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[d3n15]

Hello everybody.

This "bug" might be a timeout issue or might have something to do with the server times, but it could be fixed from software side, as far as I see it. It also might be a Gutenberg issue, but its look like it is from the core.

Classic:

• User A opens the post and write some content.
• User B also opens the same post an clicks on take over.
• User A gets pop up with info about the take over and can go to "all posts"

Problem (Version 5.1.1):

1. Popup for user comes to late -> content not saved
2. Popup doesn't appear -> user saves post which will be override from user B's content.

Solution:

1. auto save e.g. every 10 seconds
2. History besides the post, e.g. on the very right column. History contains lets say the last 5 or 10 (configurable) versions of the post. Users can see a diff or can restore the whole last version of the entry.
   • History doesn't contains versions of auto save (only last auto save)

--- User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Iridium/2018.11 Safari/537.36 Chrome/71.0.0.0

[andraganescu]

I have tested this like so:

• in Safari OSX open two incognito windows and make sure they are each on half the screen (Safari is a good choice in this case because each tab is unaware of other tabs in incognito)
• login in each window as a different user
• edit the same post

On my local dev (using a virtual machine) I was able to overwrite the changes of the user taking over because the Notification that someone took over was too late. I don't know yet if the solutions proposed by OP are the right ones, added the dev-feedback label for this reason.