No idea whether it’s the website or just me, but please consider maintaining the typed but unposted comments in the text box after a resumed session. It works for other websites and it used to work here too, but now when Firefox crashes while I’m writing a post I lose everything I’ve typed. At the very most, when it’s a top-level comment, the previously typed text shows up instead of “Enter Comment Here” or whatever, and I’m then able to make a screenshot and rewrite my comment, but as soon as I click inside the text box it’s of course gone. Please, if someone could look into it… I’m getting sick of constantly losing long posts. What’s worse, not even copying the text as I’m writing it seems to work on the first attempt lately, so now I have to pre-write all my comments.
EDIT: Oh for Pete’s sake. After carefully copying my retyped post several times as I was writing it, I lost it once again. And I’m definitely not rewriting it a third time. Trying to type something into a comment box seems to erase everything on my clipboard. Also, this is my third time attempting to make this edit. I don’t remember whether this problem is common to reddit, but it definitely doesn’t happen on any other website I use.
Sorry about you having to prewrite comments in notebook (or gnuedit or whatever). The easiest resolution might be to resolve your browser-crashing problem. Barring that, best of luck in figuring out where stuff in comment boxes gets saved by the browser, and how to make sure it happens.
I know what causes my crashing problems (bad browsing habits, suffice to say), but while I can reduce the chance of occurrence I can never know in advance just when the browser is going to crash. (On LW it seems to correlate with typing speed.) How post-crash text recovery is handled varies with the website, not with anything I can change, and having had this problem for a while, I have come to appreciate more the websites that offer better support for this.
No idea whether it’s the website or just me, but please consider maintaining the typed but unposted comments in the text box after a resumed session. It works for other websites and it used to work here too, but now when Firefox crashes while I’m writing a post I lose everything I’ve typed. At the very most, when it’s a top-level comment, the previously typed text shows up instead of “Enter Comment Here” or whatever, and I’m then able to make a screenshot and rewrite my comment, but as soon as I click inside the text box it’s of course gone. Please, if someone could look into it… I’m getting sick of constantly losing long posts. What’s worse, not even copying the text as I’m writing it seems to work on the first attempt lately, so now I have to pre-write all my comments.
EDIT: Oh for Pete’s sake. After carefully copying my retyped post several times as I was writing it, I lost it once again. And I’m definitely not rewriting it a third time. Trying to type something into a comment box seems to erase everything on my clipboard. Also, this is my third time attempting to make this edit. I don’t remember whether this problem is common to reddit, but it definitely doesn’t happen on any other website I use.
Sorry about you having to prewrite comments in notebook (or gnuedit or whatever). The easiest resolution might be to resolve your browser-crashing problem. Barring that, best of luck in figuring out where stuff in comment boxes gets saved by the browser, and how to make sure it happens.
I know what causes my crashing problems (bad browsing habits, suffice to say), but while I can reduce the chance of occurrence I can never know in advance just when the browser is going to crash. (On LW it seems to correlate with typing speed.) How post-crash text recovery is handled varies with the website, not with anything I can change, and having had this problem for a while, I have come to appreciate more the websites that offer better support for this.