Losing entire post if you hit back arrow accidently

[SamReomo]

It happened to me a couple of times while writing a post, my computer restarted due to a power outage. After rebooting, the text I entered was still there. No special cache settings. (Chrome browser)
Also, the preview button saves the currently written post into a draft and is available there for 7 days. It seems to me that this is quite enough from the "outdated" version of the software.

It happened to me sometimes as well and fortunately the posts that I were writing were saved as drafts and when I repowered my system I was able to complete the posts from the state I left them when power was off. I'm thinking about shifting to a laptop as that one will be much helpful for me because I can run a laptop on low power UPS and there won't be any power outage issues. But, surely that feature of the forum saves us sometimes.

It's first time I get to know that preview button saves the written post into a draft and that draft is available for a whole week. I believe that such feature are pretty helpful mostly for those users who give time to write the posts and sometimes the posts get longer due to information that's added into the posts.

[joker_josue]

Most forums and many websites (like gmail) are able to save your post in a cookie as you type.  If you navigate away by mistake, the post will be waiting for you if you go right back.

Does the billion dollar forum have that feature?  I got so used to it I forgot this forum is so old... :/

Did you go back to the browser page or refresh (F5)?
Well, if you refresh, unfortunately you will have to start all over again, unless you have clicked on the "Preview" button at some point.
If you simply clicked the back arrow (or the key/mouse combination for that purpose), simply click the forward arrow to return to where you were.

Now, perhaps there is no need for new software for the forum, perhaps a small patch could resolve the issue.
@PowerGlove is it possible?

[joniboini]

Now, perhaps there is no need for new software for the forum, perhaps a small patch could resolve the issue.

Won't that need to involve the server in one way or the other though? Unless you're talking about client-side caching with some plugins or something similar. I'm not familiar with how it works, it would be neat if that is possible as long as it doesn't bog down the browser due to too much caching.

So far I did what loyce said, and tried to click preview as often as possible if I need to type a very long post.

Also in my Android too the situation is same but where we most likely will refresh the page while swiping down and all the text written will be gone but its unlikely to happen with PC.

Don't most browsers open the typing window when you click the posting page? Maybe you can change the gesture of your browser or Android so you don't mix refresh and scroll down.

[Mr.suevie]

I don’t know how correctly I understood your text, but on my laptop, when I write a post, press the back button, and then click again on the page to print the post, everything is saved. Maybe the problem lies when using mobile gadgets. I deliberately tried to do this, but maybe this happens after a pause.

Yeah it happens alot to me when I was starting up the forum and yeah it mainly occur on the mobile and the browser involved also matters. The only trick I use now is just to save the whole text am typing by simply clicking preview button before posting so that its going to be saved manually before I actually post my text, if not you will this very annoying when it eventually happens especially after typing a very long text then the whole thing just wipes out.

[Vod]

Now, perhaps there is no need for new software for the forum, perhaps a small patch could resolve the issue.

Imagine if the people who donated for that forum could get their money back, as they requested.  :/

[pilosopotasyo]

Now, perhaps there is no need for new software for the forum, perhaps a small patch could resolve the issue.

Imagine if the people who donated for that forum could get their money back, as they requested.  :/

It is possible if the donor agrees to receive in the dollar value when you donate so if you donate 50 BTC in 2013 at $13 per Bitcoin value that's $650

[joker_josue]

Imagine if the people who donated for that forum could get their money back, as they requested.  :/

Why would a donor want their money back?  He gave!
Making this type of request was a very bad action, in my opinion.

Well, maybe in a real serious illness situation and that could be a big help.

[arabspaceship123]

If I've navigated away it doesn't usually remove the text so I've gone through the same situation you've discussed. Sometimes the text's removed. I don't know why going forward or back in my browser nav buttons isn't consistent each time but I'm happy it's there most of the time so I don't have to retype all of my post.

Most forums and many websites (like gmail) are able to save your post in a cookie as you type.  If you navigate away by mistake, the post will be waiting for you if you go right back.

Does the billion dollar forum have that feature?  I got so used to it I forgot this forum is so old... :/

[348Judah]

Most forums and many websites (like gmail) are able to save your post in a cookie as you type.  If you navigate away by mistake, the post will be waiting for you if you go right back.

Does the billion dollar forum have that feature?  I got so used to it I forgot this forum is so old... :/

Something like this is allowed on the forum as well, but you will have to preview it first before it can be archived under draft, but without having this done under preview, you may not be able to see your typed contents any chance you loose being on the same page, it has happened to me several times that i loose some of my post contents immediately am typing and a call comes in on my mobile device or i have to navigate through while am typing.

[DYING_S0UL]

Most forums and many websites (like gmail) are able to save your post in a cookie as you type.  If you navigate away by mistake, the post will be waiting for you if you go right back.

Does the billion dollar forum have that feature?  I got so used to it I forgot this forum is so old... :/

Something like this is allowed on the forum as well, but you will have to preview it first before it can be archived under draft, but without having this done under preview, you may not be able to see your typed contents any chance you loose being on the same page, it has happened to me several times that i loose some of my post contents immediately am typing and a call comes in on my mobile device or i have to navigate through while am typing.

What's why I always type on my notepad first  . Accidental backs are the worst. Luckily the forum have a draft function that saves everything when previewing. But I didn't found it that much of useful. If I remember correctly, there was one time, I was writting a massive post, suddenly a accidental back and everything was gone. I did tried to find it through draft. But it wasn't where the accident happened. Instead it way way before that. That's why I prefer note apps or online notepads.

