Nothing was published, and nothing is lost. The builder creates your project the moment you select Continue Building under the name field, and from that moment the project has an address of its own, so the blank starting page is replaced by that project's editor page. The screen changes and the address bar changes with it, which is what reads as a jump.
Typing the name on its own does not create anything and does not move you anywhere. The field holds up to 100 characters and sits there until you select Continue Building, which is the only control on that screen that creates the project.
The address you land on is the draft's, not the public one
You start at uni.xyz/builder/new-project/edit/media. Once the project exists you are moved to uni.xyz/builder/project/<id>/edit/media, where <id> is the project's own id.
That is an editing address, not a public one. A project has no public address until it is published, and the public address is built from the title and the description at the moment you publish, not from that id.
The starting page is replaced in your browser history rather than added to it, so Back takes you to wherever you were before you opened the builder, not to an empty name field.
Nobody else can see the draft
A project is created unpublished, and until you publish it:
- It appears in your own Projects list, and in the list of anyone you add to the project team. Nobody else can open it.
- It is not on your public profile and not in the Projects listings.
- There is no link to it you could share, because the public address does not exist yet.
How to create and publish a project covers what a project needs before Publish unlocks.
Renaming it afterwards costs you nothing
Once the project exists, your changes save on their own 2 seconds after you stop typing, and that includes the name. Rename it as often as you like while it is a draft.
The public address is generated when you publish, out of the title and the description as they stand at that point, so a name you typed and replaced on the way leaves no trace in it.
The one thing worth knowing: renaming a project that is already published, and publishing again, gives it a new public address, and links to the old one stop working.
An abandoned draft stays in your drafts until you delete it
Nothing merges drafts. Each pass through the name screen makes a separate project, so starting five times and carrying on with one leaves four drafts in your list. They stay private and they cost you nothing, but you can remove them:
- Open your profile and select Projects.
- Select the Drafts filter.
- Select the three dot menu on the draft's card, then Delete, then confirm.
Deleting a project is permanent. It is not moved to a bin you can pull it back from, so the one thing to check is that you are deleting the empty draft and not the work.