Lost posts

[+ Charlie]

I just spent a lot of time writing a reply to a post. I previewed it, made some changes, previewed it again, decided it was OK, then pressed POST (no, I did not accidently hit preview again). I went back to the original thread, but my post wasn't there. I tried the process again, but still no post. This is the second time it has happened recently. What is going on?

[+ deej]

You may have been the victim of the post timeout.

 

From the moment you click "reply" until you click "post" there's like an egg timer running on the server. Take too long and you may hit that timeout (although I *thought* he had it set sufficiently long after some tweaking about 5 years ago). That should give you a message, though.

 

Or the database may have had a blond moment.

 

A little routine maintenance should cover the latter, but have patience. Resources (meaning Daddy) are spread thin just now.

[+ newatthis]

>I just spent a lot of time writing a reply to a post. I

>previewed it, made some changes, previewed it again, decided

>it was OK, then pressed POST (no, I did not accidently hit

>preview again). I went back to the original thread, but my

>post wasn't there. I tried the process again, but still no

>post. This is the second time it has happened recently. What

>is going on?

 

Charlie --

 

When I remember, I compose my replies using a word processor offline, then copy and paste, to avoid what happened too you.

[+ Charlie]

I didn't get any message, but I did take about ten minutes to write and revise.

[+ Charlie]

Sounds like a lot of trouble for what should be a pretty simple process, but I may try it the next time I make a long, carefully edited post.

[Lookin]

Had the same thing happen to me a few times on this, and other, sites. I'm glad for Deej's explanation, as I was starting to take it personally.

 

If you don't want to go the word processor route, you can just select and copy your post before you hit the "post" button. If things go kerflooey, all you have to do is re-open the post window, paste your text back in, and try, try again.

 

(Don't copy anything else in the meantime, though, as your copied text is stored in volatile clipboard memory and can be overwritten easily and without warning. Pasting it into a word processor is safer.)

[+ Charlie]

Thanks for the advice. I did rewrite my original post and sent it, and it went through OK.

[Kevin Slater]

Or you can often just hit the back button on your browser and go to the page where you had typed it all originally. But again, the word processor is safest.

 

Kevin Slater

[+ Lucky]

The back button can restore it? That's nice to know...

[+ Charlie]

Actually, I tried that, but it still wouldn't post.

[Steven_Draker]

It happens to me when I open TWO different windows of the MC

 

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[Steven_Draker]

It means: when I start writing a post in one window, then subsequently I open a second window with the MC (to search for a reference for instance), when I come back to the first window and hit the post button, it simply wouldn't post anything.

 

Hope this is clearer now.

 

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[+ Charlie]

Thanks, Steven--that was exactly what occurred when it happened to me.

[+ deej]

That actually makes sense.

 

Opening the second page gets a new cookie. Seeing a mismatched session/cookie, the server apparently assumes you're one of those insidious spam-bots that floods any message board as soon as they figure out how to post and just ignores you.

 

Hey, it's better than being flooded with V!@gra spam. ;-)

[Steven_Draker]

>Thanks, Steven--that was exactly what occurred when it happened to me.

 

You're welcome, Charlie. I'm glad that the mystery is being demystified with Deej's help.

 

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