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Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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.

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Quote from: 348Judah on November 23, 2023, 10:56:45 AM

Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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 Grin

. 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.

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Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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.

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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.

Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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... :/

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Quote from: Vod on November 22, 2023, 11:48:15 PM

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? Huh

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. Undecided

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Quote from: Vod on November 22, 2023, 11:48:15 PM

Quote from: joker_josue on November 22, 2023, 09:12:15 PM

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

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Quote from: joker_josue on November 22, 2023, 09:12:15 PM

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. :/

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on November 22, 2023, 05:19:56 AM

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.

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Quote from: joker_josue on November 22, 2023, 09:12:15 PM

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.

Quote from: Findingnemo on November 22, 2023, 11:44:16 AM

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.

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Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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?

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Quote from: examplens on November 22, 2023, 08:47:48 AM

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.

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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.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on November 22, 2023, 05:19:56 AM

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.

I am using Chrome to surf Bitcointalk on my Windows and the condition is pretty much the same with my device too there is no need to click preview/draft just to get what we wrote when we click backward but the condition is different when we use reload/refresh feature.

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.

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I'd prefer if we had an auto save function like EarnOnVictor suggested because for some of us who use mobile phones and are not making use of an Opera Mini browser and forget to preview, that means all we've written goes to dust? Well, for me, before I make a post, I first of all jot it down so if on the off chance such a thing happens, I just go back to where I wrote them. That way I don't have to cry over spilled milk.

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Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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... :/

Lol...this is overdue and the forum is old truly, I could remember when I suggested the autosave function a while ago but nothing was done about it. This function is old with some sites too and it's not about BTT being old per se but the lack of a plan for such a function itself. The forum has tried for itself and I believe they are taking time sometimes to update some functions on it. But it needs more than that, the forum that will compete with the recent technology is deserving of the Bitcoin status as it is now.

Also about this issue of yours, I believe that it varies per browser and you might want to update your browser too. I use Chrome to surf Bitcointalk and when I mistakingly click on the back button and later click on the forward button, it retains my typed work. This also goes to when I mistakingly closed the browser or shut my laptop entirely. I always get back my typed work in these cases with my updated browser.

The only exception to this is when I refresh the page.

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Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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... :/

If you accidentally close the tab while creating a post just hit Ctrl+Shift+T and the tab will re-open with all your drafted posts still there if you hit the browser back you can still go back by hitting forward in the browser, in fact I experienced a power outage several times and when the power is back I still can see all my works there.

I think it has something to do with how you configure your browser I configure my browser to Continue where I left off so even if there's a power outage I can go back to my work with the tabs I left off opened, I seldom lose my draft post here in Bitcointalk, if you want to be sure just use what others are recommending and this is my saving your work in a draft if you're creating a long post.

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I used mobile phone to type and I use a browser and sometimes when I open another tab or stay some hours long before opening the browser for forum it will not take me to the box where I was typing characters, but since I learnt to preview my work before opening anything or doing any other things, when I return to the browser if my work wiped away I will go directly to draft and copy and start where I stopped, but their is one particular thing I'm looking for the draft, I'm looking for a place where I can delete something that I save in draft should in case if the draft have a limitations so that it stores other documents of the characters I typed.

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Quote from: Vod on November 21, 2023, 11:41:32 PM

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... :/

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.

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Quote from: lovesmayfamilis on November 22, 2023, 05:19:56 AM

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.

It same on my end, after reading your reply I thought it was just maybe because of a browser extension or plugin installed that I didn't encounter what OP did. So I just do it now intentionally, I tried to compose a text message and then simply clicked the back button, and when I clicked the forward button, the message was still there. Maybe it was the reload/ refresh button that OP accidentally clicked?

I tried this as well on my Android device, Chrome browser and I didn't encounter losing the post, it only happens when I reload the page.

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Quote from: Richbased on November 22, 2023, 07:24:58 AM

In a case of poor network or maybe your network becomes unavailable while typing, it is advisable to copy what you are typing before refreshing the page otherwise you will lose the whole content of what you're typing, and in a case whereby you are done typing and you hit the post button and the network goes of what you need do is keep refreshing the page rather than using the backward key as you may also lose the whole content of what you typed.

If the network is not good and it brought up an error, I do not refresh, I use the backward key once and it will take me back to what I want to post. From there I will copy it to my device clipboard. I can do that on both my phone or laptop. The only mistake is when I mistakenly remove the whole link from my browser, but preview can help during the time like that.

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