Several times now, after spending a fare amount of time to make a reply, your work disappears when you click ‘Post’ and you are taken back to the Index.
Wonderful, Good work, Congratulations, to the owners of the web site. Your new additions to the software is just great ! ! !
This throwing sh*t at the wall to see if it sticks is a good way to make software changes.
SAVE YOUR WORK BEFORE CLICKING POST !
Those automatic drafts are a lottery.
It may help you out, but there's no guarantee that you'll get all your hard and meticulous composed work back.
It's a better plan to hit ctrl-a, ctrl-c while in your editor, so all content is copied to the clipboard.
Do not hit space, ctrl-x or ctrl-v instead of ctrl-c, or you'll have destroyed all your work yourself.
Or, maybe that's what larryd wanted to convey, hit the "Save Draft" button before hitting the "Post" button.
“ Or, maybe that's what larryd wanted to convey, hit the "Save Draft" button before hitting the "Post" button.”
Yes.
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I have not changed my way of doing normal posts so believe something new to the software is causing this.
I believe others have noted they are sent back to the index when doing certain operations.
The last time this happened, I did go away from the iPad for 5-6 minutes while generating the reply.
Come to think, this may only happen if the time is extended.
We know changes are not done for fun and you take the responsibility seriously.
Now that I know this is a possibility, I always copy the post prior to clicking ‘Post’.
I will note what triggers this event and report back if/when this happens.
BTW, pat on the back for responding.
Edit
For very long and involved posts, I now create them in ‘Word’ then copy/paste them into the new post editor on this site.
larryd:
I believe others have noted they are sent back to the index when doing certain operations.
I believe that is a seperate issue that is being looked at.
Slightly different but somewhat the same problem.
I tried making the following post as a reply.
I was kicked out of the thread and immediately sent to a ‘New Post’ window ??? with everything cleared from the screen.
I tried it a second time and it worked okay.
I did not go away from the screen while typing and hit the Post button immediately.
Show us a good schematic of your circuit.
Show us a good image of your wiring.
Give links to components.
Posting images:
https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=519037.0
Use CTRL T to format your code.
Attach your ‘complete’ sketch between code tags, use the </> icon in the posting menu.
[code]Paste your sketch here[/code]
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Seen some of the "misc" re-directs here AFTER hitting post.
Clicked the "back" button on the browser and the post had gone through but the post body was also in the lower box ready for any more edits or whatever...
Odd but it seemed to work here.
holdingpattern:
Definitely still some oddities in the navigation. I had done a post and needed to edit it, so with it on the screen I went More > Modify and it took me to the forum index.
That's happened to me a few times and it is very frustrating as I may not remember the Title of the Thread I had been responding to.
...R
holdingpattern:
Which lets out Windows since I recall seeing R2 is a Unix man?
Yes. I'm using Linux Mint 18 and the Opera browser
...R
ballscrewbob:
Clicked the "back" button on the browser and the post had gone through but the post body was also in the lower box ready for any more edits or whatever...Odd but it seemed to work here.
That sounds like cell-phone behaviour. Maybe browser related that it remembers when you go back.
sterretje:
That sounds like cell-phone behaviour. Maybe browser related that it remembers when you go back.
It does with the exception that it was a full blown win 7 box not a phone.
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No, things are as bad as ever, happened twice today, other posts are fine.
Seems completely random.
Also noticed that I loose posts sometimes when another person posts while I am creating mine.
Upsetting . . .
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Yes, will start to track the occurrences.
BTW
In the past after making a post, you were taken back to that post where you could see the final version.
Now you end up at the 1st post in the thread.
Edit
Going back to the first post happened with this post just now.
Edit
But not with the Edit
MAS3:
It's a better plan to hit ctrl-a, ctrl-c while in your editor, so all content is copied to the clipboard.
Do not hit space, ctrl-x or ctrl-v instead of ctrl-c, or you'll have destroyed all your work yourself.
I've done this before. Ctrl-Z usually fixes that mistake. You're welcome 
I wonder if this has to do with the fact that at occasion the system forgets that you are logged in (but clicking sign-in takes straight to the pages showing that you are logged in).
That problem seems to be back