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05-19-2006, 02:11 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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o dear..
A glitch in your forums here just hurt my feelings.
I spent 45 minutes posting a critique of someone's story with included corrections in red for deletions and remarks and green bold for additions.
When I pressed "Post Reply" I was asked to sign in once more, for no reason.
I obliged.
Then it said "Thank you for logging in, chuff." And I had a choice to 'Proceed'.
The following page read as follows: "Invalid thread..."
So I pressed the Back button and read each page I had visited previously until I reached the webpage where I had posted my lengthy reply.
It was a blank reply box.
Can anything be done to fix this glitch?
Thank you sincerely.
That is all.
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05-19-2006, 02:19 AM
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Ink Slinger
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You need to tell your browser to remember you. But the best way is to compose your critiques in Word or equivalent & then copy/paste into the Reply dialog box. The WF timeout is about 20 mins (I think) so if you take longer than that it will log you out. The 'Remember me' option lets the browser sign you back in in the backgroupd when you click Submit.
Another way to deal with it is to teach yourself to always Select/Copy your text before clicking Submit - then if it happens you can simply Reply & Paste the text in.
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05-19-2006, 02:19 AM
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Ink Slinger
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Grrrrrr.... another of the WF glitches...
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*He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
*Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
*Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it - Moses Hadas
*He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know - Abraham Lincoln
Last edited by journyman161 : 05-19-2006 at 02:24 AM.
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05-19-2006, 02:20 AM
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Originally Posted by the helpful journeyman
The WF timeout is about 20 mins (I think) so if you take longer than that it will log you out.
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Ahh.. that's the one.
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05-22-2006, 12:51 PM
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That has happened to me a few times. If in doubt use Word first.
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05-22-2006, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Yeah that has happened to me before. I was always able to press back and regain my lost work but it's still annoying. Timeouts should be longer IMO, maybe an hour?
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05-22-2006, 08:38 PM
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See, I wasn't in doubt...
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05-24-2006, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by journyman161
Grrrrrr.... another of the WF glitches...
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This isn't a WF glitch, it's pretty much the same with most forum software. |
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