Writing a reply... oops, gone!

Oh yes, this has happened to me before. On here and other places. It is so frustrating when I write a long, well thought out post and then submit it and my internet goes out for a few minutes, or just long enough to suck my post into thin air. At first I feel like throwing my laptop across the room. But I try to chill, take a break if I need. Then I usually go ahead and post again, but maybe not exactly the same as I originally did, or maybe I write the same thing but actually end up writing less by saying things a little differently. But yea, when this happens I get so mad!:D

It's happened to me not just once but several times. I don't know what causes it but it used to cause me grief and a frantic desire to recapture some eternally-important discussion. These days it doesn't much matter anymore. If it should happen again then I would just charge it to experience.

Its a time out problem. The webpage becomes inactive after some time and when you press Post Response it has to become active again and I think it refreshes the page. Before posting your reply, copy it just incase. Or perhaps stop writing such long replys and work on shorter more factual and descriptive sentenses which portray your veiws clearly.

Oh yeah. This is something i really hate. Sometimes I'm blogging something really fun and interesting and then suddenly boom. It is deleted.hehe and I cant write it again.

I hate that. I usually give up. I've tried to rewrite those and never can get the feeling I had in the original. Drives me crazy. I cannot wait till I can copy and paste in here man it's long overdue!!! I have found a few tricks but I cannot copy a whole posting that is so many lines long and that I put so much effort into typing!!! And there is no way to edit anything you post here anyway! So annoying, in fact, this is my only complaint with MyLot.

It had happened to me a lot of time already. I guess I have no choice but to rewrite it again. Of course, I may have to change words to make it shorter because sometimes I don't have enough time. But you are above the 500th mark now, you can use the copy and paste privilege. I don't have it yet so I think I have to suffer those disappearing responses.

oh i hate when this happens! it is such a drag to have to try and think of what i wrote in the first response and i know that the second response is never the same as the first.

I keep seeing this problem and I keep recommending the same things. For one, put your longer or more important discussions and responses into wordpad, Microsoft Word or Abiword. Copy and paste the discussion into the response sheet. Of course this only works at 500 contributions or more and the only other way of doing this is to retype what you put in your word program. Fear not.


Option 2, try getting Opera as a browser. http://www.opera.com/download/ For one thing, the posts remain in the textbox even when I hit the "back" button to see what the discussion looks like. I've tried this numerous times and its an interesting quirk of the browser. This also works when hitting submit and you get an error/non-connect message from the site or browser. You can simply hit "back" to get back to your textbox response/discussion and it'll be there. In case you don't believe that, you can look into the Notes tool for Opera. With Notes, you can write your discussion as a separate note. When you get to the discussion/response text area, right click in the text area and click insert note: all of your notes will come up as options. Select the note you wish to place and it'll be in the textbox.


Another option you have, and this is only available with Firefox browser: Add Note. This is an add on that allows you to write notes. You can write your notes and then copy them (or write them verbatim if not at 500 contributions) into the textbox. You can save your notes too as tabs. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46

UGH! It seems to always happen to me in here. IT SUCKS!!! I'm with shamsta on this one. I try to redo it sometimes, but once its gone it usually stays gone

YES...it just have happened again to me a while ago. I seldom get this mood to write lengthy reply and I was just doing exactly that a while ago and kaboom...my internet connection played up again. It is very annoying but what can you do really? Bang your head onto your monitor? (LOL) Just see if you can recall at least the flow of thoughts in your reply and re-write it again. If you can't, then maybe try replying in another way..you know, play around with your words while keeping the sense intact. If you've lost all your thoughts and cannot gather back your wits again anymore...then maybe just log out and have a cup of tea/coffee or whatever drink that will relax you a bit. That might bring your mood back and then, you can start fresh again.