If you navigate off the page by accident it doesn’t always ask an “are you sure?” to protect your work.

This is a problem on other forums + SM, e.g reddit, but seems prevalent on lemmy.

That’s all I’ve got to say. If there’s eventually some solution or improvement to this it would be nice.

Might just be a problem with how i use my mobile device;

on this occasion i opened up anki by highlighting part of my text and then found the browser closed, so perhaps i should have just backspaced from anki to navigate back to my in-progress commment. It has happened on other occasions as well - i think one common thread is that replies to a post stsy saved but replies to a comment/reply are collapsed upon accidentally minimising a browser, and you lose it all.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Or the instance you’re on goes down for a minute (maintenance or the server gets overloaded).

    Do what we used to do back in the day, type your long posts in notepad/textedit/whatever, then copy them over. The Lemmy post editor is pretty crappy in fact, with the URL constantly updating as you type, not sure what that’s about but the flickering of the URL bar annoys me, so if it’s more than a couple lines, I’ll just open textedit, type there, then copy/paste over. If the site is acting up, well, I still have my text.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 days ago

      Where do you see the URL constantly updating while typing? Because I cant reproduce that when writing a comment. Is that directly on lemmy.dbzer0.com or are you using a different frontend? And which OS/browser are you using?

        • Nutomic@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 days ago

          DB0 seems to use the normal lemmy-ui without any changes. Though I dont have an account there to test it. Best if you contact the admins on db0 to ask about this.