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Link cards learn to wait for scheduled commits

The link card picker now stays put when you schedule a commit. Choose a different link from the body, or no card at all, and that is what posts when the clock runs out.

Filed by xHeavenPull request #356

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xHeaven, who filed the change, pictured in the contributor’s own avatar.

You type a commit with two links, hit Schedule, and the link card button is still there beside the image and poll buttons. Open it, pick the second link, and the preview swaps to that card. Pick No card and the preview goes bare. Then you hit Schedule commit and get on with your day.

Credit xHeaven, who taught a scheduled commit to carry the card you chose instead of always shipping its first link. The picker offers every link in the body, with the first link still the default, and the choice is saved with the body when you schedule, since the body cannot change after that. At the due time the stored address goes to the same code that builds an ordinary commit, so a page linked in two places is fetched once. You can keep 10 queued, as far as 30 days out.

One catch. The card is set the moment you schedule. There is no edit screen for a queued commit, only cancel, so changing your mind means cancelling and writing the whole thing again.

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