Super Annoyed
By Jeanne Marie
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
United States
March 6, 2016 7:40am CST
I just was writing a post about being totally annoyed about how my posts have been disappearing while writing them for the last three days.
It happened again this morning and I cannot believe it! I'm sad no one is going to read my very cleverly written amusing story about what happened this morning because I just can't write it all over again. The spontaneity is gone. So I wrote a short post about how totally annoyed I was and lost that one as well.
As you can see I'm super annoyed. It only happens on this site, it never happens while writing my blog or emails or Facebook or anywhere else. The post just vanishes. Has this happened to anyone else? I was sure it was my computer keyboard before but upon reflection I realized it only happens here. That's why I am now "Super Annoyed".
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Mar 16
This only happened to me a couple of times, which was a very long time ago. Since then I began composing discussions in Microsoft Word then copying and pasting them into Mylot.
Of the discussion fails to go through I still have the whole thing to resubmit, which solves the problem.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
I used to do that on another site and I had forgotten. But until today I thought it was my fault or my keyboard's fault because this is a new laptop that I just began to use around Christmas. So now that I have a great solution I will post again.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
@Asylum No, it happens while typing the post. I had no idea what combination of keys I might be hitting accidentally that was causing this. Now upon reflection I realized it only happens here and today proved it happens to others as well. I often hit the wrong key with this keyboard because it's arranged slightly differently and the size of the keys is different.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
9 Mar 16
@Asylum It would be hard to select control and A at the same time but I bet I could do it and not realize it.
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@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
6 Mar 16
@Jeanniemaries Best thing is to take a quick copy before you push the button to submit.
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
I've only been here about that long. On the second or third day they unrolled the new format and I had to figure out the switch. I do love it here though. It's easy to navigate and everyone is so nice as always!
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
In some ways I'm glad I'm not the only one but then again I really am glad it doesn't happen to everyone.
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@LadyDuck (458006)
• Switzerland
7 Mar 16
@Jeanniemaries I always typed my texts with an editor, this is why I have all my old posts from Bubblews. It would have been a shame to lose more than 2,000 posts.
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
9 Mar 16
@LadyDuck That was really smart. I'm going to start doing the same.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
You are brilliant! I did that on another site long ago and far away...I had forgotten but that's what I'm going to do!
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@Mike197602 (15487)
• United Kingdom
6 Mar 16
It has happened to me but only when I go to post.
Often it seems to be the site going weird and I can sometimes tell it's going to happen so when I've typed it in the response box I copy it so if it disappears I just go back and paste it.
Much easier to do now that there is no c&p restriction.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
Yes, I was in the process of copying it when I lost it.....this time. I thought...ohhh I'll copy it occasionally as I write it and problem solved. That was short lived! Haha. I'm all over being annoyed and just happy to be reminded of a solution I used on another site. Write it in a Word program and copy and paste it to this site. If you lose it, you can still paste again! Actually I'm now annoyed at myself for not remembering that.....
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@Daljinder (23231)
• Bangalore, India
6 Mar 16
It only happened to me while I used it through my IPhone. I usually use Word for composing posts...
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
I'm definitely going to remember to do that.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
Oh, not deleted after being published, just vanishing while writing them.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
I think JJ hit the nail on the head, just write it elsewhere and copy and paste it to publish.
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
I'm glad it doesn't happen to everyone, but enough people have mentioned it happens to others that I am pretty sure it's the site, not me.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
6 Mar 16
I can't find the stinkin' notepad on this laptop since my son in law put Windows 10 or (maybe 9?) on it. I'm not even sure where Word is. Everything is harder than it used to be. I'm not good with change. I learn to do what I need to learn and I don't explore much. A hold over from the days when I could really make hash of the family computer and I was implored not to mess around too much! Old habits die hard! That was back in the 80's!
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@Tampa_girl7 (48929)
• United States
15 Mar 16
It occasionally happens to me. Yes, it is very annoying.
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
7 Mar 16
big hugs!! i don't reckon i've had such occur?? i learned from 'the other place' to do my dribblin' elsewhere 'n then slap such to it jest fer that very reason.
@JudyEv (325720)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Mar 16
I only ever write on Word then copy and paste. I'd never remember what I wrote six months ago otherwise.
@Scindhia (1906)
• India
7 Mar 16
You must be super duper annoyed that we are able to read and interact with this post while the more interesting ones that you have written have just vanished!
