Forgetting cost and difficulty values when republishing an instructable
When you edit a previously published instructable and then click on publish link, the values of cost and difficulty are set to the middle, instead of previous saved values. If you don't change them again, then you are changing without notice that.
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You shouldn't need to re-publish an Instructable once you've made changes to it. Simply edit it in the editor and click save in the upper right hand corner (on the new editor). That's it, the site will automatically update your Instructable with the changes you've made. When you go through the publish tab, it does seem to forget your slider positions. To be honest though, cost and difficulty are so infrequently used that it's not really a feature that we've found useful to support...more of an experiment I think. None the less, thanks for letting us know about this bug - we'll see what we want to do about it.
You wrote, "You shouldn't need to re-publish an Instructable once you've made changes to it. Simply edit it in the editor and click save in the upper right hand corner (on the new editor)."
It would be nice if the interface made that more natural. As it is, it appears to the user as though we have to go through the "publish" cycle after updating.
By contrast, if I go back to a Forum Topic I created, and edit it (either to change the title or actually modify the content), it automatically flushes through, skipping all of the "publish" stages. Perhaps a similar branch could be developed for I'bles?
It would be nice if the interface made that more natural. As it is, it appears to the user as though we have to go through the "publish" cycle after updating.
By contrast, if I go back to a Forum Topic I created, and edit it (either to change the title or actually modify the content), it automatically flushes through, skipping all of the "publish" stages. Perhaps a similar branch could be developed for I'bles?
In fact, I'd got problems when changing the title of an I'ble (is this abbreviation correct?), and then appears with the new name in my profile but with the old one in the public section, with different number of views and so on. I avoid re-publishing the I'ble with the new name: so both are joined. So I've notice the bug I reported here. As kelseymh says, it must be more natural. If when creating a new I'ble you can save several times and changes are not shared since you publish, when editing an existing one the use should expect the same behaviour: saving to not loose changes and then publish at the end of editing.
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