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Make it easier to toggle auto-reload on and off
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Realtime Preview already takes into account browsers' prefers-reduced-motion setting, and enters manual mode when it's reduce (that was done in T314787).

It would be good to be able to turn off automatic reload manually though, so that the preview pane isn't constantly reloading (either to reduce annoyance, or while someone is doing a bunch of editing that they're not ready to preview).

The UI design for this is the main unknown.

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Samwilson created this task.Sep 6 2022, 9:18 AM
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Draceane subscribed.Oct 11 2022, 10:47 AM

Yes I think this would be very useful. Especially if I'm editing e.g. templates, when auto-preview try to parse "broken" version of the template.

Draceane triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 11 2022, 10:48 AM
Aklapper added a comment.Oct 11 2022, 1:07 PM

@Draceane: Hi, do you plan to work on fixing this task, as you increased the priority of this task?

Aklapper raised the priority of this task from Medium to Needs Triage.Oct 19 2022, 8:39 AM

@Draceane: No reply; resetting.

• JMcLeod_WMF added a project: Community-Tech.Feb 21 2023, 4:24 PM
MusikAnimal moved this task from New & TBD Tickets to Needs Discussion on the Community-Tech board.Jun 21 2023, 2:12 PM
JWheeler-WMF subscribed.Mon, Mar 25, 9:27 PM

@Samwilson it seems we haven't had much traction on this ticket for over 1 year. Is it worth prioritizing, or OK to move to our freezer for now?

Samwilson added a comment.Tue, Mar 26, 12:23 AM

I'm tempted to say that we already have a toggle for the preview pane: the preview button in the toolbar. Any other UI is, I assume, going to be the same sort of thing (a checkbox or button somewhere to toggle auto-reload on and off). Closing the preview pane stops it auto-reloading, but of course also means the preview isn't visible, so it's not 100% what this was asking for. That said, the original request was actually more about DiscussionTools so I think we can probably close this as declined. Does that sound okay?

JWheeler-WMF closed this task as Declined.Tue, Mar 26, 1:34 AM

Sounds good to me!

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