Can we please have a auto-save feature for Lichess blogs?

I was writing a blog on lichess; I had almost completed it and written 2,000 words. Suddenly, out of the blue, my computer bluescreens. I was already well aware that all of my hard work was put to waste. Still, with a bit of hope, I restar my PC, open chrome, click on restore pages, and the same page does appear, and the title of my blog is intact, its saved, but my whole content is GONE.
I would like to request the Lichess Devs to implement a auto-save feature so that if the person writing a blog has to take a break, they can simply just save their content. Yes, this can be done through other methods, but most importantly, if the electricity cuts off, or the PC runs into a (bluescreen) problem, then at least the users' work would be safe and secure within the Lichess servers. If this could be too hectic, there can be a condition that Lichess would save the content but only for 15 or 30 minutes or something, and after that it would be deleted, so the servers won't have much load and the requirements of the users' would also be fulfilled.

I think you can save the blog as unpublished, then edit it. A bit awkward and you have to be the one remembering to save periodically and then also remember to remove the toggle at the very end so that it becomes public, but it works.

No doubt TotalNoob69's suggestion works a dream, but I also recommend when you're writing a lot of text that you work offline on your local machine making your own regular backups, and finally pasting what you have written into you blog here when it's ready. I think it's just too risky to trust an external site, even lichess.org, with your creativity and hours of work without a fallback position.

@TotalNoob69 said in #2:
> I think you can save the blog as unpublished, then edit it. A bit awkward and you have to be the one remembering to save periodically and then also remember to remove the toggle at the very end so that it becomes public, but it works.
Hey! Thanks, that was my first blog, so didn't know much about it. This does solve the problem of "if you want to take a break". But what if you power supply gets cut short immediately?
@Brian-E said in #3:
> No doubt TotalNoob69's suggestion works a dream, but I also recommend when you're writing a lot of text that you work offline on your local machine making your own regular backups, and finally pasting what you have written into you blog here when it's ready. I think it's just too risky to trust an external site, even lichess.org, with your creativity and hours of work without a fallback position.
What @Brian-E said in #3 does solve that, but in that case, the formatting provided by Lichess, exclusive to their site, would not be available. Yes, once can bold, italicize, etc. but not do the headings properly and you would just have to copy paste and then select those formatting options...
In the end, I still think that the auto-save feature will do great for the Lichessians.

Writing in other software like Brian-E suggests is what I do, but I often won't use a local text editor or word processor because I can forget to save. Google Docs autosaves, so I use that. There are other similar services, if you don't like Google.

Stil, autosave feature for lichess blogs will save you all that trouble.

I will look into it, maybe I can add it as a feature for the LiChess Tools browser extension, but it will take some time, I don't have enough resources at the moment.

You can track progress here: github.com/Siderite/lichessTools/issues/604

I use an extension in chromium which also exists in Firefox called "save text to file".
Upon a selected range of text, one can (context menu also), can save the text and the link of the page it is being saved from.
It can also add a date and time stamp to the filename, so you don't have to micromanage that, hence, while being able to perform the regular back-ups without train of thought derailment; as the filename also can be schemed upon web page properties.

Best save the markdown version while on Lichess blog web pages, not the preview, if you want easy re-upload, to be rendered the same through Lichess blog markdown flavor parsing. BTW, which flavor, and which subset of that flavor? Are the interactive GUI objects the extent of that?

I wonder though about embedded (imported) images, that Lichess ends up hosting and giving filenames to. Would that persist, if after import, the blog is not saved on the Lichess server, itself? Maybe not relevant.

@TotalNoob69 said in #7:
> I will look into it, maybe I can add it as a feature for the LiChess Tools browser extension, but it will take some time, I don't have enough resources at the moment.
>
> You can track progress here: github.com/Siderite/lichessTools/issues/604
Hey, Thanks a lot for doing that buddy!
I wonder why no mod/dev isn't looking into this... I feel like this could be a great addition..

@dboing said in #8:
> I use an extension in chromium which also exists in Firefox called "save text to file".
> Upon a selected range of text, one can (context menu also), can save the text and the link of the page it is being saved from.
> It can also add a date and time stamp to the filename, so you don't have to micromanage that, hence, while being able to perform the regular back-ups without train of thought derailment; as the filename also can be schemed upon web page properties.
>
> Best save the markdown version while on Lichess blog web pages, not the preview, if you want easy re-upload, to be rendered the same through Lichess blog markdown flavor parsing. BTW, which flavor, and which subset of that flavor? Are the interactive GUI objects the extent of that?
>
> I wonder though about embedded (imported) images, that Lichess ends up hosting and giving filenames to. Would that persist, if after import, the blog is not saved on the Lichess server, itself? Maybe not relevant.
That's all pretty good, but the main point of this forum is that "Lichess SHOULD add this feature. However ofcourse, if they don't do so, I will have to indeed use such extensions. Thank you very much indeed!