06-20-2009, 01:34 PM
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Mr. Ganja
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: This is the dumbest planet I've ever visited....
Posts: 1,035
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Originally Posted by Dowd1
Everytime i try to post a lengthy post i get loged out,When i log back on I go back to the post and everything i wrote is gone This is really F'ing annoying.What seems to be the problem.This can and has happened every 5-10 min.If i take too long posting this i will be loged out and lose everything i just wrote  |
That hasn't happened to me lately, but since the server update the time has been eight hours behind on post timestamps. Server/site updates nearly always reveal issues before everything is running smoothly again. I went through this several times when I ran a forum, and I dreaded updates because it was a royal pain and there was always at least one issue the users were suddenly having. There's almost always a guarantee that some info will be lost, or just one line in the code is "off" somewhere in the transmission and rendering, etc.
For years, I've been doing what is now a very OCD habit  no matter what forum I've used, that works for preventing lost posts. I select all, cut, and paste before clicking to submit or even just to preview. If I get logged out or otherwise have to click "back" for a post, it's all in my clipboard and all I have to do is paste it all into the text box.
Sounds like a pain, but it takes less than a second (especially when using keyboard shortcuts as opposed to the mouse) and can save a lot of time/effort put into a long post!
(For really long posts, I paste/type all into a .txt document first. Helps to see what I'm typing rather than scrolling endlessly through a tiny text entry box. Also great if you're worried your browser may crash; not that I've ever overloaded mine or anything like that! LOL)
Dr. Greenhorn's solution works great, too. 
robert 14617, that isn't always the answer; something can be to the point and still not be short. Plus, I've been logged out of sites within seconds on countless occassions, and even with a very short post it's extremely infuriating to have to re-type what you'd wanted to say no matter how long or brief. Much less tedious to simply cut/paste everything first than to re-enter it after the fact.
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