Disappearing posts

[Antvasima]

I have informed the Fandom staff about this problem, and been told that the edit sessions generally expire after about 20 minutes, so if you write very long posts, please remember to first save them in a separate text editing program, so they do not disappear after your hard work writing them.

This setting does not explain all of the disappearing posts, but it does seem to apply for some of them. The Fandom staff are currently attempting to find and solve the general problem.

I have added some information about this issue in the Discussion Rules page as well.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

Does this happen with edits as well?

 

[Antvasima]

I haven't noticed it for edits, but if others have experienced such issues, I would appreciate the information.

 

[The_real_cal_howard]

I didn't see that, fortunately. I was just asking out of fear for an edit I've been working on for literally 24 hours. That disappearing would've...traumatized me, to say the least.

 

[Antvasima]

Well, you can simply copy the text beforehand there as well.

 

[Gemmysaur]

To get around this, try copying it first (no need to paste elsewhere as it will screw with any non-text that was included), then post the reply.

If it doesn't appear, refresh the page, paste the copied reply (images and the like get copied too) and try posting it again.

As for how the typed message disappears...

 

[Antvasima]

Well, it seems better to have long texts saved in a separate files, for the sake of extra safety.

 

[Gemmysaur]

Well yeah, just saying for people with shorter posts or posts with non-text included in their comment (like pictures).

 

[Antvasima]

Okay.

 

[Ryukama]

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[Antvasima]

No problem.

 

[Sera_EX]

Okay, now I see what happened to my post. I was writing it for hours, now it makes sense. Normally when I write long threads or profiles I'd make them in Google Docs first.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay.

 

[Dino_Ranger_Black]

I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for informing us.