There is no Discard button in the journal editor. If you have edited a published journal and then decided against the changes, UNI gives you no single action that throws them away and puts the old text back. That is the honest answer, and the rest of this page is what to do instead.
Your readers are not seeing the edits
Start here, because it is the part that usually matters. A published journal keeps serving the last version you published. Edits you make afterwards are held separately and reach nobody until you press Publish again. Unwanted draft changes are not an emergency: no reader is looking at them.
The editor marks this state as UNPUBLISHED CHANGES in the status chip at the top of the screen. Seeing it means the live journal and your editor have drifted apart, not that something has broken. Reading the journal editor's status label covers the other states.
Held-back edits have no expiry. You can leave them sitting there indefinitely and the published journal carries on unaffected. Doing nothing is a legitimate choice.
To put the published text back into the editor
Since nothing restores it for you, do it by hand:
- Open your journal at its public address in a second tab. What you see there is the published version, untouched by your edits.
- Copy the title, tagline and body from it.
- Paste them back over what is in the editor.
- Press Publish. You are republishing the same text, so nothing changes for readers.
Do this before you edit any further, not after, because the published page is your only copy of the old text. Nothing keeps a history of earlier versions of a journal.
Why journals work this way
Journals hold edits back on purpose. A half-rewritten paragraph never reaches a reader mid-rewrite, and the address you have already shared keeps working throughout. The cost of that protection is exactly the situation on this page: because the two versions are kept apart, abandoning one of them needs an action that is not currently offered.
Publications behave the opposite way, so do not carry the habit across from one to the other. Journals vs publications sets out where the two differ.