Board Thread:New Features/@comment-1676371-20190407210328/@comment-1514297-20190416123306

Hopefully this might shine more light on what is happening.

A few weeks ago I made a page on my PC, and had mistakenly numbered an item on the page, as 521. I later noticed this error when on my laptop, so edited the page to change the number to 522.

Today I went in to edit the page on my PC, by pressing the edit button. When the page loaded, I got a page message (let's call it Message #1), saying that someone has edited the page since my last visit, and to press Show Changes to see what had changed. This showed that my editing session had 521 as the number (i.e. my PC loaded its own last edit, not the most recent version on the page) and the subsequent change it showed when pressing show changes, indicated that the most recent version had the number as 522.

At this point I pressed back on the browser to cancel the edit, and I could see the page had the number 522. I then pressed Edit again, and this time I got the Message #2 "This is a draft that includes your unpublished changes. Keep up the great work!" with the option to Discard or OK. It had changed the number to 521 again in the edit window, but  then pressing Discard, changed it back to 522.

Message number 1, when I tried to edit the page the first time today on my PC, was normally a message that would appear during an edit conflict, when someone else really had loaded and saved a page during one's own editing session. This is new behaviour for it to appear when editing a page when no-one else is doing so. This seems to be due to the PC loading its last edit from a few weeks ago, which then triggers a conflict with all subsequent edits. Loading old edits instead of the latest saved page, is new, unwanted behaviour.

Message number 2, when I tried to edit the page the second time, is a message that I had not seen before until very recently, and it is becoming very frequent. I think it might have come up as my first (cancelled) edit went in to the new drafting system, saved as an unpublished edit and was reloaded automatically (again new and unwanted behaviour) though at least this time, Discard clears out all that nonsense and allows editing of the last SAVED page (this the desired outcome).

Message 2 comes up a lot during repeat editing of pages on the same device, since the new drafting system was introduced. Message 1 seems to occur when editing older pages on a different device to that which last saved it, then changes to Message 2 on a second edit attempt as it's the same device. Both seem triggered by the editor loading the last cached changes to edit instead of the last saved page.