Lost Replies

[RayJones]

This has twice happened to me now with this forum.

You spend time crafting a reply, in the meantime someone else sends a reply.
You get a warning to perhaps re-consider your reply, you choose nah, and POOF your efforts disappear into a cloud of pixie bits, and don't even make the bit bucket.

Damn friggin annoying.

[Zero999]

Just press the back button when you see that message and it should take you back to the page containing your reply.

Alternatively, copy the text to the clipboard before posting, that way you can paste it back in to your post if this happens.

[RayJones]

Yeah, all good in hindsight once you know, but the page presented has the option "do you want to post anyway" or some such.

It's only when you later open that topic and think, hey didn't I post something in this thread 

[EEVblog]

Just press the back button when you see that message and it should take you back to the page containing your reply.

Alternatively, copy the text to the clipboard before posting, that way you can paste it back in to your post if this happens.

I always hightlight and hit CTRL-C before I post anything anywhere, not just this forum.
Can't say I've has this problem with this forum though, anyone else?

Dave.

[alm]

I haven't seen this either, just the occasional time out, but the back button works fine in that case. I believe the behavior of the back button and remembering the contents of forms might depend on the browser, so if you're returned to an empty form after you press the back button, you could try a different browser. I also use the crtl+C trick if I've spend a significant amount of time or expect trouble. But I do feel RayJones's frustration when something like that happens, especially if it was a long post.

On a slightly related note, I do occasionally notice a warning about the title being more than 80 characters in a reply (guess the original was 77-80, plus the four characters for 'Re: '). It seems to post it anyway (not sure what the point of the warning is), but it looks stupid. Like anyone even reads the title of replies, it could just truncate it for all I care.

[RayJones]

Yeah, it was a longish post, certainly was a while typing it up.

I did post a short message today in another topic and got TWO another user has posted messages.

This time I hit Ctrl-C on the body text that is re-presented (no need to go back), but this time the message posted OK....

I'm now wondering if TIME may be a factor. I like to make sure my words are accurate, and will rehash before posting if I think it conveys a better message, and the particular post I lost was about 20min in the making. And yeah that sucks to find the post vanished when you follow the Unread posts later.

[Time]

i think its happened to me 2 times out of all my posts.

[DJPhil]

I've worked heavily on message boards over the last few years, and some have been so horrible that I developed the same copy-before-posting habit. Spending almost all my forum time here nowadays has broken me of the habit, as I don't think it's ever happened to me on this board. If it did and I don't remember then I probably hit the back button out of habit.

Certain very popular video game message boards are legendary for this phenomenon which suggests to me that traffic is a factor. I really have no idea though, message board software is over my head.

[Mechatrommer]

i dont lose anything if i want to just post (ignore the new message) annoying thing is different for me, when i try to quote somebody else's post, sometime it just doesnt work, showing a big LOADING green sign and hanged, gotta press refresh button (F5) to restart.
yup copy ctrl-c paste ctrl-v highlight ctrl-a cut ctrl-x undo ctrl-z is my play of thing from before i born into EEVBlog. everywhere just got this similar annoying problem.

[RayJones]

Yep so summary is it does happen, and tough shit if you didn't Ctrl-C.

Software never fails 

[Zero999]

I've copied and pasted to a text editor before to save posts through fear of loosing them, especially on forums with nazi moderators who'd remove the whole post, just because they didn't like one little detail.

I've also printed thread pages to PDF to save them when someone's trolling and I have a go at them, just so I have some evidence if the troll deletes or edits their posts to make them seem more reasonable, quoting posts is also good.

This forum isn't bad and although things do get slightly heated every now and then, I've not seen any trolling or crap filled threads yet.

[logictom]

There's a "Don't warn on new replies made while posting" option in the look and layout preferences for the forum if you're not bothered about losing the notification.