oh save that response before it goes bye bye

Would you believe I had that happen to me earlier today when I first started to comment on this discussion. Unfortunately I did not follow my own advice because it had been so long since it happened to me. What I had said was that it used to happen to me quite frequently because I use wifi and it's not hard to get bumped off the net. What I usually do when I have a long response is I copy it before I hit the submit button and then if it don't go through I can just go back and paste it in to try again. Believe me this time I'm going to do just that.

Hi Hatley, well it's always happening, in fact it just happened on here when I was trying to add something to James' box. The only solution is to type really fast so we can submit it before it all just goes up in smoke. I'm not sure introducing anything that actually involved doing anything technical could help me at all, as it would probably take me hours to fathom it out.

Oh I have done this, typed a really brilliant response and then before I could post it, I hit the wrong key and it either went back to the discussion again, or it got deleted. Then I figured "Maybe the myLot administration does not want me to write that so I will write a much more safer response" and I toned it down a lot. 6t would be handy to have an auto save feature like they have in Word, so that I could save the response or part of the response, because frankly I sometimes forget to put it on Word or notepad because sometimes I am writing as the spirit moves me.

There have replies, good ones, that I made and then hit submit--only to be told mylot was down for maintenance or for some other reason it disappeared! Now, if I make a response I like I copy it before I hit the submit button. If something happens and it is lost, I just open a Word document, paste it there and wait for the system to smack itself back to normal before I try again.

Hi Hatley:) Yes i agree, if only there could be such a feature where you could type in a long response and save it, maybe you could even further edit it and then post it, it would be great that way, sometimes it does happen with most of us that we are typing and typing and suddenly due to some error we loose it all . . . now that is frustrating! . . . hmm that save feature would be best for avoiding such incidents and i am sure many would like to use something like that... well one thing i have noticed, sometimes i get logged out don't know why and i am too lazy to clear the cache memory so what happened today is . . . i had typed in everything i wanted to and then hit the 'post' button and then they showed you can't post smilies coz my post is not above 200 and then i saw above that i was actually logged out and so i logged in again and after logging i hit the back button and i again reached the log gin screen and i hit the back button once again and to my surprise i was logged in and i actually posted the thing i had intended to when i got logged out and then i refreshed the page and i got a double post! . . . hehe . . that was interesting... so whenever i will get logged out i will just log in and hit the back button twice to post the thing i wanted to . . . i think this should help some people who get logged out at times... have a nice day Hatley!

Sadly, it doesn't. It should have to be more user-friendly. I have lost a lot of great write-ups when Mylot or my computer gives me the blip! So, I sometimes write this on MS Word or Notepad before transferring in to this assignment box. Strange, you are asking such questions after putting up some 16,800 posts.

some people write their discussions and responses in another writing program then copy them here (after they have their 500 of course) - I'm not that clever, or that obsessed with them

It would be nice to have that feature on myLot. Perhaps one of these days we will. Meanwhile, copy your response...just in case it goes bye-bye. As you know, it's a good idea to not risk losing your writing!

what i usually do these days is type a long story of my response or comments, also my discussions, in the notepad, before going to the response to this discussion box or comment box. that saves me a lot of time refreshing the pages before i hit the submit button. i never lost a post when i started doing this. that gives me the copy/paste feature effective.

Because I have had a few responses go bye-bye I now, when typing up a long response Control-C the entire response before I hit the post response box. That way, if mylot makes my thoughts disappear, I can make them reappear again

I have solved the problem after a few lost long posts! I type it on a document using Word, spell check it and when I am happy with it copy and paste it on MyLot. If it gets lost somewhere I can go back to my document and retrieve it. It may take a little longer but it’s made my life easier especially with spell check!

hi hatley, it happened to me a while ago hatley and i really get pissed of on it.. i was typing a very long discussion last noontime but whew i forgot that it was being signed out and when i need to post it oh bye bye to the topic, very long topic.. it was suddenly out of sight and i can't locate it no more.. oh what a tiring day of me, i wish mylot can make a save options like microsoft word do.. i wish i wish.. janebeth.

I don't know if there's something like that here. I would also want to have that kind of feature too because there was one time when I already typed the things that I want to say but then suddenly it was gone, and I don't know what happened. I don't want to type again so I left the discussion instead. What a waste. Haha. Take care! :)

In responding a particular discussion one must be very careful with his or her words because it hurt other peoples feelings.In responding a discussion one must be direct to the point as well as very concise with his opinion and he or she can express well.

I am not sure how all of that would work here at Mylot. I usually try to copy everything I write before hitting the post response button. I can then paste it again if it gets lost.

I've had that happen to me too Hatley and it's frustrating isn't it? Then when you try to rewrite it, you forgot everything you had written first time round. I solved the problem though by writing all my discussions that I start or my responses first on my text edit word processor....then copy it and paste it into the response area--that way if it goes bye bye, I still have it in my text edit and simply re-copy it and repaste it

Hi Hatley, That will be a great idea, and you are not barking up the wrong tree, it would be good to save the responses, yeah that would be great. Tamara

That feature would be neat. I hope myLot will consider it. For now, what I'm doing is just copying my response using Ctrl-C. That way, if ever there'll be some connection problems or simply a myLot problem, at least I can still access my response by pasting it in the notepad.

I have suffered many time with this. i used mozilla and some time due to connection break or any other reason when i press the submit button and the response is not sent. then i donot have any option to send it again as i dont have any submit button on that page again. i think if there is a submit button i could send again a long paragraph which i could not sent in my last hit. what you say. i think the submit button must always be visible

This sounds like a pretty good idea. Kind of like the draft feature in Gmail.