Title of New Article Resets if typed too soon

Title of New Article Resets if typed too soon

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Articles & Templates
Reported by
Rashkavar
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0nnia
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Under InvestigationNot a Bug

Description

When creating a new article in the current editor, if you type into the title field quickly, it will often reset the field partway through typing, or even after finishing typing.

 

This image shows some articles I batched out for responses to the Gold prompts of Summer Camp 2026, with articles not starting in a capital letter having been effected by this glitch:

  • "ith" is "Faith"
  • "en Brandy" is "Dwarven Brandy"
  • "eritance SSC" is "Inheritance SSC"
  • "emental Magic" is "Elemental Magic

    • Note also that Nobility reset in its entirety, so I had to retype it to create the article.

    Steps to Reproduce

  • Click the green "Create new article" button and select a template
  • Immediately start typing in your title
  • Observe as the text you type disappears a couple of seconds afterwards, entirely unpredictably.

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    Comments and updates to this report

    Dimitris Developer

    Currently the time is set to around 600ms of wait, indeed if your fingers are made of fire and brimstone like an amazing dragon you can be faster than the system - I am sorry about that, it is a fine balance we have to keep, we will discuss this with Ioanna, not like a bug but a way to make the experience better.

    Once again thank you for the report.

    Dimitris Developer
    Assigned 0nnia
    Dimitris Developer
    Added tag Not a Bug
    Dimitris Developer
    Added tag Under Investigation
    Alikzander_Wulfe
    This happens to me all of the time. Not just with titles, but any time I use the new editor it will lag and skip whenever I am updating sections. If I work on one section and then jump to another one I can't type for a few seconds, or can't use dropdowns, it jumps me around on the pages when I try to move to another section. Or if I type a title and then go to add a icon it will refresh and I will lose the icon and start typing in the title. It is the most annoying thing and my biggest issue with the new editor. This seems like it is the same issue with the editor refreshing. If not I'm happy to put in another report.
    Jupiter Melichios
    I'm also having this issue, and I think there might be a problem where general UI lag in the new article system is extending the wait time. It's definitely taking longer than 0.6 seconds to start registering keystrokes for me (and then the autosave kicks in and deletes some of the keystrokes it had registered, exacerbating the issue)

    It's also almost impossible to know how long to wait for an article to load before typing, because generalised UI lag often causes significant delays between a keystroke and the letter actually appearing in the article, so sometimes I type and it doesn't register because of the wait time, and sometimes I type and it has registered but isn't showing in the article yet.
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