Some users want to be able to edit data then abandon what they’ve typed for a safely-saved version. This would baffle the designer of this feature, because they can only see their own point of view to the exclusion of all others.ĭear developers: if you’re still having trouble understanding what is so annoying about this feature, just imagine that users had a feature to delete your code every time you switched off your PC. But this article describes the many, many scenarios when that assumption doesn’t hold true. If you come from the assumption that you’d never want to lose any data you typed, it would make sense. Because you will invariably find those decisions come from your own blinkered viewpoint. Provide options, don’t try and make decisions for users. Every time you make a decision for the user, you fail them.
Forced Autosave For Everybody is one of those features that I can only image came about because they let one of the more Aspie-prone developers run wild.
