of posts in the live forum, it turns out that is not always the case. I cannot explain exactly why I had still over 40 auto-saved drafts after I submitted the post in my Two Worlds 2 screenshot thread. I'll keep an eye on it before I make my decision.

Edit:

I deleted the post, which I wrote at 2:02 pm, for testing purposes. When I was writing the new version, there were 2 auto-saved drafts. After I submitted the new version of this post, one draft got deleted automatically but not the other one.

Edit 2:
I wrote and deleted a couple of quick test posts in the hidden test area of the live forum. The single draft got deleted automatically each time. So I assume that the issue occurs occasionally.