PostHog / PostHog/posthog

Too easy to loose your workflow email edits

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Description

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem?

It is very easy to loose your email edits by simply clicking outside the modal or thinking discard changes means discarding your email image edits.

Describe the solution you'd like

Block closing email editor when clicking outside the modal, or better yet, make the email editor full screen so there is space to design the email.

Debug info
- [ ] PostHog Cloud, Debug information: [please copy/paste from https://us.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]

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Research direction

Start at the email editor modal and reproduce losing edits by clicking outside it or using the discard-changes control. Compare the two proposed approaches—blocking outside dismissal or making the editor full screen—and clarify the intended interaction before implementation. Done means email edits are not lost through an accidental modal close and the behavior is covered by the relevant UI checks.

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Assessment

Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
design, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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