by EntAllat » Tue May 01, 2012 5:29 pm
Yep. You know the computer-age adage, "Save Early, Save Often"? That applies to anything on the web too. I've gotten into a habit of copying-and-pasting into a text file on my desktop before I hit that submit button if anything I'm typing into a form - whether it's a personal blog, forum, customer service, or what-have-ye-website box - goes longer than about four sentences. I learned that lesson the hard way many years ago after losing several hours worth of work for an online essay.
That being said, I feel your pain panyasan! I've lost a few long written things that way on other websites. Hopefully the upgrades we'll make this summer will erase the problem and not your reviews.
By-the-way: DE denizens? If you leave a vent here in Jupiter Station about something went wrong, would you do me a favor and also leave a few details about the circumstances? I.e. your operating system (Windows, Mac, and version) your browser and version and, say, the last two steps you did before anything went wrong. (And of course, any error message you get!) Tracking down the source of a computer problem is a bit like mimicking Sherlock Holmes - the more clues there are, the easier it is and the more accurate the diagnosis.