[Zoomic]

Most forums and many websites (like gmail) are able to save your post in a cookie as you type.  If you navigate away by mistake, the post will be waiting for you if you go right back.

Does the billion dollar forum have that feature?  I got so used to it I forgot this forum is so old... :/

I have been a victim of this several times and I had no option than to start afresh to type again. I was so pained that instead of me to raise a topic here, I rather had to write a review to my mobile phone producers that they should make a function that will only allow back button in their mobile phone to work when you double click. Maybe you can set it to work once, but for the sake of BTT, I would set mine to work when I double click. My this, I will not mistakenly click the back button.

I don't know if BTT save cookies for security reasons, since the platform has been hacked before.

[SFR10]

Most forums and many websites (like gmail) are able to save your post in a cookie as you type.  If you navigate away by mistake, the post will be waiting for you if you go right back.

Does the billion dollar forum have that feature?

Yes ^{[sort of]}... Last time I checked, Epochtalk had an autosave feature that kept triggering every 10 seconds, so you're still going to lose everything that you'd type within that time frame.
^{- It's worth noting that it's not fully automated (you'd still have to accept a pop-up notification in order for it to load the latest draft).}

[cafter]

In browsers like chrome, brave, and others, the undo and redo buttons((Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Shift+Z) ) come in handy if you make a mistake while writing a post. May many forum members may be aware of this feature,
i personally find it quite helpful.
if i accidentally close the tab or click back in middle of writing a post, the text i have typed isn't lost completely it always get saved as a draft.
and also when I reopen the closed tab, i can see my post with the text intact. at that moment, i can't directly post it; instead, i need to copy the text, reload the tab, and then paste it to successfully post the content.

[arabspaceship123]

Most of the time it's working with nav buttons but I've been a victim like you've been. When it went wrong I'd refresh or navigate forward back & hope for the text to reappear.

I haven't seen it cut my text more than a few times so I've accepted it happens. As safety to save time I'm getting in the habit of avoiding it.

I have been a victim of this several times and I had no option than to start afresh to type again. I was so pained that instead of me to raise a topic here, I rather had to write a review to my mobile phone producers that they should make a function that will only allow back button in their mobile phone to work when you double click. Maybe you can set it to work once, but for the sake of BTT, I would set mine to work when I double click. My this, I will not mistakenly click the back button.

I don't know if BTT save cookies for security reasons, since the platform has been hacked before.

[LTU_btc]

I don’t know how correctly I understood your text, but on my laptop, when I write a post, press the back button, and then click again on the page to print the post, everything is saved. Maybe the problem lies when using mobile gadgets. I deliberately tried to do this, but maybe this happens after a pause.

Yeah, if you clicked back arrow accidentally, then you have to click forward and your text is saved. Just don't reload page because then your text will disappear.
It's not just on PC, this thing works on mobile too. I also remember once that when my browser crashed and after I clicked restore previous session, my text was there.

[The Cryptovator]

Important feature to prevent mistakenly losing content that we need time to write. Sometimes I make these types of mistakes: I write a few lines and accidentally press backward. Because I often use this forum on my smart phone, my finger is sometimes displaced. However, the forum seems to update very rarely, and there are many things that need to be implemented to update the forum. I'm not sure if theymos want to focus on that.

The trick is to navigate forward again after you accidentally clicked "back". At least that's what works on my browser (most of the time). But since it doesn't work all the time, I avoid it as much as possible. Or open a post-link in a new window, that way there is no page to go "back" to.

I use this when happen same. But I regret when sometimes it doesn't work lol.

[PX-Z]

The trick is to navigate forward again after you accidentally clicked "back". At least that's what works on my browser (most of the time). But since it doesn't work all the time, I avoid it as much as possible. Or open a post-link in a new window, that way there is no page to go "back" to.

Yes, this is what i always do, some exceptions are if the page is reloaded/refreshed, you clear the browser's cache while typing then hit the back button accidentally after you click the forward button its not there anymore.
So hitting preview after typing after several texts could save the day.

[Agbe]

I recommend this post. I think a lower rank member has created a similar thread like in the months back but we take it as a minor something but this is very much important. There are sometimes when you were typing and dropped the phone to go and collect something at the room or palour and the phone screen sleep off then when you on it back and open the browser to continue everything will just wipe out. Though that also depend on the browser one is using. And also if you mistakenly refresh the page everything would just wipe out. This incident made me to uninstalled Opera Mini from my phone. There should be undo features so that in case you delete a vital information from the comment, you can bring it back without stress.

[Vod]

Why would a donor want their money back?  He gave!

Theymos solicited those donations with the promise of using them to improve bitcoin, not setting up his friends for life.   :/

[joniboini]

Though that also depend on the browser one is using. And also if you mistakenly refresh the page everything would just wipe out. This incident made me to uninstalled Opera Mini from my phone. There should be undo features so that in case you delete a vital information from the comment, you can bring it back without stress.

I don't think Opera Mini or other browsers that are designed to save your data or mobile-focused is a great choice to visit the forum. Most of them have this automatic sleep feature, and while you can turn it off you still have other issues like privacy or security if you use them. Other than hoping for an update, you should probably look for alternatives or use your laptop/PC if you want to type a long post. CMIIW.