Ever lost a post because your login timed out!

[Richard]

Be warned!

If for whatever reason you finish a post, but when you Submit it, you receive a warning,
That you must be logged in to post
--DO NOT PROCEED to login.

Go back to your well-thought-out post and copy it. Now try to post it again. At the warning proceed to login, whereupon, you will automagically be returned to your empty post!
Paste your saved post, Submit it and
say, Thanks, with a smile. :)

[JayM]

I also always paste my post in Featherpad just in case something goes wrong and when I go to paste it after logging in it isn't there anymore. I've had that happen before, like the clipboard gets emptied, or if I space out and copy something else while I'm waiting to be logged in (although MX/Xfce has a pretty nice clipboard manager that stores a history of your recent clipboard contents.)

[skidoo]

When people copypaste links to other forum topics, and the link URL contains ...&sid=
clicking that link will invalidate your login session_id

FYI, firefox extension "Textarea Cache" (might also be available for chromuim-based browsers) guards against lost posts

[fehlix]

"Ever lost a post because your login timed out!"
Actually I experience this loss-type rather seldom.
It happens more often, when I reply and just in the same second
another user replied to the same post. Most of the time,
I still stay in the editor and still have what I just wrote, after having click on submit.
But sometimes the post is send and looks like committed, but is not showing up.
So yes, copy the whole stuff before post into the clipboard, is what I try not to forget.

[richb]

It happens more often, when I reply and just in the same second
another user replied to the same post.

In that case you should get a notification when you click submit that another use has posted to the thread. You can then click submit on your post again.

I only get logged out when a user posts a forum link with http rather than https.

EDIT: You can also save your post as a draft and then retrieve it through your User Control Panel.

[Eadwine Rose]

EDIT: You can also save your post as a draft and then retrieve it through your User Control Panel.

Ohh.. is THAT where it goes!

*goes remove drafts from 2014 on...*

[srq2625]

Another way to preserver what you've typed is to click the "Preview" button every once in a while. This will reset the session timer for you and preserve the content of your work-in-process.

Basically, you just have to have an exchange with the forum server once in a while to let it know you're still there. :)

[towwire]

I lost a post once. I had login to the forum and then to where I was going to make a post. I'm a slow typist but that was not the problem. When I went to submit the post all of a sudden It said I was a spammer. Why did it not note that when I login instead, it waited till I was submitting a post. All that typing for nothing. The IP was from my VPN.

[seaken64]

I also type long forum entries into an offline text editor and save while editing. (Offline = on my local hard drive or removable drive like a USB). Once it's ready I copy and paste into the forum. I am old school and still use offline tools a lot. Seems the current generation of users is more inclined to do everything online. This forum has some good tools for that, as already mentioned above. I have also used Google Drive or Dropbox to save text files while editing, no offline tools in that case.

Seaken64

[skidoo]

it waited till I was submitting a post.

Across the web, isn't that the normal//expected spamfilter behavior?
(based on my experience, it is)