Recently several of the contributions I am trying to make to various discussions get lost. It seems to happen at the point where I try to post them, and I suddenly find that both the posting has been lost, and that I am no longer logged in.
Is anyone else having this problem ?
Recreating one's train of thought on some deeply felt issue is SO trying !
Does Jeremy have a pretentiousness filter working on this site, or what ?
It's happened to me several times Pete. I've spent ages carefully crafting a discussion/reply, only to have it disappear into the ether. It's just impossible to rewrite it as my second attempt is never satisfactory.
It always happens after I press the 'post' button. Sometimes I also get a message saying I've already posted one message and I'm not allowed to post any more for that day!
It's happened to me several times and it's so frustrating! I must get into the discipline of putting the piece together in Word (I suppose Notepad offers the same facility) in the first instance and that way you can't go wrong.
It's happened to me loads of times. I just thought it was a feature of my laptop. I've adopted RichardB's solution - except I leave the daft bits in, obviously.
It has happened to me a few times as well. I think the web forms must have some form of time out on them. If you spend to long laboring over a comment, it's gone, just when you think you are posting it. If you spend more than a few minutes typing, it is worth pasting your comments into a text editor before hitting the post button.
Cripes, that sounded so wrong I don't know where to begin. Think I'll stop now.
I do like SS does, only I'm a dork and I paste it into a spell checker first too. Not only protects against interweb oddities but prevents obsessive compulsive misspelling panic.
At home, yes, at work, no. For work I'm on the internet all day, no biggie to poke my head in here once in a while. When I'm home, if I need a fix for something tunelike I can just pick up the fiddle instead of following the latest scuffle on ye olde mustard board.
If you stop in the middle of your post to click on a link in an email
message, then you might be taken out of the editing page
prematurely. Jeremy's Web server might also have a short default
session duration.
...
I just tried leaving this half-finished for over an hour. Apparently
session expiration is not a problem.
I have also had problems posting comments to the discussions on this web site and being logged out unexpectedly. However, that usually happens to me when I am using my computer at home and not when I am at work (as I am right now).
I believe there are ways of altering your settings so this doesn't happen - although it's never been explained to me how to do it. Hup - Presumably your computer is already set up this way.
If I'm writing a long post, I just try to remember to save it before clicking the 'post' button. I f it doesn't work first time, I can just refresh the page, paste in the text and post again. However, I don't always remember to save, so readers have been spared many a long-winded post by me over the years.
Losing contributions to the discussions.
Losing contributions to the discussions.
Recently several of the contributions I am trying to make to various discussions get lost. It seems to happen at the point where I try to post them, and I suddenly find that both the posting has been lost, and that I am no longer logged in.
Is anyone else having this problem ?
Recreating one's train of thought on some deeply felt issue is SO trying !
Does Jeremy have a pretentiousness filter working on this site, or what ?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
So it's not just me!
It's happened to me several times Pete. I've spent ages carefully crafting a discussion/reply, only to have it disappear into the ether. It's just impossible to rewrite it as my second attempt is never satisfactory.
It always happens after I press the 'post' button. Sometimes I also get a message saying I've already posted one message and I'm not allowed to post any more for that day!
There must be a technical fault somewhere.
PS. I've saved this post, just in case!
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by amhrán
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
If I ever write anything significant into a web form I copy the text before clicking submit. It's a good habit to get into.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Joe Wass
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Type it in Notepad and then paste it in. Means you can remove all the daft bits though in my case that would mean all of it.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by RichardB
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
It's happened to me several times and it's so frustrating! I must get into the discipline of putting the piece together in Word (I suppose Notepad offers the same facility) in the first instance and that way you can't go wrong.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Bannerman
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
What I most hate is posting incomplete digress to the every other
feckin computer ignorant SOBs probably worse than you to the point Gavin.
