New/Awesome: Automatic Post Recovery

Nate · 2011-02-08T17:42:28Z

Have you ever written up a long review only to hit submit and be told 'You are not logged in'? Then when you go back, your entire review is gone? Or have you ever written up a poem or story in the textbox (something you should never do by the way), then suffered a browser crash and lost the entire thing? Or have you ever written a post, only to lose power mid-way and thus your entire post as well? Well... YWS now has automatic post recovery: a revolutionary new technology that saves your post as you type regardless of whether or not YWS has accidentally logged you out, your browser crashes, or you have lost power. How does it work? It's magic and you don't need to do a single thing. As you type your post, our patented marauding monkeys with the power of atomic energy save your post. Then if for some reason your browser crashes (or something else horrible), then just go back to the posting form where you were typing your post. It'll show up as if you never skipped a beat. Go ahead, try it! Start typing in the quick reply box below, then without submitting, go somewhere else on the site. Or even off-site. Or even shut off your browser and/or computer. Then later on (minutes, days, years), come back to that same quick reply form that you were typing in. As if by magic, your post will still be there waiting for you to finish up. Cool, no? This works for new topics, and for the "post reply" page as well. Go ahead, test! A few caveats: 1. It only saves the message. Not the title, description, attachments, or rating. 2. This only works with topics and posts. It does not work with private messages. Although if there is demand for that, it can be extended to include PMs. 3. The marauding monkeys are being treated humanely. Please ignore their class action lawsuit against me in regards to radiation poisoning.

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:07 am

LookUpThere says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:07 am

Man, came here the following day and found a post still here! Gonna take a while to get over the awesomeness of it.

You've now robbed me of the excuse: 'I typed up a huge long review but then lost it and can't quite remember what I was going to say ...'

So. True.

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:38 pm

Jenthura says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 1:38 pm

Hmm, but if you type it as a guest, then how does the system recognize you again? If a guest types something and never comes back, that's dead weight on your monkey's shoulders. Right?

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:03 pm

Matt Bellamy says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:03 pm

Guests can't post anything though, can they.

Ooo, my writing is still here! Awesome.

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:42 pm

Evi says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:42 pm

This is so incredibly cool, Nate! I love how no one believes it until they test it out themselves. : P

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:53 pm

Writersdomain says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:53 pm

This is awesome! =D

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:07 pm

Ranger Hawk says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:07 pm

Amazing, thank you so much Nate! This is perfect!

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:14 pm

Sins says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:14 pm

~~iujaniudjnvui~~ HOMG, it works!

I want to marry this thread.

I didn't know what to put here so I put this.

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Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:27 pm

EmmaJane says... · Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:27 pm

~~Wow it works~~

Hahaha! I typed that nearly two days ago, got distracted by something shiny, found myself back on this and went to comment.

It was still there.

YWS now has a better memory than I do… Seriously amazing idea. Amazing. Thank you so much, Nate! (:

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Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:54 am

Yuriiko says... · Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:54 am

The first few paragraphs sounded like Nate is advertising.

Anyways, this is awesome! Thank you. >83

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Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:35 am

Mazzi says... · Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:35 am

You are a GOD!

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Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:28 pm

Mr.Knightley says... · Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:28 pm

TIMMY LIKES. *tests*

[30 seconds later]

Oh snap, it works! ^_^

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Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:06 am

Eniarrol says... · Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:06 am

blablalalalalala
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Yay it works!

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Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:25 pm

silented1 says... · Fri Feb 25, 2011 5:25 pm

The post recovery needs work, it saved the first line that I deleted, but not the entire review I wrote.

I went to comment: review will appear in X amount of days. Then I thought that I didn't need it, so I clicked away into another part of the site. Then I got bored so I decided to do the review, I went back, wrote it up, clicked submit, had to log back in. When I went to go back and see this autorecovery, it recovered review will appear in X amount of days. Not the review itself.

Any way to stop this from happening?

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Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:00 pm

Day says... · Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:00 pm

I Remember when I first joined, and was actually an active reviewer *cough* well I definitely had an issue with this. Glad that it has a solution now.

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Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:31 pm

Firestarter says... · Mon Mar 14, 2011 2:31 pm

I wrote a really long post thanking for you this new feat-- oh, never mind.

Just to say I've only just come across it, and it's amazing.

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