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by p8952 4727 days ago
Can guides be viewed offline? Perhaps allowing users to export them as PDFs?

I'd hate to put in weeks of work only to find my work lost when I need it due to network issues, the site closing, ect.

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Incredibly important! There are certain forums where I need to write every post first in the offline editor just because the timeout is way too short. This conditioned me to do anything offline that takes me longer than 10 minutes to recreate and just copy and paste it when ready. Same with blog posts, etc. It might be illogical, but when my machine crashes it is my fault and I get over it quite quickly. But if it feels like it is your site's fault that caused the trouble I am most likely not giving it a second chance.
not at the moment, but it's a great idea. We oppose vendor lock-in of any kind - so we'll definitely look into adding offline access and export features. Thanks!
Nice!

A couple more things I noticed after a short play around:

* It's not obvious how to (or maybe even not possible) to find a list of your published guides.

* It's not obvious how to (or maybe even not possible) to delete your published guides.

* You have to publish your guides right away, I doubt anyone wants to read my first draft.

* Your source code editor does not accept tabs which means everything has to be copied and pasted in. Have you though about using something like ace? https://github.com/blog/905-edit-like-an-ace / https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace

For now deleting and browsing through guides is not yet possible. Obviously both will be added very soon.

We thought about Ace, actually, but we weren't sure yet if people will end up using stps for source code. We will probably look further into this in the future though. Thanks!