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Minor nitpick: I couldn't get out of editing a block of text. I'd hit cancel, it would pop up a confirm saying "save or cancel", I'd hit cancel. It would drop me back into the editor.

That happened 3 times in a row and I was about to leave and never come back to your broken site. Then I noticed the tiny little "actually cancel" link down at the bottom of that confirmation box.

So my suggestion is to fix your save/cancel confirm box to work like everybody else's. You'll confuse a lot less people.

While you're at it, grey out the rest of the page while it's visible. It pops up down below the content you're editing, and it's easy to miss it and wonder why the first cancel button is not doing anything. And of course, it has the same button names on it, leading one to expect to be able to click the first cancel button a second time (since you're already hovering over it) to accomplish the same thing.



How about: "Save", "Go back to editing", "Leave without saving". "Cancel" may just be too ambiguous.




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