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Does anyone else have a problem posting in these forums?

  • October 26, 2006 at 7:24 am

    #367765

    Not sure how to describe it...I will give it my best try.  Sometimes when I go to reply to a post or start a new thread and you am typing away it may take a fair amount of time (5 minutes to most of the morning) as I can have stuff come up with work...ect.

    Well I have had it happen to me more than once that when I hit the reply button\post new topic that basically the webpage reloads and everything I have typed is GONE...

    Needless to say I get super irritated and don't bother re-typing what I just wrote.  I have resorted to copying the text prior to hitting that button now just incase it doesn't take for some reason.  I am thinking that it is some sort of timeout on the webpage...but I have no real idea.

    Has anyone else come across this type of issue when posting?

    To try it out...start a new post...type some text and let the window sit there for a little while (30 minutes).  Then post the topic..see if it happens to you (i.e. everything you typed basically gets lost).

     

     

    Thanks,

    Leeland

  • October 26, 2006 at 7:31 am

    #668165

    Yeah that's some kind of session timeout.  They know about it but can,t resolve at the moment.  Make sure you backup your message before hitting send .

  • October 26, 2006 at 7:40 am

    #668172

    Well I am glad that it isn't just me...I was getting so irritated  

  • October 28, 2006 at 12:26 am

    #668624

    Happened to me as well. Now watching my time when posting.

    One other strange thing that happened was that hitting the post button got me a page with a really nasty looking stack trace of some sort. But somehow I got back to the page containing my post without having lost anything. I post again and get the error page again. After the third time I gave up - only to find that my post got posted 3 times. I deleted the extra 2 posts and all was well.

  • October 28, 2006 at 5:05 am

    #668626

    There've been HEAPS of other people who've faced the same problem and learned the hard way....I either keep saving as I'm typing or if it's particularly long then I just move over to notepad and copy and paste when I'm done...took some getting used to but now it's a matter of routine...







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  • October 30, 2006 at 7:25 am

    #668700

    Be sure that you click the "Post" button and don't hit enter. I know in Firefox that sometimes causes a reload instead of a submit.

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  • October 30, 2006 at 8:43 am

    #668755

    Thanks for the info...and don't worry about it.  It is something that is minor, just have to work around it and usually only let it burn you once .

     

    In general I love the way the posting interface is set up...hopefully it won't change drastically...I love how it is similar to a Word type interface.  It is easily the nicest forum interface I am used....except for the whole loosing the post issue

  • October 30, 2006 at 12:35 pm

    #668833

    There's a reason why I end all of my posts by pressing Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C -- I've had this problem many times.  I'm using Microsoft Internet Explorer more often than not since I'm posting from work.  Definitely not a fun issue.  

    I hope new forums would work nicely. 

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