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blocks: save/download and re-load doesn't preserve blocks program

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Reproduce the issue by creating a blocks program, then using save, download, and share before re-loading it; trace each persistence path and compare the restored editor state. Done means blocks content survives all three flows and an incomplete program can be reopened.

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Description

If a user is coding using blocks, the blockly content gets lost at the 'save', 'download' or 'share' stage.

This makes it hard to, for example, share skeleton blocks programs, or even return to a previously incomplete blocks program.

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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