Losing entire post if you hit back arrow accidently

[Gladitorcomeback]

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... :/

This feature is required in urgent basis. I wasted so much time just because my post doesn't saved automatically. Actually I am not facing this problem with hitting back button because I am using default chrome in my smartphone which has feature that I could get back previous page without losing data.

My problem is when I want to scroll up  then sometimes I scroll more and page refreshed and my all data vanished and there is no way to get it back. I lost a long post many times and then I have to write it again. Now I am using notepad for long post but we cannot add automatic bb code there so I think It will be much better if we get this feature in forum here

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This feature is required in urgent basis.

Be patient.... $1,000,000,000 doesn't go as far as it used to.   

 

[Rikafip]

I don't know if the billon dollar one will have that feature but this one does has solutions for that. If you click on preview, what you have written is saved, and if you accidentally click on the back arrow, then click on the forward arrow and the text is as it is.

Crucial part of this is "if", and preview is not really a solution for this problem as sometimes you will simply forget to press it and unless I am mistaken, few times it didn't even work. 

Yeah, if you clicked back arrow accidentally, then you have to click forward and your text is saved.

For some reason that doesn't work for me 100% of the time and I never figured out why. By the way, I am using Mozilla.

[NotATether]

It's annoying because if the network goes out after you click the Post button, then not only will the message and the subject be erased, but also you can't even use the back button to go back to the editing page, because that's gone too.

I lost a few PM drafts this way.

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.

Using the back and forward buttons should work, but a page reload invariably discards the page data.

[LoyceV]

It's annoying because if the network goes out after you click the Post button, then not only will the message and the subject be erased, but also you can't even use the back button to go back to the editing page, because that's gone too.

I've saved my text a few times by quickly copying it while the page wasn't loading after I clicked "Post". Usually I just hit Preview after typing a few lines, to prevent losing my post.

[Igebotz]

I read it's possible for auto saving draft in SMF forum, but I think this will become a workload for the forum since they need bigger storage to auto save every users' posts.

    Enable automatic saving of drafts - This will automatically save user drafts in the background on a given frequency. The user must also have the proper permissions.
    How often should drafts be autosaved? - The minimum allowable value is 30 seconds.

When it comes to create a long post, I mostly type it in notepad so if I accidentally clicked something, there's a pop out message to confirm whether I want to save, don't save or cancel it.

Auto delete after 2-3 days to preserve space. This is widespread in current forums and social media. It's really terrible when you've composed a lengthy decent post and then accidentally click the back button, throwing everything off.

The "preview" draft uses a lot of storage as well, so I don't see why we can't have auto save draft.

[shahzadafzal]

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

Billion-dollar forum? Are you confusing theymos with Satoshi?

Does this forum have any active revenue streams? I don't think the evil-ip-fee or Cooper membership can turn this forum into a billion-dollar forum.

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.

This is the reason why Google Chrome disabled backspace for navigation.

If you accidentally but intentionally navigated away, you can come back to the same page without losing anything. For example, if you pressed the back button, just press the forward button again, and it should load the same page with your text.

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.   :/

As per the news, when donations were collected, it was ~$70,000. So, theymos could easily return it to everyone at the same rates

[Sandra_hakeem]

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.

Exactly! His description matches best with Mobile gadgets though...
I personally got to observe that when I used my tab; I typed everything on it and left to complete a a confirmation process on a pending transaction and when I came back, nothing was found... I was so pissed cus I couldn't gather back the right words to write on that particular topic just immediately...
there's alot of patches Theymos needs to initialize - who knows? Maybe he's done everything on Epochtalk already?

As per the news, when donations were collected, it was ~$70,000. So, theymos could easily return it to everyone at the same rates

Huh?

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[nakamura12]

I don't know if the billon dollar one will have that feature but this one does has solutions for that. If you click on preview, what you have written is saved, and if you accidentally click on the back arrow, then click on the forward arrow and the text is as it is.

I would expect the new forum to be like that or better.

In mobile phone using firefox browser won't erase or I don't have to type my post from the start. I didn't even uee preview and when I press back It is still there when I press forward. Honestly, I have been doing it since I joined this forum where I have to oress back to see the first page and then forward to continue typing my post. It my case, it won't be gone as long as I didn't press anything that will load or redirect because it will replace the data and when you try to press backward and then forward then it won't be the where you are typing your posts. Anyway, while I am typing this post I did use the backward or back arrow and then forward to see posts from the last page I visited.

[wallet4bitcoin]

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 noticed this a thousand time and then I have decided to use copy my comments after I draft it if I suspect that it's lagging.

Unlike Gmail that uses Internet access for its "Drive" except you opt for offline sync, Bitcointalk forum doesn't function that way.

I can't say for sure if it will be visited but for now, you'd have to save your drafts by copying and pasting after a refresh.

[DYING_S0UL]

I have noticed this a thousand time and then I have decided to use copy my comments after I draft it if I suspect that it's lagging.

Unlike Gmail that uses Internet access for its "Drive" except you opt for offline sync, Bitcointalk forum doesn't function that way.

I can't say for sure if it will be visited but for now, you'd have to save your drafts by copying and pasting after a refresh.

Draft aren't much useful in Bitcointalk. At least I didn't think it was that useful. As far as I know, unless you click the preview button the draft function won't save your texts. That's the problem. Even after having the draft feature, if you didn't clicked previous, all is lost.

So it's better to use either, a note app or online notepad websites.