I just wrote a heartfelt damn piece of my soul onto the pixelwork to share with you folks...
It turns out that, if you timeout (the "deadlink" page) and go back in history twice by accident then come forward to the "submit" page, what you wrote won't be there anymore.
I'm not rewriting this. Wouldn't be fair for the lost.
Any way we can implement some sort of auto-storing mechanism or timeout notifications? It would be most appreciated by people like me who write long posts in the submission form. Timeout refreshment for when you return to "submit" page from the "deadlink", perhaps? Refreshing the page by hand is a downer, and things can be lost that way.
mk thenewgreen (I don't remember which one of you devfolks does the code for Hubski, so calling the ones I know)
Sorry :( It's inherent to the way Arc handles pages in the old Hacker News source. Unfortunately, it's so low-level, we probably won't be able to fix it until everything is moved to Racket. We might be able to store it client-side in local storage or something, but I doubt I'll have time anytime soon. What little time I have is going into this big user data migration. mk forwardslash
Yes, sorry ThatFanficGuy. We have tried to minimize it with drafts, and a few tweaks, but as rob05c said, it is something inherent to the app. Client-side might be an option. I'll look into it.
For better or worse, I have had that happen to me multiple times as I find my self adding and editing my posts and comments throughout the day - in between classes, bus rides and whatnot. Eventually, it gets to a point I'm sure it'll time out... or I'm only satisfied with the post by the time I get home. My solution(s) as of yet are composed of a couple things: 1. Write it in a word editor: MS Word, Notepad, etc. 2. Select the whole post and copy it to my clipboard (when done or want to save my work primitively). 3. Both. I'll be stubborn and continue typing into the comment box and copy/paste what I have into a word editor. Then mess around with the piece and paste it back into the submission box. I might be going a bit nuts, perhaps it's because (and I'm inferring here from mk's comment) the save draft option is server side, but I swear it's not always there. Hope this helps for future issues.
Yes, drafts are server side. They are saved the same way that posts are. Let me know if you find an incident of one disappearing.I might be going a bit nuts, perhaps it's because (and I'm inferring here from mk's comment) the save draft option is server side, but I swear it's not always there.