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# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Piece
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
It's happened to me loads of times. I just thought it was a feature of my laptop. I've adopted RichardB's solution - except I leave the daft bits in, obviously.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by sashiko calico
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
It has happened to me a few times as well. I think the web forms must have some form of time out on them. If you spend to long laboring over a comment, it's gone, just when you think you are posting it. If you spend more than a few minutes typing, it is worth pasting your comments into a text editor before hitting the post button.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by harry
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
me too. but the solution is here. use firefox and install add on lazarus.
never lose a post again
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by piobagusfidil
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Happens to me all the time. I just copy a comment before I hit the post button.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by DrSilverSpear
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Thanks wicked hacker. I'll give that a try.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by amhrán
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
'elif tset wen' tceles dna potksed ym no kcilc tsuj I
.smelborp yna dah reveN .yas ot tnaw I tahw ni epyt dna
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by gam
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
˙˙˙ɹǝɥʇıǝ ǝɹǝɥ ƃuıɥʇʎuɐ ƃuıʇsod sɯǝlqoɹd ʎuɐ pɐɥ ɹǝʌǝu ǝʌ,ı `ɥɐǝʎ
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Pat Mustard
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Just tried posting next weeks winning lottery numbers to this very discussion but they got lost in space. Might try again later.......
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by just4fun
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
As long as you don't lose your trousers, you'll be OK...
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by yhaalhouse
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
I'm hot on the trail of yaalhouse's trousers!
Cripes, that sounded so wrong I don't know where to begin. Think I'll stop now.
I do like SS does, only I'm a dork and I paste it into a spell checker first too. Not only protects against interweb oddities but prevents obsessive compulsive misspelling panic.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Jeez I rely on firefox add on spell check! you dont still use IE do you?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by piobagusfidil
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
At home, yes, at work, no. For work I'm on the internet all day, no biggie to poke my head in here once in a while. When I'm home, if I need a fix for something tunelike I can just pick up the fiddle instead of following the latest scuffle on ye olde mustard board.
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Hey Craic Addict, how do you do that upside-down font?
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Mark Harmer
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
˙ʇı op oʇ ʍoɥ ʇno punoɟ 'ɐɥɐ
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by Mark Harmer
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
...ʇuıɐɟ 1ǝǝɟ ı puɐ pɐǝɥ ʎɯ oʇ buıɥsnɹ sı poo1q ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʇ ʇdǝɔxǝ ¡1ooɔ os sı sıɥʇ
# Posted on December 1st 2009 by grego
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
Sharing?
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by mcknowall
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
like it like it.
on a serious note, yes i also find the lost post thing very frustrating.
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by rumpole
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
i think
lost post
is a trumpet tune, but its not in the database
# Posted on December 2nd 2009 by rumpole
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
And the band played the lost post and chorus
# Posted on December 3rd 2009 by bindicat
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
If you stop in the middle of your post to click on a link in an email
message, then you might be taken out of the editing page
prematurely. Jeremy's Web server might also have a short default
session duration.
...
I just tried leaving this half-finished for over an hour. Apparently
session expiration is not a problem.
# Posted on December 3rd 2009 by Hup
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
I have also had problems posting comments to the discussions on this web site and being logged out unexpectedly. However, that usually happens to me when I am using my computer at home and not when I am at work (as I am right now).
# Posted on December 3rd 2009 by fauxcelt
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
I believe there are ways of altering your settings so this doesn't happen - although it's never been explained to me how to do it. Hup - Presumably your computer is already set up this way.
If I'm writing a long post, I just try to remember to save it before clicking the 'post' button. I f it doesn't work first time, I can just refresh the page, paste in the text and post again. However, I don't always remember to save, so readers have been spared many a long-winded post by me over the years.
# Posted on December 4th 2009 by CreadurMawnOrganig
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
During login if you check the *Remember Me* box the server should keep you logged in. Otherwise you'll loose your cookies now & again.
# Posted on December 4th 2009 by Ben Steen
~
Did that work for everyone?
# Posted on December 5th 2009 by Ben Steen
Re: Losing contributions to the discussions.
(: ˙ǝɹoɟǝq ǝuop ʇɐɥʇ uǝǝs ʇ,upɐɥ ı 'ɥƃnɐן ǝɯ ǝpɐɯ noʎ 'ʇɔıppɐ ɔıɐɹɔ
# Posted on December 6th 2009 by gtag