Live preview for posting to MeFi and MeTa?

August 28, 2005 6:27 AM

How's about getting Live Preview for posting new FPPs on MeFi and MeTa? I think it would be even more useful there than it is for comments.
posted by skoosh to Feature Requests at 6:27 AM (6 comments total)

Oh yeah, and AskMe too (although the implementation there would seem a little less straightforward, because of the More Inside field)?
/pony
posted by skoosh at 6:31 AM on August 28, 2005

I disagree. I think Live Preview has made the site worse (more spelling mistakes and typos) and don't want to see those on the front page.
posted by dobbs at 9:43 AM on August 28, 2005

The benefit of Live Preview is fewer calls to the server. The volume of comments is much higher than the volume of posts, so there's less (practically no) benefit for posts in terms of saved bandwidth and server utilization. And, as dobbs rightly states, there's plenty of downside to live preview.
posted by willnot at 10:22 AM on August 28, 2005

What willnot said, less the "more errors" thing.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:52 AM on August 28, 2005

Remove the live preview and make it two previews instead of one.
posted by angry modem at 5:57 PM on August 28, 2005

Aw, but it's so pretty and kewl...
Okay, I concede.
posted by skoosh at 11:53 AM on August 30, 2005