I was trying to get the right tags on a File: link, using the Preview function. This is almost bafflingly complex.
After hitting Preview, I noticed I had to make further edits. I pressed the "back" button in my browser, but nothing happened. I pressed it again thinking perhaps I had missed it, and still nothing happened. With long experience with web apps that cache intermediate changes, I continued clicking back.
Eventually the page did change, but it took me not back to the editor, but to the page before the one I had visited. That is, it did not take me back to the Sixel page I was modifying, but the DRCS page I had clicked through. I cannot tell if that's because I clicked too many times or not, but in any event, the lack of responce of the back button is generally bad. Doing so without stopping me to inform me I would be discarding my edits is very bad indeed.
Performing the edits and pressing Preview again, I noticed there is a button at the bottom of the screen called Review your changes. Why this is at the bottom of the screen and not the top beside Publish changes is lost on me (and I expect, every other user). In any event, I clicked that button which took me to a different screen, where I pressed the other "back button" in the upper left (which I only noticed because this form is more compact), which took me to another screen, the original Publish changes. Pressing back on Review should take me to the last screen I used, not an entirely different one!
In any event, once I was back at the original Publish I could finally click the X button to go back to the editor to make more changes.
I tried another variation on File. This time the preview showed me a display that looked good, so in the preview screen I pressed Publish changes. This went ahead and did so without returning me to the publish form, so the edit went in without a change note.
Suggestion 1: The "stop whatever I'm doing and return to the editor button should be on every one of these forms, and should be clearly marked.
Suggestion 2: The Publish changes button on the sub-forms should put you in the Publish changes form, not just go ahead and publish it. The common workflow is that we are going to use preview to check whether we like it, make more changes, and repeat. When we see what we like we will publish. Since we are not going to enter the same change notes every time we want to do a preview, its likely there will be no notes unless we get one last chance.
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