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Over the last couple years or so, I've occasionally come back to a question where I posted an answer, and the system popped me into the post editor as if I had unsaved changes. This is now happening pretty much every time.

Just a few minutes ago, I posted an answer to https://meta.codidact.com/posts/293942. I was left in the post editor immediately after posting, even though I could see the answer was posted. This time I noticed a typo, so fixed it, and posted the revised version. Instead of updating the original post, it created a second one. I had to manually cancel out of the post editor, then delete the first answer.

There are a number of questions that report this bug or something that seems closely related:

  1. clearing draft after clicking "Save Post in Q&A"

    The most direct description of the problem, but that is closed so I couldn't add to it.

  2. "Remember last post edit in process" not clearing automatically

    The question #1 is supposedly a duplicate of. The description is much less clear, and the bug claims to be fixed.

  3. Saving post after ALT text warning still treats the draft as unsaved

    I think is ultimately the same bug, but is confusing and hard to search for because it focuses on alt-text of images.

  4. Draft not discarded after posting an answer

    A good description of the problem I didn't find when writing my question here. It was pointed out in a comment. My question could be closed as a duplicate of this one.

  5. Draft of previous edit (including edit comment) loaded for new edit

    Probably the same underlying bug, linked to from #4.

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Posting this question did NOT exhibit the behavior. The bug might be limited to answers or maybe it's just random.

Another incident, 14 May 2025

It just happened to me again. I posted my answer to a question that already had one existing answer. I could see my answer get correctly posted, but then immediately below that my text was shown in the post editor, and the following banner was below that:

I cancelled out of that edit session, and everything seemed correct after that.

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trichoplax‭ wrote 22 days ago
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I raised Draft not discarded after posting an answer a few months ago, and it was pointed out that it had been raised previously, and fixed in 2021, but it appeared to be broken again. There are comments there showing it is also happening to others.

I haven't closed your question as a duplicate because it covers several different questions that might not all be the same problem, so it seems a good summary of what needs to be investigated.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 21 days ago
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I thought there was a better question addressing this problem, but couldn't find it when searching. I think your question should be the official version of this bug report. Mine and possibly others should be closed pointing to yours, but add links to all the questions reporting this bug to your question. That way when someone finds any of these questions by searching, they'll find yours, and can from there find all the other instances where this bug was reported, each one possibly with different details.

trichoplax‭ wrote 21 days ago
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I've already linked in both directions between this post and that post (here in the comments and there in the question body). That indirectly links that one to all the posts you found, so hopefully whatever fix is implemented can be checked against all of those too.