Question About Forms Disappearing

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Sometimes when I have taken a while to type a big post, I go to submit it and I am asked to log in. I login and am brought back to an empty post page (just happened on this forum too :cry:). I know there is a "Save Draft" button, but are there any extensions that regularly auto-save what you are typing, like Gmail or Discourse forum software? It would be a real life saver.
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Mulsiphix wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:22 pm Sometimes when I have taken a while to type a big post, I go to submit it and I am asked to log in. I login and am brought back to an empty post page (just happened on this forum too :cry:). I know there is a "Save Draft" button, but are there any extensions that regularly auto-save what you are typing, like Gmail or Discourse forum software? It would be a real life saver.
Instead of logging in, use the back button on your browser, select the text in your draft, then submit, login, copy/paste and submit.
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warmweer wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2019 7:52 pm Instead of logging in, use the back button on your browser, select the text in your draft, then submit, login, copy/paste and submit.
I did try the back button, and the message was gone. Although, I didn't try going back until after I had logged in. So if I don't log in first, then the message will still be there?
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That can happen if you do absolutely nothing for more than about 5 minutes. No activity is seen so your session ends.
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KevC wrote: Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:10 pm That can happen if you do absolutely nothing for more than about 5 minutes. No activity is seen so your session ends.
So a workaround is to just increase my session time?

Can anyone comment on whether an extension has ever existed that addressed this situation? I'm fairly new to phpBB so I have no clue what may have existed in the past. Now if this conversation were about Firefox extensions, I could site lore like nobody's business :lol:
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So a workaround is to just increase my session time?
Yes
or type faster
or use a text program to type your message and past it into your post when it is ready.
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