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Commentary erased during posting

Posted under Bugs & Features

This is perhaps more indicative of my own incompetence that it happens to me this frequently, but it has happened consistently enough that I'm guessing it's probably a bug.

At any rate, if you have commentary in the "original title"/"original description" fields when uploading a post but forget to select a rating before slapping that post button, when the page reloads to let you know "hey you forgot to select a rating" the commentary in those fields will be erased.
Nothing else gets erased--the tags, translated commentary, parent ID, and source URL all stay intact, but those two text boxes specifically get thanos snapped.

I don't know if this happens if you're posting something from a web source that has auto-translated commentary, but it definitely happens if you manually have to copypaste the commentary over. It's not the end of the world and it's just a minor inconvenience, but it's probably not the intended behavior of the upload form, so I thought I'd mention it.

I just tried it with a Pixiv post, but I can't replicate the error. The post I tried it with has only a title and no description. When I clicked the upload button without rating it, the original title was still there.

Edit: Just saw from the GitHub issue that it's mainly for unsupported sites. Makes sense.

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