Save & Preview - Forum Posts

Okay, this is really really annoying. 

Last night, I wrote a very long article destined for the forums on a particular opening system.  It was for one of my groups. 

This article took just over two hours to put together...

Just as I was editing it, my laptop popped up with a message saying I had 'low battery'.  I clicked 'save and preview' expecting it to save my work as it does in blogs...

When I logged in today... all that work... is gone! 

More than a little annoying...

Is there anywhere this saved work is put that I don't know about?

Or is there any other way to recover it?

Definitely a feature that should either be fixed or added.

Not happy.

-matt

Not sure what to suggest about your lost work, but perhaps safer in the future would be to author your articles in Microsoft Word or some other word processing program so that you can save them locally before cutting and pasting them into the editor here.

Yeah, now I know :P.

Just playing around a bit because I wondered whether a diagram could be cut and pasted into word, and then back into a different forum post all while preserving the content.

Unfortunately, while I can get the placeholder to copy into Word, but I can't even get it to recognize that it's on my clipboard when I try to copy it back into a forum post from Word (paste is not even an option when I right click).

Is it called Craziness in the KID ?

Thinking out loud:  It would be cool if there was some type of markup you could use to encapsulate some FEN or PGN in pure text and that the forum would recognize as the indicator that a diagram should be inserted when posted based on the encapsulated content.

No, it's an article in the Berlin.

just remember - no web pages will save your info past 30 minutes or so. the browser isn't meant to be "stateful". so next time just save your work every 15-20 minutes or so.

I think you lose anything you've written once you log off from the site. Maybe even once you navigate away from the page you're posting/replying to?

I use Notepad and write my stuff on there. Then copy and paste onto the Chess.com posting "box".

Thanks, I didn't know that. I've been having the same problem.

Same here its five in the morning and I worked out how black won in a chess game and lost the lot because I pressed save preview. By By all gone. Best to just submit. However when you submit you can still edit. So, I have no idea how this works.

I have just had the same - but I lost only about 25 minutes. It would be good to have saved un-posted blog entries remain in that status between logins.