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Quote from: wallet4bitcoin on December 03, 2023, 06:01:52 AM

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.

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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 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.

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Quote from: Poker Player on November 21, 2023, 11:59:49 PM

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.

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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.

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?

Quote from: shahzadafzal on November 24, 2023, 06:54:19 AM

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

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. Cheesy

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.

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.

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Quote from: joker_josue on November 23, 2023, 03:56:48 AM

Why would a donor want their money back? Huh

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

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Quote from: Despairo on November 22, 2023, 12:15:17 AM

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.

Quote from: https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.1:Posts_and_Topics

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.

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Quote from: NotATether on November 24, 2023, 02:10:35 AM

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.

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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.

Quote from: arabspaceship123 on November 23, 2023, 06:34:50 AM

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.

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Quote from: Poker Player on November 21, 2023, 11:59:49 PM

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.

Quote from: LTU_btc on November 23, 2023, 04:28:57 PM

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.

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Quote from: Gladitorcomeback on November 23, 2023, 10:43:13 PM

This feature is required in urgent basis.

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

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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... :/

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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Quote from: Agbe on November 23, 2023, 07:20:34 PM

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.

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Quote from: joker_josue on November 23, 2023, 03:56:48 AM

Why would a donor want their money back? Huh

He gave!

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

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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.

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Quote from: LoyceV on November 22, 2023, 02:05:08 PM

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.

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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.

Quote from: LoyceV on November 22, 2023, 02:05:08 PM

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.

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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, 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.

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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.

Quote from: Zoomic on November 23, 2023, 12:54:20 PM

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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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.

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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?

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).}

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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: 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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Quote from: Oshosondy on November 22, 2023, 02:48:34 AM

But I have used a browser on Android for this forum before, if you close the browse and you open it again or you power off your phone, you will see what you were typing, it will not clear away. But upgrade on the browser removed this feature.

Yeah it often depends on the kinda browser one is using as there some mobile browser like the Chrome browser, Opera browser and some others that when you accidentally use the backward keys while still typing but if you use the forward keys it will display what you're typing again so it basically depends on your browser.

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.

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The forum isn't that way just as what they already explain above, if you are exploring the forum through your Smartphone then I will suggest you install operamini browser. When you accidentally navigate other window or hit the back button you can still go back using the arrows shown < left and > right to retrace back your post. This works for me I don't know if others uses this same browser as I does. Otherwise it's always encourageable to be previewing your post while you are active on the typing windows to save your post automatically.

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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.

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The forum is able to provide a preview bottom to be able to save all your rights up for up to seven days.

If you are using your PC and you mistakenly delete some portion or all your writeup by mistake, the undo bottom or control +z is there to help retain all the writeup for you.

If the automatic save is added, it will be a good one because sometimes most people lose all their writing if the browser or network mistakenly fails at some point and they are not able to preview their writing.

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This and if you mistakenly delete text in editor, for that undo button would be nice. Preview button is still a manual process and I refuse to accept it as a solution.

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Quote from: Poker Player on November 21, 2023, 11:59:49 PM

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.

Click on preview and all what you have that you want to post would be saved in a draft, yes and that is good. But I have seen it on a forum before that what you want to post will still just be there if anything happened to your device, as you open the browser back, you will see you post there.

But I have used a browser on Android for this forum before, if you close the browse and you open it again or you power off your phone, you will see what you were typing, it will not clear away. But upgrade on the browser removed this feature.

On Edge browser on the Windows 11 that I am using, if I do not clear the browser or remove what I am about to post or writing as I do not click on preview, edge browser will let me see what I was about to post before I close the browser or power off the computer. So if I mistakenly close the browser, all I need to do is to open it back and see what I want to post without clicking on preview.

But if I want to remove the link to what I am posting, I can click on preview.

On the present Android and Edge desktop browser that I am using, if I hit back arrow, I will only have to hit the forward arrow to see what I am posting again and continue. I do not like Duckduckgo for not having this.

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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... :/

You can use the forum's Drafts page but you must click on Preview or make a Post to save a draft.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=drafts

I dislike if a platform auto saves what I am composing, not posting yet, without my permission.

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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.

Quote from: https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.1:Posts_and_Topics

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.

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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 hope this feature will be added because sometimes when I am away from my laptop I have to make post using my smartphone and the problem with smartphone is sometimes mistakenly I hit back button and everything is gone. Back when I totally made posts on smartphone for like 1 month I faced this issue so many times and got frustrated.

I am making this post on my smartphone and still afraid to lose it, to solve this I mostly try to preview it so it can be saved in draft, there are many other options available too like using some other text editors to write posts more efficiently even there are a text editor where you can make lists or make table and when you will hit the bbcode feature on those editors, they will convert the whole tags used in your text into bbcode like for list it will use list tag.

But I don't used to them so I avoid them

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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.

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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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