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Title: Avoiding the heartbreak of losing your draft due to session timeout Post by: Pitchpatch on June 09, 2012, 05:09 AM Heads up on a problem with this forum software.
If you've set your session times to the default two hours, and you're in the middle of a draft post when that time expires, and you hit PREVIEW, you'll get a message asking you to log back in. After you do you'll discover your draft post gone. Vanished. OMFG. All that work carefully drafting your post... lost. Not lost. Slowly hit the BACK arrow in your browser to work backward through your browing history until you get the draft page you were working on before you hit the PREVIEW button. Now hit preview again and everything's fine: it shows the preview with your latest edits. Couple of solutions to avoid this annoyance: * When logging in, set a much bigger session-timeout value (e.g. 360 min for 6 hours) or just set the 'keep me logged in' option * When working on a large post over considerable time, before you hit the POST or PREVIEW button first copy the post body to your computer clipboard, just in case. If things go awry you can quickly paste the content back into a text document for safe keeping until you log back into the forum and repost. Sorry about this annoyance. It caught me half a dozen times so far. Nobody likes the scare of thinking all your effort was for nothing. NOTE: this doesn't seem to happen when you hit the POST button, only the PREVIEW button. If your session times out before you hit POST you'll get a message about "Session timed out, please try again...", but your draft will still be there on screen and all you do is hit POST again and it'll submit fine. |