New blogs post should default as hidden.
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Was chastised in public (on a forum) about a blog post I was working on. Yup, it was live for all the world to see since May of 2020 - nearly a year - because I foolishly didn't set it to hidden.
Easy fix. The default for a new blog post should be hidden. Why? Whom amongst us creates an article/blog that's perfect on the first go around, e.g. without further fine tuning and editing?
Anyway, to preclude another Americommerce customer from being embarrassed like I was, it would be nice if the default was hidden. Then, when it's finished, I'll make it it visible.
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Hey everyone - we'll be adjusting the behavior to default blogs publishing behavior to be a 'Draft' but also allow you to publish immediately or at a date/time in the future.
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I agree
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Not only does it not default to hidden, I believe it sends an email out to subscribers by default. We disabled that email, but still, it's rare that a blog post is ready to go with one save.
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seems like such an easy fix and I have no idea why anyone would prefer it the way it is over defaulting to hidden (or at least giving us the option to set hide by default)
its easy to overlook (ive done it several times) but we've just got to train ourselves to hit hide checkbox before saving the first draft.
default hidden would be my preference
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Great to learn this is being addressed. Well done.
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We just got this done and will be rolling it out in a few weeks.
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That's great news, Travis, well done! Thank you (or was it someone else? If so, thank them on our behalf).
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